Cornell lacrosse 2016

[billhoward]

Sheesh: It will be Yale-Harvard for the Ivy lax title. First Yale beat Penn 7-6 then Harvard (9 goals by sophomore Morgan Cheek) upset #2 Brown 13-12, which has only two one-goal losses on the season (the other to Bryant). Title game noon Sunday, ESPNU. http://ivyleague.prestosports.com/sports/mlax/2015-16/releases/Yale-Harvard_Move_on_to_IvyMLAX_Championship_Game

[ugarte]

Sheesh: It will be Yale-Harvard for the Ivy lax title. First Yale beat Penn 7-6 then Harvard (9 goals by sophomore Morgan Cheek) upset #2 Brown 13-12, which has only two one-goal losses on the season (the other to Bryant). Title game noon Sunday, ESPNU. http://ivyleague.prestosports.com/sports/mlax/2015-16/releases/Yale-Harvard_Move_on_to_IvyMLAX_Championship_Game

Can I assume that was 17-6? It would be neat if Yale lost two goals by throwing them through the back of the net though.

[billhoward]

Attackman Mikey Wynne was the highest-profile decommit from Cornell lax in the wake of the 2013-14 sudden coaching change. He leads #3 seed Notre Dame in goals and is second in points, 31-3--34. Last year, rated #4 on the Inside Lacrosse Power 100 freshman, he was 33-4--37. http://www.und.com/sports/m-lacros/stats/2015-2016/teamcume.html#TEAM.IND

[billhoward]

Sports Illustrated (May 4) on the Hill Academy in Ontario: http://www.si.com/edge/2016/05/04/the-hill-academy-lacrosse-canada-high-school-brodie-merrill?xid=si_social

Hill [Academy] is used to the heckling [by USA chauvinists]. "We face the misconception that all our players are older and that is not the case," [coach] Brodie Merrill says. "You are not allowed to repeat in the Ontario system and NCAA rules are strict when it comes to age. Some, not all, of our players choose to take an extra year of high school. You see repeating, or a PG year in the U.S. much more frequently I find."

Jeff Teat is one of those post-graduates. His age is not the issue—he turned 19 this past weekend. It's that no one can stop him. The Cornell-bound, left-handed attackman from Brampton, Ontario, is Hill's quarterback. A co-captain, Teat is the only player on the team in the top 50 of Inside Lacrosse and Recruiting Rundown's 2016 commit rankings (29th and 30th respectively). He has a cerebral approach and fluid grace on the field. Some of his passes seem telepathic. Two or three defenders are usually required to dislodge the ball from his crosse. Sometimes that isn't enough. He scored eight goals against the USA U-19 team, that Lacrosse Magazine noted, "defy brief description." He added three assists.

On his second goal this afternoon, he catches a pass on the crease, absorbs two checks, fakes out the goalie then buries the shot. He tallies a hat-trick in the first quarter.

"Some would say he is playing like the best [high school] player in North America right now," Casey Vock, an editor at the recruiting website 3d Rising, says. "Everyone believes he can elevate Cornell to where they would be a championship contender today if they had him."

[Al DeFlorio]

Attackman Mikey Wynne was the highest-profile decommit from Cornell lax in the wake of the 2013-14 sudden coaching change. He leads #3 seed Notre Dame in goals and is second in points, 31-3--34. Last year, rated #4 on the Inside Lacrosse Power 100 freshman, he was 33-4--37.

That and any other blue-chip decommits, and the sparse recruiting classes graduating in 2016 and 2017 that arrived on campus in the fall of 2012 and 2013, are why Cornell started four freshmen on offense this year.  The 2012 recruits numbered three on the offensive side:  Edmonds, Doyle,, and Henry West.  West transferred to Maryland after his freshman year (brother Andrew disappeared from sight, too), where he has started at midfield the past two years for a final four team and this year's #1 NCAA seed. Only Edmonds has seen regular playing time at Cornell.  

The 2013 arrivees, also only three on the offensive side were Massimilian, Mahler, and Andrew Keith.  Mass is strictly a FOGO, and Mahler has seen little playing time other than backing up Mass at FOGO.  Only Keith has seen significant playing time on offense.

[billhoward]

If not Cornell's, it may be Ithaca College's year. IC is 18-1, #1 in the media poll, and seeded second in the North bracket 32-team Division III NCAA tournament, behind RIT, which it beat head to head in April. Why 32 teams? There are about 190 DIII teams (3X that of D1) and 23 automatic qualifiers; the rest are 3 independents or conferences with no AQs (called Pool B) and 6 slots for good teams that didn't win their tournaments (Pool C). Salisbury is top seed in the South. Cortland is also in the tournament.

Also in the tournament are DI hockey teams St. Lawrence, RPI, and Colorado College.

http://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/sector-spdrs-may-madness-analyzing-the-diii-bracket-snubs-pool-c-bids-first-round-matchups/35124

[billhoward]

Cornell head lacrosse coach Richie Moran being inducted into the IMLCA (International Men's Lacrosse Hall of Fame) during Final Four weekend in Philadelphia. a) Great. b) Shouldn't this have happened in, say, 1996 or 2006 not 2016? Richie won three of the first NCAA eight championships, all before he was 40, came close twice in the 1980s, might have won another pre-1971 if there was an NCAA tournament then. https://www.insidelacrosse.com/imlca#inductees

[Swampy]

I think too many national championships were won by Baltimore-area teams during the years Baltimore voted in the national champion for Richie to have an easy time of it. The way his teams regularly outclassed Baltimore teams once they actually had to play to win the NC cast a long shadow over all those voting-years championships, lessening their value considerably.

[billhoward]

I think too many national championships were won by Baltimore-area teams during the years Baltimore voted in the national champion for Richie to have an easy time of it. The way his teams regularly outclassed Baltimore teams once they actually had to play to win the NC cast a long shadow over all those voting-years championships, lessening their value considerably.

The War of Northern Agression is still remembered by the NCAA seeding committee, it sometime seems. We got shafted (in our opinion) by the seeding teams a couple times in the last decade. This year, the last team in was Navy and the first teams out were Rutgers and Harvard. If Maryland men and women win, the South will be insufferable. Fortunately since 1975, Maryland men have always found a way to lose. If they win it will be because a Cornellian, John Tillman '91, is at the helm.

[Swampy]

I think too many national championships were won by Baltimore-area teams during the years Baltimore voted in the national champion for Richie to have an easy time of it. The way his teams regularly outclassed Baltimore teams once they actually had to play to win the NC cast a long shadow over all those voting-years championships, lessening their value considerably.

The War of Northern Agression is still remembered by the NCAA seeding committee, it sometime seems. We got shafted (in our opinion) by the seeding teams a couple times in the last decade. This year, the last team in was Navy and the first teams out were Rutgers and Harvard. If Maryland men and women win, the South will be insufferable. Fortunately since 1975, Maryland men have always found a way to lose. If they win it will be because a Cornellian, John Tillman '91, is at the helm.

Yes! And all those championships prior to 1971 are to real championships as Confederate money is to legal tender. ::deadhorse::

[billhoward]

Two NCAA play-in games Wednesday. Towson built up a 17-2 lead on up-and-down neighbor Hobart and won 18-5. (Up-and-down: Two weeks apart Hobart lost to Bryant 15-2 then won 7-6.) Also Quinnipiac 14, Hartford 9, and the right to play #1 Maryland. Is Quinnipiac having dreams of grandeur in another sport?

[CU77]

Cornell lax fans owe Quinnipiac a ton of thanks for not releasing Rob Pannell from his letter of intent. That forced him to consider only Ivies as better alternatives.

But the Bobcats will be defanged by the Terps.

[billhoward]

Cornell lax fans owe Quinnipiac a ton of thanks for not releasing Rob Pannell from his letter of intent. That forced him to consider only Ivies as better alternatives.

But the Bobcats will be defanged by the Terps.

Still crazy that a (non-Ivy) college owns you. Still crazy that if you commit to a college because you like the coach and he bails, you can't bail, too.

[billhoward]

Brown is steamrolling Hopkins, 13-3 in the third. Couldn't happen to nicer guys. Up something like 10-3, Brown red-dogged the Hopkins offense, goalie Jack Kelly called for a push and went off, Brown still doubled player with the ball, Hopkins finally got a point blank shot and the backup Peter Scott made a fabulous save. 8-1 third quarter ends 14-3 Brown. Final 17-8 and announcers made up for the lack of a close game by reminding viewers how loaded Hopkins will be next year. Brown gets Yale or Navy at Brown next weekend.

First round Saturday
Brown 17, Hopkins 8, plays Navy next.  
Loyola 16, Duke 11, see ya, Blue Devils
UNC 10, Marquette 9, Marquette missed two chances to tie last minute. UNC the only lower seed to win.
Notre Dame 15, Air Force 7, led by 5G 1A from Mikey Wynne, plays UNC next

Sunday
Maryland is taking down Quinnipiac 12-4 in the fourth. Final 13-6. They'll play Syracuse or Albany.
Towson 10, Denver 9. No Twopeat for Denver this year
Navy 13, #4 Yale 10, meets Brown at Brown in QFs. Navy goalie stood on his head.
Syracuse 11, Albany 9, after Albany led 6-2 at the half.

[CU77]

Great win by Brown. Reminded me of Cornell's epic beat-down of Hopkins in the 77 national championship game (13-1 in the third, 16-8 final).