Cornell lacrosse 2019

[billhoward]

Cornell climbs to 8 from 10 in media poll, with Syracuse and Notre Dame to play this week. Penn State now has all of the first-place votes. Team on Cornell's schedule in bold.

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Division I Media Poll
Rank Team                Points Prev
[b]1 Penn State (9 - 1) 520(26) 1[/b]
2 Loyola (8 - 2)        471 2
3 Maryland (9 - 2) 458 3
4 Virginia (9 - 2) 436 4
[b]5 Yale (7 - 2)        418 5
6 Penn (6 - 3)        390 6[/b]
7 Duke (9 - 3)        377 8
[b][color=#FF0000]8 Cornell (7 - 3) 314 10[/color][/b]
[b]9 Syracuse (6 - 3) 304 11
10 Notre Dame (5 - 4) 270 7[/b]
[b]11 Towson (7 - 3)        257 12[/b]
12 Ohio State (7 - 2) 251 9
13 High Point (9 - 2) 225 14
14 Villanova (7 - 4) 161 22
15 Denver (6 - 4)        132 13
16 Johns Hopkins (6 - 4) 128 21
[b]17 Lehigh (7 - 4)        104 15[/b]
18 North Carolina (7 - 4) 77 19
19 UMass (7 - 4)        43 17
20 Army (8 - 3)        30 16
Receiving Votes: Delaware, Richmond, Rutgers, Boston University, Georgetown, Marquette, [b]Princeton[/b], Mount St Mary's.

Coaches' poll TK.

[djk26]

Thanks for posting that, Bill, and bolding Cornell's opponents.  You have to give the coaches (Coach Pete in particular) a lot of credit for putting together such a strong schedule for Cornell this year.  If we had beaten Penn I'd feel much better about the season--as it is we are are probably one loss away from losing any chance at an at-large bid.  As I type that it seems a little too bleak so I hope am wrong about that.

[upprdeck]

who knows where at large will go..  there will by about 8? almost everyone below us has 3-4 losses too and many will end up with 5-6.  we split with ND and only lose to penn/yale in ivy we have a pretty solid resume.

those teams in the ACC will almost all get 1 more loss too and they are all the teams in the at large pool..

too Yale lost to Vill

if we come  out of this week at 8-4 at worst and then beat prince/brown i think 10-5 or 11-5 gets us in. 2 top 10 wins and 5 top 10 losses . if we lose both this week probably need to beat penn or yale.

[Swampy]

Latest episode of The Season is very informative about the coach and team this year, but depressing too.

[Trotsky]

I'd never seen this before.  Yikes.

[ugarte]

I'd never seen this before.

let's try that again

[Trotsky]

I knew about that one.  Or, for that matter.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

I knew about that one.  Or, for that matter.

37 spectators.  Where did they play the game?  Meehan?

[Al DeFlorio]

Interesting chart showing tournament probabilities:

http://laxbytes.com/2019/binmenstats/ncaapb01.php

Cornell #3 in SOS; #1 in average RPI of losses; two significant wins (ND and Towson); no significant losses.

[mike1960]

Interesting chart showing tournament probabilities:

http://laxbytes.com/2019/binmenstats/ncaapb01.php

Cornell #3 in SOS; #1 in average RPI of losses; two significant wins (ND and Towson); no significant losses.

Sometimes logic does not seem to matter in these kinds of things. Let's hope it does this time.

[upprdeck]

ND is in an interesting spot and they are one team in the mix with us..

6-5 with UNC left, they lose that and the first ACC game they cant get in at 6-7.

i they go 1-1 will they take a 7-6 ND team over us if we go 2-1 and finish 10-5 and beat ND?
UNC if they lose to ND goes to 7-6

JH probably goes to 6-7 with the b10 tourney left

how would Towson get in ahead of us losing 18-11 to us and only the loyola win as a good one
Denver will have only 1 good win if they dont win out and one one of Vill/Denver has to lose too

Mt st marys wont get in ahead of us without winning that league

we are in pretty good shape if the B10 top 3 win the title and UNC/ND dont win the acc and finish with 3 quality wins

[Swampy]

From this week's Inside Lacrosse's "Quint's Top 20"

10. Cornell An unimpressive loss in the Dome highlights Cornell's issues. When you can't win a face-off and your defense resembles Swiss cheese, you're not going to beat quality opponents. The Big Red got pushed around during 50/50 groundballs. The close defense got run by; they don't have a No. 1 cover man. Sloppy passes are costly when your possession margin is slim. Time of possession was scarce. Shot selection was poor. Jeff Teat (2A) and Clarke Petterson (2A) were blanked.

A Sunday bounce-back win against Notre Dame was essential to stay in the hunt for an at-large bid and will be a launching pad for the stretch run. Big Red defended, they scrapped for face-offs and groundballs. They maximized possessions. Chayse Ierlan made 17 stops. Cornell is in desperation mode. Sometimes teams need to go there to maximize their focus.

I don't usually put much stake in QK's opinions of Cornell Lacrosse, but this one seems right on the money.

[billhoward]

USILA polls: https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/lacrosse-men/d1/usila-coaches

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1. Penn State
2. Maryland was 3
3. Duke was 6
4. Yale was 5
5. Penn was 7
...
 9. Syracuse was 11 beats Cornell +2 spots
10. Cornell was 10 loses to Syracuse, beats Notre Dame
11. Notre Dame was 12 loses to Cornell +1 spot


Inside Lacrosse poll https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/lacrosse-men/d1/inside-lacrosse has Cornell dropping from 8 to 10 but Notre Dame drops 2 to 12 and Syracuse climes 2 to 7.

[Al DeFlorio]

Cornell-Brown game televised on NESN Saturday.

[billhoward]

Of this week's top ten in the USILA polls, their rankings on team faceoff percentage (not in poll order) include:

 1
11
12
13
15
17
28
30
35
67


Where's Cornell? 10th in the polls and 67th (of 73 teams) in faceoffs. How bad are Cornell's faceoff stats? Every team in the top 10 has a winning faceoff percentage except Loyola at .496 (rounds to 50%) and Cornell at .365. The difference from first to ninth is .275 and the difference between ninth and tenth is another .131. I would like to see the imputed goal value of each faceoff won.

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[b]USILA Top 10 Teams      Records    F/O  (rank)[/b]
 1. Penn State          10-1       .594 (15)   .694 25x36 vs. Cornell (PSU F/O pct.)      
 2. Maryland            10-2       .598 (13)
 3. Duke                10-3       .530 (30)
 4. Yale                 8-2       .771 ( 1)   .800  24X30 vs. Cornell
 5. Penn                 7-3       .600 (12)   .606  24x33 vs. Cornell  
 6. Virginia             9-3       .552 (28)      
 7. Ohio State           8-2       .585 (17)
 8. Loyola Md.           9-3       .496 (35)
 9. Syracuse             8-3       .607 (11)   .680  17x25 vs. Cornell
10. Cornell              8-4       .365 (67)  

[b]Teams F/O Pecentage .600 or Higher
Teams .600 or Higher               F/O  (rank)[/b]
13. Towson                         .771 ( 2)  .813  26x32 vs. Cornell
HM  Lehigh                         .682 ( 4)  .667  18x27 vs. Cornell
NR  Holy Cross                     .641 ( 5)
NR  Cleveland State                .624 ( 6)
NR  Hobart                         .622 ( 7)  .639  22x39 vs. Cornell
15  UMass                          .617 ( 8)
NR  St Joseph's                    .612 ( 9)
NR  Hampton                        .611 (10)

The teams below Cornell on faceoffs have records of
3-8
9-3 (Army, 17th in the 4/15 poll.)
2-9
4-9
4-9
0-12 St. Bonaventure .240 (.200 vs. Cornell)

And yet we're in the top ten.