Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Stony Brook v Towson tomorrow, shaping up to be a very good & meaningful game


Nice try. Stony Brook is not playing any top competition until the NCAAs.


Not trying anything... Towson is a very good team.. will make the bracket.. and IF...Stony Brook wins this game this is a quality win


It's not a quality win for a legitimate #1 team in the country. Most of the teams up there year after year (Maryland, UNC, Northwestern, Syracuse, Florida) would view a win over Towson as a typical win. Their measuring tick is higher than that. I will give you that it's as good as SB can do because they have such a weak schedule, but just because the other teams on the schedule are really bad, it doesn't then elevate a Towson to some kind of status that they don't deserve. The #1 team beating a team outside the top 10 in women's lacrosse is almost always a given.


Being in America East definitely hurts Stony Brook. I think JS has gotten as many challenging games as he could. He knows the regular season means nothing and SB are going to the tournament no matter what. Who's going to stop them from winning the AE championship? No one. So you have to figure he doesn't care much who the team plays as long as it makes the team better. Florida has been on their schedule for years, and this year they aren't? Seems fishy. I'm willing to bet he didn't get many takers when it came to scheduling games against top competition. If you look at it from a Maryland, UNC, Cuse, FL standpoint - why would you want to make SB better by playing them in the regular season? If you win, it doesn't stop them from advancing to the tournament so what is the point? And either way, it better prepares SB for the postseason. If I was one of those coaches, I wouldn't play SB either. It is a good strategy to let them get lazy playing the lackluster AE teams.