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Until BC plays somebody decent, they get no love. To say they were finalists last year doesn't cut it. Kent isn't playing.

NU put up a good fight but were outmatched today at home.

After this weekend, here is how the polls will read Monday... (in order)

1 SBU
2 BC
3 FL
4 UNC
5 MD

UNC is dropping like a stone. They’re just not that good anymore.

UNC is a ‘has been’

Hey beat Maryland last week. Lolol

6. Syracuse
7. JMU
8. Northwestern
9. Penn
10. Virginia

But Northwestern will be out of the top 10. Shouldn't be.

Poor offensive execution but I wouldn't say overmatched. Stick check changes game from 10-9 to 11-8 w 10 to play. That makes it more like a 14-11 game. And Northwestern dominated time of possession. They need to play better on offense, but outmatched is a bit of an overstatement.

Let's take a good look at SB schedule. NH. Lowell. Hartford. Really? QU beat up on Hartford. It's a joke

Maryland isn’t that good either anymore.
Stony Brook number 1 as they should be.

Why should they be number one? Haven’t beat Md FL or UNC recently , who have they beat to be # 1?

Exactly!!!! And they don't play any of them 🤔

To be fair they don't have a choice it's their conference teams don't choose that . Plus rankings should be based on where you started and what you have done so far. Unc hurts your argument loss to JMu and smacked around by Florida even a close game with high point.

BC does not have a very strong out of conference schedule

Yes, the illegal stick she used all game in the draw circle. Good point. I don't think it would have made much of a difference but you've got to wonder.

I think she uses a draw stick and switches it out on offense .

Georgetown is much improved which is great to see looking forward to seeing some Acc action today

Didn’t see the game so curious how the stick check against NU gave SB a goal (from 10 to 11)? And who’s to say she would have scored without it being illegal? Tough to argue that getting caught cheating cost them.

It’s a good thing for Maryland and UNC they don’t have to play Stony Brook or they would each have one more loss.

Don’t feed the trolls but i do agree. Neither seems to be in sync currently Florida and SB seem top but people it’s barely March!!

Thats all well and good in the beginning of march, lets wait and see how this ends.

lol Florida bArely could beat Loyola

Virginia Syracuse game is a good one!
I picked Virginia

To be clear. LI folks now think using illegal sticks is cheating. Good to know. I usually hear them saying "everyone does it, it's a bogus call".

And lost to Maryland. Of course the thing to notice hear is... Florida has played UNC and Maryland out of conference, UNC has played Maryland out of conference and JMU,NU, Florida on schedule ... NU schedules Stony Brook, UNC, Syracuse, ND, USC, Penn out of conference ... A lot easier playing one or two tough teams weeks apart. Sad.

Syracuse Virginia was a great one today. Syracuse Fell short! very physical game

Syracuse was very physical. Helmets starting to have unintended consequences already?

Entertaining game ,but both teams were more sloppy than I would have thought.

Neck and neck whole game. Cuse goalie off second half

They have maybe 3 players wearing helmets.

At one point they had 6 on the field at the same time with helmets and at least 6 more on the sidelines. Watch the game before you post on here.

They have a lot more than three, maybe thirteen.

Gary is changing the game and it is not for the good. Something needs to be done about the blatant cross checks to the back and heads.

Glad the Cuse fans haven't changed either, they sounded as bad as they did in College Park a couple of years ago.

Va wasn't innocent but Syracuse is always this bad.

They have more like 8 [players wearing helmets, I said it before 'cause will never win because of the hectic, undisciplined style of play, but for the record, with a 60 seconds left UVA's goalie has the ball behind the crease, when the 'cuse attacker gets within 5 yards of her she dumps the ball in the crease, that i a goal circle violation and the ball should have been given to the 'cuse attacker on the dot with the goalie 3 meters behind, this is the rule as it is written and has not been changed
Section 18. Once a team gains possession of the ball in the goal circle and the ball is cleared the team must not return the ball to their goal circle until the ball has been played by another player.
NOTE: The Goalkeeper (or her deputy) gains possession of the ball in the goal circle and passes or carries it out of the goal circle with her crosse. It has been "cleared." To be “played”, the ball must leave her crosse and be touched by another player or her crosse must be checked by an opponent.

As usual in woman Lacrosse the refs don't know the rules and blew a major call that would have almost certainly have resulted in a game tying goal. the goal circle rules take up only 2 pages of the rule book and these morons can't get a simple call correct

Watch the game. I'm at the games. Two offensive and one defensive player had helmets on today. Two others wore prior due to concussions. Defender who got nailed in the head with a ball today probably wishes she had one on.

Very true. But where was Gait? I didn't him screaming about it during the play. Not that he should have to but ...

The buzz is that Syracuse is being paid handsomely to wear the helmets from Cascade. Them acting the way they do is mere coincidence

Draw controls NU 18-9. So it would stand to reason that if goal stands, NU has a 66.666% chance of getting possession. So at the very least, SB does not score 15 seconds later and there is a decent chance score is 10-10 by end of sequence. So yeah, it was a two goal swing.

Virginia goalie did everything she could to keep Syracuse in the game! Two saves the entire game? She couldn't stop a beachball

. Acting the way they do? It was an aggressive game on both sides. Maybe two overly aggressive fouls caused by Cuse. And some good dramatics by va. I thought it was a great game. No blow out and until the last minutes was anyone's game. Someone has to win and someone has to lose

3-5-18

Interesting year, Who will be there at the end? Final 8? Final 4? Championship?

1 - Stony Brook
2 - Boston College
3 - JMU
4 - Virginia
5 - Florida
6 - North Carolina
7 - Maryland
8 - Navy
9 - Syracuse
10 - Penn
11 - Towson
12 - Princeton
13 - Northwestern
14 - USC
15 - Stanford
16 - Georgetown
17 - Notre Dame
18 - Hopkins
19 - Duke
20 - Loyola