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College lacrosse will have a new #1 on Monday as #3 Virginia upended Notre Dame’s hopes of holding the top spot beyond this weekend by defeating the Irish on the road, 15-10. Connor Shellenberger tore up Notre Dame for 2 goals and 5 assists and teammate Xander Dickson chipped in 6 goals and a dish as well. Maryland probably hang somewhere between #2 and #3 thanks to a win over #10 Penn State.

We’ll also dive into #8 Johns Hopkins win over conference rival Michigan, #4 Duke handled Saint Joseph’s on the road thanks to a solid days from Brennan O’Neill and Jake Naso, #16 Georgetown snagged their 4th consecutive win this season against Lehigh, Syracuse took down Hobart in the Dome and we’ll talk about a lot more beyond.

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In the 2023 Tewaaraton Award race, two guys stand out from the rest. Connor Shellenberger (Virginia) and Pat Kavanaugh (Notre Dame) are sitting at the top of my 5-man list at the moment because their production matches their teams success. With Virginia and Notre Dame facing off this upcoming weakened, one of them has a chance to put himself at the top of this list by himself.

The other guys I'm considering are CJ Kirst (Cornell), Brennan O'Neill (Duke) and Matt Brandau (Yale). All 5 guys have a legit shot at winning with Sam Handley being my "first guy out". Handley and Penn take on Yale within the next two weeks. If Penn can get a win over Yale and Handley factors heavily, he probably bumps Brandau to my first man out and eats the #5 spot.

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#4 Maryland needed an insane 3-save sequence out of Brian Ruppel to nab themselves a chance to defeat #1 Virginia in overtime, and thanks to the freshman goaltender, Maryland was able to eek out the sudden death win off a Daniel Kelly goal, dished by Braden Erksa on the ensuing possession.

That was just one of a handful of Saturday games that required overtime to decide a winner. Sam Handley scored the game winner for Penn over Princeton. Sam King assisted on the game tying goal and scored the game winner in overtime for Harvard in their win over Brown. Drexel and Lafayette each won in overtime as well over Towson and Colgate respectively.

Another surprise on the day was Marquette taking down Penn State by a goal after holding off the Nittany Lion’s late rally. Loyola was able to top Patriot League foe Bucknell by a goal, 14-13 on the road.

In D3 action, Christopher Newport beat #1 and undefeated RIT and #2 Gettysburg lost to Denison on a weekend that saw top two teams in D3 both get dropped. In D2 action, Lemoyne was able to edge out Saint Anselm by a goal to remain undefeated and hold on to their #1 ranking going into next week.

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We had another great group of college lacrosse games to watch on Saturday including Johns Hopkins and Syracuse at the dome, Princeton and Rutgers doing battle in Dirty Jersey, Penn State proves they are in fact the Ivy League Killers as evidenced by their 3-0 record against Ivy League teams thus far and we'll talk about a lot more.

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This college lacrosse weekend preview show is going to quickly become a recap show with all of the killer games being played between Sundays and Tuesdays. In this episode I’m going to recap the Duke vs Syracuse tilt at the Dome on Sunday as well as Tuesday’s contest featuring Virginia playing Johns Hopkins at Homewood Field in Baltimore. I’ll also recap a bunch of games that will be popping off this weekend including Loyola vs Duke, Denver vs Yale, Penn State vs Cornell, Brown vs North Carolina, Princeton vs Rutgers, Ohio State vs Notre Dame, Johns Hopkins vs Syracuse and many more.

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What a weekend of college lacrosse we got to enjoy on Saturday. Notre Dame needed 3OT's to figure out if they were going to beat the Terps or drop one on the road. Lynchburg outplayed Salisbury for the majority of the game, but some bad bounces and rebounds resulted in OT in this DIII tilt as well. Denver didn't need overtime vs North Carolina, but the game had that type of feel to it by the end. We'll talk about those games as well as Tampa vs Frostburg in DII action, Ohio State and Cornell did battle in Columbus, Georgetown needed to finally wake up their offense against Princeton on the road, Hopkins' Tyler Dunn saved the Jay's butts winning a bunch of faceoffs against Zach Cole of Saint Joseph's. You get the idea, we're going to talk about a ton of college lacrosse in this episode.

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So we had a couple of interesting games on Sunday, I’ll talk about those including Brown’s dismantling of Vermont. There is a big game tonight (Wednesday) with Towson hosting Loyola.  The Greyhounds will be looking to bounce back after losing last weekend to Rutgers.  In all, we'll touch on the following games... Notre Dame vs Maryland, Cornell vs Ohio State, Duke vs Syracuse, Georgetown vs Princeton, Richmond vs Virginia, Saint Joseph's vs Johns Hopkins, Penn State vs Penn and many more.

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Today we’re going to do something different because we had a big upset in the DIII ranks so I’m going to start today’s show out with #2 Salisbury hitting the road to take on #7 Gettysburg.  Lots of people were wondering if Salisbury deserved the #1 ranking after RIT needed OT to take down someone they probably should have beat by 10.  Well Gettysburg put that talk to rest.

On the DI landscape we had some really good matchups get resolved including #12 North Carolina handling business in the dome against #19 Syracuse. #14 Duke got out front on #7 Penn early in the game and was able to hold on for the win. #2 Notre Dame put the big hurt on #17 Georgetown, dropping the Hoyas to 0-3 on the season. #9 Maryland hit the road and took down #3 Princeton.  #16 Hopkins was playing a must win game against Utah at Homewood and got the job done.  We'll talk about those games and many more.

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I want to start this episode by talking about Ohio State's big win over North Carolina on Sunday and after that we'll dive into all of the matchups for this weekend that are worth watching.

But after that, I'll dive into talking about Notre Dame vs Georgetown, Penn vs Duke, Princeton vs Maryland, Rutgers vs Loyola, Syracuse vs North Carolina, Ohio State vs Virginia, Lehigh vs Cornell and many more.

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Week two of college lacrosse didn’t bring as high a percentage of upsets, but we still had them, and we also had a slew of games that required sudden death and lacrosse fans all over the world saw that it was good.

In today’s episode we’ll talk about Syracuse vs Maryland, Penn vs Georgetown, Johns Hopkins vs Loyola, Rutgers vs Army, Harvard vs Virginia, Manhattan vs Navy, Boston U vs Bryant, Cornell vs Albany, Vermont vs Utah, Colgate vs Air Force, Lindewood vs LIU, Hofstra vs Michigan, Marist vs Jacksonville, Hobart vs Lehigh, St. Johns vs Delaware and many more.

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