Lax a Spring Sport?

[burnspbesq]

You gotta see the size of the snow banks surrounding the field at Lavelle Stadium in Stony Brook, where the Duke men play on Sunday. Crazy.

Forecast is for 1-3 inches tomorrow (probably starting during the SB vs. USC women's game), then 41 degrees and rain on Sunday.

[duke79]

You gotta see the size of the snow banks surrounding the field at Lavelle Stadium in Stony Brook, where the Duke men play on Sunday. Crazy.

Forecast is for 1-3 inches tomorrow (probably starting during the SB vs. USC women's game), then 41 degrees and rain on Sunday.

Is the field heated? LOL.

Why are they playing lacrosse outdoors in the Northeast in February??

[burnspbesq]

Is the field heated? LOL.

Why are they playing lacrosse outdoors in the Northeast in February??

Field Turf, i think.

Why? Because we're currently locked into playing the NCAA championship game on Memorial Day. The NCAA tournament takes four weeks to play, and conference tournaments take up another week, so the regular season has to end the fourth weekend in April. Seems like coaches want to minimize midweek games, and if youcount back twelve weeks from the fourth weekend in April, you end up at the first weekend in February.

ESPN, CBSSN, and BTN are complicit in this as well. They want marquee matchups when their available time slots aren't filled by basketball.

The silver lining in terms of growing the sport is that you end up with marquee non-conference games in non-traditional areas: Duke-Denver in Atlanta last weekend, Albany-Cornell in Dallas a week from now, and Carolina-Maryland in Santa Ana, CA in mid-March.