Ivy League lacrosse tournament [& NCAAs 2019]

[billhoward]

Saturday 5/18/2019 quarterfinals

Virginia 13, Maryland 12, OT.

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                1 2 3 4 OT
Maryland 3 3 4 2 0 12
Virginia 2 3 2 5 1 13
Virginia never led, got the 12th goal on a crossbar shot that did not go in and Maryland got screwed. The goal moved, the nets waved, the referee thought that was information enough to raise his arms. It's not a reviewable offense. Now we have Virginia fans thinking about two championships and making comparisons to Boston. Winner forced OT with a 5-2 fourth quarter.

Duke 14, Notre Dame 13, OT

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       1 2 3 4 OT
Notre Dame 1 4 3 5 0 13
Duke        4 3 4 2 1 14
Duke wins the OT faceoff, scores with less than one tick left on first shot clock. The trouble with sudden death OT [even more so with NCAA "sudden victory"]: The team that wins the first faceoff is more likely to win. Loser got to OT with a 5-2 fourth quarter.

[CU77]

Yale takes Round 3 of Penn-Yale, 19-18 in OT. Thrilling game, back & forth, no team led by more than 2.

Jeff Tambroni's team goes down 6-3 to Loyola, then goes on an 11-1 run, wins comfortably 21-14.

[Al DeFlorio]

If it isn't clear now that deciding a tie game in a sport that has 36 goals scored in 60 minutes of regulation by a sudden death overtime goal is ridiculous, it never will be.  (Awful sentence, I know.)

[Iceberg]

Yale takes Round 3 of Penn-Yale, 19-18 in OT. Thrilling game, back & forth, no team led by more than 2.

Now the Penn seniors can go to their graduation tomorrow without having to worry about the short ride down the I-76 next weekend

[billhoward]

Finals: Virginia 13, Yale 9

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Yale        1 1 3 4 9
Virginia 2 4 5 2       13
6-2 at the half, 11-5 after 3. Virginia got it done despite TD Ierland 18x24 (plus John Neuman 1x1) on faceoffs. Goaltending, winners made 13 saves, losers made 9 saves. This in third season for Lars Tiffany after taking Brown so close (final four) in 2016.

Semifinals
They Were Penn State. Which hurts Jeff Tambroni more, losing the 2009 game to Syracuse when the Orange tied Cornell with :03 left, or being the presumptive NCAA tournament favorite Saturday even when its lone RS loss was to Yale.

#3 Virginia vs. #2 Duke, noon Saturday
Virginia 13-12 in two OTs, after scoring two late goals to tie.

5 Yale vs. #1 Penn state, 2:30
Yale leads wire to wire, wins 21-17 on an early surge and FOGO TD Ierlan 28x39

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Yale         10  2  4  5  -- 21
Penn State    2  7  4  4  -- 17

With Duke losing, we're spared all the Monday pre-game Battle of the Brainiacs stories.

Also: Nice story from https://www.syracuse.com/sports/2019/05/camillus-jeff-tambroni-and-his-bumpy-quest-to-get-penn-state-lacrosse-to-no-1.html  on Jeff Tambroni and what led an upstate-New York boy to move on from his dream job at Cornell to Penn State. The story talks about the chance to build a team his way, his wife's connections to Penn State. It doesn't talk about the salary bump moving to Happy Valley. Penn State despite being a public university manages to mask salary reporting. FWIW, John Tillman (Hotel '91) was paid $150K when Maryland hired him and now with a national championship he's at $289K (https://www.testudotimes.com/2018/4/10/17217990/diamondback-university-salary-guide-mark-turgeon-dj-durkin-brenda-frese-matt-canada).



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Like to see a Virginia-Yale final. Virginia chasing a second major-sport (sort of) championship is less troubling than Duke in any title game. I'd rather see our people - an Ivy team - instead of the team that stole our coach. Penn State - Yale or Penn State - Penn should have been the title game. Not these pairings.

[Swampy]

#3 Virginia vs. #2 Duke, noon Saturday
#5 Yale vs. #1 Penn state, 2:30

Like to see a Virginia-Yale final. Virginia chasing a second major-sport (sort of) championship is less troubling than Duke in any title game. I'd rather see our people - an Ivy team - instead of the team that stole our coach. Penn State - Yale or Penn State - Penn should have been the title game. Not these pairings.

It came down to whom to screw: the ACC or the Ivy League. It was no contest.

[rss77]

Credit Yale for coming up with the money to keep Shay at Yale and they are doing the same with basketball coach James Jones.  Jones before the contract extension was rumored to be paid around $500,000.

[Al DeFlorio]

So we head to the finals with Yale, Penn, and Penn State having a total of nine losses, six of those to each other.  And a 37-3 combined record against everyone else.  The three "other" losses came in Yale's first game and Penn's first two games after the usual late Ivy start.

[billhoward]

So we head to the finals with Yale, Penn, and Penn State having a total of nine losses, six of those to each other.  And a 37-3 combined record against everyone else.  The three "other" losses came in Yale's first game and Penn's first two games after the usual late Ivy start.

The brackets turned out to disadvantage Penn for sure trying to make it 3x3 vs. Yale in 2019. Also Penn State (is anyone shedding a tear) for being on the same side of the bracket as the team that beat them RS. Meanwhile the other bracket gave the South a good shot at placing one team in the title game. The USILA poll seems to have a better grasp of the best North teams at season's end. The final-four round of Penn State, Penn, Yale and Virginia would have been great lacrosse.

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[b]USILA Poll 5/6        NCAA seedings[/b]
1 Penn State          1 Penn State
2 Penn                2 Duke
3 Yale                3 Virginia
4 Virginia            4 Penn
5 Duke                5 Yale
6 Maryland            6 Towson
7 Loyola Md           7 Notre Dame
8 Towson              8 Loyola Md

[CU77]

So we head to the finals with Yale, Penn, and Penn State having a total of nine losses, six of those to each other.  And a 37-3 combined record against everyone else.  The three "other" losses came in Yale's first game and Penn's first two games after the usual late Ivy start.

But one of those losses was the ONLY game any of these three played against the ACC: a 17-7 loss by Penn to Duke. All three now seem overrated as Virginia ran all over Yale in the final, a beat-down that was much worse than the 13-9 final score indicates.

TD won lots of faceoffs; didn't matter. I'm glad he didn't manage to cash in with a national title after turning away from Cornell.

[margolism]

Cornell and Yale both brought home the same number of trophies this year.

Penn brings home one.

[aamor105]

The face off was a major problem last time, yes, but a perhaps equal issue is that Yale manhandled Cornell. It looks like the Yale lacrosse team lives in the weight room. Their strength was a significant advantage on dodges and on ground ball scrums. Intuition Cornell and Yale both brought home the same number of trophies this year.

Penn brings home one.