M Lax shocks #10 Penn for biggest win in program history
A lot of things were happening today all at the same time.
Michigan entered today's game against #10 Penn in the Michigan Stadium opener with an 0-27 record all-time against ranked opponents.
The Michigan Men, while not playing a great schedule, have done what they needed to do. Going 6-1 heading into this big showdown with an Ivy League team at home.
Michigan raced out to a 7-2 lead against the Quakers with the lead being cut to 3 at halftime.
Penn would outshoot Michigan by 15 and would score two goals in the final minute to cut Michigan's lead to one goal, but the Wolverines held on for the 13-12 win.
Brent "The Nose" Noseworthy had his 5th hat trick of the season, along with Ian King who also had a hat trick.
Noseworthy has 25 goals. The B1G season has not even started yet. He will become the single season goal scoring leader (32) very shortly.
Michigan did the following with today's win
- Beat a ranked team for the first time ever
- Beat an Ivy League team for the first time ever
- Clinched a winning season for the first time ever
- Pushed the win total to 7 wins, which is the most in program history
The Wolverines will play their next game against UMBC, two weeks from today at The Big House.
When you beat a top 10 team... #GOBLUE pic.twitter.com/sTEVyLpvDd
— UMich Lax Managers (@UofMLaxManagers) March 11, 2017
It kinda bugs me how the "champions of the west" part of the Victors gets rushed out now to make room for the "Go Blue!"
Great win though!
Just fucking stop already "bro"
Ranked opponent thing was a big monkey to get rid of.
Almost did it against Cornell one year and a lot of them have been very ugly losses.
This is a big step. Progress. We're gonna have our first winning season at the very least, too.
Would be nice to parlay this into an upset of OSU and Rutgers to get into the B1G Tournament for the first time ever.
Hockey would be the cherry on top!
There are six games left and we have a 7-1 record. Winning record has not been clinched.
Monumental win, though. I think the team's known they can hang with the big boys for a while; good to know we can actually beat some, too.
Great win Michigan!!!
Easily the best win in program history.
Hopefully they use this momentum to cause some talk in the Big Ten, which is stacked this year and could be argued is the best confernce in the country with 5 teams in the top 20. Michigan being the only team on the outside, but have won the games they should win, MIchigan winning today is obviously an upset.
March 11th, 2017 at 10:31 PM ^
Time for the first Top 25 ranking in program history??
March 11th, 2017 at 11:34 PM ^
Yep - they will almost certainly be ranked for the first time ever when the new poll comes out on Monday. It might not last long though because after UMBC the going gets tough. Still - a great milestone for this program.
March 11th, 2017 at 11:48 PM ^
I have no idea if UMBC is any good this year, but nothing just reeks of lacrosse more than "Maryland-Baltimore County." Would be another good win for us.
March 11th, 2017 at 11:45 PM ^
Nice, too bad wasn't on BTN. Not sure what that network is for if it can't ever show big non conference matchups at home
March 12th, 2017 at 12:35 PM ^
BTN was showing #1 Maryland v. #4 Syracuse in women's lax. Seems like a fair use of that bandwith.