Ivy League Showed Heightened Competition in 2014

It was a competitive season for the Ivy’s in the NCAA.  Honorable mentions go to Yale, Brown, Princeton, and Dartmouth. Penn, Cornell, and Harvard all had some championship worthy seasons and displayed great talent in the NCAA tournament.  They brought a new respect to the Ivy division, even though these three teams lost in the first round. The level of play each of those teams displayed in the tournament was…

May 31, 2014
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2014 NCAA Division I Men’s Lacrosse Championship Semifinals Set

May 23, 2014

National Championship Game Live on ESPN2 & WatchESPN on Monday, May 26, at 1 p.m.   Top-seeded Duke leads the field for the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championship Presented by Northwestern Mutual – set to air on ESPN networks Saturday, May 24 and Monday, May 26, from M&T Stadium in Baltimore. The semifinals will be shown on ESPN2 and WatchESPN as No. 1 seed Duke faces No. 5 Denver at 1 p.m. ET, followed by No. 6 seed Notre…

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Denver Tops Drexel in Quarterfinal Showcase

Photo Credit: Ian Neadle The difference maker in this matchup was in faceoffs and ground balls. Both teams came into this game having top-notch draw specialists, but one was clearly more prepared than the other. “I feel like faceoffs were called differently today than they have been all year and I don’t know why,” said Drexel Coach Brian Voelkner.  That quote has some validity to it as officials tend to…

May 19, 2014
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Davies: Breaking Down the Delaware Bracket

This weekend is what everyone has waited for all season, the chance to get to Championship Weekend in Baltimore. Memorial Weekend in Baltimore is a treat, but this is the weekend where hopefuls turn into contenders or fall one step short of their goal. On tap, the Delaware bracket has brought back one of the match ups that had defined the last decade in last and two new hopefuls to…

May 16, 2014
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Simmons: NCAA Tournament Opens with Bangs

PHOTO CREDIT: IAN NEADLE College lacrosse put on one heck of a show in the NCAA Tournament’s opening weekend. The bracket was turned upside following the first round of play due to upsets galore, and as the dust settled we were left with a few surprising survivors. The Bulldogs took down the No. 2 seeded Syracuse Orange in a close battle in the Carrier Dome. The Orange found themselves down…

May 12, 2014
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NCAA Round One Notes: Upsets, Comebacks and Blowouts

PHOTOS: IAN NEADLE Albany at Loyola: Upset Heading into this match up Loyola was ranked No. 1 with a plethora of talent. Jack Runkel has been effective in goaltending, Joe Fletcher heads the defense and the offense was an unmatched machine… until Loyola met the Thompson trio. Thanks to the Thompsons, the Great Danes made fools out of the Greyhounds. There were multiple game moments when one of the three (Myles,…

May 12, 2014
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Drexel and Penn Meet in Philadelphia Rivalry

Who: Drexel (12-4) @ Upenn (11-3) Where: Philadelphia, PA when: Sunday  3pm Upenn will host Drexel for a backyard brawl this Sunday for the first round of the NCAA tournament. The two teams will be going head to head for the 30th time in each schools history. Penn leads the standings by holding wins for 21 of those games. The teams have not met since 2008, and this weekend’s matchup will be the first time…

May 10, 2014
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Ivy League: Harvard Starts with Momentum, UPenn Stole It Away

During playoffs for any sport, it is well-documented that anything can happen. In the past, we have seen sub-par teams defeat top-seeded ones for national championships. In the Ivy League women’s lacrosse championship, this could not have been less true. As most people expected and predicted, the final for this conference featured Princeton and Penn, the two best teams in the league. Penn came into the game with a 12-4…

May 5, 2014
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