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Cornell picked to finish fifth in Ivy League. Penn is the heavy favorite, while Yale is only predicted to finish third.
Interesting, also, that Princeton is the only team in the country to return all of its players from last season.

Penn's first goal was on a PK, and in the second half we went ahead 3-2 only to have Penn tie it before we got two late goals to pull out the win.
Cornell is the only undefeated team in Ivy play.

Cornell scored two second-half goals to rally for a 2-1 win at Brown. I wasn't watching the game, but Brown's goal came early in the first half on a penalty kick after the Cornell goalie was issued a yellow card. I may go back to watch the replay of the game just to see what happened. Cornell is now 2-0 in Ivies and 6-2 overall.
Cornell hosts UMass in a non-league game Tuesday night. UMass has lost to Princeton and Harvard and defeated Yale. Cornell returns to Ivy play with a home game next weekend against Penn.
In lieu of starting a separate thread for the field hockey team, although it may well deserve one, Cornell beat Brown, 3-0, on Friday night and is off to a 3-0 start in the Ivies for the first time in 12 years.

Soccer team scores four goals in second half to beat Harvard, 4-1, in Ivy opener. Overall, a great day for Cornell sports. In addition to the football win over Yale, the women's soccer team beat Yale, 1-0, and the field hockey team beat No. 15 Yale, 3-2, for Cornell's first road win over a ranked team in 19 years. I wouldn't mind a few more fall weekends like this!

In-depth article in The Athletic today about Arizona State tragedy. The coach, Greg Powers, comes across as a real jerk. It sounds like the players are in a tough spot.
This should be a gift link which anyone can read.
"Some players are conflicted, some are angry, people close to them said. Some are also scared. School and police officials probing the situation have reached out to them, but some players have been advised not to talk unless a law enforcement agency independent of ASU takes over, as the Mayich family's attorney has demanded. None of the players have spoken publicly about the incident, and some have been harangued on social media and in private messages for not speaking up for Mayich. Some would like to, but they've been cowed by the specter of retaliation."

Cornell won, 3-2.
Cornell picked to finish tied for last in Ivies with Yale in preseason poll.

Cornell is surprisingly picked to tie with Princeton for fifth place in the Ivy League preseason poll, with Brown just one point behind. There's a huge gap between the top half and the bottom half of the league. Yale is the heavy favorite to win the title.
I can't remember the last time Cornell was picked this high.

Harvard gets lots of positive press in this article in The Athletic.
My favorite part of it, though, was this reader comment:
"On May 7, longtime Crimson coach Ted Donato announced that he would step away at the conclusion of the academic calendar, leaving behind a winning NCAA legacy and a wide NHL footprint."
What does this mean — leaving behind a wide NHL footprint?
By the way, coach has won 53 percent of his games and no NCAA titles. Is "legendary" the word we want in the headline? Or is that just default now for sportswriters? Whatever for clicks?

I didn't think this warranted a new thread, but it's worth noting that a donor has given Richmond $10 million to build a dedicated lacrosse facility. That program has already become an established national power. This promises to keep it up there.

After the semifinals, some Syracuse fans were complaining in a Facebook thread about all of the rich prep school kids on Princeton's roster, while noting that their players mostly came from public schools. Out of curiosity, I took at look at the Princeton roster and counted 35 of their 51 players as coming from private schools. That's nearly 70 percent.
If someone wants to  do a similar survey of the Syracuse roster, go for it!
In any case, does it matter?

Yale's new coach sounds confident of ending team's streak of losing seasons.
"This team is going to be good," Hamilton said. "I believe that, and they believe that. It is going to be hard work, and it is going to be a lot of work. It is going to be holding players accountable when it is uncomfortable, but the talent is there. Our staff certainly believes that.
"I don't think it is going to be long. It is going to be a lot of hard work, but Yale hockey will be back on the map soon."

Not that it's any consolation, but we weren't the only home team to lose a first-round game. Richmond lost to Duke, and Virginia lost to Georgetown. Syracuse nearly lost to Yale.

Hopkins shut us down even though it was missing one of its top defenders, who was in crutches on sidelines.
Cornell had chances to blow the game open in first half when we were winning every faceoff. But too many turnovers and poor offensive possessions. It's not like we ran into a hot goalie.

Quote from: stereax on May 07, 2026, 05:46:55 PM

Quote from: stereax on May 07, 2026, 05:46:16 PMAre my eyes deceiving me or does this read that Donato got canned?

Holy shit

Apparently losing to Cornell four times in one season was too much to bear.

It's hard to believe we haven't played Hopkins in 39 years.
In the 1970s, this was one of the big rivalries in men's lacrosse, as documented so ably in Christian Swezey's book, "We Showed Baltimore."
At one point during the '70s, we beat Hopkins five straight times, including in the 1977 championship game. Hopkins avenged that loss and ended our record 42-game win streak by beating us in the 1978 title game. Hopkins also beat us by a heartbreaking one goal in the 1987 championship game at Rutgers, which I attended in person and was the last time we played them.
The Cornell-Hopkins rivalry drew some huge crowds in the '70s, both in Ithaca and in Baltimore.
The series itself dates all the way back to 1894, and Hopkins leads the all-time series, 16-6, with one tie.
While this may not be the most favorable first-round matchup we could have drawn, it's nice to see another chapter being added to this once-storied rivalry.