Sunday, May 4, 2008

NCAA Lacrosse Bracketology

Projected Seeds, with RPI, SOS, and Quality Wins ranking listed after the team

1. Duke 1 3 1
2. Virginia 3 2 3
3. Syracuse 2 12 2
4. North Carolina 4 1 12
5. Johns Hopkins 7 4 11
6. Cornell (IVY) 6 17 5
7. Notre Dame (GWLL) 5 24 4
8. Colgate (Patriot) 9 8 10

Automatic Bids
Loyola (ECAC) 21 20 22
Hofstra (CAA) 11 18 15
UMBC (America East) 15 29 6
Canisius (MAAC) 36 54 29

Leaving four at larges open, for which the top candidates are

Ohio State 8 9 9
Maryland 10 5 14
Denver 12 6 13
Navy 13 10 17
Drexel 20 27 7
Brown 14 36 8
Army 17 7 19

Looking at the numbers, Bucknell, Princeton and Georgetown do not have much of a chance. I believe that the top four of these will get in, with OSU and Maryland being locks, and the final two in being Denver and Navy.


Because of NCAA travel regulations, there can only be two teams that travel 350 or more miles for the first round.

First Round Matchups:
Quarterfinal in Annapolis
1 Duke vs Loyola
8 Colgate vs Hofstra

2 Virginia vs Navy
7 Notre Dame vs Ohio State

Quarterfinal in Ithaca
3 Syracuse vs Canisius
6 Cornell vs Denver (Flight)

4 North Carolina vs UMBC
5 Johns Hopkins vs Maryland