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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...

At some point you have to revisit RPI weighting. UVA is very likely in with no top 10 wins and strong losses. Meanwhile the Bubble IVY teams are out with better wins but also weaker RPI wins? Do I think UVA is a top 10 team? I do. Do i think losing to good teams means more than IVY good wins? I Don...

This is more about ND than Duke imo, but Duke’s inconsistency is a season long thing, heck honestly a years long thing at this point. They blew out Cuse, were getting blown out by UNC. Their offense racked up goals against Duke, UNC, Cuse; but had trouble hitting 10 against Cuse 1st time, Denver, a...

This is more about ND than Duke imo, but Duke’s inconsistency is a season long thing, heck honestly a years long thing at this point. They blew out Cuse, were getting blown out by UNC. Their offense racked up goals against Duke, UNC, Cuse; but had trouble hitting 10 against Cuse 1st time, Denver, an...

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 was #1 in 2017 a...

Is it possible/ likely that MD lost at large bid with Penn state losing? The last two at large teams are Maryland and Penn State. Maryland has a better resume than Penn State and Penn State beat Cornell and Yale. So no. Even if they wanted to decide Penn State had a better resume than Maryland; Mar...

It def didn't help them, but bigger issue to me was the Top 4 went 3-7 in games against the RPI Top 9 (Penn is 10th.) The Big Ten Top 3 went 3-4 (not including games against one another) and then they also went 3-0 against the Ivy 4 that are 10-14 in RPI. ACC Top 4 meanwhile went 4-4, and 3-2 agains...

Could be Princeton as well if they win the Ivy. Terps really dominated possession in that first match-up We've seen this script happen before with the Terps; 2015 they lost their last two in ugly fashion and then had Yale Round 1, pulled off a come from behind win, upset a highly touted UNC team in ...

Short of Maryland or Virginia being left out, it'll be a 1 bid Ivy: ACC: ND, Syr, UVA, Duke Big Ten: Michigan (AQ), PSU, Maryland, Hopkins Big East: Georgetown (AQ), Denver Ivy: Winner Patriot: Winner MAAC: Sacred Heart A10: St. Joe's CAA: Towson American East: Albany ASUN: Winner Maryland and Virg...

Michigan wins and there are 4 at-large teams from the ACC, 3 from the Big Ten (Hop, Penn State, Maryland) and then Denver

Ivy title game tomorrow is a play-in game

The turnovers are largely down to what we've talked about, there's no space on the offensive end and no one dodges with conviction, so they just force passes. You also only have 2 or 3 players who have the high level lacrosse IQ for the offense they want to run, and one of them in Malever has next t...

Honestly; there are a lot of similarities right now to Duke’s run from 2015-17 after the back to back titles and Wolf et al. graduated. Dino was able to reset and get back to the Final Four regularly again; but I do think it’s fair to say they’ve never truly rekindled the perfect confluence of even...

Honestly; there are a lot of similarities right now to Duke’s run from 2015-17 after the back to back titles and Wolf et al. graduated. Dino was able to reset and get back to the Final Four regularly again; but I do think it’s fair to say they’ve never truly rekindled the perfect confluence of even...

Sharkey has not been great at shortie IMO. He’s been beaten at a fairly decent clip. He’s not bad, but the team was in it for Pederson for example and he’d have been a much, much better pickup. In comparison to other shorties they got out of the portal like Jake Higgins or Alex Smith, he’s not up to...