Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
There was a lot of bashing of Duke for unsportsmanlike behavior for running up the score. It appears as though it was just an excuse to attack Duke, no other teams being attacked for doing the exact same thing.

Those other teams such as BC are also guilty of being unsportsmanlike but there did seem to be some differences . The teams BC have run it up against are not the caliber that Duke is doing it against and it looks to me that the removed their top scorer early when she had scored no more than she normally does against the top 10 teams . Duke has kids padding their stats putting up numbers they have no chance at getting against the best teams .

Complete BS.

Duke leads D1 lacrosse in goals per game at 23 beating their 4 opponents by a combined 92-26. Duke has the #1 and #2 point and goal leaders in the country scoring a combined 42 goals compared to 26 by their opponents. With Wofford and East Carolina coming up the onslaught should continue. The #3 points leader in the country has played two ranked teams, the #4 one ranked team and the #5 two ranked teams. Duke has played Gardner-Webb, High Point, Elon and William & Mary. That is why Duke is catching grief.

22- 5 BC over UMass
19 - 2 Albany over Colgate
22 - 6 BC over BU
21- 2 Monmouth over Central Ct
23 - 6 Syracuse over Binghamton
20 - 2 Jacksonville over Niagara
23 - 2 Michigan over Detroit Mercy

The list goes on... Fine by me to bash Duke but at least be consistent in your bashing...


You are looking at a portion of one dimension and not the entire three combined (strength of schedule, goal differential and individual statistics). Below are the current top 10 teams per game goal differential, top 25 opponents and top individual points per game scorers.

Duke has the #1 goal differential in D1, the #1 and #2 points per game individual scorers in D1 and has played 4 games without a top 25 opponent with two more unranked opponents coming this week. When you look at all three components, Duke is letting its best players run it up against the weakest competition at a rate higher than any other top ranked team in the country. To be clear, this is not a criticism of any player, they are doing what their coaches tell them to do:

Duke- 16, (none) 2 players at 7
Boston College- 14 (Northwestern) 1 player at 6, 1 player at 4
UNC- 10 (Florida, James Madison) 2 players at 5
Michigan- 10 (Notre Dame) 1 player at 3
Maryland- 9 (Virginia) 1 player at 5
Loyola- 9 (Johns Hopkins) 1 player at 6
Syracuse- 7 (Stanford, Stony Brook) 1 player at 6, 1 player at 5
Florida- 5 (UNC) 1 player at 7, 1 player at 5
Northwestern- 3 (BC) 1 player at 4
Stony Brook- -1 (Syracuse) 2 players at 4

Off the top of my head, Duke will have games vs Syracuse, Penn, Notre Dame, Virginia Tech, Boston College and North Carolina and possibly 1 or 2 additional ACC games. Outside of ACC teams not too many programs will play many more difficult games than Duke. All of the carrying on is a bit much, none of it matters, Duke will either be competitive vs ACC teams or they will not be competitive. It will all come out in the wash. Sorry, I just don’t get the concern over a snapshot in time. There is a lot of lacrosse to be played, time will tell who is who and what is what.