Best Games, Upsets, and Upcoming Games

[Brownlax]

Some very interesting games coming up this weekend:

Saturday brunch game (10 am first draw) #5 Stony Brook at #11 Florida
Harvard at #24 Penn
Penn State at #9 Loyola
St Joe's at Towson

Sunday

#7 Duke at #3 Syracuse
#5 Northwestern at #2 Carolina
#13 Virginia at #16 Notre Dame
#16 Vandy at #12 Denver
#15 Drexel at #20 Johns Hopkins

Read all about it: https://www.insidelacrosse.com/league/WDI/calendar/2022

SBU 16-12
Penn 12-8
Loyola 15-9
Towson 12-11
Syracuse 17-11
Carolina 15-12
Nd 13-12
Denver 14-9
Drexel 14-13

[Justalaxdad]

Some very interesting games coming up this weekend:

Saturday brunch game (10 am first draw) #5 Stony Brook at #11 Florida
Harvard at #24 Penn
Penn State at #9 Loyola
St Joe's at Towson

Sunday

#7 Duke at #3 Syracuse
#5 Northwestern at #2 Carolina
#13 Virginia at #16 Notre Dame
#16 Vandy at #12 Denver
#15 Drexel at #20 Johns Hopkins

Read all about it: https://www.insidelacrosse.com/league/WDI/calendar/2022

I think this may be the weekend where things start to sort themselves out. Will we find out who’s for real and who is taking a step back? Seems to be a lot of close matchups on paper. Come Sunday night, the season should be coming into focus. Should be fun to watch it unfold beginning with SB/Fla at 10am.

[Cagekeeper]

Some very interesting games coming up this weekend:

Saturday brunch game (10 am first draw) #5 Stony Brook at #11 Florida
Harvard at #24 Penn
Penn State at #9 Loyola
St Joe's at Towson

Sunday

#7 Duke at #3 Syracuse
#5 Northwestern at #2 Carolina
#13 Virginia at #16 Notre Dame
#16 Vandy at #12 Denver
#15 Drexel at #20 Johns Hopkins

Read all about it: https://www.insidelacrosse.com/league/WDI/calendar/2022

I think this may be the weekend where things start to sort themselves out. Will we find out who’s for real and who is taking a step back? Seems to be a lot of close matchups on paper. Come Sunday night, the season should be coming into focus. Should be fun to watch it unfold beginning with SB/Fla at 10am.

I agree. With most teams having five or six games under their belts and starting to work out the kinks, this should be a turning point in the season

[watcherinthewoods]

Nice little upset yesterday for the CU Buffs, although I think this is more a reflection of Vanderbilt getting a little too much credit for beating notre dame. Denver beats the Dores easily on Sunday and sends them back to Nashville 0-2 and out of the top 25.

[OuttaNowhereWregget]

Nice little upset yesterday for the CU Buffs, although I think this is more a reflection of Vanderbilt getting a little too much credit for beating notre dame. Denver beats the Dores easily on Sunday and sends them back to Nashville 0-2 and out of the top 25.

Agreed. I didn't consider that an upset. Colorado consistently produces scrappy teams. They're rarely an easy out and part of the time in the top 25.

[TNLAX]

Nice little upset yesterday for the CU Buffs, although I think this is more a reflection of Vanderbilt getting a little too much credit for beating notre dame. Denver beats the Dores easily on Sunday and sends them back to Nashville 0-2 and out of the top 25.

Agreed. I didn't consider that an upset. Colorado consistently produces scrappy teams. They're rarely an easy out and part of the time in the top 25.

CO has a much better resume than Duke and IMHO they should be ranked higher Duke. It was rather silly that they weren’t ranked in the top 20 last week when they were 3-0. Now at 4-0 they should be a top 15 team.

[Laxfan500]

Nice little upset yesterday for the CU Buffs, although I think this is more a reflection of Vanderbilt getting a little too much credit for beating notre dame. Denver beats the Dores easily on Sunday and sends them back to Nashville 0-2 and out of the top 25.

Agreed. I didn't consider that an upset. Colorado consistently produces scrappy teams. They're rarely an easy out and part of the time in the top 25.

CO has a much better resume than Duke and IMHO they should be ranked higher Duke. It was rather silly that they weren’t ranked in the top 20 last week when they were 3-0. Now at 4-0 they should be a top 15 team.

Florida v stonybrook . Expect SB to get to a running clock before half 5-1 SB
4 yellow cards on Florida already
Ok maybe no running clock. But def a SB dominant win.

[Lax101]

Same old Florida - below average coaching with no idea how to attack a zone and little discipline with 6+yellow cards. They will likely end with more YC's than goals.

[watcherinthewoods]

Same old Florida - below average coaching with no idea how to attack a zone and little discipline with 6+yellow cards. They will likely end with more YC's than goals.

+ 1 ^ Nothing new under the sun.

[seacoaster]

Same old Florida - below average coaching with no idea how to attack a zone and little discipline with 6+yellow cards. They will likely end with more YC's than goals.

+ 1 ^ Nothing new under the sun.

I was just watching and thinking: so little discipline.

[Laxfan500]

Nice little upset yesterday for the CU Buffs, although I think this is more a reflection of Vanderbilt getting a little too much credit for beating notre dame. Denver beats the Dores easily on Sunday and sends them back to Nashville 0-2 and out of the top 25.

Agreed. I didn't consider that an upset. Colorado consistently produces scrappy teams. They're rarely an easy out and part of the time in the top 25.

CO has a much better resume than Duke and IMHO they should be ranked higher Duke. It was rather silly that they weren’t ranked in the top 20 last week when they were 3-0. Now at 4-0 they should be a top 15 team.

Florida v stonybrook . Expect SB to get to a running clock before half 5-1 SB
4 yellow cards on Florida already
Ok maybe no running clock. But def a SB dominant win.

[Itsallgood]

Same old Florida - below average coaching with no idea how to attack a zone and little discipline with 6+yellow cards. They will likely end with more YC's than goals.

How do you play an entire half trying to dodge through Stony Brooks zone ? It’s not like they haven’t been playing that zone exclusively for years. 2nd half Fla. dodging , drawing double and dumping to the weak side effectively. I’m sorry that’s just poor game planning by the Florida coaching staff. Stony Brook is really shooting smart, when they have an opportunity they cash in by shooting offside stick almost exclusively.

[wlaxphan20]

There was absolutely no reason for that

[wlaxphan20]

Same old Florida - below average coaching with no idea how to attack a zone and little discipline with 6+yellow cards. They will likely end with more YC's than goals.

make that 7 and 11 total in the game. Personally, I haven't been watching closely the whole game so I don't know what the other 10 yellow cards looked like, but that last one could've been red


Edit: Looking back that was Heller's second yellow, so it was red anyway. Not that it made much of a difference

[Cagekeeper]

Same old Florida - below average coaching with no idea how to attack a zone and little discipline with 6+yellow cards. They will likely end with more YC's than goals.

make that 7 and 11 total in the game. Personally, I haven't been watching closely the whole game so I don't know what the other 10 yellow cards looked like, but that last one could've been red


Edit: Looking back that was Heller's second yellow, so it was red anyway. Not that it made much of a difference

Heller has alway played aggressively. Game was even on fouls. Gators had 5 more dc than sbu. Saves were a large margin

[wlaxphan20]

Same old Florida - below average coaching with no idea how to attack a zone and little discipline with 6+yellow cards. They will likely end with more YC's than goals.

make that 7 and 11 total in the game. Personally, I haven't been watching closely the whole game so I don't know what the other 10 yellow cards looked like, but that last one could've been red


Edit: Looking back that was Heller's second yellow, so it was red anyway. Not that it made much of a difference

Heller has alway played aggressively. Game was even on fouls. Gators had 5 more dc than sbu. Saves were a large margin

Yeah, the fouls were pretty even. I counted 34 committed by SBU and 32 by UF, but YC's were a little more skewed towards the Gators 7-4. I haven't been following Heller's career, but "playing aggressively" and receiving yellow cards are not mutually inclusive. Heller has 6 yellow cards in 4 games and at least 1 in each game. I thought her second card, with 4 seconds left, in her own defensive third practically as deep as the GLE, was unnecessary and unsportsmanlike. Even if the SBU player had handed Florida the ball, there's no possible way they could moved the ball down the field and scored in 4 seconds. Yes, these women are competitive & yes, fouls like this have happened before and will happen again, but I'm not a fan of it.

[watcherinthewoods]

Florida racked up at 2 YC with under 1 minute to play in their 2020 loss to Dartmouth. They were down 4 goals and the game was clearly out of reach. Not sure why any coach would allow this kind of play. Bad juju.

[Matnum PI]

This Week's Best Games (in order)
1 Denver vs Boston College 3/9/2022
2 USC vs Princeton 3/8/2022
3 Temple vs Rutgers 3/9/2022
4 Georgetown vs Loyola 3/9/2022
5 Virginia vs Richmond 3/9/2022
6 Penn State vs James Madison 3/9/2022
7 UConn vs Manhattan 3/9/2022
8 Liberty vs Florida 3/9/2022
9 Delaware vs Army 3/9/2022
10 Drexel vs Penn 3/9/2022
11 Cincinnati vs Louisville 3/9/2022
12 Binghamton vs Canisius 3/9/2022
13 Hofstra vs Wagner 3/8/2022
14 Quinnipiac vs Bryant 3/9/2022
15 UMBC vs Towson 3/9/2022
16 George Mason vs Mount St Mary's 3/9/2022
17 VCU vs Coastal Carolina 3/9/2022
18 Duquesne vs Ohio State 3/9/2022
19 Campbell vs Bucknell 3/7/2022
20 Columbia vs Monmouth 3/8/2022
21 Stetson vs East Carolina 3/7/2022
22 Lafayette vs Fairfield 3/9/2022
23 Cornell vs Colgate 3/9/2022
24 Marist vs Vermont 3/9/2022
25 Lehigh vs Siena 3/8/2022

[Matnum PI]

– Team VS Opp Team Details
1 Denver vs Boston College 3/9/2022
2 USC vs Princeton 3/8/2022
3 Temple vs Rutgers 3/9/2022
4 Navy vs Johns Hopkins 3/10/2022
5 Northwestern vs Stony Brook 3/10/2022
6 Georgetown vs Loyola 3/9/2022
7 Virginia vs Richmond 3/9/2022
8 Penn State vs James Madison 3/9/2022
9 Virginia Tech vs Notre Dame 3/10/2022
10 UConn vs Manhattan 3/9/2022
11 Liberty vs Florida 3/9/2022
12 Duke vs Pitt 3/10/2022
13 Delaware vs Army 3/9/2022
14 Drexel vs Penn 3/9/2022
15 Cincinnati vs Louisville 3/9/2022
16 Binghamton vs Canisius 3/9/2022
17 Hofstra vs Wagner 3/8/2022
18 Quinnipiac vs Bryant 3/9/2022
19 UMBC vs Towson 3/9/2022
20 George Mason vs Mount St Mary's 3/9/2022
21 VCU vs Coastal Carolina 3/9/2022
22 Duquesne vs Ohio State 3/9/2022
23 Columbia vs Monmouth 3/8/2022
24 Lafayette vs Fairfield 3/9/2022
25 Cornell vs Colgate 3/9/2022

[Lax247]

– Team VS Opp Team Details
1 Denver vs Boston College 3/9/2022
2 USC vs Princeton 3/8/2022
3 Temple vs Rutgers 3/9/2022
4 Navy vs Johns Hopkins 3/10/2022
5 Northwestern vs Stony Brook 3/10/2022
6 Georgetown vs Loyola 3/9/2022
7 Virginia vs Richmond 3/9/2022
8 Penn State vs James Madison 3/9/2022
9 Virginia Tech vs Notre Dame 3/10/2022
10 UConn vs Manhattan 3/9/2022
11 Liberty vs Florida 3/9/2022
12 Duke vs Pitt 3/10/2022
13 Delaware vs Army 3/9/2022
14 Drexel vs Penn 3/9/2022
15 Cincinnati vs Louisville 3/9/2022
16 Binghamton vs Canisius 3/9/2022
17 Hofstra vs Wagner 3/8/2022
18 Quinnipiac vs Bryant 3/9/2022
19 UMBC vs Towson 3/9/2022
20 George Mason vs Mount St Mary's 3/9/2022
21 VCU vs Coastal Carolina 3/9/2022
22 Duquesne vs Ohio State 3/9/2022
23 Columbia vs Monmouth 3/8/2022
24 Lafayette vs Fairfield 3/9/2022
25 Cornell vs Colgate 3/9/2022

I’m thinking the BC-UNC game may want to switch venue to the football stadium . There are going to be a ton of fans trying to cram into their lacrosse stadium . Add in that it’s alumni weekend, no parking…no bathrooms, no locker rooms…seems like a prudent move . Just my opinion.