Lax poll 4/19 Cornell +2 to 8th

Our last-second loss to Syracuse vaulted Cornell up 2 spots to #8 this week in the USILA poll while Syracuse took over first from Virginia after its loss to Duke - Syracuse and Virginia split first place votes. Hopkins remains in the top 20 despite a 5-6 record. What are the odds the voters would be so kind to Cornell with that record? This week Cornell hosts HM Brown. Princeton is at HM Harvard. Then Cornell at Princeton May 1. If Cornell wins both, it hosts the first Ivy playoffs.

[www.usila.org]

Rank Team               Record Points Previous 
1 Syracuse ................. 10-1 256(9) 2 
2 Virginia ..................11-1 250(4) 1 
3 North Carolina  ...........11-1 231 3 
4 Duke ......................11-3 216 5 
5 Maryland ...................8-2 214 4 
6 Princeton ..................9-2 194 6 
7 Loyola .................... 8-2 183 8 
8 Cornell ................... 8-3 157 10 
9 Villanova ..................8-3 148 13 
10 Georgetown ................7-4 130 9 
11 Drexel 9-3 127 7 
12 Stony Brook  8-3 107 14 
13 Yale 9-2 98 16 
14 Towson 5-5 81 nr 
15 Hofstra 7-4 73 11 
16 UMass 7-4 71 12 
17 Johns Hopkins  5-6 50 15 
18 Fairfield 8-3 49 18 
19 Lafayette 8-3 25 17 
20 Denver 9-6 22 nr 
Others Receiving Votes: Notre Dame, Army, Brown, Penn, Robert Morris, Harvard, Delaware 

billhoward
Our last-second loss to Syracuse vaulted Cornell up 2 spots to #8 this week in the USILA poll...

I suspect Drexel's loss to Towson and Georgetown's loss to Loyola are what moved Cornell up.

In case you missed this comment in the Laxpower Forum poll:

"Big Red needs a new timekeeper with a quicker thumb. No way Cornell gets that shot off in the Dome. Big Red still climbs. (Strannywastheman)"

I've seen all of these teams in person or on TV/computer and we're probably ranked about right in spite of not playing real well clearing and ball handling. I think we're better than Loyola and Villanova, not quite as good as Georgetown. I'd swap Georgetown's spot for Loyola's, in spite of the result of their game on Saturday.

What does it matter? We know Hopkins will get seeded no matter how well we play.