Cornell @ Harvard Lax

[billhoward]

About what you'd expect:

Cornell 14, Harvard 12  -- a little closer than I expected (hoped?)
Yale 7, Dartmouth 5 -- shouldn't have been so close
Penn 10, Brown 3 -- maybe should have been closer
Syracuse 13, Princeton 12 -- Syracuse scored the last 3 goals, at Princeton

Ivy records

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Cornell      4-0 to play at Brown, Princeton @ Meadowlands in Ivies
Princeton    2-1 to play at Dartmouth, Harvard, Cornell
Penn         2-2
Yale         2-2
Brown        1-2
Harvard      1-2
Dartmouth    0-3

Cornell beats Princeton, we host the Ivy tournament (unless Brown wins out, meaning we could lose out to Brown in the H2H, but then Princeton could be ahead of us too by winnng out). Too bad we don't have the bye weekend before Princeton not before Brown. I think those are the possibilities. Since we've beaten Penn and Yale, they can't beat us H2H.  

For Cornell, first, Syracuse Wednesday on ESPNU. then a bye weekend.

Actually, Cornell clinches first place outright with a win over Princeton. I'm hardly an expert, but it seems like beating Brown still matters for at-large and seeding purposes regardless of the outcome of the Princeton game. Besides, if Princeton loses one other game a win over Brown clinches home field.

If Brown wins the rest of its matches, then it would be 4-2 and one of the wins would have been over Cornell, making Cornell either 5-1 (if we beat Princeton) or 4-2 (lose to Brown and Princeton) and Brown at 4-2 would be ahead of us. So you're right that a win over Princeton makes us at worst 5-1 and the only one-Ivy-loss team, thus the Ivy champ and tournament host, as it should be.

This is rock, scissors, paper. Yale, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Brown could possibly finish 4-2. We've beaten Yale, Penn and Harvard, haven't played Brown and Princeton. Princeton has beaten Brown, hasn't played Harvard (probably a tougher match than Cornell-Brown), nor winless Dartmouth.

Beating Syracause is going to matter for ranking and seeding, too. Maybe they'll try a 2-3 zone.

Regarding teams outside the Ivy League, #1 Maryland Friday got past 3-8 Navy 11-8 and #3 Denver needed 2 OT to beat Bellarmine. #4 Notre Dame beat 7-5 and unranked Providence 13-8. #5 Loyola beat unranked, 6-5 Fairfield 13-7. Nobody at the top looked unbeatable. We need a couple more of those 19-7 games. I could see us blowing out Brown ... and also not beating Brown.

[Al DeFlorio]

Hi def highlights here, with a good look at RP's no-look goal: http://www.lax.com/stories/Cornell-vs-Harvard-sid-3732.html

[billhoward]

Hi def highlights here, with a good look at RP's no-look goal: http://www.lax.com/stories/Cornell-vs-Harvard-sid-3732.html

About 1:40 into the video. Here (this quality video) you can get a good look at the underhand shot going into the upper left corner. Just amazing.

[billhoward]

Best goal of my career against the Crimson this past Saturday and here's a great video clip of it! #lucky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KsoDyRGySY ...

Lax.com headlines it, "Rob Pannell's Nasty No-Look Goal"

[ugarte]

Pannell's second goal was pretty wicked too. Deked his defender standing parallel to the pipe on the goalie's left, about 20 feet away, spun and fired a laser just above the ground into the bottom corner. Barely looked before firing. Goalie didn't have a chance.

[Josh '99]

Hi def highlights here, with a good look at RP's no-look goal: http://www.lax.com/stories/Cornell-vs-Harvard-sid-3732.html

That *is* a great goal.  Also:

In a game pinning two long standing Ivy League lacrosse rivals against one another, the Cornell Big Red lacrosse team traveled to Cambridge to take on the Harvard Crimson.

Don't you "pit" two rivals against one another, rather than "pin"?  
/nitpick

[Johnny 5]

Hi def highlights here, with a good look at RP's no-look goal: http://www.lax.com/stories/Cornell-vs-Harvard-sid-3732.html

About 1:40 into the video. Here (this quality video) you can get a good look at the underhand shot going into the upper left corner. Just amazing.

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t147/Coelacanth64/CULaxRPannelHarvard2013.jpg

Nice!!

::banana::

[Rosey]

I cannot tell what he did. Even in slow-mo, it's just not clear. I need another angle.

[ugarte]

I cannot tell what he did. Even in slow-mo, it's just not clear. I need another angle.

Here's the full sequence:

Pannell runs out in front of the goal, then spins back, breaking toward the corner. When he gets to a 45 degree angle from the goalie's left, with his back to the goal and FACING away from the goal, with a defender on his shoulder he slams on the brakes. The defender skids past, maybe a half step. In one motion he turns toward the goal, pivoting with the basket held low, and whips the ball low-to-high over the goalie's right shoulder.

The sequence from when he turns toward the corner and the ball finds the back of the net takes about 2 seconds.

[RichH]

I cannot tell what he did. Even in slow-mo, it's just not clear. I need another angle.

Here's the full sequence:

Pannell runs out in front of the goal, then spins back, breaking toward the corner. When he gets to a 45 degree angle from the goalie's left, with his back to the goal and FACING away from the goal, with a defender on his shoulder he slams on the brakes. The defender skids past, maybe a half step. In one motion he turns toward the goal, pivoting with the basket held low, and whips the ball low-to-high over the goalie's right shoulder.

The sequence from when he turns toward the corner and the ball finds the back of the net takes about 2 seconds.

You left out the part where he pounds his chest like the Hulk and then does the Gangnam Style dance on the grave of John Harvard himself.

Wait, that didn't happen?  Pity.

[Josh '99]

You left out the part where he pounds his chest like the Hulk and then does the Gangnam Style dance on the grave of John Harvard himself.

Wait, that didn't happen?  Pity.

They should give him the Tewaaraton on the spot if he did that.  Heck, the Hobey and the Heisman too.

[Rosey]

I cannot tell what he did. Even in slow-mo, it's just not clear. I need another angle.

Here's the full sequence:

Pannell runs out in front of the goal, then spins back, breaking toward the corner. When he gets to a 45 degree angle from the goalie's left, with his back to the goal and FACING away from the goal, with a defender on his shoulder he slams on the brakes. The defender skids past, maybe a half step. In one motion he turns toward the goal, pivoting with the basket held low, and whips the ball low-to-high over the goalie's right shoulder.

The sequence from when he turns toward the corner and the ball finds the back of the net takes about 2 seconds.

Thank you. Though what really helped was clicking on "Youtube" to view it in a larger window. That made it quite clear. :-)

[Jim Hyla]

I cannot tell what he did. Even in slow-mo, it's just not clear. I need another angle.

Here's the full sequence:

Pannell runs out in front of the goal, then spins back, breaking toward the corner. When he gets to a 45 degree angle from the goalie's left, with his back to the goal and FACING away from the goal, with a defender on his shoulder he slams on the brakes. The defender skids past, maybe a half step. In one motion he turns toward the goal, pivoting with the basket held low, and whips the ball low-to-high over the goalie's right shoulder.

The sequence from when he turns toward the corner and the ball finds the back of the net takes about 2 seconds.

Thank you. Though what really helped was clicking on "Youtube" to view it in a larger window. That made it quite clear. :-)

Take off those shades.

[ugarte]

I cannot tell what he did. Even in slow-mo, it's just not clear. I need another angle.

Here's the full sequence:

Pannell runs out in front of the goal, then spins back, breaking toward the corner. When he gets to a 45 degree angle from the goalie's left, with his back to the goal and FACING away from the goal, with a defender on his shoulder he slams on the brakes. The defender skids past, maybe a half step. In one motion he turns toward the goal, pivoting with the basket held low, and whips the ball low-to-high over the goalie's right shoulder.

The sequence from when he turns toward the corner and the ball finds the back of the net takes about 2 seconds.

Thank you. Though what really helped was clicking on "Youtube" to view it in a larger window. That made it quite clear. :-)

I should have gone tech support on you and asked "did you view it full screen" but I've been an antagonistic asshole on this forum a lot lately and I figured "why not a change of pace?"

Never again.

[Swampy]

I cannot tell what he did. Even in slow-mo, it's just not clear. I need another angle.

Here's the full sequence:

Pannell runs out in front of the goal, then spins back, breaking toward the corner. When he gets to a 45 degree angle from the goalie's left, with his back to the goal and FACING away from the goal, with a defender on his shoulder he slams on the brakes. The defender skids past, maybe a half step. In one motion he turns toward the goal, pivoting with the basket held low, and whips the ball low-to-high over the goalie's right shoulder.

The sequence from when he turns toward the corner and the ball finds the back of the net takes about 2 seconds.

It also appears he got the shot off an instant before he was doubled by a slide.