Other lax scores 5/12-5/13

[scoop85]

[quote min][quote scoop85]Although I am generally loathe to root for Princeton, I have even a greater disdain for JHU[/quote]

Sorry, but is this because Hopkins' coach (Dave Pietramala) used to coach Cornell? I faintly remember him doing good things for the then mostly average lax teams in the late 90s.[/quote]

Not in the least.  Him I admire; it's the arrogance of their fandom I despise.

[scoop85]

Navy and UNC knotted at 7, early 4th

Delaware leads UVA 8-7 middle 3rd.

[Jacob '06]

Delaware now up by 5 with about 9 minutes left.

[ebilmes]

All Delaware in the fourth quarter. 14-7 with 5 minutes left.

[Al DeFlorio]

Guess Virginia misses Pittard.::crazy::

[ugarte]

[quote ebilmes]All Delaware in the fourth quarter. 14-7 with 5 minutes left.[/quote]
Well, I suppose Delaware would have beaten us also.

[scoop85]

UMBC 8, MD 5 in the 3rd ...

while I know there's plenty of game left, ACC supremacy is surely taking a hit.

[Al DeFlorio]

Now 11-5.  Could it be that the CAA champ vs. America East runner-up game will send someone to the final four?  Is this a great season or what?::banana::

Could we have as many America East teams in the quarters as ACC?

[Rita]

Not so fast Al... now 13-9 (UMBC) with 6 minutes left, and isn't that an eternity in lax? I've learned that if I blink, I miss a goal ;-).

[Al DeFlorio]

Actually, I kind of feel badly for Cottle, who did speak out on how the criteria tied the hands of the committee and called for a rethinking on the part of the NCAA.  I did cheer for UMBC but wouldn't have been too disappointed to see Cottle advance.  By advocating a change in the criteria he could wind up hurting his team in the future.  Shows integrity and fairmindedness--unlike some of the Hopkins birds on laxpower, who want to hang on to their automatic top four seed no matter what.

[Al DeFlorio]

So in the quarters we'll have (using KRACH rankings):

#1 Cornell against #5 Albany
#2 Duke against #10 UNC
#4 Georgetown against #6 Hopkins
#12 UMBC against #15 Delaware

Did someone say we got a soft pairing?

Wonder how they'll decide who the home team is in the UMBC-Delaware game, since both were unseeded and unseeded teams are technically not in rank order by any criteria (well, except maybe Providence).

[Al DeFlorio]

From Geoff Shannon's blog on Inside Lacrosse before the MD-UMBC game:

"You know, with Virginia gone Maryland has a much easier road to Baltimore."::doh::

Then again, he also wrote:

"Up in Princeton it'll be Johns Hopkins vs. Georgetown and Cornell vs. Albany. The more you look at it, the more you realized how much the Big Red were screwed in the pickings. They should have had a road to the finals against Duke, instead of having to possibly face the Blue Devils in a semifinal match-up."

Heck, I'm worried about Albany, never mind Duke.

[billhoward]

[quote Al DeFlorio]From Geoff Shannon's blog on Inside Lacrosse before the MD-UMBC game:

"You know, with Virginia gone Maryland has a much easier road to Baltimore."::doh::

Then again, he also wrote:

"Up in Princeton it'll be Johns Hopkins vs. Georgetown and Cornell vs. Albany. The more you look at it, the more you realized how much the Big Red were screwed in the pickings. They should have had a road to the finals against Duke, instead of having to possibly face the Blue Devils in a semifinal match-up."

Heck, I'm worried about Albany, never mind Duke.[/quote]

We should be worried. Albany has something to prove. 'course, so does Cornell.

Our pairing looks tougher now that the other bracket got softer. And it's becoming clearer with the other bracket looking less strong is that if the favorites all advance (well, the ones left standing), the de facto title game absolutely would be the top-ranked team against the top-seeded team on Saturday not Monday.

I can see the southern contingent arguing, should the Cornell-Albany winner get to the finals and then win, that it was an off year for lacrosse.

[Al DeFlorio]

If the two OT games had gone the other way, it would have been a perfect lacrosse weekend.

[RichH]

[quote Robb]Yeah, only Siebald had many fewer options, since time was winding down.  Syracuse shoulda KNOWN Max was just going to bust a move, and Max schooled them anyway.[/quote]

Maybe, but Max had to sell even his own coach on that.  IIRC, Tambroni was setting a play to Pittard in the time out before Siebald convinced him that he could beat his man to the crease.