Lax Factor Lacrosse Podcast

Terrible news out of Maryland as we found out Logan McNaney will miss the remainder of the season with an ACL injury. #9 Maryland hosting #18 Syracuse in College Park is for sure one of the biggest games this weekend and we'll talk about that matchup in depth. A bunch of other great games are being played this weekend though.

#12 Georgetown will be looking to bounce back against #10 Penn after losing to Johns Hopkins. #6 Hopkins lost to North Carolina last night, so their game against #11 Loyola this weekend is hugely important for the Jays. #1 Virginia returns to action facing #17 Harvard on the road. Unranked Denver will take on #16 Duke at home.  #19 North Carolina fresh off their win over Hopkins on Tuesday will travel to Columbus to take on #6 Ohio State.

The Ivy's are finally getting going as we'll also see #5 Yale (take on Villanova), #2 Cornell (taking on Albany) and #4 Princeton gearing up to beat the crap out of Monmouth.

But I go deeper still and will talk about #14 Saint Joe's vs Towson, #13 Delaware against The Mount and #3 Notre Dame finally takes the field on the road at Marquette.

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Friday night lacrosse was totally dwarfed by Saturday’s absolute chaos as we saw numerous updates, plenty of unexpected outcomes mixed with some butt kickings. What started as a slate of games that didn’t expect to be all that exciting ended up being the opposite with upsets galore.

We saw #3 Georgetown fall to Johns Hopkins by a goal in my favorite upset of the weekend, but Loyola beating #2 Maryland by a margin wasn't bad either. Jacksonville was playing a "must win game" in early February and managed to beat Duke for the second straight season.

Michigan stuck with Virginia for far longer than I expected them to on Saturday only losing by a four goal spread. Friday night Syracuse and North Carolina each waxed their opponents in Albany and Mercer.  Duke was the only ACC team that didn't pick up a win this weekend.

But that wasn't it for the upsets.  Vermont beat up on Boston U. for most of the game.  Air Force took down Denver.  It was a crazy weekend and we'll talk about almost all of the games at least a little bit.

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In this second College Lacrosse Weekend Preview Show we'll talk about just about every game from the first "official" weekend of college lacrosse. Last weekend was week zero and this is technically week one.

We're going to start out talking about the Friday games, UAlbany at Syracuse as well as North Carolina hosting Mercer. Then we'll dive into the bulk of Saturday's games including #1 Virginia hosting Michigan, #2 Maryland hitting the road against Loyola. #3 Georgetown takes on Johns Hopkins at Homewood. #8 Duke looks to get revenge against Jacksonville who upset them in Durham a season ago. #9 Rutgers has Stony Brook at home, the Scarlet Knights beat the Seawolves by a goal a season ago. #11 Ohio State plays their second home game in as many tries against Cleveland State. Two teams I'm high on, #12 Delaware and #14 Boston U. each see their first action and I'll go on and on and talk about many more games.

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The first week of college lacrosse action is now behind us and in todays episode I want to talk about every game that was played at the D1 level including Vermont vs Syracuse, Air Force vs Ohio State, Richmond vs Maryland, Utah vs Denver, Hopkins vs Jacksonville, Bellarmine vs Duke and many more.

I'll of course talk first about Syracuse's win over Vermont followed by Ohio State and their convincing win over Air Force.

We'll discuss how Syracuse freshman Joey Spallina fared as he scored his first goal wearing #22 for the Orange albeit he had a rough shooting day.

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In this second episode of Lacrosse Lines, I'm going to talk about week one lines and bets that I'm taking and bets that I'm not going to touch.  As always, not betting or financial advice and only bet what you can afford to lose.

My upset pick of the week is Utah over Denver.  Denver is a -2.5 favorite in this one and I like Utah to EITHER cover the spread or to flat out win.  Full disclosure I took Denver at -2.5 (1 unit) the day these lines all came out, but after doing research I ended up taking Utah moneyline at -200 (3 units) because I think they are legit going to win this game by 1 or 2 goals.

Another "coming in hot" bet that I took was Jacksonville over Johns Hopkins.  I like Jacksonville at -115 (I think when I took Jax I got them at -125 or so).  I think this will be a 1 goal game, so I didn't like the spread either way on this one.

I also like Ohio State to cover the spread over Air Force on Saturday.  They have OSU as a -5.5 favorite and I think they will beat AF somewhere in the area of 6 to 10 goals by the end. 

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College lacrosse is officially upon us with a solid slate of early games. I'm going to start right off by talking about Syracuse trying to bounce back after a terrible show last season with Joey Spallina and their new look offense. Jacksonville is going to be looking to take that next step against Hopkins and actually pull off a win this time around. What will Maryland, Rutgers and Ohio State all do in their opening games and will it provide us any data useful in helping us determine what things may look like once Big Ten play starts?

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Lacrosse season is almost upon us.  This upcoming Saturday we will have a near full slate of games to watch and entertain us.  My original plan was to preview those games today, but I’m going to do that Wednesday, and today I’m going to dive into more of a “full season preview” and make some predictions so I can look back and question my intelligence.\

Virginia is the clear favorite in the ACC.  Georgetown should have an easy time winning the Big East.  Conferences like the America East and the CAA are up for grabs and should be dog fights.  I like St. Bonaventure, Delaware, Saint Josephs, Jacksonville and more.  I'll talk about EVERY CONFERENCE and will pick a winner for their end of the season tournament.

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In this first episode of Lacrosse Lines, I'm going to talk a bit about futures odds for college lacrosse and where I think the smarter money is. This will never be betting or financial advice.  I'm not telling you what college lacrosse games to bet on.  I'm just sharing my views on the odds and my own experiences as a terrible sports better.  This isn't not financial advice and never will be and never bet what you can't afford to lose.

But for me with the futures odds, I like the odds they put out for Virginia and Georgetown.  Virginia at +550 and Georgetown at +850 seemed pretty solid.  I think Maryland being named the odds on favorite is lunacy with them sitting at +400 and who decided Notre Dame was the second most likely team to win the title this year? The odds for Maryland and Notre Dame prove the oddsmakers have no idea what they are doing, not yet anyway.

So I took out a futures bet on Virginia and Georgetown as I personally feel they are the two most likely teams to win it all in 2023.

NOTE, in this episode I didn't talk about Cornell's odds because they weren't on my screen because I'm in New York.  But I also don't think they are going to win the title.  So in future episodes I'll be sure to include NY contests as well as today they left all NY teams off my screen because I'm in NY and NY lawmakers are morons.

Today's episode will bring my preseason top 20 poll coverage to an end.  We'll talk about my top 5 teams, listed here in no particular order so as to not ruin the surprise... Cornell, Maryland, Virginia, Georgetown and Princeton.

These teams all return huge names like Connor Shellenberger (Virginia), CJ Kirst (Cornell), Brett Makar (Maryland), Jake Stevens (Princeton) and Will Bowen (Georgetown).

I'm not convinced I got the order right, but I'll stand by my rankings for now and can't wait to adjust them after week one.  Enjoy!

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Continuing on with the LaxFactor college Lacrosse Division I Pre-Season Poll, I'm going to rip through my #6 through #10 picks. I won't give away the order until you either read on, watch or listen, but today we'll talk about Penn, Notre Dame, Yale, Rutgers and Duke.

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