The season is young and there is a lot of lacrosse still to be played but things will start to get interesting this week. While all games matter, there are some games this week that could influence who gets an at large bid, one of which was the Syracuse vs Northwestern game which Northwestern won giving NU a quality out of conference win in the event that they do not win The B1G. Navy's win over Drexel today could also have at large implications depending on how both teams do the rest of the way.
Key game this week:
Virginia at Notre Dame Stony Brook at Florida Loyola at Penn G-Town at Hopkins Vandi at Colorado UConn at UMass Penn State at Loyola Duke at Syracuse Northwestern at North Carolina Drexel at Hopkins
With Stony Brook and JMU not having the ability to qualify for an AQ it puts pressure on not only SBU and JMU but all of the teams from conferences that usually receive multiple at large bids (ACC, Big 10, Ivy, PAC ETC...). Obviously quality wins will play a role but so will Strength of Schedule. If teams like UVA and ND can find a way to grab a quality win or two I would imagine that they would get the bid over SBU or JMU if those tieams only have 1 or 2 quality wins as well because they play a much more difficult schedule. JMU and Stony Brook have to really hope that all of the favorites win their conference championships because that could affect them as well. Should be fun to watch it all play out.
Jmu has a bad loss in resume losing to VT who is unranked so they will need to overcome that
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