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Re: general sports news with no other thread
« Reply #125: May 06, 2023, 11:29:04 PM »
michigan beats maryland for the B1G men's lacrosse title. This will push Penn State, Maryland, and Hopkins into at large invites. Also, because the ACC only has 5 lacrosse programs, VA, Duke, and Notre Dame will get at large slots b/c they are the top 3 in the country. Those are 6 out of the 8 at large invites.  That squeezes out a lot of the regular season conference winners because there were at least 6 knocked out before conference finals (one being Penn State). None of the top 7 teams in the RPI won their tournament. Cornell (#7) has a decent shot.

Among possible at large candidates, probably just one of Penn (#10) and Denver(#11) makes it. Georgetown is the highest RPI to win its tournament (#8).  Yale, #9, can win the Ivy and get the automatic bid, but if Princeton wins, then Yale may still make it, having beat Denver, one of the teams looking for an at-large bid. But it would be weird for 3 leagues to hoover up all the at large bids.