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HSC field looks amazing.

it all depends where the teams are coming from. north is likely going to be two NESCAC teams. at least one Liberty. maybe the runner up also. RIT Tufts RPI Amherst or Wesleyan St Lawrence is probably out, since far from major airports and so far north. south Salisbury winner of CC and probably two o...

Anyone familiar with process for determining who hosts 2nd round of tournament games? Does highest seed get the nod or is the selection determined by other factors? i have looked online and never found anything. i think several factors come into play. seeding. location etc. first round is usually h...

Rankings are out, but in alpha order (details are there if you click on Region link at bottom): https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/lacrosse-men/d3/regional-rankings valaxfan Thanks for posting this up. I’m pretty shocked to see Stevenson regionally ranked. If you click the bottom breakdown links, it hig...

Food for thought: looking at this weeks rankings and Swat up in top 5, if Stevens beats Dickinson in OT are they a top 5 team? Strong case for sure. lots of questionable rankings this week. several teams have good number of wins, but not having strong wins. m stevens with the one top 20 win Lynchbu...

team seems to be gelling at the right time. took a while for the coaches to figure out who was going to be where, but they have used the same lineup for a few games in a row. still trying to figure out the second mid line. this keeps changing. looking forward to this weeks game vs Stevenson. teams l...

SKUD wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 9:54 am My Saturday favorites

Union @ RPI
Tufts @ Mid
Dick @ Swath
Will @ Bowd

all look to be good games.
going with
RPI
Tufts
swarthmore
Bowdoin

Union at 6 is a push. I think Wesleyan W&L and Tufts should be ahead of them. Wesleyan 6, W&L 7, tufts 8, Union 9 Union got flattened in both of their T10 match ups I think that part of their poll is just about disliking a school because of personal history. There is zero coherent argument ...

Union at 6 is a push. I think Wesleyan W&L and Tufts should be ahead of them. Wesleyan 6, W&L 7, tufts 8, Union 9 Union got flattened in both of their T10 match ups I think that part of their poll is just about disliking a school because of personal history. There is zero coherent argument ...

amherst has three losses, swarthmore has one. if amherst just beat swarthmore this weekend, i would have amherst above them. but that a month ago. and Amherst has lost twice since then. i think you have amherst too high. That’s because Swarthmore’s schedule is pretty soft compared to essentially ev...

Could this be the year Sacred Heart wins their conference and makes the NCAA Tournament for the first time? who is going to stop them. SHU is steamrolling through the MAAC I agree! Don't count your chickens. It's been called the Wacky MAAC for years for good reason. i only see one game left that mi...

BallHunt wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 8:55 am Are you counting Owings Mills as North?

this is interesting. Maryland is in no man’s land for being north or south. but since lacrosse is a mid atlantic sport , MD is on the south side. i would have never considered PA or NJ or Ohio south. but lacrosse does.

Babson, Union, Endicott, Bowdoin & Williams. This is list of Northern teams who are middle of the road top 25 at best but are getting some serious (biased) love. Unions two losses are to two top 5 teams by a combined 19 goals. That doesn't equate to a top 15 ranking. All the rest are NESCAC sch...

Babson, Union, Endicott, Bowdoin & Williams. This is list of Northern teams who are middle of the road top 25 at best but are getting some serious (biased) love. Unions two losses are to two top 5 teams by a combined 19 goals. That doesn't equate to a top 15 ranking. All the rest are NESCAC sch...

Teams such as Gettysburg, Lynchburg, CNU, W&L, previously York somehow are supposed to get credit for beating each other. Babson and Endicott are easily as impressive wins as any of those teams have vs each other. CNU over Dickinson = not teams you mentioned playing against each other, and far ...

gymman1031 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 7:10 pm Could this be the year Sacred Heart wins their conference and makes the NCAA Tournament for the first time?

who is going to stop them. SHU is steamrolling through the MAAC

i took the average of each poll. then compared each teams average top 20 wins and losses. head to head carried some weight, but also looked at similar opponents , how long ago was that head to head game. and did the results of the head to head seem unusual. i have watched all of these teams play mul...

D1: 1-30 D3: 1-3 D1: 31-50 D2: 1-5 D3: 4-20 D1: 51-76 D2: 6-20 D3: 21-75 High School: 1-10 MCLA: 1-10 D2: 21-76 / D3 76-245 this is a really good list. i would suggest there are a few randoms that you could throw in. top 1-3 HS and top 1-3 MCLA can compete with D1 65-76 , D2 10-15, and D3 25-35 D1 ...

can someone that follows this team closer than me explain this team. they lose to RMC and elizabethtown, but can play close with top teams like middlebury and Dickinson.

york officially not ranked. anyone know when the last time York was not ranked? End of 2015. That year they started the season ranked #11, and had 7 games with a 3 goal differential or less. Sounds sort of familiar to me… Looking back, there’s been plenty of years where they won most of those close...