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Yeah there were two issues that doomed Hopkins on that crease call: 1) The blue lines 2) The bias toward sticking with the call on the field, rather than using replay to try to actually get the call right. "Call on the field" should be disregarded out once you decide it's too close and yo...

I am pretty sure professional tennis is done electronically, hence the shadow ball marks on the lines in 3 seconds...i think the call on the field is only used when video replay is questionable right. Obviously it wasnt clear if he did step on the crease or not. I was at the game but when you watch...

I assume they'll get in based on reputation, but hard to believe UVA has an at-large resume with a loss to ND today. Based on RPI, which I don't think is a great way to evaluate teams, they'd end up with one top ten win against Maryland who got their doors blown off last night and haven't looked co...

Give me the TERPS. UVA D I think is not as strong as many think. After watching last week's game. I honestly think that JHU blew it with awful possessions and sloppiness in the 4th. A Maryland offensive that has seem to comeback to life with how they move the ball is going to make this D look silly...

Maryland doubled up a potent offense by going against an Ivy defense. Maryland has a 1/3 chance of winning. Whether that counts as "great" is a matter of opinion and reflects your analysis that Maryland needs its to best players to perform to win whereas Virginia is less dependent on any ...

I assume they'll get in based on reputation, but hard to believe UVA has an at-large resume with a loss to ND today. Based on RPI, which I don't think is a great way to evaluate teams, they'd end up with one top ten win against Maryland who got their doors blown off last night and haven't looked co...

Sorry to p*ss in the punch bowl, but the NCAA rules committee and the referees were made to look incompetent by the UVA goal which resulted in the game going into overtime. It was not a close call! The player stepped on the line prior to the ball entering the goal and prior to his own release of th...

Hop let one slip. You have to be questioning overall philosophy going into a shell before the 4th quarter even starts. Correct, totally let one slip. UVAs offense could not finish to save their life. The fact that Cormier missed his first 10 shots, all normally dunks for him, most with his hands fr...

Hop let one slip. You have to be questioning overall philosophy going into a shell before the 4th quarter even starts. Correct, totally let one slip. UVAs offense could not finish to save their life. The fact that Cormier missed his first 10 shots, all normally dunks for him, most with his hands fr...

Hop let one slip. You have to be questioning overall philosophy going into a shell before the 4th quarter even starts. Correct, totally let one slip. UVAs offense could not finish to save their life. The fact that Cormier missed his first 10 shots, all normally dunks for him, most with his hands fr...

This is a strategy (not many games, load up on ACC games and watch your RPI skyrocket) that almost always works for ND. The one time it backfired was in 2022 when the ACC was weaker than usual so playing Syracuse and UNC and Duke twice didn’t given ND the RPI turbocharge it normally would. But in a...

some sandbag schedule. Of the 10 teams behind them in the polls, they played/will play 6, 3 in ACC, 3 out. They scheduled presumed favorites in each of Ivy, Big Ten, and Big East. Assuming they play two games in ACC tourney, they will have played 8 games vs. the 10 teams behind them in polls, and 6...

I thought about bringing this point up a few weeks ago, and maybe it's a conversation for its own thread, but I really do not see any benefit to the ACC tourney for the 4 teams playing in it this year (Assuming UNC doesn't knock off Duke as I think they technically have a path where they could stil...

https://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/men-s-di-media-poll-five-straight-weeks-on-top-for-notre-dame/63155 Men's Division I Media Poll Rank Team Points Prev 1 Notre Dame (9 - 1) 500 (25) 1 2 Duke (11 - 3) 461 2 3 Johns Hopkins (10 - 3) 446 3 4 Syracuse (11 - 4) 428 6 5 Virginia (10 - 3) 383 4 6 Den...

https://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/men-s-di-media-poll-five-straight-weeks-on-top-for-notre-dame/63155 Men's Division I Media Poll Rank Team Points Prev 1 Notre Dame (9 - 1) 500 (25) 1 2 Duke (11 - 3) 461 2 3 Johns Hopkins (10 - 3) 446 3 4 Syracuse (11 - 4) 428 6 5 Virginia (10 - 3) 383 4 6 Den...

Embarrassing display. Stopped counting turnovers. We can't even catch the ball. Ok. I take it back. UVA won’t win. The bright side of this loss is you’ll never play this bad again. And now you’ve got revenge on the mind. How does Duke put 4 on Cuse but 18 on UVA?! 😂😂 Cassese is a problem, that's ho...

Embarrassing display. Stopped counting turnovers. We can't even catch the ball. Ok. I take it back. UVA won’t win. The bright side of this loss is you’ll never play this bad again. And now you’ve got revenge on the mind. How does Duke put 4 on Cuse but 18 on UVA?! 😂😂 Cassese is a problem, that's ho...

believe face off comments assume ghobriel woudln't play. UVA wing play is solid so faceoff man just has to make it a scrum. You could see that at game our guys got called for a few holds as they just tried to gum it when they lost the draw. very true, Ghobriel was a nice surprise, he really tied up...

I couldn't find an existing Colgate thread. 1-1 Colgate has a win against a Big 10 team on the road and lost a spirited game to an ACC team on the road. With the exception of a bad 3rd quarter didn't show any quit against Cuse. They play hard, ride hard (#1 is a handful) and seem to have some guys ...

I couldn't find an existing Colgate thread. 1-1 Colgate has a win against a Big 10 team on the road and lost a spirited game to an ACC team on the road. With the exception of a bad 3rd quarter didn't show any quit against Cuse. They play hard, ride hard (#1 is a handful) and seem to have some guys ...