MLax: Duke @ BU, 1:00 p.m., CBSSN

[burnspbesq]

Blue Devils and Terriers on Selection Sunday. Must-win for Duke. Result of this game is hugely important in determining the shape of the bracket. A big win for Duke likely improves Air Force's RPI enough to get the Zoomies out of the play-in games ... but the NCAA wants to match up Air Force and Denver for cost reasons, which it can't do if Denver is the two seed ... so who's the two seed, Brown or ND? Who gets the seven and eight seeds, from among Duke/Cuse/Albany/Marquette/Loyola? Is Carolina in? If so, why?

[burnspbesq]

Brad Smith puts Duke on the board.

[burnspbesq]

After Duke gave up a goal early in the second, Coach Danowski lit into the team during a time out. Whatever was said had the desired effect: Duke is on a 6-1 run, and leads 7-3 wth 2:19 to go in the half.

[burnspbesq]

HT: BU 3-8 Duke. Class with a hat trick and Smith with two. Rowe 8-for-13. Fowler has been good when needed.

[Doria]

Bannister' three-save sequence for BU was pretty great. He doesn't seem to have much support from the defense, though.

Class is fun to watch for us.

[53n206]

Fortunately Class has his shot back. He's been missing it for a couple of games.

[53n206]

How did we do in Lax recruiting this year? With so many new teams it must affect our signings.

[burnspbesq]

End Q3: BU 4-12 Duke. Yanulis with his first career goal in transition. All the Massachusetts guys are in the game: Connolly, Coady, Kruy.

[burnspbesq]

How did we do in Lax recruiting this year? With so many new teams it must affect our signings.

Duke has another really good class coming in. The headliners are midfielder Terry Lindsey from Georgetown Prep (a USA U-19 selection), and J.T. Giles-Harris, a freakishly athletic LSM from St. Joseph Regional in New Jersey (his brother was a freshman on the Duke football team in 2015).

[burnspbesq]

FT: BU 8-15 Duke. Myles preserves his point-scoring streak with a goal and an assist in Q4. Otherwise, very sloppy. Silly penalties by Harrington and Pettit gave BU two late man-up goals.

Selection show is at 9:00 p.m. Eastern.

[fuse]

Inside Lacrosse posted a bracket on twitter that has Duke playing Harvard the opening round and would get the winner of Denver / Air Force second round.

Not official, would be a brutal draw.

Just looking at the mock bracket is opening my eyes on how different lacrosse is from twenty years ago. Great to see the talent pool increase and the "democratizing" (?) of the sport.

Virginia, Maryland, Hopkins and maybe Syracuse used to be the blue bloods of lacrosse and you could almost always count on one of them to win the championship. Times have definitely changed.

[MCFinARL]

Duke has another really good class coming in. The headliners are midfielder Terry Lindsey from Georgetown Prep (a USA U-19 selection), and J.T. Giles-Harris, a freakishly athletic LSM from St. Joseph Regional in New Jersey (his brother was a freshman on the Duke football team in 2015).

What about Joey Manown, the attack coming from a PG year at Deerfield? Is he still Duke-bound?

Meanwhile, overall a strong game today, though a tough outing for backup goalie Luke Aaron.

[Tom B.]

Virginia, Maryland, Hopkins and maybe Syracuse used to be the blue bloods of lacrosse and you could almost always count on one of them to win the championship.

And Princeton.

[MCFinARL]

And Princeton.

Yes, definitely Princeton. For a long time the game was largely dominated by the three orange teams.