Cornell lacrosse 2020

[scoop85]

That's a brutal early schedule.  Good chance first seven games will be against top 10-15 ranked teams.  My main beef is the Ivy rotation is the same each year.  It would be nice if it varied some so we don't always get top 2 contenders as our first league games every year - but then there is only one cupcake in the league this year.

And of course it wasn't that long ago that Yale was a "cupcake," so starting off with them in Ivy play gave us a nice start.  But no more.

[Trotsky]

That's a brutal early schedule.  Good chance first seven games will be against top 10-15 ranked teams.

Isn't High Point some tiny evangy loon college?  How did they get good?

Edit: no, they're a much bigger (5k) and non-psychotic school.  I was mixing them up with somebody else (Grove City probably).

[billhoward]

That's a brutal early schedule.  Good chance first seven games will be against top 10-15 ranked teams.

Isn't High Point some tiny evangy loon college?  How did they get good?

Edit: no, they're a much bigger (5k) and non-psychotic school.  I was mixing them up with somebody else (Grove City probably).

High Point is a marketing driven school: A golf cart with your name greats a HS student visitor and family. The dorms are great. The academics are acceptable and families who have a student with a learning difference can, for a fee, pay for mandatory study and coaching sessions. There are also a lot of rules like no posters on the walls of common areas. The accept rate is around 80%. (Hobart is around 60%.)

Grove City  is a Christian in very western PA that refuses federal grants so it can tell the feds and their rules such as Title IX to buzz off.

[dbilmes]

According to this article, we have one of the toughest non-conference schedules in the country. If we don't get the automatic Ivy bid, we're going to have to earn our way into the tournament with some wins against strong non-league opponents.

[billhoward]

Opener Feb. 15 at Albany. What's the indoor facility that's backup in case it snows? At this point, the hockey team could have 2 months of action left.

Hobart is March 30. Why? Hobart in recent years has been a less-challenging opponent, so why not use this game to open 2020?

Most of tough games are on the road. We start away from home (2/21 to 3/8) with Albany, High Point, Ohio State, Penn State. Also on the road for Penn and Princeton. All of them are potential top 20, even HP. Only home games vs. likely top-20s (per NCAA.com) are Yale and Syracuse: 2 of 14 games. Brutal. (This poll has Cornell 11th.) I hope the team bus has good Wifi so they can keep up with classwork.

Colgate is back, which is good. Lehigh is out, which was a decent and challenging game against a nearby team that could be top-20 just not every year. The be-decent-to-NYS-lax game against St. Bona is fortunately a one-timer and done; I hope they paid a good travel honorarium.

[Trotsky]

Suddenly someone'll say, like, "plate," or "shrimp," or "plate of shrimp" out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconsciousness.

[CU2007]

That's a brutal early schedule.  Good chance first seven games will be against top 10-15 ranked teams.

Isn't High Point some tiny evangy loon college?  How did they get good?

Edit: no, they're a much bigger (5k) and non-psychotic school.  I was mixing them up with somebody else (Grove City probably).

High Point is a marketing driven school: A golf cart with your name greats a HS student visitor and family. The dorms are great. The academics are acceptable and families who have a student with a learning difference can, for a fee, pay for mandatory study and coaching sessions. There are also a lot of rules like no posters on the walls of common areas. The accept rate is around 80%. (Hobart is around 60%.)

Grove City  is a Christian in very western PA that refuses federal grants so it can tell the feds and their rules such as Title IX to buzz off.

High Point is basically a resort for rich kids who lack brain cells.

[Trotsky]

High Point is basically a resort for rich kids who lack brain cells.

Leave Dartmouth out of this.

[CU2007]

High Point is basically a resort for rich kids who lack brain cells.

Leave Dartmouth out of this.

Nice

[mike1960]

Let's hope Petrakis lives up to the high school honors.  We need a real FOGO.

+1

[billhoward]

December assessment has Cornell ranked #12 in the Inside Lacrosse Top 20 photo slideshow.

The word on Cornell is here: https://www.insidelacrosse.com/slideshow/2020-face-off-yearbook-mens-division-i-top-20/104?slide=8

The Big Red will go as far as their defense and FOGO. Remember, they were preseason No. 5 in 2019 with superstar Jeff Teat and didn't make the NCAA Tournament because of defensive issues.

The story from the top: https://www.insidelacrosse.com/slideshow/2020-face-off-yearbook-mens-division-i-top-20/104?slide=all
1 Virginia (2019 champion over Yale)
2 Penn State (lost to Yale in semis)
3 Yale
4 Maryland
5 Penn

[Swampy]

Inside Lacrosse published Face-Off Yearbook's Preseason Men's D1 Media All-Americans. One Cornellian made the Third Team: Jeff Teat. Honorable mentions for Connor Fletcher and Brandon Salvatore.

OTOH, other Ivy selections include 5 from Yale (one on each of the first 3 teams plus two HM's), 3 from Penn (1st, 2nd, & 3), 2 from Princeton (1st & 2nd team), & 1 HM from Brown. Dartmouth & Harvard had none.

[upprdeck]

you can get cornell at 50-1 for the field bet if you can find it and are so inclined in vegas..

[Swampy]

IL just named PSU the preseason #1 pick.

My stomach hurts when I think of how Tambroni got away.

[mike1960]

IL just named PSU the preseason #1 pick.

My stomach hurts when I think of how Tambroni got away.

What's the story on this? Did he see PSU as the better chance at a national title?