Lacrosse- Pac 12 Honors / NCAA Tournament selection show tomorrow evening (5/5, 7:00 MT)

A couple items related to the lacrosse team-

The Pac 12 All-Conference teams and MVP's were announced a couple days ago. 5 Buffs were named to either the 1st or 2nd teams, and Miranda Stinson earned the "Most Valuable Attacker" award.

Congrats to all!

Article on the awardees-






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Also wanted to mention that, per the relevant NCAA webpage (https://www.ncaa.com/championships/lacrosse-women/d1/road-to-the-championship),
"Selection Show | Sunday, May 5, 2019 on NCAA.com, 9 p.m. Eastern
The 2019 NCAA Division I Women’s Lacrosse Championship bracket will be announced the first weekend in May prior to opening-round competition."

There will hopefully be a live stream starting at 7:00 PM MT, with a link available at that time at .https://www.ncaa.com/ . (Note it must be fun for some teams' travel folk, as two 1st round (AKA "play-in) games are only 2-3 days after this show, with the 2nd round games then all scheduled for May 10th.)

The Buffs are ranked #20 in the latest Coaches poll (https://www.iwlca.org/news_article/show/1016682) and are #21 in RPI (per https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/lacrosse-women/d1/ncaa-womens-lacrosse-rpi). With 15 auto-qualifiers out of a field of 28, I'd assume the Buffs are a bubble team.

I was able to find one bracketology analysis dated May 1st (https://www.uslaxmagazine.com/colle...ble-teams-vying-for-last-four-at-large-berths) that does have the Buffs safely in the tournament, and they aren't even listed in the "Last 4 in" category. Hopefully that IS accurate. (I'd assume that this website's detailed bracket might be more educated guess as opposed to likely to be that accurate, but for what it's worth they have the Buffs travelling to Ann Arbor to play #7 ranked/ #15 RPI Notre Dame in the 1st round, with the winner of that game likely to face the host #8 seed (and #8 ranked) Wolverines. )

Way to go Buffs!

Looks like Dartmouth is ranked #18 in the coaches' poll (https://www.iwlca.org/news_article/show/1016682), and #12 in Inside Lacrosse's (https://www.insidelacrosse.com/league/WDI/polls), so the Buffs should come in with the hunger of the underdog. Start STRONG!

(Per the bracket (https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/print/lacrosse-women/d1/2019), the winner will face host and #2 ranked Boston College.)

I would like them to win at least 1 game. It would be huge but if they play well they can

That’s a good draw. Dartmouth is winnable. Was afraid we’d draw one of the top 8 teams.

(Interesting to me the Buffs have, heading into the tournament anyways, ended up with the exact same ranking as their RPI (also #21). That does NOT happen often in my experience, at least with other sports.)