Women's Lax wins Ivy Tournament

[dag14]

Up 8-3 at the half, the women's lacrosse team held on to beat Penn 11-10 to get the AQ.  They played hard the entire game but benefitted tremendously from the 10-2 advantage in faceoff draws in the first half.

[kingpin248]

The Big Red are rewarded for the two wins with the number eight seed; they'll host the first two rounds this Friday and Sunday. Canisius in the first round, and if they get through, a possible third meeting with Princeton (who faces UMass). Looking further out, another possible rematch with top-seeded Maryland in the quarterfinal.

[billhoward]

Cornell is ranked 8 of 26 teams in the tournament. Penn is #7. Teams ranked 1 (Maryland) to 6 (Notre Dame) get first-round byes. #4 Syracuse plays at BC (faces winner of BC-Stony Brook) because there wasn't hotel space in Syracuse on graduation weekend. There apparently were rooms however for #8 Syracuse men to host Albany men Sunday, same day as the women play.

The visual brackets (Lacrosse Magazine, NCAA) are almost impossible to read except on a big screen.

[Al DeFlorio]

Friday's game on ILDN at 7pm according to Athletics web site.

[billhoward]

Friday's game on ILDN at 7pm according to Athletics web site.

A brief check showed it didn't say whether free or fee. The cost to set up a paywall will probably cost more than the revenue brought in.

[billhoward]

... and on the strength of winning the Ivy title, Cornell climbs to #10 from #16 in the media poll http://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/media-poll-no-1-maryland-no-10-cornell-enters-top-ten/35126

Penn is 11 was 10
Princeton is 14 was 11

Maryland remains #1, unbeaten, and with all the first-place votes. Surely we'll see a number of stories dedicated to the odds of Maryland men and women both winning out.

[Chris '03]

... and on the strength of winning the Ivy *tournament to decide the automatic bid but not league championship* title, Cornell climbs to #10 from #16 in the media poll http://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/media-poll-no-1-maryland-no-10-cornell-enters-top-ten/35126
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FYP

[KeithK]

Cornell is ranked 8 of 26 teams in the tournament.

Why does women's lax have a 26 team tourney? Is lax now seen as a "cheap to field and balance out football for TIX" sport?

[scoop85]

Cornell is ranked 8 of 26 teams in the tournament.

Why does women's lax have a 26 team tourney? Is lax now seen as a "cheap to field and balance out football for TIX" sport?

The field is larger because there are many more women's D1 programs -- schools such as Florida, Stanford, USC, Cal, BC, and Louisville that do not have men's teams are all tournament teams on the women's side.

[Al DeFlorio]

Cornell is ranked 8 of 26 teams in the tournament.

Why does women's lax have a 26 team tourney? Is lax now seen as a "cheap to field and balance out football for TIX" sport?

111 Division I women's lacrosse teams.

[KeithK]

Cornell is ranked 8 of 26 teams in the tournament.

Why does women's lax have a 26 team tourney? Is lax now seen as a "cheap to field and balance out football for TIX" sport?

The field is larger because there are many more women's D1 programs -- schools such as Florida, Stanford, USC, Cal, BC, and Louisville that do not have men's teams are all tournament teams on the women's side.

Well yes, I assumed that there were many more teams (111 per AlD). The question is why are there so many more women's lax programs than men?  I would not have expected such a difference.

[billhoward]

Well yes, I assumed that there were many more teams (111 per AlD). The question is why are there so many more women's lax programs than men?  I would not have expected such a difference.

Might be a way to have equal / equivalent male and female athetics participants especially at schools with football. ~67 men's D1 lax teams.

Now that BU has a men's D1 lacrosse team, it's even more surprising that BC doesn't as well.

[Al DeFlorio]

Friday's game on ILDN at 7pm according to Athletics web site.

A brief check showed it didn't say whether free or fee. The cost to set up a paywall will probably cost more than the revenue brought in.

Athletics web site now says "FREE."

[Al DeFlorio]

UMass nips Princeton 13-12 in OT.

[dag14]

Women tied with Canisius at half.  Playing well but not getting all the breaks we got last weekend.