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Wardy · Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 9:26 pm Post subject: 2010 NCAA Lax Tournament

Or how I stopped worrying and fell in love with the Baltimore Maffia giving Hopkins a Mulligan. Yup 7-7 "Best win we got was Delaware week 2" Johns Hopkins made the tournament for the 39th straight season.

UMass did play spoiler in a HUGE way though knocking Georgetown out of the tournament in East Hartford.

Princeton Bracket
1- Virginia vs. Mount Saint Mary's
8- Stony Brook vs. Denver
5- Duke vs. Johns Hopkins Rolling Eyes

(EVIL vs. EVIL)
4- North Carolina vs. Delaware

Stony Brook Bracket
3- Maryland vs. Hofstra
6- Princeton vs. Notre Dame
7- Cornell vs. Loyola
2- Syracuse vs. Army

Old Cage · Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 9:50 pm Post subject:

Hofstra doesn't win the CAA regular season, they don't even make our tournament, and they get in.

Say what? Towson must be thrilled for them.
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Kosty · Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 10:24 pm Post subject:

Wow. Hopkins made it. That's just......wow. Well that just shatters all faith I had in any sort of respectable lacrosse media/coaches. Unbelievable.

PTrainXL · Senior Joined: 14 Feb 2009 Posts: 901 Location: The Q

Makes no sense.

Hofstra should be out (didn't make confrence tourny)
John Hopkins got in cause of their name

Replacing them should be:

Georgetown and Brown/Yale

Would love to put us in there but we didn't deserve it.

PTrainXL · Senior Joined: 14 Feb 2009 Posts: 901 Location: The Q

O ya and Notre Dame should be well well well well far out of the tourney (lost to fairfield, rutgers) among many othe rloses.

Dickie Dunn · Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 2:26 am Post subject:

The problem is, several on LaxPower pretty much had the field pegged earlier in the day, with the possible exception of Notre Dame getting in instead of Georgetown.

So they've been able to figure out the various combinations of RPI, SOS and quality wins that it takes to get teams into the tournament, and thus eliminated the talk of "back-room dealings."

Now, if you want to quibble about the formula itself that the committee uses -- one that allowed JHU or Hofstra to make it -- go nuts. Not a whole lot different from the hockey committee using the PairWise, so that everyone pretty much knows what will happen, yet many still believe it can be done better.
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econalum · Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 9:36 pm Post subject:

Hopkins is due to SOS. Personally, I think teams should win at least 60% of their games, or their tourney, to make it in.
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Cahoonaville · Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 5:16 pm Post subject:

I'll I can say is hell yes to this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.laxpower.com/laxnews/news.php?story=20316

npt3 · Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 9:39 pm Post subject:

Jack · Hall of Fame Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Posts: 3030

You just have to love this. What a kick in the yarbels for desko. Very Happy

Kosty · Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 10:51 am Post subject:

I had the Hopkins game on Saturday. I was laying on the couch. I drifted off when it was 8-4. When I woke up, it was 18-5. I laughed my ass off.

npt3 · Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 11:14 am Post subject:

Kev1999 · Junior Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 397 Location: New Jersey

Hopkins had no business in the tournament and Duke made that very clear on Saturday. A humiliating loss for the Jays and I was loving every minute of it.

As for Syracuse, like npt3 said, seeing Desko's face after Army cashed in the game winner was priceless. Army had so many opportunities in the overtime periods and couldn't cash in. I was thinking it was only a matter of time before Syracuse took advantage and won because as the announcers reminded us over and over, "Syracuse doesn't lose in the dome" - when Army finally finished it, awesome....

Now with Cuse and Hop out, I can truly enjoy the rest of the tournament.

All in all, a pretty good first round. Also, the Loyola/Cornell game was very good. Cornell was up 9-2 in the third quarter and Loyola stormed back to force OT. Cornell pulled it out in 3OT. A very entertaining game.

Committee just needs to do a better job to make sure deserving teams get in - but we probably shouldn't hold our breaths for that anytime soon.

npt3 · Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 12:49 pm Post subject:

Dickie Dunn · Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 12:51 pm Post subject:

Now that 'Cuse, Hopkins and Princeton are gone, half the remaining field is chasing a first title.

With the exception of Virginia, the last team left to win it all was North Carolina in 1991.
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