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Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - game times - Yesterday
I'm guessing here, but I think the #1 seed playing the late game is a League decision to mitigate the top seed's home-field advantage. When the ILT was at a neutral site, the #1 seed got the advantage of playing the early game. But prior to the switch to neutral NYC, the #1 seed always played the late game.by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - Yesterday
BearLover So, if margin of victory/loss isn’t part of the selection committee’s criteria, what *is* their criteria? And why in the world would it be preferable to going purely based off of RPI? Official criteria are pretty goofy (see below), and IMO they are not preferable to straight RPI. Also the committee usually seems to start with straight RPI anyway and then muck around from there, since thby CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 2 days ago
BearLover I’m having a hard time seeing how Cornell could miss the NCAAs at this point. We are 9th in RPI and there are 18 NCAA spots. We had one bad loss the entire season, vs Penn State; the other three losses were by one goal. We blew a lot of teams out. I don’t see how the committee could leave Cornell out even if we lose next week. How many autobids could go to teams who would not get atby CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 2 days ago
Cornell wins the game, 15-10, and sole possession of the Ivy League title. Congrats to the team and coaches on a great regular season.by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 2 days ago
Per a poster at fanlax on Long: He is there in street clothes. Nothing obvious coming out to greet team on a play stoppage. 46 not playing eitherby CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 2 days ago
BearLover CU77 BearLover CU77 Long not playing, Caddigan at attack with Kirst and Goldstein. What’s going on with Long? No public word, AFAIK Ugh. Did he finish last week’s game? Yesby CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 2 days ago
BearLover CU77 Long not playing, Caddigan at attack with Kirst and Goldstein. What’s going on with Long? No public word, AFAIKby CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 2 days ago
Long not playing, Caddigan at attack with Kirst and Goldstein.by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - polls 4/15 week 10 - 10 days ago
CB scored that 1 goal late against Yale in the opening round of the ILT, when Cornell was way behind. I still remember thinking "why hasn't this guy been getting time???"by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - polls 4/15 week 10 - 11 days ago
Buczek likely remembers when DeLuca kept him on the bench his entire freshman year.by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Men's lax: CU-Notre Dame Sunday 4/14/24 - 14 days ago
Although I am very much not a fan of Corrigan's screamer style, what he has accomplished at ND is impressive. ND was nothing in the lax world when he arrived in 1988. In 2009 (I know, that year does not actually exist for Cornell lax fans), ND went 15-0 in the regular season, and got ... the #7 seed. Then, to prove they didn't deserve better, ND lost to unseeded Maryland in the first round. 2010by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Men's lax: CU-Notre Dame Sunday 4/14/24 - 14 days ago
mike1960 For an ND broadcasting team, I thought they weren't too homerish I thought Booker and George (brothers, cousins of ND coach Kevin) did a great job, far superior to the Quint/Carc clown car. Booker does play-by-play for ESPN (when the clowns are elsewhere) and CBS, and IMO is always very good. Booker's company Corrigan Sports produced the event, which seems to have been a huge success (atby CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - polls 4/15 week 10 - 14 days ago
I like the Massey ratings, which take into account scores, game location, and recency. The precise formula is not disclosed, but the results comport pretty well with eyeball opinion (given the high uncertainties in that). Ratings are updated daily. Cornell is currently #11. Cornell is #10 in RPI and also in the laxmath power rating (based on goal differential)by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - into last 2 weeks - 15 days ago
Penn and Yale each have a final Ivy game against Princeton: Penn away on 4/20, Yale home on 4/27.by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - 16 days ago
That is one of the all-time great saves.by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - 4/13-14 games - 16 days ago
We want Harvard to beat Penn. If Cornell then beats Harvard and Dartmouth, Cornell will host the ILT no matter what else happens. Harvard leads Penn 9-7 at the half.by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024 - 25 days ago
Al DeFlorio chimpfood I like sudden death OT. Walk off goals are just electric. Would you want sudden death in basketball? I would like the entire sport of basketball to experience sudden death. Does that count?by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 4 weeks ago
Chris '03 CU77 chimpfood On the CHN podcast today Adam said that he supports teams being able to host regionals in their own rinks but should only play there if they are a one or two seed. I don't think any school would bid to host under these conditions. I like the lacrosse system: round 1 at higher seed, round 2 at 2 regional sites (2 games per site, same day). That doesn't solve the hostby CU77 - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 4 weeks ago
chimpfood On the CHN podcast today Adam said that he supports teams being able to host regionals in their own rinks but should only play there if they are a one or two seed. I don't think any school would bid to host under these conditions. I like the lacrosse system: round 1 at higher seed, round 2 at 2 regional sites (2 games per site, same day).by CU77 - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 4 weeks ago
You want half of the D1 teams to make the tournament? 25% is already high. Check some other sports. Basketball is 19%.by CU77 - Hockey
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 5 weeks ago
mike1960 Cornell lacrosse won. Cornell won the ECAC hockey championship. Arujau wins another national title in wrestling. A very good day! Absolutely!by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 5 weeks ago
A big win! Cornell now past the arguably two toughest Ivy rivals.by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 5 weeks ago
Red now up 12-8 midway through the 3rd. AND Yale scores 3 goals in 41 sec, now 12-11 Redby CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 5 weeks ago
He had the head of the Cornell Lax Boosters call me. That was a surprise! I was mostly upset about the hit to recruiting from having a HC saddled with the interim tag. Pleaded my case to the booster guy, to no avail of course. He defended AN as having done the right thing. I couldn't tell if he really believed that or not.by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 5 weeks ago
No, probably not, but it sure didn't help that AN wouldn't commit to him without hanging the interim tag on him for a year first. I actually wrote to AN to complain about that, the first and only time I ever did such a thing.by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 5 weeks ago
Sticking to mlax only, AN 1) fired Ben DeLuca for unspecified reasons 2) hired Matt Kerwick, who drove the team into a ditch 3) made Peter Milliman spend a year as "acting" HC, then lost him to JHU Yes, we lucked out because CB (who started as a volunteer assistant) turned out to be really excellent.by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Ohio State @ Cornell - 7 weeks ago
Are you sure semsox? I think a lot of the Big Ten games are on BTN only, not B1G+.by CU77 - Other Sports
Re: Ohio State @ Cornell - 8 weeks ago
And that's a wrap. Nice comeback after a rough startby CU77 - Other Sports