Lax: NCAA Quarterfinals

[KenP]

Two preview / breakdown articles from insidelacrosse.com:

Here's the breakdown for Cornell-Army and Virginia-Stony Brook.

Here's the breakdown of Maryland-Notre Dame and NC-Duke.

[Al DeFlorio]

Quint's weekly podcast includes an interview with Rob Pannell here: http://insidelacrosse.com/news/2010/05/18/quint-kessenichs-ilespnu-podcast-may-18th

Go about 23 minutes into the podcast.

[billhoward]

In the http://insidelacrosse.com/news/2010/05/18/mark-dixons-truth-or-fiction-ncaa-first-round-edition "Truth or Fiction" story, this is declared to be Fiction:

Notre Dame showed they belonged, Hopkins showed they didn't.
Fiction - This has been the common theme over the last couple of days. Fact is, neither of these teams had anything to prove. The NCAA Tournament is all about the opportunity to win an NCAA title, not validation on whether or not they should have been selected. Notre Dame was brilliant against Princeton, but who is to say another bubble team such as Georgetown, Drexel, or Yale could not have taken out the Tigers? Ditto for the Blue Jays. With the way Duke played on Saturday, they may have been able to run anyone off of the field. The bottom line is the margin of separation between teams 11-20 is razor thin and this reality screams for more teams to be added to the Division I landscape so we can continue to grow the tournament and provide spots for all deserving teams.

The Hopkins-reality-denyer author, Mark Dixon, is a former Hopkins player. (Truth.) In the column, nobody plays poorly, only others play well. He does go out on a limb to declare Army-over-Syracuse to be one of the biggest NCAA tourney upsets ever.

I'd say Hopkins needed to lose respectably to avoid the ongoing thread that Hopkins was lucky, lucky, lucky to make it. Brown or Yale would have done better. Among others.

[Al DeFlorio]

Here's a breakdown of Maryland-Notre Dame and NC-Duke.  At the bottom it states "Stay tuned as Quint checks in later today to break down the other two quarterfinal matchups."  If someone notices the second article, please post a link on the thread.

It's finally posted: http://insidelacrosse.com/news/2010/05/19/warrior-may-madness-quint-kessenichs-quarterfinal-breakdown-stony-brook-bracket

[Josh '99]

Here's a breakdown of Maryland-Notre Dame and NC-Duke.  At the bottom it states "Stay tuned as Quint checks in later today to break down the other two quarterfinal matchups."  If someone notices the second article, please post a link on the thread.

It's finally posted: http://insidelacrosse.com/news/2010/05/19/warrior-may-madness-quint-kessenichs-quarterfinal-breakdown-stony-brook-bracket

"What U Need 2 Know?"

Really, Quint?  It would've been too much effort to use the whole words?

[Trotsky]

Here's a breakdown of Maryland-Notre Dame and NC-Duke.  At the bottom it states "Stay tuned as Quint checks in later today to break down the other two quarterfinal matchups."  If someone notices the second article, please post a link on the thread.

It's finally posted: http://insidelacrosse.com/news/2010/05/19/warrior-may-madness-quint-kessenichs-quarterfinal-breakdown-stony-brook-bracket

"What U Need 2 Know?"

Really, Quint?  It would've been too much effort to use the whole words?

Kids these days.  Lazy.

[Jordan 04]

I doubt he wrote those. Chances were he was emailed a template asking for his thought's on each section, including "What 2 Watch 4."

[Josh '99]

I doubt he wrote those. Chances were he was emailed a template asking for his thought's on each section, including "What 2 Watch 4."

OK, true enough.  But that just means my ire was misdirected, not unjustified.  :-}

[Trotsky]

I doubt he wrote those. Chances were he was emailed a template asking for his thought's on each section, including "What 2 Watch 4."

OK, true enough.  But that just means my ire was misdirected, not unjustified.  :-}

You mis-ired.

[Swampy]

Here's a breakdown of Maryland-Notre Dame and NC-Duke.  At the bottom it states "Stay tuned as Quint checks in later today to break down the other two quarterfinal matchups."  If someone notices the second article, please post a link on the thread.

It's finally posted: http://insidelacrosse.com/news/2010/05/19/warrior-may-madness-quint-kessenichs-quarterfinal-breakdown-stony-brook-bracket

"What U Need 2 Know?"

Really, Quint?  It would've been too much effort to use the whole words?

Kids these days.  Lazy.

Or illiterate. ::stupid::

[billhoward]

He was told to emulate the highest form of publishing. Formerly NYT and WSJ, now Twitter.

[billhoward]

Thread below the Cornell-Army preview trashes Tambroni for not using his bench more. Follow on says it's probably a dad of the bench player. And notes the bench isn't all that deep vs. other teams.

[Al DeFlorio]

Inside Lacrosse gives a scouting report on the Army game from an "anonymous coach:" http://insidelacrosse.com/news/2010/05/20/ncaa-tournament-quarterfinal-division-i-scouting-reports

[Trotsky]

Hadn't seen the time posted yet, so, from USCHO:

Saturday May 22 @ Princeton
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Maryland vs. Notre Dame (12:00 p.m.)
Duke vs. North Carolina (2:30 p.m.)

Sunday May 23 @ Stony Brook
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Cornell vs. Army (12:00 p.m.)
Virginia vs. Stony Brook (2:30 p.m.)

[phillysportsfan]

looks like the Cornell game will be on espn3.com for those without ESPNU