2022 NCAA Men's Lacrosse Tournament Thread of DESTINY

[CU77]

On to the quarterfinals!

Massey gives Cornell a 63% probability of beating Delaware, vs what would have been 30% against Georgetown.

Reminds me of 2010, when Cornell was the #7 seed. Needed triple OT to beat Loyola in the first round, and was set to go against #2 Cuse (who had beaten Cornell 8-7 at Schoellkopf in the regular season), but Cuse was upset by Army in OT. Cornell then crushed Army 14-5 to reach the final four. (Only to lose to unseeded Notre Dame in the semis, 12-7, but we do not speak of that.)

[Trotsky]

Think maybe Richie arranged for a helpful weather delay?  The Red definitely benefited from a timely lightning strike!

Sounds more like Ned, from the other place.

[Trotsky]

Does anyone know the actual reasons that Ben DeLuca and Cornell parted ways?

Some freshman drank too much and cried to his mom who cried to the AD

What would've happened if her son went to Duke?

You have to ask?

[mike1960]

On to the quarterfinals!

Massey gives Cornell a 63% probability of beating Delaware, vs what would have been 30% against Georgetown.

Reminds me of 2010, when Cornell was the #7 seed. Needed triple OT to beat Loyola in the first round, and was set to go against #2 Cuse (who had beaten Cornell 8-7 at Schoellkopf in the regular season), but Cuse was upset by Army in OT. Cornell then crushed Army 14-5 to reach the final four. (Only to lose to unseeded Notre Dame in the semis, 12-7, but we do not speak of that.)

Delaware is an excellent team, especially on the defense. This is a small sample size (I watched one game against GTown), but here is what I saw. Cornell will have to work hard for goals. Delaware kept a high-powered GTown to 9 goals, Penn to 8 (earlier this year), and Princeton to 10. They play disciplined lacrosse and they time their slides extremely well, as one would expect from a DeLuca defense. Their long poles are skilled. They will pick your pocket and take away the ball, esp. a guy named Owen Grant. And they don't make a lot of mistakes.

The offense is also very good but not as strong as their D. They often play a box-style, Canadian offense, with a lot of interior passing and good cuts to the goal, especially down the alley with a feed from the X. One of their attacks also likes to drift to the backdoor when the ball's on the perimeter. One of their attacks, Robinson (Ontario), will stick a shot in the corner with a left-handed behind-the-back shot, French pastry, as Barry says. They have a midfielder, Bieda, who shoots hard and accurately from outside. They have effective distributors from X. I'll be interested to see who Adler shuts down this game. I'm guessing Robinson.

Their goalie played a great game. He had a lot of great stops and didn't make mistakes on the clears. Their FOFO did not win a lot of draws, but their wing play is outstanding, so Delaware ended up with several possessions off the draw anyway.

I'm not any good at predicting wins and losses, so I won't try. This is clearly a team that Cornell can beat, but Delaware was incredibly impressive in their win against GTown.

[Al DeFlorio]

OSU game re-airs on ESPNU 7:30 am EDT Wednesday, May 18.

[Robb]

On to the quarterfinals!

Massey gives Cornell a 63% probability of beating Delaware, vs what would have been 30% against Georgetown.

Reminds me of 2010, when Cornell was the #7 seed. Needed triple OT to beat Loyola in the first round, and was set to go against #2 Cuse (who had beaten Cornell 8-7 at Schoellkopf in the regular season), but Cuse was upset by Army in OT. Cornell then crushed Army 14-5 to reach the final four. (Only to lose to unseeded Notre Dame in the semis, 12-7, but we do not speak of that.)

I just worry about the 2009 debacle (no, the one that actually happened) when Cornell (3 seed) "just" had to get past Bemidji (4 seed) to get to the Frozen Four.  Burned into my brain, as our group of -15 Cornellians heard the news of our loss just after finishing dinner at Phantom Ranch (bottom of the Grand Canyon).  Ugh.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

On to the quarterfinals!

Massey gives Cornell a 63% probability of beating Delaware, vs what would have been 30% against Georgetown.

Reminds me of 2010, when Cornell was the #7 seed. Needed triple OT to beat Loyola in the first round, and was set to go against #2 Cuse (who had beaten Cornell 8-7 at Schoellkopf in the regular season), but Cuse was upset by Army in OT. Cornell then crushed Army 14-5 to reach the final four. (Only to lose to unseeded Notre Dame in the semis, 12-7, but we do not speak of that.)

I just worry about the 2009 debacle (no, the one that actually happened) when Cornell (3 seed) "just" had to get past Bemidji (4 seed) to get to the Frozen Four.  Burned into my brain, as our group of -15 Cornellians heard the news of our loss just after finishing dinner at Phantom Ranch (bottom of the Grand Canyon).  Ugh.

I was there.  It was as ugly in person.

[mike1960]

Eldon Lindsay posted some great photos of the Ohio State game.

https://www.instagram.com/eldonlindsay/?hl=en

[Trotsky]

On to the quarterfinals!

Massey gives Cornell a 63% probability of beating Delaware, vs what would have been 30% against Georgetown.

Reminds me of 2010, when Cornell was the #7 seed. Needed triple OT to beat Loyola in the first round, and was set to go against #2 Cuse (who had beaten Cornell 8-7 at Schoellkopf in the regular season), but Cuse was upset by Army in OT. Cornell then crushed Army 14-5 to reach the final four. (Only to lose to unseeded Notre Dame in the semis, 12-7, but we do not speak of that.)

I just worry about the 2009 debacle (no, the one that actually happened) when Cornell (3 seed) "just" had to get past Bemidji (4 seed) to get to the Frozen Four.  Burned into my brain, as our group of -15 Cornellians heard the news of our loss just after finishing dinner at Phantom Ranch (bottom of the Grand Canyon).  Ugh.

I was there.  It was as ugly in person.

Jesus fuck that was bad.  It was after a spectacular comeback in the First Round.

The Frozen Four that year was 35 miles from my house.

Fuck you, Bemidji.

[billhoward]

Re video, as I understand it the NCAA retains rights to all video of championship games, it's not available for schools to clip and post highlights.

Some might argue the NCAA serves at the will of its member colleges and universities. They used to be arrogant pricks. In the last couple years as things went against the NCAA, the arrogance part has lessened, if not quite to the level of Gandhi's "these are my people, I am their leader, I must follow them."

If the NCAA really bans clips for the teams to post on their websites, then the action video becomes fan clips on social media. The NCAA going back at least a decade has tried to ban fan use of "professional type cameras" which is subject to considerable leeway on the parts of stadium ushers. Although I once got in the 300mm f/2.8, which is about the size of a Javelin launcher. And I was told at another lax tournament event to take a 3-inch-long mini zoom back to car.

More than a decade ago, in the early days of blogging, the NCAA would threaten to evict journalists from the pressbox for live-blogging. That ended at a regional NCAA baseball event in some mid-market city like Scranton or Louisville. The NCAA evicted the local paper, which had been up to then a booster for the games, or told them not to come back for the next day's games. The paper shut down all coverage, even the agate type scores. The NCAA relented a day later. They've made their peace with the media and even come to understand that social media and live-blogging increases interest in the sport.

Jason Gay of the Wall Street Journal, was told in 2014 to lose his non-NCAA-sanctioned cat mug from the NCAA basketball press table. The only cups allowed are the ones with the name of the "official hydration beverage of the NCAA." Gay turned it into a column: https://www.wsj.com/articles/jason-gay-the-ncaa-took-away-my-cat-mug-1396306274

Like other people in the media, I have been amused for a while at a strictly enforced NCAA policy regarding cups. As in paper cups. The NCAA forbids outside cups at tournament games. It requests that beverages are consumed in official NCAA cups with a logo of a Prominent Hydration Drink. It takes this rule seriously; there are a lot of jokes about the Cup Police, and at the floor-level entrances to the court there are signs in capital letters that remind you of this rule. ONLY NCAA CUPS ALLOWED BEYOND THIS POINT, the sign reads. Next to the sign, there's a stack of NCAA cups with the Prominent Hydration Drink logo, ready for your obedient use.

[djk26]

Delaware is an excellent team, especially on the defense. This is a small sample size (I watched one game against GTown), but here is what I saw. Cornell will have to work hard for goals. Delaware kept a high-powered GTown to 9 goals, Penn to 8 (earlier this year), and Princeton to 10. They play disciplined lacrosse and they time their slides extremely well, as one would expect from a DeLuca defense. Their long poles are skilled. They will pick your pocket and take away the ball, esp. a guy named Owen Grant. And they don't make a lot of mistakes.

I'm not any good at predicting wins and losses, so I won't try. This is clearly a team that Cornell can beat, but Delaware was incredibly impressive in their win against GTown.

Thanks for the analysis, Mike. Delaware seems strong and I am spooked by that 10-9 score over Georgetown.  If we can beat them it will have solved some of the 10-9 juju in my mind.

[Ken711]

Eldon Lindsay posted some great photos of the Ohio State game.

https://www.instagram.com/eldonlindsay/?hl=en

Nice find.

[mike1960]

Some nice analysis of last weekend's action with video in Inside Lacrosse:

https://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/terry-s-ncaa-tournament-reactions-first-round-can-the-quarterfinals-match-this-energy-/59685

[Al DeFlorio]

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

[djk26]

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

Al for the win!  This is terrific, thank you. ::popcorn::