NCAA Men's Lacrosse Tournament

[kingpin248]

Selection show underway on ESPNU. UVA is the overall No. 1.

(1) Virginia v. Villanova
( Johns Hopkins v. Brown
(winners meet in Annapolis)

(5) Cornell v. Hofstra - Saturday, 5 p.m. ET
(4) Princeton v. UMass
(winners meet in Hempstead)

(3) Duke v. Navy
(6) North Carolina v. UMBC
(winners meet in Annapolis)

(7) Notre Dame v. Maryland
(2) Syracuse v. Siena
(winners meet in Hempstead)

[Al DeFlorio]

Virginia #1 vs. Villanova

[Al DeFlorio]

Hopkins #8 vs. Brown!

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

[quote Al DeFlorio]Hopkins #8 vs. Brown![/quote]

Go Bruno!

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote Jeff Hopkins '82][quote Al DeFlorio]Hopkins #8 vs. Brown![/quote]

Go Bruno![/quote]
Rooting against your great-great-grandfather's school?::cheer::

[Hillel Hoffmann]

Hofstra is a very tough first-round assignment. Eeps.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote Hillel Hoffmann]Hofstra is a very tough first-round assignment. Eeps.[/quote]
Right.  But there are only a couple of easy ones.  

If the UMass O plays as it did against Syracuse, Princeton's D should have no problem containing it.  I'd rather have seen Brown go to South Bend.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

[quote Al DeFlorio][quote Jeff Hopkins '82][quote Al DeFlorio]Hopkins #8 vs. Brown![/quote]

Go Bruno![/quote]
Rooting against your great-great-grandfather's school?::cheer::[/quote]

My shrink would probably have a field day with it, but I have no difficulty saying "Hopkins sucks!" and have done so with pride for 30 years now.  ::demented::

And now my conspiracy freak side comes out:  how do you make sure that the favorite sons all get though?  Pit the two Ivy champions against each other.

[Jacob '06]

I'm glad we are in the Hempstead bracket and aren't facing Virginia in the Semis if we make it that far. Hopefully our defense can heal up a bit before next week's game and we can make it to Hempstead.

[Al DeFlorio]

I'll bet if we'd beaten Brown we'd have been seeded ahead of Princeton and drawn UMass instead of Hofstra.

[kingpin248]

If both Cornell and Virginia reach the semifinals, the Big Red would face the Cavaliers again. If the top four seeds reach Foxboro, it will be 1 v. 4 and 2 v. 3.

The bracket from LaxPower.

[ugarte]

[quote Hillel Hoffmann]@Hofstra is a very tough first-round assignment. Eeps.[/quote]
FYP. Jeez. What is this, hockey?

Still, a 5 seed isn't bad after the loss to Brown. Since I still don't know the seeding alchemy of lax, did JHU get 'screwed' with a reasonable-in-light-of-their-record 8 seed in light of their really high RPI?

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote ugarte][quote Hillel Hoffmann]@Hofstra is a very tough first-round assignment. Eeps.[/quote]
FYP. Jeez. What is this, hockey?

Still, a 5 seed isn't bad after the loss to Brown. Since I still don't know the seeding alchemy of lax, did JHU get 'screwed' with a reasonable-in-light-of-their-record 8 seed in light of their really high RPI?[/quote]
Seeds 5 through 8 are driven to a large degree by the teams seeded 1-4.  With Virginia at 1 and Duke at 3, the committee was going to put UNC and Hopkins at 6 and 8 so they'd all go to Annapolis (assuming all four were to win).  Then it's a matter of which gets 6 and which 8.  Same with Cornell and Notre Dame.  With Syracuse at 2 and Princeton at 4, one of them had to be 5 and the other 7.  I'm guessing Cornell's two top five wins (Princeton and Duke) earned them the 5 slot over Notre Dame.  

If Syracuse were 3 and Duke 2, I'll bet Notre Dame would have been 6 and UNC 7.  Or, if Princeton were 3 and Duke 4, UNC would have been 5 (to match up with Duke) and Cornell 6 (to match up with Princeton).  Once you get past the 4th seed they fudge to get the regionals to make geographic sense.

[jtwcornell91]

[quote Al DeFlorio]I'll bet if we'd beaten Brown we'd have been seeded ahead of Princeton and drawn UMass instead of Hofstra.[/quote]

Beating Syracuse or UVa would have been a lot more effective.

On the positive side, our loss to Brown got a 3rd Ivy into the tournament. :-/

[jtwcornell91]

[quote ugarte][quote Hillel Hoffmann]@Hofstra is a very tough first-round assignment. Eeps.[/quote]
FYP. Jeez. What is this, hockey?[/quote]

I'm pretty sure the first round games are at campus sites, so we get to play Hofstra at Schoellkopf.  If we lose, either Princeton or UMass has to play them on their home field.