Men's Lacrosse upset bid falls short to #11 Yale, 15-11
It looked like they could have had their first road win over a ranked opponent, but after a 9-6 Michigan lead, Yale went on a 9-2 run to close the game. Michigan now falls to 2-2 while Yale got their first win of the season. Looking at the stats, Michigan needs to improve on faceoffs. They won 9 of 30 faceoffs and three of those were in the last four minutes.
Next up is a home game against Siena (1-1) next Saturday. This should be an easy win to start a three game home stretch in which Air Force (1-3) and Marquette (2-0) will also come to Ann Arbor.
Elsewhere in College Lacrosse:
#14 Johns Hopkins fell to #12 North Carolina at home yesterday, 13-11
#15 Penn State got upset by Robert Morris at home, 12-9
#6 Virginia won in a shootout against #18 Princeton, 18-15
#16 Syracuse came back from down five to beat #9 Army, 11-10, in triple overtime
Penn, who beat us last week, upset #1 Duke, 10-9
February 24th, 2018 at 12:46 PM ^
Noseworthy gets the hat trick to tie it!
February 24th, 2018 at 12:50 PM ^
Buckanavage gets the goal
February 24th, 2018 at 12:56 PM ^
Michigan retakes the lead, 7-6, late in the second quarter.
February 24th, 2018 at 12:57 PM ^
February 24th, 2018 at 12:58 PM ^
February 24th, 2018 at 1:02 PM ^
Such a game of runs. Yale was up 5-2 at one point. Now, Michigan has gone on a 6-1 run. Let's see if they can respond if/when Yale has another.
And surprisingly, we've got this lead despite only winning 3 faceoffs out of 16.
February 24th, 2018 at 1:16 PM ^
Another Michigan goal to start the 3rd quarter!
February 24th, 2018 at 1:22 PM ^
Live stats are now up. Michigan is 1 of 5 on faceoffs in second half. That has to improve.
February 24th, 2018 at 1:31 PM ^
Tied at 10 late in the 3rd quarter. Need to win some faceoffs!!! 5 of 23 is not how you upset a top 20 team on the road.
February 24th, 2018 at 1:34 PM ^
11-10 Yale at the end of the 3rd Quarter.
February 24th, 2018 at 1:37 PM ^
Other top teams appear to be struggling at home, too.
#8 Notre Dame is tied with Richmond at 7 in the 4th
#15 Penn State is tied with Robert Morris at 7 in the 4th
February 24th, 2018 at 1:46 PM ^
12-10 Yale halfway through the 4th quarter
February 24th, 2018 at 1:47 PM ^
Robert Morris is now up 10-7 on #15 Penn State
February 24th, 2018 at 1:51 PM ^
Too bad they're down 14-10 with 3:34 left.
February 24th, 2018 at 1:53 PM ^
Goal!!! 14-11 with 2:26 left. Maybe just maybe this can become a game again.
February 24th, 2018 at 1:53 PM ^
Extra man opportunity with 2:26 left. Rally time boys!
February 24th, 2018 at 1:56 PM ^
Turnover leads to a wasted extra man opportunity. 1:22 left, Yale ball.
February 24th, 2018 at 8:19 PM ^
February 25th, 2018 at 12:24 AM ^
I was at the basketball game today and following along on my phone as best I could. And I have to admit I got pretty excited when I saw it was 10-8. Alas, it was too good to be true. I got pretty bummed when I saw Yale start to pull away and then finish them off.
Nevertheless, this was a pretty encouraging result. Yale has started the season pretty rusty but they're expected to be very good this year. And Michigan had them on the ropes for most of the game. It sounds like Michigan is still working out some kinks but it seems like they got talent and could be a tough out this year. Last week they were a few mistakes/easy goals from beating a team who just knocked off #1. They should be able to hang with good teams but they have to get better at closing out games - the last two weeks they couldn't score late which hurt them. THey have to get better at man-up as well.
Also - Marquette, Air Force and Penn State (they had a bad loss today to Robert Morris) have all slid closer to a toss-up now. Hopkins looks more get-able now too. LOts of parity this year - good news for the mid-range and up-and-coming programs.
Stay tuned, could be an interesting year.
February 25th, 2018 at 12:27 AM ^
Holy shit - I just noticed that Air Force lost to Cleveland State last night. That game is real winnable now - Michigan should be in full contention now- they should win that one!