Cornell lacrosse 2024

[billhoward]

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2024 Cornell Lacrosse Schedule
Feb 17  Lehigh       330pm
Feb 24  @Denver      12 noon [unclear whose 12 noon]
Feb 27  Hobart       500 Tuesday
Mar 2   Ohio State   12 noon
Mar 9   @Penn State  12 noon
Mar 16  @Princeton   TBA [no ESPN+ logo currently on schedule]
Mar 23  Yale         12 noon
Mar 30  @Penn        TBA
Apr 2   Syracuse     7pm Tuesday
Apr 6   Brown        12 noon
Apr 13  Notre Dame   TBA and location not cited
Apr 20  Harvard      12 noon
Apr 27  @Dartmouth   TBA
May 3,5 Ivy tourney  Friday, Sunday
Saturday games implied. Most games are 12 noon, good for the players, the visiting team gets back to campus same day.
Note no southern opponents: no Duke, no Maryland, no Hopkins.




Placeholder for 2024 Cornell lacrosse schedule, roster changes. Be good to have individual threads (i.e. not on this thread) at least for major games.  

Per the 2024 Cornell team roster:

• JJ Lombardi is listed as a sixth-year. Maybe he won't have to pay the Cornell medical supplement since he'll be on Medicare by spring semester?
• 9 players are listed as fifth-years: Michael Long, Aiden Blake, Jack Parker, Gene Martin, Brian Piatelli, Angelo Petrakis, Frank Ciniglio, Spencer Wirthheim and Danny Boccafola
• CJ Kirst is listed as a senior, has played 3 not 4 seasons, freshman year was cancelled (Covid)
• No formal word from Cornell on entering freshmen (Class of 2027)

Be interesting to see who Cornell's 2024 out-of-conference opponents are. The 2023 schedule had:
Colgate (scrimmage), Albany (W+2), Lehigh (+7), Hobart (+9), Ohio State (+3), Penn State (-4), Marquette (+10), Army (+1). Most games were close.

Is Syracuse off Cornell's schedule for good?  Orange opted to play Princeton in 2023 as their lone Ivy opponent, won 16-13. It's crazy for a pair of top-20 schools only an hour apart not to play each other. Binghamton would be a good returning rival if/when they get better and stay better (9-5 in 2023, 5-9 in 2022, 5-4 2021, 0-13 all-time vs. Cornell). Stony Brook could be an opponent if newish head coach Anthony Gilardi (5-2, 8-6, 9-5, 6-5) improves.

2024 Ivy League home games are: Yale, Harvard, Brown. Final game of RS would be at Princeton April 27, the Ivy tournament May 3-5, then the three NCAA tournament weekends with the quarterfinals at Hofstra (May 18) and Towson (May 19), finals in Philadelphia May 25-27.

[dbilmes]

Not much activity among Ivies in transfer portal. Interesting to see that lacrosse players aren't as eager to transfer to Q as hockey players are!

[Trotsky]

Not much activity among Ivies in transfer portal. Interesting to see that lacrosse players aren't as eager to transfer to Q as hockey players are!

Is there a Q of lax?  A team that's just heedlessly building with absolutely no regard to academics or the greater good or ethics or anything?  Just win baby?

[billhoward]

Not much activity among Ivies in transfer portal. Interesting to see that lacrosse players aren't as eager to transfer to Q as hockey players are!

Is there a Q of lax?  A team that's just heedlessly building with absolutely no regard to academics or the greater good or ethics or anything?  Just win baby?

Maybe Q could have been the Q of lacrosse? The school has had lax ambitions.

Rob Pannell committed to play lacrosse at Quinnipiac, then took a prep year to improve his lax skills (you don't need a Deerfield PG year to meet Q's academic standards), either improved dramatically as a lacrosse player or got further noticed, but Pannell had the wisdom to realize a team such as Cornell would be a better match. Five years, a bunch of Cornell-Ivy-NCAA records later, plus the 2013 Tewaaraton Award, it proved a good choice. Interestingly (and thread-driftingly), the year before the Tewaaraton went to Peter Baum of Colgate. We can fantasize about how the two would have done amazing things if both were at Cornell, but there's apparently a Baum family history with Colgate: mother, father, cousin.

[AK91]

Cornell already with its first class of '25 commit from the new recruiting season that started 9/1.

From Ty Xanders on Twitter: That was fast. Big add for the Big Red, as @CornellLacrosse lands a Top 10 middie in @ILPreps No. 24 junior Grady Taylor from Maine, @HoldernessLax (N.H.) and @4LeafLax. Taylor drew a lot of eyes this summer as a gritty and athletic 6'1, 190 lb. threat with great skills & upside. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP_-113i4T8

https://twitter.com/tyxanders/status/1697472533660921892?s=20

[upprdeck]

is the team scrimmaging anyone in the fall or can they even do that in the  ivies?

[Al DeFlorio]

is the team scrimmaging anyone in the fall or can they even do that in the  ivies?

Maryland at Cornell, October 20

[dag14]

2024 schedule is up:  2024 men's lacrosse schedule

[mike1960]

This is a fantastic schedule!

We've got Denver and Ohio State. Also, Syracuse and Notre Dame. (Can't wait to beat Syracuse.)

But Denver, Penn State, and ND not on television??

Tough, yes, but great lacrosse all spring!

[dag14]

But Denver, Penn State, and ND not on television??

Denver and Penn State haven't posted their 2024 schedules yet and the ND game is listed as TBD so I suspect they will all be televised once details are worked out.

[billhoward]

Notice Princeton is not the final game. It's March 16. What gives? I went to the Cornell-official schedule to make sure it wasn't linking to the women's schedule. Nope, Princeton is mid-season. In fact, still hockey season, and we play at Princeton in lacrosse the same weekend the hockey team likely hosts the ECAC quarterfinals. Bring back Andy!

[Swampy]

This is a fantastic schedule!

We've got Denver and Ohio State. Also, Syracuse and Notre Dame. (Can't wait to beat Syracuse.)

But Denver, Penn State, and ND not on television??

Tough, yes, but great lacrosse all spring!

The Denver (2/24), Hobart (2/27), tOSU (3/2) stretch is particularly brutal. A cross-country trip followed by a pair of short recoveries is going to be especially tough.

But I'm glad to see Syracuse back in the fold after last year's sacrilege.

The mid-season Princeton game looks like the work of the Ivy League bigwigs. I notice that H & Y are still playing their rivalry game as the last game of the regular season.

[Swampy]

This is a fantastic schedule!

We've got Denver and Ohio State. Also, Syracuse and Notre Dame. (Can't wait to beat Syracuse.)

But Denver, Penn State, and ND not on television??

Tough, yes, but great lacrosse all spring!

The Denver (2/24), Hobart (2/27), tOSU (3/2) stretch is particularly brutal. A cross-country trip followed by a pair of short recoveries is going to be especially tough.

But I'm glad to see Syracuse back in the fold after last year's sacrilege.

The mid-season Princeton game looks like the work of the Ivy League bigwigs. I notice that H & Y are still playing their rivalry game as the last game of the regular season.

[TimV]

I'm hoping the league is going to a rotating schedule order so we don't continue to play teams in the same sequence every year.  For the last several years the Ivy sequence was Y-Pe-D-H-B-Pr.  This  year Pr goes to the front and D-H-B becomes B-H-D.

This is a really difficult schedule outside the league AND in - we play the iron of the league up front in Pr-Y-P and the really tough stretch is tOSU thru ND.

[mike1960]

I'm hoping the league is going to a rotating schedule order so we don't continue to play teams in the same sequence every year.  For the last several years the Ivy sequence was Y-Pe-D-H-B-Pr.  This  year Pr goes to the front and D-H-B becomes B-H-D.

This is a really difficult schedule outside the league AND in - we play the iron of the league up front in Pr-Y-P and the really tough stretch is tOSU thru ND.

It is tough but we'll be battle tested and ready come tournament time.

Who is the front-runner for goalie?