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This weekend will see #3 Virginia host #1 Notre Dame in a game that could decide who get's the #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. The Big Ten Tournament kicks off with Ohio State vs Michigan and Rutgers vs Maryland. Conference tournament seeds will be completely locked up by the end of the day on Saturday and we can officially begin the postseason. Syracuse and North Carolina will each finish the...

One of the oldest and most respected rivalries in college lacrosse, Johns Hopkins visiting Maryland ended up being the best game of the weekend, as expected. Hopkins picked up the win, and is now looking to be the favorite to win the Big Ten tournament, but seeing how every team makes the cut, it could still get interesting. North Carolina and Syracuse both badly needed wins to keep their hopes fo...

This week's preview show is going to start with some recaps from Sunday’s and Tuesday’s games. There was some Big Ten action on Sunday that we have to talk about as well as Georgetown beating up on Loyola last night. Once we get done with those three recaps we’ll dive into previews and will talk about all of the big games being played between Friday and Saturday this weekend.

As a die-hard Syracuse fan, I was on the edge of my seat as Michael Leo scored the game winner with 12 seconds left against North Carolina Saturday in a must-win for the Orange. I was pretty sure Duke was going to roll Virginia for the 105th time in a row, but UVA battled back and made Duke earn the W by the end. Cornell and Georgetown each won one-goal games, the Hoyas needed a Tucker Dordevic go...

We're at the stage of the college lacrosse season where every game has huge conference tournament and NCAA tournament implications. While #3 Duke hosting #2 Virginia only plays into NCAA tournament seeding, as both of these teams have done enough to lock up their spots, it should still be a must watch game on Saturday. The rest of the field has a lot more to play for than just seeding and brag...

Between Friday and Saturday we had some insane games including huge matchups and some OT thrillers.  We’ll start this college lacrosse weekend recaps show off talking about Saturday's matchup between #1 Duke and #2 Notre Dame, but as the show progresses we’ll also touch on #5 Maryland vs #17 Ohio State, #3 Virginia vs #9 North Carolina, #16 Michigan vs #12 Rutgers, Syracuse vs #15 Princeton, #...

We have a bunch of incredible games popping off this weekend, starting with big time conference rivalry games on Friday with Michigan vs Rutgers, Virginia vs North Carolina, Navy vs Loyola and Maryland vs Ohio State. On Saturday the solid in-conference matchups continue. The big one of the weekend, #1 Duke vs #2 Notre Dame in South Bend. Penn State hosts Hopkins and many more. View the blog post.....

While I don't dive into Friday nights contest that saw Duke take down Virginia, I do go deep into Michigan's win over #2 Maryland as that to me was the story of the weekend. Penn had a big Ivy matchup against Yale and once again the cardiac Quakers needed to show up to pull out the W. Syracuse battled back to take the lead back from Notre Dame only to see the Irish go on a monster run and...

We're going to start this weeks college lacrosse preview show with a quick review of the insane Seton Hill comeback that saw the Griffin's down by 4 goals with just over 1:37 left in the game and they scored 4 unanswered goals in around 30 seconds to force overtime, and scored the game winner in OT. For this weekends D1 lacrosse previews, we'll talk about #4 Duke hitting the road to ta...

The first weekend of high school lacrosse in Section IV is upon us and we saw Johnson City take on Saratoga Springs in a non-conference matchup while Maine-Endwell hosted Horseheads and Notre Dame took on Oneonta. View the blog post... https://www.section4lax.com/johnson-city-maine-endwell-notre-dame-all-get-season-opening-wins

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’l...

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&#39...

#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 score...

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. View the blog post... https://www.laxfactor.com/2023/03/hopkins-dr...

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 th...

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....

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...

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 land...

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...

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, Corne...

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 los...

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 Mary...

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 h...

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 convincin...

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...