Lax Factor Lacrosse Podcast

It's now fully official, Syracuse and Johns Hopkins lacrosse squards are back and playing in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Lacrosse Tournament.

Syracuse, Notere Dame, Georgetown and Johns Hopkins all got a bit of a scare put in them, but all prevailed by the end. Duke, Virginia, Denver and Maryland all handled their business pretty easily and advanced.

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In this weeks show, I'm going to talk about why I have Notre Dame, Syracuse & Johns Hopkins sitting atop my poll vote, in that order. Many are going to light me up for it, but after Notre Dame took down Virginia, and North Carolina beat Duke, I can't ignore the fact that Syracuse holds victories in the head-to-head matchups between Hopkins and Duke, the only other teams with RPI's higher than theirs.

Every weekend has brought some chaos to the college lacrosse world, and this weekend was no different. After Boston University took down #1 Army Friday night, Michigan and High Point decided to get in on the upset action with each team scoring late on the way to Michigan upsetting Maryland, and High Point stunning UNC. Princeton, Cornell and Penn all handled their business in Ivy league play.

#6 Syracuse hosted the #4 Duke Blue Devils in the Dome on Wednesday night and came away victors, with a 10-4 statement win. The Orange defense played their best game of the season, and in reality the best defensive game any team has played all year long. They held the Duke attack to just 2 goals and an assist. Will Mark was a monster with 14 saves for the Cuse and Owen Hiltz put up 3 goals in the win.

Syracuse and Johns Hopkins are back near the top of the college lacrosse world, and everything is great when these two teams play in a top-10 matchup. #9 Syracuse defeated #2 Johns Hopkins 14-13 in an instant classic. Maryland needed overtime to take down a very pesky Brown squad. Notre Dame edged Ohio State, Virginia & Duke both pulled away in the second half to pick up wins. It was Penn State beating up on Cornell that was the surprise of the weekend.

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In this college lacrosse film review, we're going to take a look at the Johns Hopkins vs Virginia contest that took place on 3/2/24 in Charlottesville, VA. Johns Hopkins was able to ride a hot Matt Collison to a 2-goal victory.

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We didn't have as many top notch college lacrosse matchups this weekend, but we still had some solid games. Johns Hopkins took down North Carolina pretty easily and it could have been better for the Jays if they didn't assult numerous UNC players down the stretch. Maryland hosted Princeton and showed that the Tigers losses in the offseason were too much for them to overcome. Rutgers put the beat down on Loyola as did Utah over Vermont. Penn needed overtime to take down Delaware in a very exciting matchup, and Denver scored a late goal and outlasted Cornell by the end out west. We'll cover these games in depth, with highlights as well as many others in this weekends college lacrosse recaps.

Maryland took down Syracuse in overtime in the college lacrosse game of the weekend, I'll talk about my heart breaking and will have highlights. We'll also talk about just about every other game that was played this weekend including Duke's win over Saint Joseph's, Virginia's win over Richmond, Johns Hopkins win over Loyola, Georgetown's win over Penn and many more.

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The biggest game in this glorious weekend of college lacrosse is #4 Maryland taking on #5 Syracuse in the Dome on Saturday as the days nightcap. It will be Joey Spallina and the Syracuse offense taking on Ajax Zapitello and the Maryland defense. The battle at the faceoff dot between Kohn and Wierman should be fun to watch.

#3 Virginia will travel to take on #17 Richmond. The Spiders only lost to Maryland by a goal in 2OT's, so they are battle tested and ready to go against a Virginia team that could be scary good offensively this year.

#7 Army will travel a short distance to take on #11 Rutgers. I like Army in this one, but Rutgers has a very good offensive team. #20 Loyola against #9 Hopkins should also be a very good game with a similar rivalry to Army and Rutgers.

We'll talk about those games and many more in this weeks college lacrosse preview show.

In todays live edition of the College Lacrosse Weekend Recap Show, I'll talk about how Virginia humbled Michigan, Hopkins outlasted Georgetown, Maryland took down Loyola, Army needed a late surge to overcome UMass, Boston U. thrashed Vermont, and much more.