(02-24-2014 03:28 PM)Hitch Wrote: (02-24-2014 02:55 PM)MRD92 Wrote: (02-24-2014 01:41 PM)Hitch Wrote: (02-24-2014 12:59 PM)MRD92 Wrote: (02-24-2014 11:45 AM)Hitch Wrote: Yeah but CAA lax sucks. At least PL lax is competitive.
With Loyola in the PL, lax could be more than competitive.
For lax, there is the ACC, a huge gap, and then PL, IVY, B10 all mixed together.
I wouldn't even put the B10 in that mix until next year.
Ohio State and Penn State are both top 20 teams.
http://www.insidelacrosse.com/polls/DI
But neither play Big 10 lacrosse this year. Ohio State is in the ECAC along with Michigan. Penn State is in the CAA.
The Big 10 doesn't exist as a lacrosse league until next year (Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan, Rutgers, Maryland, and Johns Hopkins).
As of this week, the rankings break down by conference as follows:
ACC - 6 (Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, Syracuse, Notre Dame)
Ivy - 4 (Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Penn)
CAA - 3 (Penn State, UMass, Drexel)
ECAC - 2 (Fairfield, Ohio State)
Patriot - 2 (Loyola, Lehigh)
American East - 1 (Albany)
Big East - 1 (Denver)
Independent - 1 (Johns Hopkins)
Of course, next year, in addition to the Big 10 sponsoring men's lacrosse, Fairfield moves to the CAA (lacrosse only) and I think the ECAC as a league will cease to exist.