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What happens when the team regarded the fourth best in the ACC takes on the CAA champ? ND is slightly underrated at six and will prevail in this one.
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Prediction? Pain
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drexel is legit. a legitimately good team. and... notre dame is just a step (or two) above. anything can happen on any given Saturday but... notre dame is winning this one. (seems silly to even be writing this. so many of these opening round games are pretty obvious.) SU-G'town, Denver-Loyola, etc., these are substantially less obvious.
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Depends on what the coaches decide.
Will Drexel speed things up, they can and can go deeper.
The game will be at high altitude.
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If Corrigan loses his shite and demoralizes his team...
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The 2010 regular season game between Drexel and Notre Dame, played at Vidas Field in West Philly is still one of my all-time favorite college lacrosse games.

The game was played mid-week and started late in the afternoon. At that time, the Irish were undefeated and ranked #3 in the country while the Dragons had at least 2 or 3 losses and were ranked #20. By the time of the opening face off, the stands were packed and several hundred people were seated on the hill opposite the scoreboard.

The game was very competitive from the beginning with neither team being able to get more than a one goal lead. Kevin Stockel had one of his best games as a Dragon, scoring four goals, with his last one tying the game at 6 with less than a minute to go in the fourth quarter.

The two teams exchanged possessions in overtime and with less than 45 seconds remaining, the Dragons had possession of the ball at the ND end of the field, just in front of the score board. The Dragons Scott Perri put the ball in play and as he was dodging towards the goal from the corner, the Irish defender slipped giving Scott a clear path to the goal. When one of the other Irish defenders slid to cover him, Scott passed the ball to a wide open freshman Robert Church who promptly put the ball in the back of the net as the entire stadium exploded.
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Laxwatch2007 wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 9:00 pm The 2010 regular season game between Drexel and Notre Dame, played at Vidas Field in West Philly is still one of my all-time favorite college lacrosse games.
Tremendous team.
Voelker’s first season.
They beat five top ten teams and almost made the NCAAs as an at large.
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Why is this game being played in Denver?
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Can Drexel win Faceoffs? My guess is no. Therefore, Drexel has to have productive possessions vs a really good defense. ND is a strong contender to finally win a title. There weakness for years has been the offense gets in scoring droughts. Drexel need this to happen to hang around deep in the 3rd quarter.
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Nassaufan wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 11:37 pm Why is this game being played in Denver?
They have neutral sites because of Covid. Two first round games each site.
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Nassaufan wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 11:37 pm Why is this game being played in Denver?
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Mr3Putt wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 5:42 am Can Drexel win Faceoffs? My guess is no. Therefore, Drexel has to have productive possessions vs a really good defense. ND is a strong contender to finally win a title. There weakness for years has been the offense gets in scoring droughts. Drexel need this to happen to hang around deep in the 3rd quarter.
If Koita can at least create scrums out of the faceoffs,
they stand a decent chance to keep things fairly even,
good wing players for Drexel.

Again, one key,
how do these teams acclimate to the altitude ?
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10stone5 wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 9:08 am
Mr3Putt wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 5:42 am Can Drexel win Faceoffs? My guess is no. Therefore, Drexel has to have productive possessions vs a really good defense. ND is a strong contender to finally win a title. There weakness for years has been the offense gets in scoring droughts. Drexel need this to happen to hang around deep in the 3rd quarter.
If Koita can at least create scrums out of the faceoffs,
they stand a decent chance to keep things fairly even,
good wing players for Drexel.

Again, one key,
how do these teams acclimate to the altitude ?
Koita and Gallagher have met up before in the CAA when Kyle was at Hofstra. In 2018 Koita won 12 of 21 faceoffs versus Gallagher in the one game they met. Granted that was a long time ago, but he did have some success against him. And if Koita does have success against Gallagher, Corrigan will quickly switch over to Charles Leonard, who is an animal too.

I am mostly interested to watch what Tucker Durkin does with his defense to stop Kavanaugh. Sean Quinn is tremendously physical and has had a great season shutting down each opponent's top attackman. But can he handle Kavanaugh's quickness and creativity?

Should be fun.
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Nassaufan wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 11:37 pm Why is this game being played in Denver?
Check out the membership of the MLax committee.
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listener wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 9:40 am
Nassaufan wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 11:37 pm Why is this game being played in Denver?
Check out the membership of the MLax committee.
It is absurd to make three teams fly across the country to play 1st round games.
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Henpecked wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 9:25 am
10stone5 wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 9:08 am
Mr3Putt wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 5:42 am Can Drexel win Faceoffs? My guess is no. Therefore, Drexel has to have productive possessions vs a really good defense. ND is a strong contender to finally win a title. There weakness for years has been the offense gets in scoring droughts. Drexel need this to happen to hang around deep in the 3rd quarter.
If Koita can at least create scrums out of the faceoffs,
they stand a decent chance to keep things fairly even,
good wing players for Drexel.

Again, one key,
how do these teams acclimate to the altitude ?
I am mostly interested to watch what Tucker Durkin does with his defense to stop Kavanaugh. Sean Quinn is tremendously physical and has had a great season shutting down each opponent's top attackman. But can he handle Kavanaugh's quickness and creativity?
No choice.
Sean Quinn is your cover guy.
They’ll be very physical with Kavanaugh, as you would with Ryan Tierney in CAA play.
George Grippo is a very good short stick takeaway specialist, so he’ll be the trailer on Kavanaugh coverage.
Lock down Will Yorke also, he’s been on a scoring roll.
Let the other guys beat you.
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10stone5 wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 8:49 pm
Henpecked wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 9:25 am
10stone5 wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 9:08 am
Mr3Putt wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 5:42 am Can Drexel win Faceoffs? My guess is no. Therefore, Drexel has to have productive possessions vs a really good defense. ND is a strong contender to finally win a title. There weakness for years has been the offense gets in scoring droughts. Drexel need this to happen to hang around deep in the 3rd quarter.
If Koita can at least create scrums out of the faceoffs,
they stand a decent chance to keep things fairly even,
good wing players for Drexel.

Again, one key,
how do these teams acclimate to the altitude ?
I am mostly interested to watch what Tucker Durkin does with his defense to stop Kavanaugh. Sean Quinn is tremendously physical and has had a great season shutting down each opponent's top attackman. But can he handle Kavanaugh's quickness and creativity?
No choice.
Sean Quinn is your cover guy.
They’ll be very physical with Kavanaugh, as you would with Ryan Tierney in CAA play.
George Grippo is a very good short stick takeaway specialist, so he’ll be the trailer on Kavanaugh coverage.
Lock down Will Yorke also, he’s been on a scoring roll.
Let the other guys beat you.
Agreed. Quinn is an insanely good cover guy and Grippo is one of the best SSDMs in lacrosse. It’s going to be a fun game to watch.
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Matnum PI wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 7:37 pm
(seems silly to even be writing this. so many of these opening round games are pretty obvious.)
I honestly don’t see any obvious 1st round games.
This looks to me to be one of the more competitive
tournament first rounds.
Even Monmouth could hang with UNC for a while.

Certainly this game is not obvious.
Looks to me like the #8 seed game, #5 seed, #6 seed
and #7 seed are the most competitive games.
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10stone5 wrote: Wed May 12, 2021 6:59 am Monmouth could hang with UNC for a while.
UNC will crush Monmouth. MD will beat UVM handily. duke will beat high point easily. uva will beat bryant easily.
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Matnum PI wrote: Wed May 12, 2021 7:49 am
10stone5 wrote: Wed May 12, 2021 6:59 am Monmouth could hang with UNC for a while.
UNC will crush Monmouth. MD will beat UVM handily. duke will beat high point easily. uva will beat bryant easily.
Monmouth does not have one player that could make the UNC roster. This will get ugly quick. The rest of the games there is potential for some to hang around. HP will play Duke and hang around for a while. Vermont will win faceoffs and not fear MD. Va will speed things up in the third qtr and pull away.
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