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rasheed wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 9:40 pm A farce...I'd put money on the Notre Dame playing right now to beat any of the Ivy teams. Hell, I'd pick Duke to beat most of them. No disrespect, but this is comical. It's funnier than Scarface trying to do a drug deal with Kermit the Frog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FukghSV6Ct8

Gonna wager some bitcoin (fake money) in your imaginary matchups?

Gotta make the tourney first.

10stone5 wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 9:43 pm UVA gets the Terps if they can get past Brown,

the Cavs got no favors.

Agree. I would also argue the terps got no favors here as well. With all this in mind part of me feels like this is all semantics anyway and Maryland will just steamroll their way through. I suppose that is why they play the games though!

10stone5 wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 9:43 pm UVA gets the Terps if they can get past Brown,

the Cavs got no favors.

Conversely, the Terps get the toughest quarterfinal matchup again

PizzaSnake wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 9:44 pm

rasheed wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 9:40 pm A farce...I'd put money on the Notre Dame playing right now to beat any of the Ivy teams. Hell, I'd pick Duke to beat most of them. No disrespect, but this is comical. It's funnier than Scarface trying to do a drug deal with Kermit the Frog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FukghSV6Ct8

Gonna wager some bitcoin (fake money) in your imaginary matchups?

Gotta make the tourney first.

I suspect the committee got the idea in their head that the
ACC has been playing the RPI game too finely,

this year it bit the ACC in the butt.

Justify this all you want. This was a joke and the whole lacrosse world outside of the Ivy knows it. Maybe we can just let the RPI decide the champ from now on. No wonder this sport gets bumped by softball for TV time. Pathetic.

keno in reno wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 9:46 pm

10stone5 wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 9:43 pm UVA gets the Terps if they can get past Brown,

the Cavs got no favors.

Conversely, the Terps get the toughest quarterfinal matchup again

Except that the Terps have steamrolled everyone,
including the Cavs.

Tidbits from the selection show for those who couldn’t watch:
-Quint defended OSU getting in over ND, due to beating them and Harvard
-No one defended, or really even talked about, Duke.
-Carc was apoplectic over Notre Dame not making it in. Quint was upset too.
-Cotter flashed a graphic that showed the top 12 RPI teams. Next to the teams was a column labeled “In Tourney?” All yes’s except Duke and ND of course.
-Donna Woodruff, who headed the selection committee, took questions afterwards like the total pro that she is.
-On another graphic, UVa was incorrectly labeled as a 3-seed.
-Anish was relegated to facelessly reciting the number of times each seed has been upset or has reached the final four, over a montage of championship clips. He seems to be on the outs. I think Cotter threatened to beat him up if he didn’t give him his air time.

Laxter wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 9:47 pm Justify this all you want. This was a joke and the whole lacrosse world outside of the Ivy knows it. Maybe we can just let the RPI decide the champ from now on. No wonder this sport gets bumped by softball for TV time. Pathetic.

Its no joke to me.

The Ivy teams have played great consistent lacrosse
from pre-season until now,

Cornell and Penn were unreal in the two pre-season
games I watched.

Its a credit to lacrosse,

and the ACCs will be better for it, none of the coaches are going
to take this lying down, they’ll all be burning the midnight
oil for the next year.

Yeah so they should earn the right to play the weakest quarterfinal round. Everyone knows UVA is a top 2-3 talent team. Guaranteed that the 2-4 teams are laughing that they don't have to play uva, Duke or notre dame and 1 team does.

rcolter wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 9:40 pm Then again if we are going off RPI Duke is number 8 no?

No, number 7.

keno in reno wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 9:38 pm

10stone5 wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 9:36 pm

rcolter wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 9:30 pm If we are looking at bad losses how is Brown seeded with losses to UNC and Umass

High RPI
beat Penn beat Yale

Uva will beat them by 15

UVa won in OT in Charlottesville in '19, Brown won in Providence in '20. Admittedly, both a while ago.

10stone5 wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 9:43 pm UVA gets the Terps if they can get past Brown,

the Cavs got no favors.

I suspect The Terp staff isn’t exactly thrilled with how their draw could play out either……

PizzaSnake wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 9:44 pm

rasheed wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 9:40 pm A farce...I'd put money on the Notre Dame playing right now to beat any of the Ivy teams. Hell, I'd pick Duke to beat most of them. No disrespect, but this is comical. It's funnier than Scarface trying to do a drug deal with Kermit the Frog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FukghSV6Ct8

Gonna wager some bitcoin (fake money) in your imaginary matchups?

Gotta make the tourney first.

That’s my point. My opinion only. I think Notre Dame would beat the majority of Ivy teams that made it and that this year’s bracket is a farce. What don’t you understand?

keno in reno wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 9:52 pm Yeah so they should earn the right to play the weakest quarterfinal round. Everyone knows UVA is a top 2-3 talent team. Guaranteed that the 2-4 teams are laughing that they don't have to play uva, Duke or notre dame and 1 team does.

yeah MD kinda got the sh*t end of the stick with Princteon, UVA, and Yale on their side. I feel like Gtown only threat is Penn. Guess the #1 seed doesn't buy ya much besides that first game

Put an asterisk on 2022 tournament

blue angels wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 9:55 pm

10stone5 wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 9:43 pm UVA gets the Terps if they can get past Brown,

the Cavs got no favors.

I suspect The Terp staff isn’t exactly thrilled with how their draw could play out either……

I doubt they care,
singular focus,

the title.

stupefied wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 9:57 pm Put an asterisk on 2022 tournament

No

Harvard: two top 10 wins including 1 top 5 win

Notre Dame: two top ten wins to a team the committee decided wasn’t an at large.

Looks like the “big wins” rationale and performance against field made a comeback.

Laxter wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 9:47 pm Justify this all you want. This was a joke and the whole lacrosse world outside of the Ivy knows it. Maybe we can just let the RPI decide the champ from now on. No wonder this sport gets bumped by softball for TV time. Pathetic.

If it was based on RPI alone the ACC would have 3 teams

bearlaxfan wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 9:54 pm

keno in reno wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 9:38 pm

10stone5 wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 9:36 pm

rcolter wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 9:30 pm If we are looking at bad losses how is Brown seeded with losses to UNC and Umass

High RPI
beat Penn beat Yale

Uva will beat them by 15

UVa won in OT in Charlottesville in '19, Brown won in Providence in '20. Admittedly, both a while ago.

Not sure that has anything relevant to the 2022 ncaa tournament