MLax: 2015 Schedule Released

[burnspbesq]

Here it is.

http://www.goduke.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=4200&SPID=2027&SPSID=25942

Our reverse-engineering effort came pretty close. We whiffed completely on Air Force, and the Cuse and Carolina games are in reverse order vs. 2014.

Air Force doesn't replace either Penn or Maryland in terms of its contribution to SOS (and indirectly to RPI), but it's a bigger Week One challenge than Jacksonville would have been.

More Sunday games than in recent years. And not a single midweek game.

Only two home games in February. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see the Air Force game moved to Jack Katz (the field hockey stadium), in order to buy an extra three week cushion to complete the Koskinen/Kennedy Tower construction.

Nine weeks from Saturday. C'mon, calendar--move it!

[TKG]

What a stretch in March and April with games against Syracuse, Carolina, Notre Dame and UVA? Those games should tell us a lot about this team. Holy cow!

[AncientPsychicT]

What a stretch in March and April with games against Syracuse, Carolina, Notre Dame and UVA? Those games should tell us a lot about this team. Holy cow!

To be fair, all those teams are in the ACC, so we play them every year.

In other news, the ACC is really good at lacrosse. Like, really, really good.

[TKG]

To be fair, all those teams are in the ACC, so we play them every year.

In other news, the ACC is really good at lacrosse. Like, really, really good.

I understand the conference thing, I was struck by the fact that we play those four in successive games.

[BigWayne]

What a stretch in March and April with games against Syracuse, Carolina, Notre Dame and UVA? Those games should tell us a lot about this team. Holy cow!

It's actually much easier than last year. There was a 4 weekend stretch like that last year, with two non-conference games sandwiched in mid-week.

This year's schedule jams 3 more non-con games into February in order to free up March to focus on the ACC rivals. With Danowski's teams often having a slow start, it will be interesting to see if this makes a difference in either direction.

[burnspbesq]

It's actually much easier than last year. There was a 4 weekend stretch like that last year, with two non-conference games sandwiched in mid-week.

This year's schedule jams 3 more non-con games into February in order to free up March to focus on the ACC rivals. With Danowski's teams often having a slow start, it will be interesting to see if this makes a difference in either direction.

Last year was even worse than you describe. On seven consecutive weekends we played Maryland, Loyola, Carolina, Syracuse, Harvard, ND, and UVa. Fortinately, the regulars didn't have to play much after halftime in the midweek games against Marquette and Furman.

[MCFinARL]

It's actually much easier than last year. There was a 4 weekend stretch like that last year, with two non-conference games sandwiched in mid-week.

This year's schedule jams 3 more non-con games into February in order to free up March to focus on the ACC rivals. With Danowski's teams often having a slow start, it will be interesting to see if this makes a difference in either direction.

Yes, it will--especially since this year the team will have to integrate a lot of new starters, especially on defense. Since Denver, IIRC, returns most of their lineup from last year, that game could be especially tough.