2022 NCAA Men's Lacrosse Tournament Thread of DESTINY

[billhoward]

Does anyone know where you can find the highlights of the Ohio State game?  The "highlights" link on cornellbigred.com does have footage from the game set to bad music, but I was looking for highlights from the broadcast.

25 minutes of highlights:  https://youtu.be/14UdX0Pbgbc

There's a three-minute highlights tape for Ohio State fans.

[George64]

Does anyone know where you can find the highlights of the Ohio State game?  The "highlights" link on cornellbigred.com does have footage from the game set to bad music, but I was looking for highlights from the broadcast.

25 minutes of highlights:  https://youtu.be/14UdX0Pbgbc

There's a three-minute highlights tape for Ohio State fans.

Good one!
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[billhoward]

Does anyone know where you can find the highlights of the Ohio State game?  The "highlights" link on cornellbigred.com does have footage from the game set to bad music, but I was looking for highlights from the broadcast.

25 minutes of highlights:  https://youtu.be/14UdX0Pbgbc

There's a three-minute highlights tape for Ohio State fans.

Good one!

It was an obvious and cheap shot but the layup was uncontested. And it was Ohio State. The Fortune 1000 Big 10 school that took in $230 million in revenue in the last pre-pandemic year.

[billhoward]

eLynah castigates members for, say, publicly wishing in the third period that Andy Iles completes the shutout. So Thread of DESTINY is an affront to the woofing gods and to the all-caps police. But, heck, it's just sports. And yet, here we are, one game removed from the final four, either that or the seniors knowing a week in advance they will attend graduation in person. Cornell was helped immeasurably by Delaware taking down Georgetown last weekend. I can almost taste East Hartford, just as I can almost taste the gods of fate letting a lower-ranked team pull off a second upset, under an ex-Cornell coach with a grudge. This should be fun. It feels as if Cornell is playing with house money, us starting the year ranked 15th (below). LGR!

Richie, I hope you're looking down on us. It's good to be here.

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[b]USILA Pre-Season 2022 Poll D1
Team (1sts)      Rank   WL   Points   [/b]
Virginia (16)   1 0-0 320
Maryland (1)   2 0-0 303
Duke           3 0-0 291
North Carolina   4 0-0 254
Notre Dame   5 0-0 244
Georgetown   5 0-0 244
Yale           7 0-0 202
Penn           8    0-0 165
Loyola           9 0-0 156
Rutgers          10 0-0 153
Syracuse  11 0-0 137
Denver          12 0-0 134
Army          13 0-0 113
Lehigh          14 0-0 91
[b][color=#FF0000]Cornell          15 0-0 74[/color][/b]
Johns Hopkins  16 0-0 61
Drexel          17 0-0 43
Princeton  18 0-0 40      
Delaware  19 0-0 32
Penn State  20 0-0 30
Also receiving votes: Albany (NY) (25), Vermont (25), Bryant (22), Villanova (16), Ohio State (15), Massachusetts (12), High Point (11), Navy (9), and Richmond (8).

[upprdeck]

this also shows Del was looked at pretty highly to start the year.

[billhoward]

this also shows Del was looked at pretty highly to start the year.

Syracuse, Army and Lehigh all rated above us (pre-season) underperformed Cornell; look how low (lower than Cornell) Princeton was rated and Ohio State was in the also-mentioned category. I think Virginia was #1 only in the pre-season, then #2 Maryland took over.

In Cornell's favor, an 80-1 took the Kentucky Derby.

[mike1960]

You know DeLuca wants this one bad. His players probably want it for him too. We're going to have to be ready.

[nshapiro]

I don't know about getting 'helped' so much by Delaware.  Georgetown deservedly was highly rated because they had only one loss, but they went 1-1 vs Princeton and Penn, just like Cornell, and Richmond was the only other tournament team they played.  They did not blow any games against bubble teams (like Cornell did vs Army), but I think both Georgetown and Rutgers may well be overrated.
Delaware looked very good, with a really solid defense.  I am not convinced they will be an easier opponent than Georgetown would have been.

[jeff '84]

You know DeLuca wants this one bad. His players probably want it for him too. We're going to have to be ready.

'Everything Happens For a Reason': Ben DeLuca's Lessons From Moran Pace Blue Hens' Run

https://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/-everything-happens-for-a-reason-ben-deluca-s-lessons-from-moran-pace-blue-hens-run/59698

[billhoward]

You know DeLuca wants this one bad. His players probably want it for him too. We're going to have to be ready.

'Everything Happens For a Reason': Ben DeLuca's Lessons From Moran Pace Blue Hens' Run
https://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/-everything-happens-for-a-reason-ben-deluca-s-lessons-from-moran-pace-blue-hens-run/59698

Story also helps make Cornell sound like a good place to play lacrosse.

[Al DeFlorio]

I don't know about getting 'helped' so much by Delaware.  Georgetown deservedly was highly rated because they had only one loss, but they went 1-1 vs Princeton and Penn, just like Cornell, and Richmond was the only other tournament team they played.  They did not blow any games against bubble teams (like Cornell did vs Army), but I think both Georgetown and Rutgers may well be overrated.
Delaware looked very good, with a really solid defense.  I am not convinced they will be an easier opponent than Georgetown would have been.

Agree.  Better to have had the target on Georgetown's chest, not ours.

[billhoward]

I don't know about getting 'helped' so much by Delaware.  Georgetown deservedly was highly rated because they had only one loss, but they went 1-1 vs Princeton and Penn, just like Cornell, and Richmond was the only other tournament team they played.  They did not blow any games against bubble teams (like Cornell did vs Army), but I think both Georgetown and Rutgers may well be overrated.
Delaware looked very good, with a really solid defense.  I am not convinced they will be an easier opponent than Georgetown would have been.

The glass is half full: At least we don't have to play Syracuse.

Meanwhile: Paging Gavin Adler (blue-and-yellow #1 is Delaware's JP Ward, 71 points on the season).
https://twitter.com/i/status/1527388370757767172

[George64]

Story also helps make Cornell sound like a good place to play lacrosse.

And get a great education.  DeLuca speaking about Richie Moran, "He believed in me and gave me an opportunity to be a part of a special tradition-rich program and get a phenomenal education and that changed my life."
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[dag14]

The article got one fact wrong:  Ben DeLuca was a biochem and nutrition major, not a business major.  But this demonstrates another benefit of a Cornell education -- access to a vast network of alumni who can help you get a job on Wall St. if you want one.

[billhoward]

Quarterfinals

Saturday at Hofstra

Rutgers 11, Penn 9

Princeton 14, Yale 10

Sunday at Columbus OH

Cornell - Delaware

Maryland - Virginia


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Semifinals: Rutgers plays Cornell-Delaware winner, Princeton plays Maryland-Virginia winner.

Penn ran out of gas in the fourth quarter versus Rutgers.