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burnspbesq
05-08-2016, 10:48 AM
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
05-08-2016, 01:14 PM
Brad Smith puts Duke on the board.

burnspbesq
05-08-2016, 01:57 PM
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
05-08-2016, 02:03 PM
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
05-08-2016, 02:05 PM
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
05-08-2016, 02:13 PM
Fortunately Class has his shot back. He's been missing it for a couple of games.

53n206
05-08-2016, 02:41 PM
How did we do in Lax recruiting this year? With so many new teams it must affect our signings.

burnspbesq
05-08-2016, 02:42 PM
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
05-08-2016, 02:44 PM
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
05-08-2016, 03:14 PM
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
05-08-2016, 04:15 PM
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
05-08-2016, 11:11 PM
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.
05-09-2016, 03:08 PM
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
05-09-2016, 04:19 PM
And Princeton.

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