The 2021 Boys Lacrosse Bracket

[dellylax]

Thoughts? Predictions?

 

[Previs423]

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Thoughts? Predictions?

Slax and whoever. Should be Cape, but not sure if Sanford can catch lightning in a bottle twice.

 

[dovetail]

Cape #5?, Archmere 3??, Stanford #1??

 

[Edp445]

Not so bold prediction. DMA get knocked out by Tatnall. Side note, how does Milford not make the playoffs?

 

[delawarenole]

Cape #5?, Archmere 3??, Stanford #1??

The points system is not great IMO and leads to these crazy rankings.

But at least they all made the playoffs a few teams, most notably Caravel, got shafted hard.

Caravel was #12 on Thursday night but a series of crazy events happened resulting in a 5 way tie - Cape game vs IMG cancelled, AI lost a game they should have won, Tatnall went on a win streak, etc - between Dover, Conrad, Caravel, Charter, Tatnall.

The clear 4 teams that should be in were Dover, Caravel, Charter, Tatnall. Conrad lost every head to head played against these teams but since all 5 did not play each other head to head was disregarded and moved to winning % of opponents. Caravel gets kicked out despite beating Conrad bad 9-1 in the season.

Personally I would have taken those teams and put them in this order:
13 Tatnall - Most bonus points
14 Charter - High bonus points beat Conrad 6-2
15 Dover - Beat Caravel
16 Caravel - Beat Conrad 9-1
Out - Conrad

But the rules are what they are. Really would like to see a revamping of the points system and a D1/D2 split in lacrosse. Some of these 1st round games are going to suck for everyone involed.

 

[delawarenole]

Not so bold prediction. DMA get knocked out by Tatnall. Side note, how does Milford not make the playoffs?

There is always an upset and its one of the more likely IMO. Tatnall, maybe IR or Smyrna

 

[delawarenole]

Forgot to make my predictions and that was the first post here:

R1
Sanford vs Dover - Sanford
Sussex Academy vs Smyrna - Smyrna in the upset
DMA vs Tatnall - Tatnall in the upset
Cape vs Friends - Cape

Salesianum vs Conrad - Sals
Tower Hill vs IR - Tower Hill BUT very tempted to go with the upset here
Archmere vs Charter - Archmere
CR vs Newark Charter - CR

7-1 Not bad

R2
Sanford vs Smryna - Sanford
Tatnall vs Cape - Cape
Sals vs Tower Hill - Sals
Archmere vs CR - Archmere

R3
Sanford vs Cape - Cape in the rematch
Sals vs Archmere - Sals

Final
Sals vs Cape - I refuse to call this one too many people will yell at regardless of who I pick! Will be a great one though I think