2022 NCAA Lacrosse Tournament Thread

I completely biffed on posting this weekend. What an absolute great weekend of postseason mlax (no matter what our thoughts on the at large selections).

I agree with you, I watched as much as I could given my weekend schedule.

St. Joseph really pushed the Elis, Yale advances, but they weren't convincing.

UVa and Brown were tight for a half, but UVa asserted serious dominance in the second.

And, last night!! Delaware with the :08 goal to advance over Georgetown?

Amazing goalkeeping by Nunes from UVa and Kilkeary from Delaware. Kilkeary kept Georgetown under ten goals, and the Hoyas keeper held Delaware to only ten. Great game with some awesome offensive plays and great defense, as well.

My family happened to be in the DC area this weekend, so we decided to go to the Maryland vs Vermont game. I’m glad we did. Watching lacrosse live is so much more fun than watching on the tube.

Couple of observations:

1) It’s Maryland….then everybody else. They’re relentless. Offensively, everybody can score from anywhere on the field. Defensively, they’re as good as the offense. Probably why the offense can score from anywhere, ‘cause they have to go up against that at practice. And the face off guy…when you’re winning 85% at the x, you’re team is gonna score a lot. Vermont had no answers. They’re legit.

2) As popular as lacrosse is in that area, I was shocked at the attendance for the #1 team in a NCAA Division 1 first round playoff game. I thought there would be more people there than what was in the stands. I don’t know what it’s normally like, and it was in the football stadium, so that probably made it look a little sparse, but I was really expecting it to be much more crowded than what it was. We sat on the 50 yard line about 15 rows up from the field (would be $100,000 seats in Tiger Stadium) and didn’t have anybody around us for the first quarter of the game. It was fantastic! If we lived up there, would definitely go to all the games.

Anyway, it was cool to be in the area and have that experience. It would take a “miracle on ice” kind of performance, I believe, to upend Maryland this year.

They did.
There are real stakes this time, though win or go home. Virginia has themselves together, now. Every announcer I heard was conflicted since it's a huge match-up, but hoped it would be the final.

That's scary.

Maryland beats UVA this weekend = everyone else playing for 2nd.

Will be an old fashioned slobberknocker (I hope)

That's wild.


Rutgers finally punches their ticket to Championship Weekend for the 1st time in program history.

We got a 1 sided battle out of that one.
Still a strong run for the Hoos the last few years.

Maryland ends up the only state school in the Final 4.

Should be a solid Championship weekend in CT.