Cornell @ Harvard Men's Lacrosse, Saturday, April 19, noon

[CU77]

Cornell game notes:

https://cornellbigred.com/documents/2025/4/16/12_Harvard_25.pdf

A win clinches Cornell hosting the ILT.

Harvard has a 9-2 record and is currently RPI #7. They beat Syracuse early (Feb 22) in the Dome, 15-14, despite winning just 4 of 32 faceoffs. Other notable wins are over Michigan 14-11 and BU 16-7. Their two losses are an early one (Feb 18) to Colgate 15-19 and at Princeton 11-13 (Mar 22).

Massey's computer gives Cornell a 61% chance of winning, by a most-likely score of 15-13:

https://masseyratings.com/game.php?gid=1407764

So: a worthy opponent and a big game with multiple playoff implications.

LGR!

[semsox]

First in person game of the season for me. I went two years ago and saw a pretty disappointing 8-10 loss to a middling Harvard team. Reasonably optimistic going in, but Harvard is legit this year. Hopefully it will end up looking like a good to great W, but a L won't be a resume killer.

[mike1960]

Harvard has a lot going on these days, and they are a very good team. I would not be surprised to see them take an early lead. We'll need to play our best to get the W tomorrow.

[ugarte]

Harvard has a long going on these days, and they are a very good team. I would not be surprised to see them take an early lead. We'll need to play our best to get the W tomorrow.

they are obviously very good or they wouldn't have the record they have and we've defintely suffered worse upsets but i look at harvard's schedule and i see a team that keeps escaping. we had five bad minutes against a team now ranked in the top five.

confidence is high.

[semsox]

Went back and looked at the box score from that 2023 game, and woof. Even with Harvard being much improved, I think you could say the same for us. We were running an attack of Kirst, Brian Piatelli, and Billy Coyle.

[rmandel]

I have reached out to ESPN plus since the start time on their website says 1 PM.  I am waiting for the Chat Bot to respond.

PS:  The Bot has escalated the issue to be sure the streaming starts on time.

[mike1960]

I have reached out to ESPN plus since the start time on their website says 1 PM.  I am waiting for the Chat Bot to respond.

PS:  The Bot has escalated the issue to be sure the streaming starts on time.

THANKS!!!

[billhoward]

The Bo sounds like The Boz, 1980s Oklahoma then NFL football player Brian Bosworth. He felt like a man born 10 years too soon to really capitalize on body art.

[billhoward]

Cornell schedule, Harvard schedule, Harvard pregame story all say noon. ESPN+ placeholder says 1:00. I want to think the two schools would take time out from finding lawyer's who, like, went to school with Jared and Ivanka, and bring some closure to the couple thousand of us for whom lacrosse is the number one issue today.

[mike1960]

Cornell schedule, Harvard schedule, Harvard pregame story all say noon. ESPN+ placeholder says 1:00. I want to think the two schools would take time out from finding lawyer's who, like, went to school with Jared and Ivanka, and bring some closure to the couple thousand of us for whom lacrosse is the number one issue today.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.

[jjanow99]

On the other hand, they do have Cornell-Harvard baseball....

[rmandel]

Not good.  Live stats are up on Harvard site.  Nothing on ESPN+

[billhoward]

Early innings: The game has just started and Harvard already has a headcount, to wit 3,000 fans.

[George64]

Live stat shows Cornell up 1-0 on a Mike Long goal.

[jjanow99]

2-0 Firth