Lax Factor Lacrosse Podcast

May Madness is upon us, and today is the day I make predictions for the entire first round, complete with a predicted "margin of victory", and I'll also reveal my full bracket and pick my winner for this years NCAA Division I Lacrosse Tournament. I won't spoil my picks within the description, but the games I'll be talking about obviously are... #1 Notre Dame vs Monmouth #2 Duke vs High Point #3 Ma...

So North Carolina brings home the top seed, followed up by Duke, Maryland and Virginia. Army ended up being the first team out, and Rutgers the last team in, and this was a tough call for the committee. Matchups look like this... #1 North Carolina vs Monmouth UNC will win this game by a large margin, but congrats to Monmouth for making the big dance. #2 Duke vs High Point Duke rolled high point in...

We have had a great week of college lacrosse action with conference tournaments in full swing. On Thursday night we saw teams like Maryland, Denver, Georgetown and Drexel all handle their business. We also saw teams like Albany, Vermont and Hopkins pull upsets that will keep those hoping for at large bids guessing. Hopkins win over Rutgers was the big one, as Rutgers will now pray that Maryland wi...

Syracuse hit the road to face Notre Dame with revenge on their minds, and instead they come home huge losers as the Irish embarrassed the Orange in an absolute blowout that has the #FireDesko crowd screaming from the rooftops, and even myself, a long time Desko supporter is starting to wonder if maybe the game has now passed this living legend by. Michigan and Hopkins picked up huge Big Ten confer...

The Big Ten Lacrosse Conference seedings and tournament schedule is set. Maryland get's the #1 seed, Rutgers the #2, Penn State the #3, Ohio State #4, Michigan #5 (thanks to a coin toss) and Hopkins is the last seed. That tournament will kick off this weekend with Maryland as the obvious favorite after going 10-0 in conference play this season. The CAA, NEC, America East and Patriot League all hav...

A near must win for Syracuse in Charlottesville on Saturday and the Orange sent a message to everyone that doubted them letting us all know, they ain’t dead yet. Jakob Phaup who has struggled at the face-off dot against ACC foes went 24 of 27 against Petey LaSalla who has been the ACC’s best face-off guy since getting merked by Cuse his last time out. The possession deficit proved too much for UVA...

In todays show we'll talk about the Duke and Notre Dame rematch that will be played Thursday night on the ACC Network. This will be a monster lacrosse game played under the lights in primetime. Michael Sowers and company will look to get revenge over Notre Dame and their insane defense. We'll rip through the top 5 teams in the country and talk about each teams "key players" for continued success....

North Carolina put the big hurt on Syracuse in the Carrier Dome on Saturday beating the Orange 21-9. It's the first time in Syracuse's history they have lost by 7 or more goals 3 times at home. Terrible outing for Syracuse and things aren't looking good heading into their final games against Virginia and Notre Dame.  For UNC, a huge bounce back win that they needed badly. Chris Gray paced UNC...

Virginia gave Duke everything they could handle in another instant classic within ACC lacrosse play. The game went back and forth all game long seeing both teams hold leads of 2 goals or more, only to see the other team battle back right through into overtime. Joe Robertson scored 2 goals and had 3 assists on the day including the game winner in overtime, his second game winning OT goal of the sea...

Maryland gets the top spot in Inside Lacrosse's new media poll and I'll talk about why I think that Notre Dame probably deserves it. I will go through and outline my own top 10 as I also think they have Virginia and Duke reversed and I think Denver and Rutgers are both ranked too highly. There are a lot of guys playing really well at the face-off dot, but I'm going to go through why I think Petey...

In the first episode of our D2/D3 podcast, we'll rip through the following games... Ross Filtch, a Le Moyne midfielder scored both the game tying and eventual game winning goals for the Dolphins over host Pace. #2 Tampa had a bit of a scare put into them against undefeated Lynn, but walked away with a 7-6 win. Caleb Kueber and Devin Pipher went off for Mercyhurst, Kueber putting up 5 goals and 5 a...

Notre Dame's defense came to play on Saturday handing #1 Duke their first loss of the season and upending the power structure of the ACC. Michael Sowers was held to a single goal and Notre Dame got production from their midfield in the huge ACC win. Virginia got revenge against North Carolina by defeating the Tarheels in their second meeting, this time in Chapel Hill. UNC had beat UVA in Charlotte...

Ryan Tierney's 3 goals and 3 assists were exactly what Hofstra needed to edge UMass in a huge conference win. Syracuse took down Albany in a semi-slow going game at the Dome, but it was exactly the win Syracuse needed heading into North Carolina next weekend. Support the channel, buy some swag... https://www.laxfactor.com/ Watch the show w/ video on YouTube... https://www.youtube.com/laxfactor/

The biggest matchup of the weekend will see Duke hitting the road to take on Notre Dame in yet another top 10 matchup of ACC lacrosse teams. Duke is coming in as the favorite and the #1 team in the land, but Notre Dame is feeling really confident after beating up Syracuse in the Carrier Dome over the weekend. It's Michael Sowers against Pat Kavanagh in this one and both guys can light it up. Big A...

Notre Dame rode their face-off duo to the promise land in the Carrier Dome taking down the Orange 18-11 while winning 23 of 32 draws on the day. Charles Leonard won 8 of 10 and Kyle Gallagher won 15 of 22 for the Irish. Pat Kavanagh peeled the Orange for 4 goals and 5 assists and teammates Griffin Westlin and Will Yorke each went for 4 goals. Jared Bernhardt entered the record books at Maryland by...

Biggest game of the season see's #2 North Carolina travel to Durham to take on #1 Duke in an ACC lacrosse matchup on Thursday. It's Michael Sowers of Duke vs Chris Gray of UNC doing battle for the first time since each player transferred to their new ACC schools. Gray of course transferred a year earlier. Duke comes into this game with the #4 ranked offense in the nation as scored by LacrosseRefer...

Virginia and Notre Dame played another classic ACC lacrosse game on Saturday and we saw UVA pull out the 12-11 win thanks to Dox Aitken's game winner with 3:24 left in the fourth quarter. Aitken was good for 2 goals and 2 assists. Payton Cormier put up another 5 goal game and Ian Laviano got himself a hattrick in the UVA win.  Will York (Bucknell transfer) had his breakout game for Notre Dame...

The #4 ranked Syracuse mens lacrosse squad travels to Durham, North Carolina to face the #2 ranked Duke on Thursday in a huge ACC lacrosse showdown. It will pit Michael Sowers and company against the highly reguarded Syracuse midfield unit of Tucker Dordevic, Jamie Trimboli and Brendan Curry. Curry and Trimboli have both scored game winners against Duke in their last three meetings and Duke will b...

Chase Scanlan's 7 goals helped Syracuse defeat Holy Cross in the Carrier Dome on Saturday. Teammate Owen Hiltz put up 1 goal and 5 assists in the win. Syracuse used their ride to limit their opponents possessions and the Orange defense was stingy only giving up 11 shots on cage. Syracuse will face Duke on Thursday in Durham. AJ Fox stood on his head in cage for Holy Cross contributing 19 saves in...

Denver exposed Georgetown's lack of defensive depth on Tuesday in a Big East Lacrosse matchup that pitted the countries most formidable defense (Georgetown) against one of the most battled tested teams in the country in terms of strength of schedule and overall experience (Denver). While Georgetown jumped out to an early 2-0 lead, the Pio's used a 7 goal over about 15 minutes of play to take a 7-2...

In the featured college lacrosse game of the weekend, the Maryland Terps lacrosse squad put the Big Ten on notice by using a fourth quarter run to separate from fellow undefeated team Rutgers. Jared Bernhardt proved he's worth of legit Tewaaraton talk by going off for 6 goals and an assist. Daniel Maltz (4g) and Logan Wisnauskas (2g, 2a) also factored heavily for Maryland. Kieran Mullins paced Rut...

We have a host of fairly high profile college lacrosse games to talk about in todays episode. Duke and High Point start it all off tonight (Wednesday) followed up by North Carolina travelling north to take on ACC foe Virginia. Friday gives us a 3rd night in a row watching ACC teams play with Syracuse hosting Stony Brook at the Carrier Dome. Saturday we have perhaps the biggest game of the weekend...

College lacrosse is now in full swing and there is nothing better than March lacrosse (other than Memorial Day lacrosse). In the biggest rivalry matchup of the weekend, Johns Hopkins hung early with Maryland, but Jared Bernhardt and the Terps proved too much in the end beating Hopkins 18-10. Syracuse hosted Vermont in the Dome and things got chippy, Vermont hung around, but Syracuse picked up the...

Georgetown's defense gave up a whopping 5 goals, but despite Mount St Mary's proving they could score more than once where others had failed, the Hoya's still pick up a very lopsided 17-5 win. Jake Carraway was big once again for Gtown going for 5 goals and 2 assists in the win. Alex Mazzone forced 3 turnovers and picked up 7 groundballs to help lead the Hoyas defense. Hofstra beat down Wagner 18-...

What a day of college lacrosse action, highlighted by Syracuse beating down Virginia in the dome by a score of 20-10. The Syracuse attack unit showed up, Rehfuss was good for 3 goals and 3 assists, Owen Hiltz in his first start goes for 3 goals and 2 helpers. The Cuse midfield also showed in a big way, Brendan Curry, 3 goals and 4 assists, Tucker Dorcevic, 3 goals, Jamie Trimboli, 2 goals, Owen Se...