It’s mid-March. What did the non-conference schedule teach us? Which teams are the most battle tested? Who is healthy and getting better as the weather improves and home crowds increase? Which new stars have emerged? D-Fly & Dixie are back to get you answer these questions and get you set for another exciting weekend of college lacrosse. Let’s get it!

As NCAA basketball sucks up the bandwidth of most sports fans, conference play in college lacrosse ramps up. Every team wants to make the conference tournament and compete for the league’s Automatic Qualifier for the NCAA Tournament. Since performance in the league race is the ticket to the post season for most teams, this is when the real season begins. 

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This week’s guest is two-time Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week, junior goalkeeper Ryan Croddick of the Princeton Tigers. As the Tigers prepare for the Game of the Week against Cornell, the guys talk to Croddick about the success of Princeton in the non-conference season, having to wait your turn to play as a goalie, Tigers that have stepped up in new roles, Goalie Trivia, preparing for Cornell and much, much more.

No. 2 Princeton (4-1) at No. 6 Cornell (4-1), noon, ESPN+

No. 8 Duke (7-1) at No. 14 Richmond (5-2), noon, ESPN+

No. 7 Notre Dame (3-2) at No. 22 Michigan (4-3), 1 p.m., B1G Network

Yale (1-3) at No. 13 Harvard (4-1), 1 p.m., ESPN+

No. 1 Maryland (6-0) at No. 18 Virginia (3-3), 4 p.m., ACC Network

No. 10 Ohio State (7-1) at No. 20 Denver (4-3), 2 p.m., Midco Sports Plus

In this week’s travel-themed Give & Go, the guys discuss the recent changes to Southwest Airlines most famous policies, how it will affect travel and possible alternatives to Southwest.