Lacrosse Wins 9-8 in Home Opener vs Colgate
February 14th, 2016 at 1:07 PM ^
Off to a hot start - Michigan up 3-0 already!
February 14th, 2016 at 1:08 PM ^
More Michigan sports!!
February 14th, 2016 at 1:18 PM ^
KJ makes it 4-1 Michigan
February 14th, 2016 at 1:32 PM ^
/ignores reality of 0 degrees right now
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February 14th, 2016 at 1:33 PM ^
For real man - they gotta do something about this. IT's too early!
February 14th, 2016 at 1:51 PM ^
February 14th, 2016 at 2:41 PM ^
Or better yet move it to summer. I saw a proposal once to move B1G baseball to summer to take advantage of better weather and provide summer programming for BTN. The athletes are often in Ann Arbor year round so that wouldn't be the issue. The issue would be having to secede from the NCAA tournament which some people think isn't a big deal because B1G teams haven't performed well there in recent years.
February 14th, 2016 at 4:31 PM ^
The baseball proposal is intersting..but while there are a few parralels, there are a lot of differences that would mean you probably wouldnt need to go that drastic with lacrosse. I would be in favor of moving it off Memorial Day a couple weeks and waiting to start for a couple weeks. Though, really, its not the worst thing ever the way it stands right now.
Lax is a 14-16 game season instead of 50+ for baseball, so you can fit it in easier in the Spring even if you arent starting until the end of Feb.
Most of the teams are either in the Northeast or Southeast (with the main exceptions of Denver, ND and OSU/UM/PSU). Its pretty easy for the Northern teams to get south early in the year for an early game. You are only having to play one or two down south early (as opposed to UM Baseball having to play like 20) so you can do it over a couple of weekends and move on. And with so few D1 teams currently, a lot of the southern teams are regularly on your schedule anyway. Plus, its generally a lot easier to find a place to play indoor in college lacrosse than in college baseball, so some of the northern teams like UM/ND/Cuse can make it work.
Any shift wouldnt need to be quite as dramatic as the proposed baseball one, and with only 60ish D1 teams, anything where you left the NCAA would be a killer.
February 14th, 2016 at 1:33 PM ^
LOL Chase Brown, a LSM, just scored a goal!!
5-3 Michigan.
February 14th, 2016 at 3:58 PM ^
That's not really LOL worthy. LSM's scoring is pretty awesome, but not that rare. A good LSM can be a weapon in transition and sometimes on offense. Brown's All-American LSM Larken Kemp had 9 goals last season, and Scott Ratcliff from Loyola a few years back had back to back years of something like 12+ goals.
Though that's only Chase's 2nd career goal, so thats nice.
February 14th, 2016 at 1:50 PM ^
Schlosser gives Michigan a 7-4 lead at half with 10 seconds left.
February 14th, 2016 at 2:19 PM ^
These radio guys are actually pretty good! Sounds like a good game.
February 14th, 2016 at 2:34 PM ^
Do other Lacrosse programs have special indoor stadiums (for cold weather) or do they mostly use the football practice facility?
The render of our future stadium seems to have an indoor track facility nearby. I wonder if they'll be able to use it for Lacrosse instead of playing at Oosterbaan.
February 14th, 2016 at 2:48 PM ^
February 14th, 2016 at 4:05 PM ^
ND has an indoor facility. they play their early season games indoors as well. But it isn't common.
I was reading an article yesterday about how certain programs have built in advantages, and an indoor facility was a notable one, for which Michigan is on the right side of.
I'm looking forward to when M-Lax is a powerhouse. All of the requisites are in place once the dedicated facility is completed. Then it will be all on continuing to build the talent base and having adequate coaching.
February 14th, 2016 at 5:22 PM ^
February 15th, 2016 at 11:02 AM ^
ND, Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan. I think that's it for indoor football practice facilities that lacrosse teams get to use. I think a few programs (Harvard maybe?) have bubbles they put up, but not sure how many are full field or could host a game.
Detroit practices and plays early season games at an indoor soccer facility in Pontiac.
Cuse has the dome, so they are the only ones who have an indoor facility that was actually built to host games. They also just built an indoor practice facility.
Marquette does not have one, but I think they are building one? If they are that would be a pretty big investment in lacrosse since they don't have football.
It's an advantage for sure, but the flip-side of that is the teams that deal with the weather conditions for practice are more prepared for those conditions than a team that has been in a cozy indoor environment for the preseason. Something to watch in early season games.
February 15th, 2016 at 10:18 AM ^
Ohio State plays in the indoor football practice buildiung. Detroit plays their early games, (and plays Michigan there on 2/24,) at an indoor facility in Pontiac. They are out there but primarily in the north and where the schools have bigger football programs with indoor practice facilities.
It used to be that teams played mutiple games in a week but as competitive and important as the conference games are now, most teams are playing one game a week which pushes the schedule earlier.
They play the NCAA Basketball championship on a Monday night and travel is not impacted for that. Attendance has been down in the last few years. Many opinons why.
February 14th, 2016 at 2:52 PM ^
Michigan hangs on to win it!!
Michigan 9 Colgate 8!
February 14th, 2016 at 2:53 PM ^
February 14th, 2016 at 3:08 PM ^
A great win by this team. I think moving KJ to attack has really helped. They now have 2 serious scoring threats at attack, so defenses can't just key on one guy, and a couple pretty good midfields as well. Interesting that Curran wasn't playing. Hopefully not injured. Also good to see faceoffs improving as well.
Colgate won the patriot league last year and went to the NCAA tourney, so this is definitely a big win. If they manage to beat Penn next week, that would be another huge step forward.
Colgate also looked like they were a very disciplined team, working hard to make sure they didn't beat themselves. I'd be curious to see how the clearing stats came out. Early in the game it seemed like Michigan was the only ones throwing it away, perhaps as a result of pushing it too hard, but Colgate ended up making the mistakes in the 4th quarter and Michigan capitalized.
February 14th, 2016 at 3:56 PM ^
Curran was suspend for violating team rules. Three others as well were suspended due to team rule violations.
February 14th, 2016 at 4:21 PM ^
February 14th, 2016 at 4:40 PM ^
Big W. This is absolutely what they needed - a good win over a respectable program. A bunch of the board has already mentioned that Colgate made the NCAAs last year and they were Patriot League champs - a great league w teams like Navy, Bucknell, Lehigh, Lafayette, etc. I remember going to see M play Colgate a few years ago at Citi Field and it was a borderline blowout.
THis is a great win to build on. They go to Penn next week - a team that's kind of a mystery. They were a #4 seed in the tournament two years ago but went 6-7 last year. They could be on Colgate's level. Its on the road but M has the advantage of having already played 2 games and Penn may be looking past them to a matchup w Virginia the following week. Michigan has a good chance to steal another one.
February 14th, 2016 at 7:56 PM ^
How many beers did you have at Citi Field that day? I was there too and didn't remember it that way. Just looked it up. Score was 10-7 and the teams traded 4 goals each in the 2nd half. Might have been Michigan's best game in their first two years. Peter Baum was still on that Colgate team as a senior, the year after winning the Tewaarton. They held him to 2 and 1.
Definitely a great win today. As someone else mentioned, even better to know they had a few players suspended and still got the W. Really good to see Logan bounce back after last week.
February 15th, 2016 at 10:08 AM ^
Gerald Logan got pulled after the first half in Chapel Hill against North Carolina. Don't know if it was Oosterbaan or what but apparently he was seeing the ball much better and had a double digit save game. Huge win and nice comeback for the team after the North Carolina loss.
It will be interesting to see if the team travels well against Penn and maybe their experience having two games under their belts will help against Penn as it will be their first game.