NCAA Tournament 2024

[ah23]

Salisbury didn’t play any top 5 level teams this year, let’s see how they do under the fire now, no experience with this.

From the always-good @DIIIlacrosse on Twitter:

“Whispers all year about Salisbury’s schedule being sneaky weak. They played zero games against the Top-9 in the Laxpower ratings. Season is now over and they still haven’t played one.”

[valaxfan]

Salisbury didn’t play any top 5 level teams this year, let’s see how they do under the fire now, no experience with this.

From the always-good @DIIIlacrosse on Twitter:

“Whispers all year about Salisbury’s schedule being sneaky weak. They played zero games against the Top-9 in the Laxpower ratings. Season is now over and they still haven’t played one.”

Us old timers know D-III.

valaxfan

[pcowlax]

Salisbury didn’t play any top 5 level teams this year, let’s see how they do under the fire now, no experience with this.

From the always-good @DIIIlacrosse on Twitter:

“Whispers all year about Salisbury’s schedule being sneaky weak. They played zero games against the Top-9 in the Laxpower ratings. Season is now over and they still haven’t played one.”

Us old timers know D-III.

valaxfan

He was great on LP, amazing ability to predict tourney field, learned a lot from him. And he is right, Salisbury’s schedule was soft. Certainly doesn’t mean they could t have won the NC, I thought they would, but nothing good comes of not playing any challenging games.

[pcowlax]

SJF looks very good, no idea how they lost so many regular season games.

[Laxattackjack]

the entire lacrosse community cheered with excitement when W&L scored that winning goal. now the entire lacrosse community is cheering for SJF

[pcowlax]

the entire lacrosse community cheered with excitement when W&L scored that winning goal. now the entire lacrosse community is cheering for SJF

Not going to happen here. SJF with very nice sticks and ball movement but cannot stay in from of Tufts on D

[Laxattackjack]

the entire lacrosse community cheered with excitement when W&L scored that winning goal. now the entire lacrosse community is cheering for SJF

Not going to happen here. SJF with very nice sticks and ball movement but cannot stay in from of Tufts on D

they said the same about W&L

[nelaxman]

St. John's Fisher has little chance of winning. There's been too much talk about just being happy to be there and playing with house money. You can't win games with that mindset; it's a loser mentality. They will get shelled tonight.

[Unknown Participant]

St. John's Fisher has little chance of winning. There's been too much talk about just being happy to be there and playing with house money. You can't win games with that mindset; it's a loser mentality. They will get shelled tonight.

being shelled if down 8-1 counts as a shelling. This could get ugly.

[pcowlax]

the entire lacrosse community cheered with excitement when W&L scored that winning goal. now the entire lacrosse community is cheering for SJF

Not going to happen here. SJF with very nice sticks and ball movement but cannot stay in from of Tufts on D

they said the same about W&L

W&L definitely better than SJF, Tufts MUCH more battle tested than Salisbury, they will win this by 12+ if they want.

[The12lov3]

The salisbury faithful where crowning them champs already

I'm one of those Salisbury faithful and I was definitely not crowning them yet, thought I didn't think they would lose this one. If you look earlier in this thread you will see that I felt Tufts would be fired up to play the Gulls again but that Salisbury shouldn't look past W&L, which I guess they started to do midway through the 2nd quarter.

This is a rough one. As I mentioned I wasn't really able to watch but W&L seemed to start winning every face off and scoring right away. One moment that sticks out to me is in that 2nd quarter I get pumped to see on the Live Stats that Jude Brown has scored to make it 10-5 with a couple minutes left in the half. Then I see Penalty:Jude Brown Unsportsmanlike Conduct...and then another W&L goal.

As I mentioned, I'm surprised that there was no timeout called in the 3rd quarter during that onslaught but the timeouts were used well in the 4th quarter so what do I know.

This one is going to hurt but congrats to the Generals!

When you are 22~0 everyone brings the A game. The same thing happened to Tufts last year. Salisbury clearly did not know how to deal with W&L run and got clobbered at X. The goalie for WL made some really good saves.

I did think that call the allowed SU was BS but that is sports. Anyway they had a great season.

[JumboFan4]

For what it's worth, I think all of the D'Annolfo haters need to give him some credit for taking a very young roster to the final four with a very good chance of going back to championship weekend.

[The12lov3]

For what it's worth, I think all of the D'Annolfo haters need to give him some credit for taking a very young roster to the final four with a very good chance of going back to championship weekend.

Agree - Everyone was giving then a hard time because of their loss to Hamilton but he was able to get them to refocus snd they have blown teams out since that lose. Sometime a loss can make you hungry and the boys from boston are hungry.

Good Luck to the rest of the teams still playing. Whoever wins it deserves it.

[callaxdad]

the entire lacrosse community cheered with excitement when W&L scored that winning goal. now the entire lacrosse community is cheering for SJF

I wouldn’t exactly say “entire”!! The TDS haters yes!! Roll Bos!

[Leonard Washington]

Great win for Washington and Lee.

With this quick turnaround, the question is, will they have anything left in the tank to slay another beast? Jumbos by 6...

Tufts 17
W&L 11

[ah23]

With Salisbury out, RIT is the only team left that doesn’t have a good redemption/breakthrough arc going.

I’ll go…

RIT 21-16 over Bowdoin
Tufts 18-10 over W&L

[Dlaxva5]

With Salisbury out, RIT is the only team left that doesn’t have a good redemption/breakthrough arc going.

I’ll go…

RIT 21-16 over Bowdoin
Tufts 18-10 over W&L

RIT lost Liberty League Championship for first time since they joined. A bit of a chip on their shoulder.

[ah23]

RIT lost Liberty League Championship for first time since they joined. A bit of a chip on their shoulder.

Going for 3 titles in 4 years is definitely a cool story! Just very different than the other three.

[HockeyLaxGolf42]

For what it's worth, I think all of the D'Annolfo haters need to give him some credit for taking a very young roster to the final four with a very good chance of going back to championship weekend.

Agree - Everyone was giving then a hard time because of their loss to Hamilton but he was able to get them to refocus snd they have blown teams out since that lose. Sometime a loss can make you hungry and the boys from boston are hungry.

Good Luck to the rest of the teams still playing. Whoever wins it deserves it.

This might be one of the easiest routes to the final four I’ve seen. Couple of upsets bailing the jumbos out

[W&Lacrosse75]

Great win for Washington and Lee.

With this quick turnaround, the question is, will they have anything left in the tank to slay another beast? Jumbos by 6...

Tufts 17
W&L 11

Quick turnaround for Tufts as well. But since I am not the lacrosse God, I won’t attempt to predict anything.