Is men's lax playing this year?
by tf86 (2021-01-25 12:11:17)
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No schedule up for the season yet at und.com, and in an ordinary year the schedule would be starting up in a matter of weeks.

Did ND shut down the program for awhile, or did the NCAA decide not to play this year? If not, what is the reason for the delay in releasing the schedule?

The men will host Marquette on St. Patrick's Day per MU. *
by MPG  (2021-01-27 10:45:37)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

The women's schedule was released last week, so I expect
by MPG  (2021-01-25 22:48:15)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

that the men's will be released soon. As you can see in the link, it is a full schedule with some conference oddities, such as two consecutive games at SYR and two consecutive games at BC.
So far no ACC lacrosse schedule has been released.
by TWO  (2021-01-25 17:16:49)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

for any team.

This is the latest on the ACC. From USLacrosse Magazine

ACC (M)
Conference: Six games – playing two teams twice and two teams once. Each team will have three home and three away games.

Non-conference: Up to the discretion of each institution.

Conference tournament: None this year. “Regardless of what it looks like, it’s going to be an arduous journey for the players,” said Notre Dame coach Kevin Corrigan, whose team won’t start practicing until Jan. 27. “To focus through all the protocols and everything else, it’s exhausting. The social restrictions, logistical restrictions of every single day, it gives you a headache. Just how to just get guys through the locker room. Things you never gave seconds of thought to before. That’s exhausting for everybody.”

Duke will visit ND on April 10 and host ND on the 22nd per
by MPG  (2021-01-28 13:58:21)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Duke's schedule which was released on Monday of this week.
Interesting information
by tf86  (2021-01-28 11:00:16)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

A few things that really caught my eye:

1. No information whatsoever on the Southern Conference. Are they even playing this year? That's one of the most spread out conferences (if not the most spread out) geographically speaking.

2. CAA has plans to play two opponents twice each and four opponents once each. However, the CAA has only six members: Delaware, Drexel, Fairfield, Hofstra, UMass and Towson. It could be that the plan is to play two members twice and three members once each (likely split is Fairfield/Hofstra/UMass and Delaware/Drexel/Towson), although that would mean seven conference games and unequal split in home/away conference games (although other conferences as well as the CAA have gone through that in the past.)

3. Utah is the only independent mentioned, although according to Inside Lacrosse, Cleveland State, Hampton and Robert Morris are also independents.

Speaking of which, relatively few conference alignment changes per Inside Lacrosse:

1. Furman (formerly a member of the Southern Conference) dropped MLAX (previously announced.)
2. NJIT (previously independent) moved to America East.
3. Robert Morris moved out of NEC and is now independent.

See link.