NCAA Men's Lacrosse Tournament

[jkahn]

Per a poster on laxpower (CU77), Hofstra was #6 in KRACH rating and Cornell #7 through Monday April 27.
http://network.laxpower.com/laxforum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=36099&p=602389

[RichH]

[quote 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.[/quote]

Correct.

[ugarte]

[quote RichH][quote 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.[/quote]

Correct.[/quote]
My bad. I projected "second round games in Hempstead" to thinking that Hempstead was a 4 team, 2 round pod.

[jtwcornell91]

Speaking of that, I finally got around to running that, just in time for the RS to end.  With the two fictitious games associated with the proper Bayesian prior:

Code Select Expand


  # Team                BT    RRWP  W- L   W/L   SOS
  1 Notre Dame          2180  .919 15- 0 16.00 136.3
  2 Virginia            1349  .881 13- 2 4.667 289.0
  3 Syracuse            1156  .866 12- 2 4.333 266.8
  4 Princeton           1095  .861 12- 2 4.333 252.6
  5 Duke                955.6 .846 13- 3 3.500 273.0
  6 Cornell             690.9 .809 10- 3 2.750 251.2
  7 Johns Hopkins       675.2 .806  9- 4 2.000 337.6
  8 Hofstra             632.6 .798 11- 3 3.000 210.9
  9 North Carolina      571.8 .785 11- 5 2.000 285.9
 10 Brown               486.7 .763 12- 3 3.250 149.7

And with the Jeffreys prior that takes perfection literally:

Code Select Expand


  # Team                BT    RRWP  W- L   W/L   SOS
  1 Notre Dame          infin 1.00 15- 0 infin  N/A
  2 Virginia            10129 .931 13- 2 6.500  1558
  3 Syracuse            7647  .918 12- 2 6.000  1275
  4 Princeton           6499  .910 12- 2 6.000  1083
  5 Duke                5380  .899 13- 3 4.333  1241
  6 Cornell             4217  .885 10- 3 3.333  1265
  7 Johns Hopkins       3175  .866  9- 4 2.250  1411
  8 North Carolina      2743  .856 11- 5 2.200  1247
  9 Hofstra             2189  .840 11- 3 3.667 596.9
 10 Brown               1537  .811 12- 3 4.000 384.2


[RichH]

[quote ugarte][quote RichH][quote 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.[/quote]

Correct.[/quote]
My bad. I projected "second round games in Hempstead" to thinking that Hempstead was a 4 team, 2 round pod.[/quote]

It's a 4 team, 1 round pod.  Two games, two teams emerge from each regional to advance to the Final Four weekend.

[Beeeej]

Any word yet on whether any of this will be televised, particularly the first two rounds?

[upperdeck]

espnu said all the games are on tv. I would think thats why so many late games on the schedule. all on ESPNU HD..  except game one ESPN2 HD

[Jim Hyla]

All on ESPNU. Brown-Hopkins listed as ESPN2/ESPNU. Most importantly, all on HD. Here's the ESPNU link.

[Jacob '06]

Well Brown has taken Hopkins to sudden victory OT on ESPN2 right now.

EDIT: And Hopkins wins it early in OT. Nice effort by Brown to keep climbing back in to the game, but they never managed to get a lead.

[RichH]

[quote Jacob '06]Well Brown has taken Hopkins to sudden victory OT on ESPN2 right now.[/quote]

1:30 into OT, Hopkins eliminates Brown.

[Tom Pasniewski 98]

(6) North Carolina 15, UMBC 13 - Final

[TimV]

Hopkins seems to do what we couldn't - get the ball deep inside for slam-dunk goals.

[DeltaOne81]

Princeton up 6-1 at the half. Looks like an Ivy rematch unless UMass makes a big charge.

[kingpin248]

Princeton 10, UMass 7 - final.

[DeltaOne81]

PU wins 10-7... Cornell/Princeton next week