Cornell lacrosse 2016

[billhoward]

1) what teams were in it when the attendance was best
2) ticket prices
3) location saturation
4) attendance of the D1 vs non D1 games
5) weather?
6) TV viewing changed?

All good points. Regardless, the last five years, all-games attendance was lower than in the previous year. Since 2007, the only year where it didn't drop was 2009-2010, a slight tick up from the second of two years in Foxborough followed by a move to Baltimore. I believe the lax sites have some analysis and commentary suggesting the NCAA was getting too greedy on ticket prices. The 2008-to-2009 big drop was the year after the economy tanked.

Some stories / rants about NCAA lax ticket prices:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/23/sports/as-lacrosse-rises-its-final-four-falls-fast.html?hpw&rref=sports&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0  Note this quotes our old friend Phil Buttafuoco, executive director of the men's lacrosse coaches association, ex commissioner of the ECAC (until 2006: http://www.uscho.com/2006/01/25/buttafuoco-resigns-from-ecac/)  

http://laxallstars.com/low-final-four-lacrosse-attendance-one-reason/

http://proscoutsports.blogspot.com/2015/05/why-college-lacrosse-final-four-weekend.html

[djk26]

Anyone know what happened to Christian Knight?  Donville is playing well...just wondering.

[upprdeck]

he is still injured isnt he

[Swampy]

Anyone know what happened to Christian Knight?  Donville is playing well...just wondering.

IIRC, it's a foot injury of some sort.

[billhoward]

Cornell's two wins last week propel the Big Red up to "also receiving votes" in both polls.

Syracuse actually climbs in the poll after losing to Cornell (and beating UNC): 11 to 8 in coaches poll, 9 to 8 in media poll

Notre Dame and Denver are 1-2 in coaches poll. Brown climbs 5 to 3 after beating Yale, Yale falls 1 to 4. Penn also gets vote(s).


Coaches poll: http://www.insidelacrosse.com/polls/USILA
Media poll:    http://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/cascade-maverik-media-poll-no-more-undefeated-teams/34799

[Al DeFlorio]

Cornell's two wins last week propel the Big Red up to "also receiving votes" in both polls.

Coaches poll: http://www.insidelacrosse.com/polls/USILA
Media poll:    http://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/cascade-maverik-media-poll-no-more-undefeated-teams/34799

Lacrosse Magazine actually snuck us into #20.

http://laxmagazine.com/college_men/DI/nike_lacrosse_magazine_top_20/index

[CU77]

Senior day tomorrow. Brown will be very tough. Red needs Harvard to lose to Princeton to maintain any ILT hope.

[shasta1]

MLAX does not deserve any type of title hopes after yesterday's embarrassing loss.  The program has sunk to the bottom and quickly!

[billhoward]

Cornell after the 22-5 loss to Brown falls to also-receving-votes in the USILA coaches poll, only. We're keeping company with Saint Joseph's, Bucknell, Penn, Bryant, High Point, Richmond, Virginia, and Fairfield. At this point the polls just indicate how far from the top voters believe the Big Red has fallen as the season winds down. It's small consolation that Harvard (7-6) is no longer on any poll, although they're in the Ivy tournament and we're not.

USILA coaches poll has the top 5 as 1 Notre Dame (moving up despite losing), 2 Denver, 3 Brown, 4 Yale (was #1), 5 Maryland. Albany is 6, Syracuse 8, Penn is HM.

Lacrosse Magazine has Brown #1 followed by Denver, Notre Dame, Maryland, Albany. Yale is 7, Syracuse 9, Penn also-mention.

Inside Lacrosse media poll has it Denver, Brown, Maryland, Notre Dame, Albany. Yale is 6, Syracuse 7, Penn is HM.

Harvard will likely finish 3-3 after playing Yale Saturday and unbeaten (Ivy play) Brown plays winless Dartmouth. So the 1-4, 2-3 Ivy tournament matchups should be:
 
Brown vs. Harvard (RS Brown won 11-8)
Yale vs. Penn (RS Penn took Yale to OT before losing)

If we had flipped the outcome of the Harvard RS game, we'd be in as the four-seed and our reward would be a second matchup with Brown in three weeks.

Hey, the Cornell-Princeton game Saturday should be close.

[Swampy]

Penn is also in the ILT. For a while it looked as if the Ivies would have 3 teams in the NC$$ tourney. Now that's a real stretch. Unless Penn or Sucks win the AQ, Brown & Yale are the Ivies' only hopes. ::starwars::

[RichH]

Well, the Women's team at 11-3 (5-1) will go on to the league tournament. Currently ranked #18, they're in a 3-way-tie for 1st in the Ivies with Penn and Princeton. They play #14 Penn (who has an identical record) on Saturday and the game will be on ESPN3.

http://cornellsun.com/2016/04/27/defense-propels-cornell-womens-lacrosse-to-cusp-of-ivy-league-title/

[CU77]

Season ends with a 6-7 loss at Princeton. Women also lose to Penn, 6-10.

Usual woes: turnovers (so bad in the first half that ESPNU ran a "lowlight" on them at halftime, but to be fair not nearly as bad in the 2nd half), anemic predictable offense. Donville with another strong performance in goal (10 saves), but Princeton's backup senior goalie O'Connor stole the show with 11 saves after subbing in the second half (but was aided by poor Cornell shot selection).

IMO, next year will be the crucial test of this coaching staff. With this year's freshman plus new recruits, results should be significantly better. If the vociferous critics are right, that won't happen. We'll see.

[billhoward]

Syracuse-Duke ACC title game in Kennesaw, Ga. (metro Atlanta), had to be moved to a second field on account of heavy rain. Syracuse led 9-8 with all but the last 7-1/2 minutes played when the field was drenched. After the restart 3 hours later, Syracuse outscored Duke 5-0 for a 14-8 win and the ACC championship.

[Ken711]

http://cornellbigred.com/news/2016/5/4/five-big-red-tabbed-mens-lacrosse-all-ivy.aspx

It's strange not to have one Cornell player make 1st team All-Ivy.

[billhoward]

Four on the second team from Cornell
John Edmonds, Cornell (Sr., M – East Setauket, N.Y.)
Jake Pulver, Cornell (So., D – Manilus, N.Y.)
Dom Massimilian, Cornell (Jr., FO – Dallas)
Brennan Donville, Cornell (Sr., GK – Oakville, Ontario, Canada)

One honorable mention
Ryan Matthews, Cornell (Sr., M – Manhasset, N.Y.)

Brown's Dylan Molloy is unanimous choice as player of the year and he's back for one more year.

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2016 MEN'S LACROSSE ALL-IVY
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
*Dylan Molloy, Brown (Jr., A – Setauket, N.Y.)

CO-ROOKIES OF THE YEAR
Reed Junkin, Penn (Fr., GK – Wayland, Mass.)
Simon Mathias, Penn (Fr., A – Ridgefield, Conn.)

COACH OF THE YEAR
Lars Tiffany, Brown

FIRST-TEAM ALL-IVY^
Devin Dwyer, Harvard (Sr., A – Garden City, N.Y.)
*Dylan Molloy, Brown (Jr., A – Setauket, N.Y.)
Ben Reeves, Yale (So., A – Macedon, N.Y.)
Brendan Caputo, Brown (Sr., M – Westbury, N.Y.)
Zach Currier, Princeton (Jr., M – Peterborough, Ontario, Canada)
Michael Keasey, Yale (Sr., M – Newport Beach, Calif.)
Joe Lang, Harvard (So., M – Mill Valley, Calif.)
Bobby Duvnjak, Harvard (Sr., D – Manhasset, N.Y.)
Michael Quinn, Yale (Sr., D – Port Washington, N.Y.)
Alec Tulett, Brown (Jr., D – Toronto)
Connor Keating, Penn (So., LSM – Gladwyne, Pa.)
Larken Kemp, Brown (Jr., LSM – Greenwich, Conn.)
Will Gural, Brown (Sr., FO – Haverford, Pa.)
*Jack Kelly, Brown (Sr., GK – West Islip, N.Y.)

SECOND-TEAM ALL-IVY%
Ryan Ambler, Princeton (Sr., A – Rydal, Pa.)
Morgan Cheek, Harvard (So., A – Wellesley, Mass.)
Nick Doktor, Penn (Sr., A – Rochester, N.Y.)
John Edmonds, Cornell (Sr., M – East Setauket, N.Y.)
Eric Scott, Yale (Jr., M – Basking Ridge, N.J.)
Austin Sims, Princeton (So., M – Fairfield, Conn.)
Kevin Gayhardt, Penn (Jr., D – Bryn Mawr, Pa.)
Chris Keating, Yale (Jr., D – Windham, N.H.)
Walker Kirby, Harvard (Sr., D – Morristown, N.J.)
JJ Ntshaykolo, Brown (So., D – San Francisco)
Jake Pulver, Cornell (So., D – Manilus, N.Y.)
Jack Breit, Harvard (Sr., LSM – Essex Fells, N.J.)
Dom Massimilian, Cornell (Jr., FO – Dallas)
Brennan Donville, Cornell (Sr., GK – Oakville, Ontario, Canada)
Reed Junkin, Penn (Fr., GK – Wayland, Mass.)

HONORABLE MENTION
Kylor Bellistri, Brown (Sr., A – Potomac, Md.)
Henry Blynn, Brown (Sr., A – Villanova, Pa.)
Simon Mathias, Penn (Fr., A – Ridgefield, Conn.)
Jack Korzelius, Dartmouth (So., M – Purchase, N.Y.)
Ryan Matthews, Cornell (Sr., M – Manhasset, N.Y.)
Bear Goldstein, Princeton (Jr., D – Dallas)
Sam Bonafede, Princeton (So., FO – Bayshore, N.Y.)

*-Unanimous selection
^-First team expanded from 12 due to ties in the voting
%-Second team expanded from 12 due to ties in the voting