With Selection Sunday at our doorstep, the pieces have fallen into place. There are several questions remaining, but even more been answered over the last few days as the picture has become much clearer. In the end, nine of the 10 automatic qualifiers are set with eight at-large selections to be announced during Sunday evening’s Selection Show. Let’s break it down. Automatic Qualifiers Albany – America East Bryant – NEC…
Syracuse Visits Colgate in Regular Season Finale
In an interesting turn of events, two NCAA tournament teams will be facing off a week before the round of 16 begins. Syracuse is coming off an ACC tournament championship while Colgate just won the Patriot League. Those two wins lock up the first two automatic qualifiers available while the rest of the country plays this weekend to figure things out. What this means is that you are going to…
Outlaws Face Confident Hounds in Home Opener
No disrespect to team President Jim McPhilliamy, but I think we all can agree that in a perfect world the ideal owner for the Charlotte Hounds would be Montgomery Burns if not just for the fact that he could say “release the hounds” before every game. Luckily for Charlotte they don’t need a cartoon tycoon to motivate them to score goals. The Hounds will visit the Mile High City…
Bandits, Black Wolves Seasons Come to an End
The Buffalo Bandits (10-7) and the New England Black Wolves (4-12) will face off in their final of four 2015 NLL regular season matchups on Saturday May 2nd at the First Niagara Center in Buffalo. In their first two meetings of the regular season, the Black Wolves defeated the Bandits by scores of 12-8 and 12-11. In their third meeting between these two teams, the Black Wolves were looking to…
Black Wolves Have Chance to Play Spoiler
In their last meeting in Toronto on April 17, the Toronto Rock beat the New England Black Wolves 15-12. Friday evening will be the team’s third meeting of the season and Toronto’s first trip to Mohegan Sun. Playing for the first time in an unfamiliar arena may provide a slight advantage to the Black Wolves over the Rock, but Toronto is having an unstoppable season. With a win, the Toronto…
NCAA Conference Semifinal Roundup: Fairfield, Maryland Upset
The second wave of conference tournaments began on Thursday, with the Ivy League tournament beginning later this afternoon. Many dreams were shattered, while others kept their season alive and will play for a chance to get an AQ into the NCAA Tournament. Big Ten Johns Hopkins beats Penn State 14-9 Ohio State upsets host Maryland 9-6 What does this mean: Hopkins and Ohio State still have a shot of making…
Pioneers Overcome Early Disjointing to Top Villanova
As all DU games seem to go this season, the game yesterday against Villanova started out rocky until the Pioneers pulled together another phenomenal mid-game offensive run to beat the Wildcats 16-9. Villanova was able to outscore Denver 5-3 in the first quarter. Jack Curran started the scoring on the day in less than four and a half minutes unassisted to take ‘Nova 1-0 over DU. Wes Berg answered back…
Ohio State upends Maryland to advance to Big Ten Final
Ohio State (11-5), on the strength of six unanswered goals, defeated Maryland (12-3) in College Park, MD, 9-6 in front of 1,328 on Thursday night at Byrd Stadium. It was a rematch of a thrilling contest at Ohio Stadium less than two weeks ago as two top 15 teams in the nation put on a show once again. The Buckeyes and Terrapins showed why they were among the best in…
Rush and Mammoth Battle in Potential Playoff Preview
The fine-tuning continues for the Edmonton Rush and the Colorado Mammoth as they square off at The Pepsi Center in Denver on Saturday night in what may possibly be a preview of the Western Division Final. Coach Derek Keenan would like to see his team put forth the same effort as they did last week when the pounded the Minnesota Swarm 16-2 at the Xcel Energy Center. The Rush played…
CAA Semi-Final: Drexel Dragons vs Towson Tigers
Drexel starts defense of 2014 CAA Title; Round 1 vs Towson This afternoon at 4 pm the No. 2 Drexel Dragons will start the defense of their CAA title as they face the No. 3 Towson Tigers. Both Drexel and Towson ended with a 3-2 record in the CAA, but Drexel received the higher seed due to defeating Towson 11-10 last week….