NCAA Lax Selections

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Edit:  I just looked at the brackets on LaxPower.  1 and 2 play south, 3 and 4 play north.

Not how I expected they would be placed, but I guess it works.

[Hillel Hoffmann]

[quote Jeff Hopkins '82]So you're saying that the upper bracket 1-8, 5-4 is the North Bracket?
I guess that figures with Hopkins, Maryland, Georgetown, and UVa in the other bracket.

But it's kind of counter-intuitive with Navy in our bracket, and Princeton in the other bracket.[/quote]

The Princeton quarterfinal games:

Cornell-Towson winner vs. Albany-Loyola winner
Johns Hopkins-Notre Dame winner vs. Princeton-Georgetown winner

Maybe this also helps folks realize how Cornell's draw ain't so bad. If Princeton beats the Hoyas, can you imagine how chapped the Hopkins-Notre Dame winner will be at the prospect of playing Princeton at home?

Edit: Same for Duke, should they advance along with Navy. Now that would be a nightmare: advancing to play Navy in the quarterfinals at Navy-Marine Corps Stadium.

[scoop85]

I agree our match-ups are about as favorable as we'd want (short of playing Providence), but it so irks me to see us at #4.  Now, just prove it on the field, dammit!

[Hillel Hoffmann]

More rose-tinted thoughts about Cornell's draw: the hot factor.

Towson has lost three of their last five games.

Loyola has lost three of their last five games.

Although Albany won their conference tournament, they lost two of their last three regular season games. It could have been even worse for the Danes had they not managed a miraculous last-minute come-from-behind victory at home against Dartmouth in their second-to-last regular season game.

[Hillel Hoffmann]

Game time has been announced as 2:30 p.m., Saturday, May 12.

[DeltaOne81]

[quote Hillel Hoffmann]Game time has been announced as 2:30 p.m., Saturday, May 12.[/quote]

Excellent... anyone know what channel?

[Luke 05]

Hopefully this is just more added motivation for the Rojo Grande.

[Chris '03]

[quote DeltaOne81][quote Hillel Hoffmann]Game time has been announced as 2:30 p.m., Saturday, May 12.[/quote]

Excellent... anyone know what channel? [/quote]

All games on ESPNU... which begs the question, All-Access or no access? Comcast sucks and doesn't carry ESPNU...

[peterg]

[quote DeltaOne81][quote Hillel Hoffmann]Game time has been announced as 2:30 p.m., Saturday, May 12.[/quote]

Excellent... anyone know what channel? [/quote]

ESPNU.  Don't know if local TWC has any right to broadcast the game.

[peterg]

[quote Josh '99]#1 Duke vs. Providence
#8 North Carolina vs. Navy

#5 Albany vs. Loyola
#4 Cornell vs. Towson

#6 Georgetown vs. Princeton
#3 Johns Hopkins vs. Notre Dame

#7 Maryland vs. UMBC
#2 Virginia vs. Delaware[/quote]

As pointed out on Laxpower, if the teams seeded 1, 2, 7, and 8 win their opening games, the 1/4 final in Annapolis will be a replay of the ACC tournament from a couple of weeks ago.

[DeltaOne81]

[quote Chris '03][quote DeltaOne81][quote Hillel Hoffmann]Game time has been announced as 2:30 p.m., Saturday, May 12.[/quote]

Excellent... anyone know what channel? [/quote]

All games on ESPNU... which begs the question, All-Access or no access? Comcast sucks and doesn't carry ESPNU...[/quote]

I didn't know if they'd be able to show all games,  but looks like they are. Awesome.

Sat.,
May 12    Men's lacrosse
Duke vs. Providence    Noon

Sat.,
May 12    Men's lacrosse
Towson vs. Cornell    2:30 p.m.

Sat.,
May 12    Men's lacrosse
Navy vs. North Carolina    5 p.m.

Sat.,
May 12    Men's lacrosse
Johns Hopkins vs. Notre Dame    7:30 p.m.

Sun.,
May 13    Men's lacrosse
Princeton vs. Georgetown    Noon

Sun.,
May 13    Men's lacrosse
Albany vs. Loyola    2:30 p.m.

Sun.,
May 13    Men's lacrosse
Delaware vs. Virginia    5 p.m.

Sun.,
May 13    Men's lacrosse
Maryland vs. UMBC    7:30 p.m.

[Robb]

[quote DeltaOne81]
I didn't know if they'd be able to show all games,  but looks like they are. Awesome.
[/quote]
Yeah, that starts at 9 am for me here in Seattle.  My crappy hotel room only gets about 20 channels, but wonder-of-wonders, those 20 channels include ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Classic, ESPN News, and ESPNU.  Can the Ocho be far behind???

Perhaps I should give up on cases and just get a mini-keg to make it through this marathon...

[RichH]

[quote Hillel Hoffmann]Cornell's draw could be so much worse.[/quote]

Listen to Hillel, the Yoda of lax fandom on this board (in wisdom, not age).  For the most part, it seems nobody really exploded here in obsessing over the number, which is good.  This is a pretty close feeling to the 2002 hockey tournament, being miffed after missing a bye and seeing that we got handed Quinnipiac.  Or the opposite feeling of locking up the #1 seed in 2003 and getting a WCHA team instead of one of the MAAC/CHA.

Seriously, erase those numbers out in front and look at the bracket...I'm pretty happy.  About my only complaint is that the two teams that most everyone seemed to agree on being the strongest are bracketed to meet in the semis.

If pride is the only thing that got hurt out of this, well, I'll settle for dented pride.  If it gets even more fire under the Red, even better.

Throw out the seeding...let's settle it on the field.

LGR!!!!

[Rita]

[quote RichH]]

Listen to Hillel, the Yoda of lax fandom on this board (in wisdom, not age).  [/quote]

Well, I throw out these questions to Hillel or any other Yoda that also follows Women's Lax. I'm a Lax newbie and am becoming quite hooked now that I have CSTV/ESPNU and that they do late night replays of the games .

I watched some of the Women's Northwestern/JHU game yesterday (NW won 22-6 @ JHU... big blowout), and I noticed that the women take the face-off differently and that they do not have to wear helmets. What is the rationale for the difference in the face-off?

I understand that like in hockey, no body checking is allowed. Is the material of the sticks still the same in Men's and Women's Lax? The way those sticks move about, I think I might want something more protecting my head than a pair of goggles.

Finally, it looked like the nets are placed differently. I also caught some of last night's (this morning's) ESPNU "cram session" and a replay of the JHU/Hofstra game from March. Since JHU is a lacrosse only field I could see the markings better and it look like the nets were positioned differently in the two games (or maybe my bleary, tired eyes were confused).

Thanks!
LGR!

[Chris '03]

For starters there's no real out of bounds in W. Lax. The goals are 90 yds apart for women, 80 for men.

Why they face off differently is probably to do with the fact that the men's faceoff is too violent for a game with no real padding or head gear but I'm not certain if there is a better reason.

This is a decent piece addressing some differences: http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2001/04/25/sports/3037.shtml

See also: http://activityworkshop.net/lacrosse/basics.html with links to M and W rules and field markings.