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With the OOC schedule, seemed more about learning and less about games to move the needle. Though in my opinion the OOC wasn't necessarily bad, just not a lot of interesting teams.

With conference play, the season now really starts. Keep in mind the schedule favors Rutgers with 3 home games and only 2 away (plus one away is Michigan and we usually play really well there). Then if we finish anywhere from 1 to 4 in the conference we'll have home field advantage in the conference tourney playoffs. 1 or 2 we get the bye and at 3 or 4 we'd host the opening round. Then the semi's and championship games are at Rutgers.

Like our odds this year if we can continue to play like we played every game but Princeton.
 
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Wagram97 said:
With the OOC schedule, seemed more about learning and less about games to move the needle. Though in my opinion the OOC wasn't necessarily bad, just not a lot of interesting teams.

With conference play, the season now really starts. Keep in mind the schedule favors Rutgers with 3 home games and only 2 away (plus one away is Michigan and we usually play really well there). Then if we finish anywhere from 1 to 4 in the conference we'll have home field advantage in the conference tourney playoffs. 1 or 2 we get the bye and at 3 or 4 we'd host the opening round. Then the semi's and championship games are at Rutgers.

Like our odds this year if we can continue to play like we played every game but Princeton.
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We didn’t get every game we wanted but it wasn’t far off. Our RPI isn’t by accident. A lot of work goes into it. What wasn’t expected is Big Ten teams struggling in Maryland and Michigan.

Even so, this is the most wide open year in lacrosse I can remember. I haven’t seen ND yet. Princeton is the best team I’ve seen. I doubt they go through league play undefeated.

We just need to keep getting better playing our best into May. Brian’s teams almost always get better as the year goes on. Hopefully we see that continue. OOC games matter but the conference slate is where it all really counts. Everything is a prelude to these games.

There are no super teams this year like in 22, of which we had one. It’s anyone’s game.
 
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Caliknight said:
We didn’t get every game we wanted but it wasn’t far off. Our RPI isn’t by accident. A lot of work goes into it. What wasn’t expected is Big Ten teams struggling in Maryland and Michigan.

Even so, this is the most wide open year in lacrosse I can remember. I haven’t seen ND yet. Princeton is the best team I’ve seen. I doubt they go through league play undefeated.

We just need to keep getting better playing our best into May. Brian’s teams almost always get better as the year goes on. Hopefully we see that continue. OOC games matter but the conference slate is where it all really counts. Everything is a prelude to these games.

There are no super teams this year like in 22, of which we had one. It’s anyone’s game.
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Totally agree. I do like that we got Jacksonville and Villanova on the schedule - just a shame that Villanova is not playing better. Would have just wanted one more team, like a UMass or St. Joes, to replace one of LIU, Hofstra, or St. John.

Absolutely wide open this year especially the conference. I mean, when was the last time we had Maryland sitting at 3-3 before conference play.

We're in a good position and you can see the improvements. Lot of talent on this team and we'll have a great opportunity this Saturday. Was hoping to watch the OSU game in person but have an event I need to attend so will be checking the score.
 
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Wagram97 said:
Totally agree. I do like that we got Jacksonville and Villanova on the schedule - just a shame that Villanova is not playing better. Would have just wanted one more team, like a UMass or St. Joes, to replace one of LIU, Hofstra, or St. John.

Absolutely wide open this year especially the conference. I mean, when was the last time we had Maryland sitting at 3-3 before conference play.

We're in a good position and you can see the improvements. Lot of talent on this team and we'll have a great opportunity this Saturday. Was hoping to watch the OSU game in person but have an event I need to attend so will be checking the score.
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Might consider Albany as well for an OOC upgrade. And Schaller's injury just makes the conference that much more wide open.
 
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Brian and the Albany coach are pretty tight but I wouldn’t expect to see them on the schedule. Would be a wide open fun game. It seems like the teams we scrimmage become games. Yale is a team that seems like an obvious one to watch
 
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I don’t see a lot of upside to playing Albany. They are not in an area we recruit a ton, they are not an easy out but a win doesn’t do a lot for us and a loss would definitely hurt. OOC we need either a marquee name, an easy win or an area we recruit heavily, ideally some combination of those. Albany doesn’t really fit any of those criteria.
 
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