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LINK: D1 Men’s Lacrosse – The Week of 03.19.18

Each NCAA Men’s D1 Team is organized, top to bottom, by their 2nd Worst Loss, Worst Loss, Best Win, and 2nd Best Win.  (In some cases, we needed to look at a team’s 3rd and 4th Best Wins but these teams are not within the Top 25.)  In some cases, by looking at a team’s two Worst Losses and two Best Wins, it is very clear where they should be ranked.  e.g. #1 Albany, #2 Maryland, #5 Penn, and #6 Duke.  In other cases, like with #4 Villanova, a team has a relatively clear rank but there’s an outlier that muddies the waters.  In these cases, when this makes sense, we remove the outlier (which we flag by using a strike-through) and rank the team accordingly.  In some cases, like with #10 Syracuse, #13 UNC, and #15 Hofstra, there are two strike-throughs and the reader can legitimately ask the question, when do outliers stop being outliers and start being the standard.  To answer this question, we looked at each team’s other Wins and Losses, each team’s Wins and Losses relative to other teams, and, as we do for all the teams, focused more heavily on a team’s wins than their losses.  For obvious reasons, beating the #12 team is more impressive than losing to the #6 team.   These are the NCAA Men’s D1 Lacrosse Rankings for 03.19.18.

2nd Worst L Worst L Rank Best W 2nd Best W
1 Albany 0 0 1 2 7
2 Maryland 0 1 2 4 5
3 Notre Dame 0 2 3 7 11
4 Villanova 2 62 4 5 15
5 Penn 2 4 5 6 12
6 Duke 0 5 6 7 11
7 UVA 3 8 7 7 12
8 Loyola 6 7 8 9 21
9 JHU 7 13 9 10 12
10 Syracuse 9 14 10 7 16
11 Denver 3 6 11 13 24
12 Princeton 5 7 12 14 58
13 UNC 15 50 13 9 17
14 Rutgers 12 16 14 10 17
15 Hofstra 4 24 15 13 32
16 Army 10 17 16 14 28
17 Lehigh 13 14 17 16 28
18 Yale 0 4 18 20 36
19 Georgetown 0 36 19 21 23
20 Michigan 5 18 20 22 39
21 Robert Morris 14 19 21 22 39
22 Marquette 21 50 22 24 26
23 Towson 6 8 23 24 50
24 Ohio State 22 23 24 15 26
25 Vermont 0 1 25 26 30

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LINK: D1 Men’s Lacrosse – The Week of 03.19.18

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