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The last 4 years with transfer portal, extra Covid years, etc. has 100% widened the gap between largely B1G/ACC and the rest. However, things were already trending in this direction. Seeded teams were 13-3 in the tournament in 2018/19 and the unseeded teams went 0-3 against seeded teams in the quar...

The last 4 years with transfer portal, extra Covid years, etc. has 100% widened the gap between largely B1G/ACC and the rest. However, things were already trending in this direction. Seeded teams were 13-3 in the tournament in 2018/19 and the unseeded teams went 0-3 against seeded teams in the quar...

Kabiri or Duffy was the best this year Long term, Duffy has the highest ceiling. He could win a Tewaaraton. Kabiri’s shooting gives him the higher floor and obviously he’s at the type of program that is going to give him much more of a chance to make deep tournament runs. Think both are a smidge abo...

The last 4 years with transfer portal, extra Covid years, etc. has 100% widened the gap between largely B1G/ACC and the rest. However, things were already trending in this direction. Seeded teams were 13-3 in the tournament in 2018/19 and the unseeded teams went 0-3 against seeded teams in the quart...

4 tournament games between Dino and Tills; and none of them have been particularly close. This'll be the first one before the Final Four as well. Terps dominated as underdogs in 2011/2012; Duke comfortably won in 2018; and then another dominant Terps win in 2021. Curious to see if that holds form. T...

Petro would likely be very interested in a USC or Stanford or other P4 football school that's starting up and I imagine he'd garner some interest there as well potentially. I also wouldn't rule out that a school like Ohio State could be interested considering he had success within the Big Ten and yo...

Thought Princeton's inexperience showed at times; lot of missed passes and timing things just not down right. Felt like they pressed at times as well. Think that stretch in the 1Q where they had a lot of looks and MD turned it over 4 straight times after the Koras goal needed to result in at least a...

Shouldn't have made the tournament, shouldn't have gotten a home game, home underdog, tons of folks picking against them. Team silenced a helluva lotta people tonight. Hat tip to Phipps and Tills for the adjustments; Spanos on attack was a tremendous move and needs to stick. Malever had his best gam...

Heckuva performance by a team that didn't deserve a home game, didn't deserve to be in the tournament, etc.

Carc is 100% right about Spanos at attack. This switch needs to be permanent.

A LOT of takes aging badly right now

He's scored like 2 goals in his last 20 games. So no, probably not

I like the Armitage pick-up 2022: 20 goals on 31% shooting 2023: 26 goals/19 assists 2024: 25 goals on 37% shooting Shot over 30% all 3 years, and looks like a guy who can hit from the outside, which is desperately needed for this team. Also has a box background so he's comfortable playing inside an...

This is McNaney's first season coming back from a full blown ACL tear. Some grace and caveats are probably needed there. He's had some struggles for sure, he's also had a lot of highs this year. Here's his save percentage by month February (4 gms): 59% March (5 gms): 42% April (3 gms): 64% The Penn ...

If they beat Penn State, they were going to be seeded 4th. And probably in that bracket. I don't think it's lucky, but I don't mind it. They have some advantages over Princeton, plus have had their number last few years. And Duke is a volatile team. They can go on walks sometimes. You always like Ti...

Always appreciate the honesty and fair nature of the Ivy fans. Things just didn't break their way. They were the 3rd best conference overall IMO, slightly ahead of Big East; but the Big East had a clear #1 team in the regular season and the Ivy didn't. Cornell was probably the best team, but took a ...

Both teams strengths pair up with the other's weakness Princeton has a great offense; Maryland a great defense Princeton's defense has been up and down this year; Maryland's offense obviously struggling greatly Princeton not great on FOs; Maryland very strong Both have good goalies as mentioned If i...

From an outside POV, I just don't think Cornell could overcome the personnel losses to graduation and injury on the defensive side. The defense did get better late in the season, but 47th in adjusted defensive efficiency is not a tournament caliber defense. The offense was obviously tremendous, but ...

Princeton is playing great, but they don't have a single Top 10 win. Plus a bad loss. Maryland, conversely, has 3 (1 Top 5) and beat Princeton H2H, and no bad loss. Obviously, Princeton is playing better right now, but it's not about right now, it's the whole season. Maryland's resume is pretty clea...

Army (one time #1 in the country) does not qualify? Off the top of my head, I can’t think of another team that went from #1 to out-of-the-tournament in six weeks. BU had their number this year. It would have been fun to see Army in the big dance where anything could happen. Rutgers one year and Ver...