Cornell Men's Lacrosse 2015

Figured this should start the 2015 thread:

. @CornellSports hires interim coach Matt Kerwick to coach men's lacrosse team. Took over after dismissal of Ben DeLuca last fall.

— Thomas Fleischman (@TomF_IJSports) June 11, 2014

Personally I'm very happy with the decision.

Ronald '09
Figured this should start the 2015 thread:

. @CornellSports hires interim coach Matt Kerwick to coach men's lacrosse team. Took over after dismissal of Ben DeLuca last fall.

— Thomas Fleischman (@TomF_IJSports) June 11, 2014

Personally I'm very happy with the decision.

I think it's the right choice, too.

Good choice. Would have happened sooner if we'd gone final four. Maybe it was and just not announced. As a practical matter, how stealthily could Cornell have searched for a new coach outside Cornell and kept it quiet.

Kerwick's bio says he lives in Skaneateles. Unless he has an Ithaca crash pad, that's 40 miles each way each day. He needs to be driving an all-wheel-drive diesel. Or a Tesla with a charger block in Ithaca, too.

billhoward
Kerwick's bio says he lives in Skaneateles. Unless he has an Ithaca crash pad, that's 40 miles each way each day. He needs to be driving an all-wheel-drive diesel. Or a Tesla with a charger block in Ithaca, too.

My first job after graduating from Cornell was near Elmira; my manager commuted from Scranton every day, 120 miles each way. Bought a Honda Civic just for his commute because it had really good gas mileage. I think maybe people are just accustomed to longer commutes once you get outside the Boston-DC corridor and similarly urbanized areas around the country.

Consider the opposite, that people in big urban areas are the ones more used to lengthy commutes by car or mass transit. To live in the burbs outside Manhattan and get to work, it's an hour door to door, or more. In rural areas with less traffic, such as Ithaca, you can reach affordable-housing communities 10 minutes from town. Several Cornell coaches live in Lansing and that's 10-15 minutes from campus. Going another 15 minutes doesn't lower your housing costs appreciably. Skaneateles is more of a Syracuse suburb. I could a faculty spouse with a special skill (or desire not to wait tables) who has to drive to Elmira or Syracuse for work, but that's not that common. Commuting from Scranton to Elmira sounds like an outlier case.

Josh '99
My first job after graduating from Cornell was near Elmira; my manager commuted from Scranton every day, 120 miles each way. Bought a Honda Civic just for his commute because it had really good gas mileage. I think maybe people are just accustomed to longer commutes once you get outside the Boston-DC corridor and similarly urbanized areas around the country.

It's not that unusual for people in the NoVa area to commute 50 miles each way -- particularly if they come from central VA (think: Appalachia) and can drive 100 mph for the first 20 miles.

But 120 miles each way, every day? Your manager was either a liar or an idiot.

I believe David Archer lives in Horseheads which is about 30 miles away.

Trotsky

Josh '99
My first job after graduating from Cornell was near Elmira; my manager commuted from Scranton every day, 120 miles each way. Bought a Honda Civic just for his commute because it had really good gas mileage. I think maybe people are just accustomed to longer commutes once you get outside the Boston-DC corridor and similarly urbanized areas around the country.

It's not that unusual for people in the NoVa area to commute 50 miles each way -- particularly if they come from central VA (think: Appalachia) and can drive 100 mph for the first 20 miles.

But 120 miles each way, every day? Your manager was either a liar or an idiot.

I used to work with a couple of guys who commuted from West Virginia (Charles Town area, I think) to Tysons Corner.

Weder
I used to work with a couple of guys who commuted from West Virginia (Charles Town area, I think) to Tysons Corner.

Once a year you see a story in Newsweek (maybe not recently) or NY Times about the quality of life of a dad or mom in the LA basin who gets up at 3 a.m. for a 3 hour drive to work, so they could live in an affordable house with a bit of land. Old cities with good mass transit - NY Boston DC SF Chicago - may be the long-term urban winners.

Trotsky

Josh '99
My first job after graduating from Cornell was near Elmira; my manager commuted from Scranton every day, 120 miles each way. Bought a Honda Civic just for his commute because it had really good gas mileage. I think maybe people are just accustomed to longer commutes once you get outside the Boston-DC corridor and similarly urbanized areas around the country.

It's not that unusual for people in the NoVa area to commute 50 miles each way -- particularly if they come from central VA (think: Appalachia) and can drive 100 mph for the first 20 miles.

But 120 miles each way, every day? Your manager was either a liar or an idiot.

Neither. Older guy, owned his home in Scranton, job was a good fit for him after his previous employer (closer to home) closed their facility, but didn't want to relocate and uproot his wife or rent a small apartment to stay in during the week (I had coworkers who lived in Lock Haven who did that rather than move after Piper closed up shop there). Bear in mind that gas was cheap in the late '90s (I remember paying in the ballpark of $1.20/gallon) so a 240 mile round trip commute if you're getting 30 MPG highway costs you less than $10/day or $200/month; less than even the crappy apartment I lived in that was more like $400/month. (Leaving aside the other costs associated with the car for the sake of simplicity, which could of course tilt the balance.) It's a lot of time on the road, but better than uprooting or only seeing your wife three days a week I guess.

billhoward
Consider the opposite, that people in big urban areas are the ones more used to lengthy commutes by car or mass transit. To live in the burbs outside Manhattan and get to work, it's an hour door to door, or more. In rural areas with less traffic, such as Ithaca, you can reach affordable-housing communities 10 minutes from town. Several Cornell coaches live in Lansing and that's 10-15 minutes from campus. Going another 15 minutes doesn't lower your housing costs appreciably. Skaneateles is more of a Syracuse suburb. I could a faculty spouse with a special skill (or desire not to wait tables) who has to drive to Elmira or Syracuse for work, but that's not that common. Commuting from Scranton to Elmira sounds like an outlier case.

That's a fair point, but you're talking about longer commutes in terms of time that are still much shorter in terms of distance than what I mentioned.

We have plenty of people here in the Lehigh Valley who commute into NYC every day. In fact, there are regular buses from the Bethlehem Park-and-Ride into Port Authority every day.

Bastards are driving up the housing prices here.

Weder
I used to work with a couple of guys who commuted from West Virginia (Charles Town area, I think) to Tysons Corner.

That's about 50 miles. Charles Town is 15 miles to the west of my house; Tyson's Corner is 35 miles to the east.

That's still a bad, bad commute, though. 7 east to 50 east of here is a parking lot from 6-9 and 5-8. Commuting on off hours isn't horrible -- maybe an hour each way. That's basically my commute.

Trotsky
7 east to 50 east of here is a parking lot from 6-9 and 5-8. Commuting on off hours isn't horrible

Wow. Even in Boston, 6 am is off-hours.

The traffic here doesn't really get ridiculous until 7:30, but then of course it's a parking lot until after 10.

off topic much?

dag14
off topic much?

new here?

dag14
off topic much?

Off season, off topic.

but it isn't even interesting

dag14
but it isn't even interesting

Too bad nobody who wrote this complaint has the power to do something about it by, I don't know...writing something that is interesting to him/her/others.

Jeff Hopkins '82
We have plenty of people here in the Lehigh Valley who commute into NYC every day. In fact, there are regular buses from the Bethlehem Park-and-Ride into Port Authority every day.

Bastards are driving up the housing prices here.

You should see what housing prices are like here.

billhoward

dag14
off topic much?

Off season, off topic.

He has a respectable point. Those of us that don't check in every day click on this thread to read about Cornell Men's Lacrosse 2015, not can-you-top-this gripes of traffic/housing expense. A couple posts? Sure- some are in fact fun. Repeated - not so much.

Yeah, I suppose I could just go over to Laxpower, but the "7 new" signal always snags me. Maybe after the third response or so it should go over to John Spencer's place.

Article in Syracuse Post-Standard on Fayetteville-Manlius recruit Jake Pulver.

Lacrosse schedule announced. Pretty nice, most of the home games are later in the year, when you hope the weather is better.

I don't mind getting the Syracuse game out of the way, but you have to think that that's about the best way to put the Red in an uncompetitive position going into the game with Ivy practices starting so late compared to other teams.

Going back to 2009, they've opened against either Hobart or Binghamton to start the season, and generally don't play their first ranked team until they have a game or 3 under their belt. Might as well throw them into the deep end I suppose...

Opening at Syracuse? Yikes. I liked the tradition of a Tuesday night in April.

Much prefer the home games at the end though. Was it last year their last home game was in March?

Good solid schedule. I like it.

Chris '03
Much prefer the home games at the end though. Was it last year their last home game was in March?

Two seasons ago, 2013. They served as the "home" team at the Meadowlands vs. Princeton. Last regular season game in Ithaca was 3/30.

[www.lax.com]

Very detailed run-through of the schedule: [www.laxpower.com]

Interesting that 1) This is the first regular-season Albany-Cornell game ever, and 2) we have to go to Dallas, TX (SMU) to do it. The only other meeting was the memorable 2007 NCAA QF game in NJ.

Apparently we've played in Texas before, 2008 vs. Denver.

Of note, Cornell has a Dallas native on the roster, but it seems there was an incident while home for the summer: [www.ithacajournal.com]

That's a good schedule! I hoped to see Albany on there, and there they are. There's no reason it can't be a good upstate rivalry between two strong teams. Which will be showcased in...Dallas, TX.

Chris '03
Opening at Syracuse? Yikes. I liked the tradition of a Tuesday night in April.

If we get to play them next February at Schoellkopf, it'll be worth it.

For a day, Hopkins jumped five places in the pre-season poll.

Johns Hopkins Mistakenly Says 'Yes' to Hundreds of Rejected Applicants

"Old" news, but not posted yet, Cornell 10th in USILA poll.

I gotta say that it's weird to see the top two spots occupied by teams far from the traditional Upstate NY & MD/VA/NC lax breadbaskets. Stupid Team Tierney.

Yeah, going through the top 5: Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. Good work, Lacrosse.

RichH
Yeah, going through the top 5: Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.

*snortlaugh*

Word.

Hillel Hoffmann

RichH
Yeah, going through the top 5: Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.

*snortlaugh*

Word.

A Hillel sighting! - your lacrosse analysis has been missed.

Hey! Hillel! Where ya been??? It's good to (sort of) hear from you, it's been a year since last time! Just looked back at your (and other's) posts after the 2009 National Championship loss- great stuff about guys who played on recent teams. Got any more recruit insights? Don't be a stranger now.

Thanks, lads. I'm retired as a blowhard amateur fansplainer. These days folks can get all the college lacrosse news and punditry they want from the web and social media.

But I do like that Pulver kid.

First day of practice today, and 2 weeks until the opener vs. Syracuse. Starting to get pumped for what should be a very, very good season for the team.

I swung by the field about 11 am -- turf was clear and the women's team was warming up. Not that bad out -- 25 degrees and not [yet] snowing.

semsox
First day of practice today, and 2 weeks until the opener vs. Syracuse. Starting to get pumped for what should be a very, very good season for the team.

Not disagreeing, just curious.
What do you base that on?

Johnny 5

semsox
First day of practice today, and 2 weeks until the opener vs. Syracuse. Starting to get pumped for what should be a very, very good season for the team.

Not disagreeing, just curious.
What do you base that on?

This may be helpful: [www.insidelacrosse.com]

Nice!
Thanks!!

sounded like the scrimmage went ok.

upprdeck
sounded like the scrimmage went ok.

Dunno. Starters apparently trailed 11-4 after three periods when the backups hit the field. Three starters didn't play: Hogan, Stevens, Huttner. That didn't help. Maryland had a big head-start with practicing. Weather in Ithaca this week will not be helpful.

Cornell 9th up to T7 in USILA poll 3/16 after doubling Yale 14-7
Syracuse
UNC
ND
Duke
Denver
Maryland
Cornell/Virginia T7
Yale
Princeton
Also 12 Brown, 13 Albany, 15 Harvard


Cascade/Maverik via Inside Lacrosse. Cornell 9 to 7.
Syracuse
UNC
Notre Dame
Duke
Maryland
Denver
Cornell
Virginia
Marquette
Yale
Also 11 Albany, 12 Brown (5-0, beat Harvard by 1), 13 Princeton, 16 Harvard. Don't look now but brand new to varsity lax BU got votes in both polls.

billhoward
Don't look now but brand new to varsity lax BU got votes in both polls.

They're 5-2, with wins over four teams with losing records plus Toothpaste (18-11). Losses were to Lehigh & Providence. Their Laxpower computer score is 93 (whereas ours is 98.9). Among the Ivies the closest teams in terms of the computer score are Penn (90.3) & Sucks (93.9).

But the computer score tries to guess what the selection committee will look for. BU's RPI is 44th (0.4720). (Ours is 2nd; 0.7004) The lowest of the top four Ivies is Princeton, ranked 16th (RPI = 0.5736), but the Penn is 40th & Dartmouth is 53rd (with early season losses at tOSU & ND while Hanover was still buried in snow).

In short, BU is doing quite well for its first year in DI, but don't bet on it beating Duke on 5/3.

Swampy
In short, BU is doing quite well for its first year in DI, but don't bet on it beating Duke on 5/3.

Until this year, BU had more hockey rinks (2) than turfed playing fields (1). Now they also have an Astroturf field atop a parking garage. Astroturf is great for field hockey because the ball plays truer, and chews up everyone else's knees when you land hard. I don't believe there's a BU turfed indoor field in a city that just nine feet of snowfall. Agree that beating Duke is not likely,

is cornell going to play a game this year without a weather issue.. could get nasty tonight.. rain turning to heavy snow possible late today.

upprdeck
is cornell going to play a game this year without a weather issue.. could get nasty tonight.. rain turning to heavy snow possible late today.

I'm surprised they did not try to move up the game time. Maybe they couldn't because of the TV committment.

snowing hard in some spots already. wind chill will be around 10-15 by game time

upprdeck
snowing hard in some spots already. wind chill will be around 10-15 by game time

Weather channel has nothing in Ithaca until after midnight??

According to weather.com, it is snowing right now. However, looking out my office window on the Ag Quad I see some blue sky and sun among the clouds. So who knows what the weather will be at game time. It is a little windy, however, with temps around 30.

dag14
According to weather.com, it is snowing right now. However, looking out my office window on the Ag Quad I see some blue sky and sun among the clouds. So who knows what the weather will be at game time. It is a little windy, however, with temps around 30.

Def'nitly won't be like the Scarrier Dome!!

dag14
According to weather.com, it is snowing right now. However, looking out my office window on the Ag Quad I see some blue sky and sun among the clouds. So who knows what the weather will be at game time. It is a little windy, however, with temps around 30.

Good thing it's blacked out on ILDN

Chris '03

dag14
According to weather.com, it is snowing right now. However, looking out my office window on the Ag Quad I see some blue sky and sun among the clouds. So who knows what the weather will be at game time. It is a little windy, however, with temps around 30.

Good thing it's blacked out on ILDN

Looked great on Fox Sports 1, TWC in BF Egypt.
Also, nice on iPad.
Too bad it was such a nail biter at the end!
But, a win is a..........

Highlights: [www.youtube.com]

A mediocre packing, tbh. Just goals, no saves. No interesting defensive plays - strips or scrambles - and really no sense of the tension as the lead slipped away. But it is what it is: a hastily edited collection of goals.

Cornell outshoots Colgate 41-23, goes 16x23 on faceoffs, goes up 8-4 in the third, but Colgate goalie Brandon Burke was 16x26 on saves (62%) while Christian Knight was 4x13 (31%). Matt Donovan was 4-4-8 in a 10-goal game. We got lucky to get away with on OT win; Colgate's only lead was 9-8. Games like this, you realize the importance of a dominant faceoff man.

Let's hope Saturday's Penn game is better. After doubling Yale 14-7, Cornell felt like it had a legitimate shot at the final four. Now, let's hope Colgate was an aberration.

	1	2	3	4	OT	Total
COLGATE	1	3	2	3	0	9
Cornell	4	2	2	1	1	10

Box score: [cornellbigred.com]

Cornell 10 Penn 9 (Triple OT)

Red led 8-3 five mins into second period; 9-4 at the half. Went scoreless until midway through the third 5-minute OT. Lintner! Whew.

2 games in a row with a 2nd half collapse on offense.

upprdeck
2 games in a row with a 2nd half collapse on offense.

The team works hard on their Overtime defense and all you can do is criticize.

ugarte

upprdeck
2 games in a row with a 2nd half collapse on offense.

The team works hard on their Overtime defense and all you can do is criticize.

Not to mention that the reliever Penn goalie was hotter than a CME.
Fortunately ours was back on his game, too.
But, it's almost (but, not quite, thank God) starting to feel like hockey.

Now, let's see a big game by Duke today!

Johnny 5

ugarte

upprdeck
2 games in a row with a 2nd half collapse on offense.

The team works hard on their Overtime defense and all you can do is criticize.

Not to mention that the reliever Penn goalie was hotter than a CME.
Fortunately ours was back on his game, too.
But, it's almost (but, not quite, thank God) starting to feel like hockey.

Now, let's see a big game by Duke today!

SU pounding Duke 9-1 early in the 2nd. No love for the Orange, but them winning helps our RPI

I'd rather have our 14-6 loss to Syracuse, in our first game with limited practice, than Duke's 19-7 loss.

Makes our initial loss feel a little better in that context.

margolism
I'd rather have our 14-6 loss to Syracuse, in our first game with limited practice, than Duke's 19-7 loss.

Makes our initial loss feel a little better in that context.

It's like rooting for the lesser of two weevils.
But, Ben DeLuca looks healthy!!

Cornell remains 7th in media poll. Cornell has now played three of the top ten: 1 Syracuse L, 8 Virginia L, 9 Albany W (freezing game in Dallas), ends season at #16 Brown 4/18, hosting #10 Princeton 4/25. Cornell and Princeton both 2-0 Ivy, both have Yale in the rear-view mirror, Cornell yet to play 1-0 Brown and Dartmouth. Harvard-Yale-Penn all 0-2 though Yale is 5-0 outside the Ivies.

Big game Saturday #1 Syracuse at #2 Notre Dame.

Rank    School  W-L     Vote Firsts     Last    Last Game / Next Game 
1	Syracuse (7-0)	500 (25)	1	W vs #6 Duke 19-7	@ #2 Notre Dame
2	Notre Dame (5-1)471 (0)	        3	W vs #15 Ohio State 9-0	vs #1 Syracuse
3	Maryland (6-1)	448 (0)	        5	W @ #4 North Carolina 10-8	@ Robert Morris, vs Michigan
4	North Carolina (9-1)	428 (0)	2	W vs Harvard 15-10, L vs #3 Maryland 8-10	vs #6 Duke
5	Denver (6-2)	385 (0)	        6	W @ Lehigh 10-4, W vs Penn State 10-8	vs #14 Georgetown
6	Duke (7-2)	371 (0)	        4	L @ #1 Syracuse 7-19	@ #4 North Carolina
7	Cornell (6-2)	349 (0)	        7	W vs Colgate 10-9, W vs Penn 10-9	vs Dartmouth
8	Virginia (6-2)	338 (0)	        8	W @ #20 Johns Hopkins 16-15	@ VMI, vs Richmond
9	Albany (5-1)	292 (0)	        11	W @ Canisius 26-6, W vs Hartford 24-6	@ Harvard, vs UMass Lowell
10	Princeton (6-1)	276 (0)	        13	W @ Rutgers 12-11, W vs #11 Yale 11-10	vs #13 Brown
11	Yale (5-2)	230 (0)	        9	L @ #10 Princeton 10-11	@ Penn
12	Marquette (7-1)	211 (0)	        9	L @ #14 Georgetown 9-10	@ Villanova
13	Brown (6-1)	198 (0)	        12	L vs Bucknell 9-10, W vs Manhattan 22-9	vs Marist, @ #10 Princeton
14	Georgetown (6-3)	182 (0)	-	W @ #16 Loyola 13-12, W vs #12 Marquette 10-9	@ #5 Denver
15	Ohio State (7-3)	116 (0)	15	W @ #18 Towson 7-6, L @ #2 Notre Dame 0-9	@ Penn State
16	Loyola (5-4)	115 (0)	        14	L vs #14 Georgetown 12-13, W @ Lafayette 19-10	vs Colgate
17	Army (6-3)	113 (0)	        19	W @ Lehigh 7-5	@ Bucknell
18	Towson (6-3)	58 (0)	        18	L vs #15 Ohio State 6-7, W @ Binghamton 9-8	vs UMass
19	Boston University (6-2)	45 (0)	-	W vs Bucknell 11-9	@ Navy
20	Johns Hopkins (3-5)	37 (0)	20	L vs #8 Virginia 15-16	vs Rutgers

Source: [www.insidelacrosse.com] USILA coaches' poll yet to release.

[edit add] USILA poll [www.usila.org] has Cornell and Virginia again tied for 7th. Pretty much the same the rest of the way above and below. Below Cornell/Virginia on USILA 9-12 are Princeton, Albany, Yale, Brown.

How the hell does Duke not fall further with that rout at Syracuse?

Jeff Hopkins '82
How the hell does Duke not fall further with that rout at Syracuse?

I'm sure UVa is wondering how we stayed ahead of them with our two "really-tried-hard-to-lose-but-failed" games this week.

Jeff Hopkins '82
How the hell does Duke not fall further with that rout at Syracuse?

No. 15 (last week) TOSU loses 9-0 Notre Dame, suggesting Big Red hockey-like offensive-punch issues, and is ranked at ... No. 15.

ND - SU this week should be interesting to watch.. SU dominate Duke for half the game. the 2nd half Duke was the better team but the goalie made every save it seemed.

billhoward

Jeff Hopkins '82
How the hell does Duke not fall further with that rout at Syracuse?

No. 15 (last week) TOSU loses 9-0 Notre Dame, suggesting Big Red hockey-like offensive-punch issues, and is ranked at ... No. 15.

At least they have a winning record, unlike a certain school still garnering votes.

RichH

billhoward

Jeffs Hopkins '82
How the hell does Duke not fall further with that rout at Syracuse?

No. 15 (last week) TOSU loses 9-0 Notre Dame, suggesting Big Red hockey-like offensive-punch issues, and is ranked at ... No. 15.

At least they have a winning record, unlike a certain school still garnering votes.

Fixed

USILA poll 4/7 after 10-9 loss at Harvard, Cornell falls from 8 to 10. [www.insidelacrosse.com] Top 7 are unchanged: Notre Dame, Syracuse, Maryland, NC, Denver, Virginia, Duke. We have beaten 8 Albany and 9 Yale. Brown dropped from 10 to 12 (lost to Penn), Princeton from 12 to 14 (lost to Stony Brook).

Media poll Cornell falls 6 to 10. [www.insidelacrosse.com]

I agree. Doubling up a 2-8 team isn't worth much discussion.

[www.cornellbigred.com]

Buczek is 1 point shy of Seibald for career points by a Middie.

RichH
I agree. Doubling up a 2-8 team isn't worth much discussion.

It's the off season (hockey) and therefore time to get into pointless arguments/discussions:
"Doubling Up" is a rare and impressive feat for basketball. Earns the term.
It's pretty much meaningless for ice hockey, baseball and football.
Somewhere in the middle for lax but somehow seems to imply an overwhelming drubbing which isn't always the case.

Discuss (or not).

but its hard to read anything into a game you end up playing the 3rd goalie and other backups who hardly see the field

Cornell now guaranteed a spot in the Ivy League tournament. Complete list of possibilities:


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B>C,H>Pr,D>Pe,C>Pr,D>B,H>Y: C,B,H,Pr

B>C,H>Pr,D>Pe,Pr>C,B>D,Y>H: B,Pr,Y,C
B>C,H>Pr,D>Pe,Pr>C,B>D,H>Y: B,Pr,H,C
B>C,H>Pr,D>Pe,Pr>C,D>B,Y>H: Pr,Y,B,C
B>C,H>Pr,D>Pe,Pr>C,D>B,H>Y: Pr,B,H,C

Awesome list. You didn't figure this out on a sheet of paper. It's depressing also in that Cornell almost has to win out (Brown, Princeton) to host the tournament. Almost impossible to count on Dartmouth beating Brown. Not impossible to see Harvard beating Princeton; the Tigers have been up and down.

See the past week's Inside Lacrosse columnist rating:

Quint Kessenich
10. Cornell — The Big Red lost at Harvard, their third setback of the year. The offense has gone cold. Too much reliance on Matt Donovan and Connor Buczek. Nobody else has stepped up after the top six. So Cornell gets held to eight and nine goals in their last two games. CU is shooting 27%; opponents are 30%. Look closer at CU’s shooting percentage the last four games: 24% vs. Colgate, 20% vs. Penn, 22% vs. Dartmouth and 23% vs. Harvard. The Big Red have won 66% of their face-offs. Six times this season, Cornell goalies have been less than 50%. Canisius and Hofstra are on tap this week for a team with a high RPI but fading momentum. [www.insidelacrosse.com]

... who also said Princeton is "in jeopardy of fading into oblivion" and "The [Brown] Bears were highly overrated based on lopsided victories against poor competition."

Easiest to just win out! That also gives Cornell sole possession of the official Ivy League Championship.

Brown will be desperate next week though. If they lose to Cornell, and Penn beats Dartmouth, Brown will be out of the ILT.

CU77
Easiest to just win out! That also gives Cornell sole possession of the official Ivy League Championship.

Brown will be desperate next week though. If they lose to Cornell, and Penn beats Dartmouth, Brown will be out of the ILT.

I think about Cornell's tendency to underperform in key games. As does every fan of every team. OTOH, early in the season when it looked as if Yale might be the class of the league, we hammered them 14-7.

billhoward

CU77
Easiest to just win out! That also gives Cornell sole possession of the official Ivy League Championship.

Brown will be desperate next week though. If they lose to Cornell, and Penn beats Dartmouth, Brown will be out of the ILT.

I think about Cornell's tendency to underperform in key games. As does every fan of every team. OTOH, early in the season when it looked as if Yale might be the class of the league, we hammered them 14-7.

If only our goalie could find his mojo.

Yeah, that would be good.

Weather forecast for Saturday in Providence not looking great ...

Cornell moves up one spot to 9th in the April 13 media poll.
1 Notre Dame
2 UNC (beat Syracuse 17-15) (plays Notre Dame 4 pm Sat ESPNU).
3 Maryland
4 Syracuse
5 Denver
6 Duke
7 Yale
8 Albany
9 Cornell
10 Virginia
Brown stands 14 down two spots after 16-10 loss to Yale. Princeton falls to 20 from 19 after lossing to Lehigh 16-15, beating Dartmouth 16-5. Of our competition, Colgate and Hobart also got votes.

[edit add]: USILA poll keeps Cornell 10th behind not ahead of Virginia. Figures, if this is the poll that always ranked Cornell in the Harkness / early Moran era below every half-assed Confederacy team and then, first time it's a playoff, Cornell wins.

Inside Lacrosse cites the wrong Pennsylviania school. [Edit add:] Seems wrong. It's right. Penn not Penn State is facing off against a lesser light of the ACC.

billhoward
Inside Lacrosse cites the wrong Pennsylviania school.

Looks right to me. The ACC fifth place team plays Penn in something called the "ACC-Penn Classic" at PPL park, the same weekend as the ACC tournament.

Greenberg '97

billhoward
Inside Lacrosse cites the wrong Pennsylviania school.

Looks right to me. The ACC fifth place team plays Penn in something called the "ACC-Penn Classic" at PPL park, the same weekend as the ACC tournament.

Indeed that is the case. Still seems bizarre. Is Penn doing the No. 5 ACC team a favor and being fed to the sharks, or vice versa.

billhoward

Greenberg '97

billhoward
Inside Lacrosse cites the wrong Pennsylviania school.

Looks right to me. The ACC fifth place team plays Penn in something called the "ACC-Penn Classic" at PPL park, the same weekend as the ACC tournament.

Indeed that is the case. Still seems bizarre. Is Penn doing the No. 5 ACC team a favor and being fed to the sharks, or vice versa.

I think this is clever. Penn is guaranteed an acc opponent and ACC5 is guaranteed a game despite missing their tournament. Theoretical boost to either team's tourney hopes. I'd rather sign for ACC5 blind most years than fill out the schedule with a canisius or similar.

Inside Lacrosse Top 25 Freshmen has no one from Cornell listed. There are later lists coming for 2015.

Ivy, NYS and nearby PA (Bucknell) in top 25
24 Aran Roberts D Princeton
23 Joe Lang Harvrd A/b]
21 Jake Miller Brown D
16 Anthony Abbadessa Colgate A
15 Will Sands Bucknell A
7 Ben Reeves A Yale
3 Connor Fields A Albany
(1 and 2 so far are Trevor Baptiste Denver FO and Justin Guerding Duke A 52 points)

Last year Christian Knight was 22, Dylan Molloy of Brown 17. So far (since starting in 2010), no #1 freshman has won the Tewaaraton.
Top rookie
2014: Zach Miller, Denver
2013: Case Matheis, Duke
2012: Matt Poillon, Lehigh
2011: Nicky Galasso, North Carolina
2010: Mike Chanenchuk, Princeton

Media poll 4/20/15 drops Cornell 9 to 12. Brown up 14 to 10.

Top four-loss teams are 6 Duke, 9 Virginia, 11 Ohio State, 12 Cornell, 13 Georgetown (5 losses), 14 Princeton (was 20 last week, so look what a one-goal win over Harvard does), then 15-20 all 4 or 5 losses. Colgate 8-4 moved into the rankings at 18. NYS has teams at 3 Syracuse, 7 Albany, 12 Cornell, 18 Colgate, 19 Stony Brook.

USILA poll not in yet. USILA poll 4/20 vis Inside Lacrosse shows Cornell holding steady at 10 after the Brown debacle and (is this right?) and Brown falling from 12 to 13. It may be the old poll ran again but with the results fromlast week and upcoming games for week of 4/20 show. Note in the Upcoming Games notes it shows Cornell playing #14 Princeton and Princeton at #12 Cornell. That seems more like it.

RANK    SCHOOL NAME AND AGAIN W-L       VOTES 1ST    LAST WEEK AND UPCOMING
1	Notre Dame 	Notre Dame(9-1)	419 (20)	1	W vs #2 North Carolina 15-14	
2	North Carolina	NCarolina(12-2)	390 (1)	4	L @ #1 Notre Dame 14-15	
3	Maryland 	Maryland (12-1)	379 (0)	3	W @ #11 Ohio State 10-9	vs Johns Hopkins
4	Syracuse 	Syracuse (9-2)	359 (0)	2	W vs Hobart 18-5	
5	Denver 	        Denver (10-2)	342 (0)	5	W vs Providence 13-9	@ #17 Marquette
6	Duke     	Duke (10-4)	313 (0)	7	W @ #19 Stony Brook 17-11, W @ #17 Marquette 15-8	
7	Yale    	Yale (9-3)	268 (0)	9	L @ #7 Albany 11-12	@ Harvard
8	Albany  	Albany (11-2)	260 (0)	8	W @ Bryant 10-8, W vs #8 Yale 12-11	@ Siena, vs UMBC
9	Virginia 	Virginia (9-4)	259 (0)	6	W vs #13 Georgetown 12-9	@ Penn
10	Cornell 	Cornell (9-4)	245 (0)	10	L @ #10 Brown 6-15	vs #14 Princeton
11	Ohio State      Ohio St(10-4)	221 (0)	11	L vs #3 Maryland 9-10	@ Rutgers
12	Towson    	Towson (9-4)	148 (0)	16	L vs Hofstra 2-9	@ Drexel
13	Brown    	Brown (10-3)	132 (0)	12	W @ Providence 15-11, W vs #12 Cornell 15-6	@ Bryant, @ Dartmouth
14	Georgetown 	Georgetown(8-5)	131 (0)	17	L @ #9 Virginia 9-12	vs St. John's
15	Marquette   	Marquette(10-4)	129 (0)	15	L vs #6 Duke 8-15	vs #5 Denver
16	Loyola   	Loyola (7-7)	90 (0)	19	L @ #20 Bucknell 9-10	vs Army
17	Army    	Army (8-5)	80 (0)	13	L vs #18 Colgate 5-8	@ Loyola
18	Navy    	Navy (8-4)	71 (0)	-		
19	Princeton       Princeton (8-4)	69 (0)	14	W vs Harvard 12-11	@ #12 Cornell
20	Stony Brook     Stony Br (11-4)	52 (0)	18	L vs #6 Duke 11-17, W vs Binghamton 14-13	@ Hartford
Receiving Votes:	Colgate, Johns Hopkins, Fairfield, Richmond, Bucknell, Lehigh, Penn, Marist

15-10 over princeton. Share of the ivy title, #2 seed in the ivy tournament.

Ivy Tournament: Brown v Yale, Cornell v Princeton in Providence

But, like the announcer said....14 seniors.

Laxpower gives them a 100% chance of getting an at-large bid. I have no idea how accurate this is, just throwing it out there since we need something to talk about and polls are meaningless.

Greenberg '97
Laxpower gives them a 100% chance of getting an at-large bid. I have no idea how accurate this is, just throwing it out there since we need something to talk about and polls are meaningless.

SOS is certainly helping us out this year.

Subtly, that link contains the "odds" for the Ivy Tournament via the AQ Prob. column:

1 Cornell: 32.53%
2 Brown: 30.03%
3 Princeton: 19.54%
4 Yale: 17.90%

Don't know if that's a KRACH style calculation.

say the worst happens.. we lose yale wins out and princeton loses in the finals

are we solid ahead of brown and or princeton?
it has to help albany and colgate have finished well.

Despite what some of the more cautious Big Red fans are saying, I think we're basically a lock at this point. I don't think that would be the case every year, but the fact of the matter is the Ivy was pretty clearly the 2nd best conference this year, with really poor out-of-conference showings by some of the other mid-tier conferences (Patriot, Big Ten, CAA, etc.). We have 0 bad losses, and more quality wins than anyone else on the bubble, even if they're not against the top 5.

Yeah, but getting and not getting screwed by the seed are two different things.

Just win, baby, just win!

Well that is a different story. I think the absolute best case scenario is that we win the ILT and host Colgate in the 1st round as the 7 seed. A medium case scenario is losing in the first round of the ILT and going on a road trip to, say, College Park (AGAIN). Worst case scenario is probably winning the semifinal matchup and/or the championship and being 'rewarded' with a home game with Albany.

Greenberg '97
Laxpower gives them a 100% chance of getting an at-large bid. I have no idea how accurate this is, just throwing it out there since we need something to talk about and polls are meaningless.

And after yesterday's results, they now have an 80.92% chance of receiving an at-large bid. So I guess that 100% from earlier in the week wasn't really 100%.

Today's game vs Princeton has a live video stream at espn.go.com.

Greenberg '97
And after yesterday's results, they now have an 80.92% chance of receiving an at-large bid. So I guess that 100% from earlier in the week wasn't really 100%.

Wonder what it is after today's debacle. Three goals in three periods against a porous defense? With five returning players in the offensive end, two of whom are All-Americans, you'd think they'd have a consistent offense. Long scoring droughts are the norm this year. Offense is stagnant with little movement and seemingly little purpose much of the time. I'm not convinced about Kerwick. He's wasted a lot of senior talent this year.