NCAA lax quarterfinals Stony Brook

[Hillel Hoffmann]

Given how few options there were for Cornell-oriented lacrosse info/talk a few years ago, it blows my mind how high the level of discussion has become on this forum. Sorry to get all maudlin, but back in the '90s I didn't think I'd ever see anything like this, especially with the decline in interest on campus.

::drunk::

[My first-ever emoticon]

Sunday was my first look at Virginia this year. They are so freaking good. Kyle Dixon is awesome. Their second-line middies looked like All Americas to me. And did you get a load of some of their big defenders, like Timms? They had great audio on one side of the field, and you could feel the stick checks from Virginia's huge defensemen chunking down on Georgetown's short sticks like kendo thingydingies made out of iron. I hate Virginia and I hate the ACC, but shit that was cool. I love what Syracuse has been doing lately, and I will be rooting for them -- but I can't imagine an upset.

[billhoward]

Cornell was nearly a bottom seed when it made it to the title game circa 1987-88, yes? And that was pretty much Cornell's last hurrah for more than a decade while Bill Tierney turned the Ivy League focus away from Ithaca.

It feels good to beat Princeton, but it's too bad not one of the four Ivies made it to the final four.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote billhoward]So which upset would be more likely, Syracuse over Virginia, or UMass over Maryland?
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UMass still hanging in there with a 3-2 halftime lead over Maryland.