Cornell lacrosse 2018

[TimV]

Not the same.  Although he plays a tough schedule, he's in a much less competitive conference.  He's a proven recruiter without a lot of admission constraints and a Hall-of-Fame caliber coach for sure.

When you win the national title, you've essentially beaten every conference in the entire nation.

No. Not even close.  You beat your own conference (if you're not an at large team) then one game against 2 more teams from perhaps two other conferences.  As opposed to having two top playoff caliber teams before you even GET to the NCAA's,  maybe even having to play them twice - regular season and conference tournament.

[mike1960]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BgZbRPegA24/?taken-by=cornelllacrosse

Looks like the team is loose, having fun, ready to play. Let's get a win tomorrow!

[Al DeFlorio]

Cornell's zone D is giving up easy goals.

[mike1960]

Cornell's zone D is giving up easy goals.

Are you at the game? I'm listening to Barry Leonard on the radio. It sounds like Cornell has had a lot of opportunities to get control of this one.

[upprdeck]

cornell had a ton of chances.. Yales D is really tough..   took yale/albany down to the wire.. now lets win a couple and knock off Syracuse.

[CU77]

Cornell missed the injured players at SSDM. Their zone D got victimized a couple of times. Paul R and the wings did a good job of winning enough faceoffs to keep Cornell in the game.

Tough to take a loss, but the Red is much improved over last year.

[billhoward]

Another quality loss, little or no sarcasm intended. Two-goal losses to #1 and #7 should do more for us than "also receiving votes" but it won't get us into the top ten, which feels like where Cornell should be later in the season. Nine of the top 20 as of the 3/12 NCAA poll had 2 or (#20) 3 losses

[Al DeFlorio]

Quint has Cornell up to #11.

[CU77]

Patrick McEwen, @LaxFilmRoom, has an advanced-stats ranking that has us at #6:

http://analyticslacrosse.com/d1men/2018/teams

https://twitter.com/LaxFilmRoom/status/975751525724315649

[billhoward]

That was nice to only lose to Yale by 2 games. But we gotta win some Ivy games, too. Tomorrow at Penn would be a good time to make our move. LGR.

[mike1960]

Because of the hockey game, I can't get an online radio stream of the game. It sounds like a great win for Cornell. Coach Milliman has really done a great job this far. Question: I see from the stats that Caelahn Bullen played goalie in the second half and Penn scored far fewer than the first half. Was it because he was that much better than Knight today, or did the defense pick it up? Or both? Thanks.

[Swampy]

Because of the hockey game, I can't get an online radio stream of the game. It sounds like a great win for Cornell. Coach Milliman has really done a great job this far. Question: I see from the stats that Caelahn Bullen played goalie in the second half and Penn scored far fewer than the first half. Was it because he was that much better than Knight today, or did the defense pick it up? Or both? Thanks.

Over on the Laxpower forum there's some suggestion that CK had a minor injury.

[CU77]

Nice, much needed win over a good Penn team. First half was pretty even, but the D was giving up lots of good looks and Knight was not stopping them. Then he appeared to injure his leg on a hard shot. He finished the half with 3 saves against 10 goals. Then it seemed like Penn never got the ball in the 3rd. They scored one goal and Bullen had one save, while the Cornell offense scored 6. Cornell kept it up in the 4th, scoring 4 more goals against Penn's 2 (with 2 saves for Bullen) before adding 2 more empty-net goals as Penn went into desperation mode.

[dag14]

At one point, Knight was behind the goal going after a ground ball and he got hit pretty hard.  No penalty, though.  I was watching with no sound and wasn't paying close enough attention to see whether/when he left the game.

[CU77]

Knight stayed in through the first half. Bullen started the 2nd half.