Why the focus on Duke. The same can be said about UVA, ND (until this year), Hopkins...
Not really familiar with the other programs but lets take a comparison of UVA vs Duke. UVA coach has won a national championship and has reached NCAA final 3 times , Duke has 0 finals appearances. UVA has made every NCAA tournament since Myers has been coaching , Kimmel and Duke have not done so multiple times. Duke ended season ranked outside the to 20 the past 3 years , UVA has been top 20 the last 5 seasons and possibly longer with 2 of those seasons being in the top 10. As far as ND it has been said on this site many times that her job is or should be in jeopardy.
*** "Why the focus on Duke? The same can be said about UVA".... No, the same can not be said about UVA.
Below is how Duke and Virginia finished the season since 2010.
............... 2010......2011......2012......2013......2014......2015......2016......2017......2018......2019
UVA----------4--------14----------8----------9----------4----------8----------16--------14----------13--------7
Duke---------5---------5----------6-----------7----------8----------4----------11--------NR---------NR------NR
Something has gone wrong at Duke.
The Duke Women's Lacrosse program began in 1996 Virginia began in 1976. Virginia has won 3 National Championships and 5 ACC Championships. Duke has not won a national championship but has won 1 ACC Championship. Duke has made the NCAA Tournament 19 times in the programs 24 year history. Since the NCAA Tournament began in 1986 Virginia has made the Tournament 32 times in 33 years .
Virginia is one of five programs in the NCAA to be ranked at least once in every year of the IWLCA Coaches Poll. The poll was created
in 1988, with Dartmouth, Maryland, Penn State and Princeton joining Virginia
as the only programs to be nationally ranked every year.
For many years Duke was constantly one the Top 10 Programs. What happened?
