2026 Lax Pick ‘em: Week 5

[Orangello]

Stony Brook -2.5
Penn -2
Navy -3
LIU -4.5
ND -2.5

 

[CNYnVa]

Canisius -2
VMI +2.5
Richmond -2
Harvard -4
Wagner +5.5

 

[JYCUSE12]

Notre Dame -2.5
Richmond-2
Penn st +1.5
Cuse -2
Michigan +4

 

[JeremyCuse]

Friday
Maryland -10.5 vs Delaware +10.5 7 PM
Army -6.5 vs Lafayette +6.5 7:30 PM

Saturday
Hampton +7 vs Mercyhurst -7 11 AM
Stony Brook -2.5 vs Binghamton +2.5 12 PM
Iona +2 vs Canisius -2 12 PM
Detroit Mercy +12.5 vs Jacksonville -12.5 12 PM
Providence +2.5 vs Loyola -2.5 12 PM
Mt St Mary +5.5 vs Marist -5.5 12 PM
Vermont +3.5 vs UMass -3.5 12 PM
Bucknell +3 vs Navy -3 12 PM
Rutgers +6 vs Princeton -6 12 PM
Georgetown +2 vs Richmond -2 12 PM
Bellarmine +2.5 vs RMU -2.5 12 PM
Merrimack +6.5 vs Sacred Heart -6.5 12 PM
UMBC +1.5 vs Hofstra -1.5 12 PM
Manhattan -1.5 vs LeMoyne +1.5 12 PM
Yale -2.5 vs Fairfield +2.5 12 PM
Bryant -1.5 vs St Johns +1.5 12 PM
Monmouth -2.5 vs VMI +2.5 12 PM
Brown +7 vs UNC -7 1 PM
Cornell -1.5 vs PSU +1.5 1 PM
St Bonnie +1.5 vs Cleveland St -1.5 1 PM
Colgate -5.5 vs Holy Cross +5.5 1 PM
Syracuse -2 vs JHU +2 1 PM
Mercer +5.5 vs Marquette -5.5 1 PM
Queens +4.5 vs LIU -4.5 1 PM
NJIT -5.5 vs Wagner +5.5 1 PM
Notre Dame -2.5 vs OSU +2.5 2 PM
Siena -5 vs Quinnipiac +5 2 PM
Duke -9 vs Air Force +9 2 PM
Hobart +5.5 vs Albany -5.5 2 PM
Dartmouth +1.5 vs Utah -1.5 2 PM
BU -4.5 vs Lehigh +4.5 2:30 PM
*Harvard -4 vs Michigan +4 3 PM
Drexel +2 vs St Joes -2 5 PM
Towson +4.5 vs UVA -4.5 6 PM

Sunday
Penn -2 vs Villanova +2 12 PM

*@ Houston Texas

Another rough week line wise, to my eyes at least. Hoping not to many of these go sideways.

Albany -5.5 - I will probably regret this but it's a home game for the Danes coming off a pretty rough stretch of good teams and Hobart while scrappy could only muster 7 goals against ROMO. Back door cover by Hobart late is a major concern here

Umass - 3.5 - Mass is 6-1 with there only loss being to Army. They just beat up on Albany whose better then Vermont and the game is at Umass.

Duke -9 - This game is at Air Force but it's hard to see how Duke doesn't win by at least 12+ goals. AF struggles to score and Duke's defense is outstanding. In two "peer" type matchups Duke beat Bellarmine by 15 and Vermont by 16. Cue these guys winning by 9 now of course.

OSU +2.5 - Zack has talked me into this one. ND only beat OSU by 1 last year and 3 two years ago. This game is at OSU and I'm getting the hook, though 3.5 would have been outstanding.

Pending a 5th pick

 

[Hawknate144]

Syracuse -2
Holy Cross -5.5
Penn -2
Hofstra -1.5
Navy -3

This is meant to say Holy Cross +5.5 of it's not obvious

 

[JeremyCuse]

This is meant to say Holy Cross +5.5 of it's not obvious

Looked at that game, think your onto something.

 

[Delmar]

Oops. I thought Maryland would chew up Delaware tonight. Maybe Maryland isn’t making the tournament this year. That would be refreshing.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Maryland 13, Delaware 8
Lafayette 10, Army 9

 

[Lax Mouse]

Definitely not the margin I expected but more shocking is the Lafayette win over Army. I had the Leopards pegged for a good season but this is huge for them.

Army dropping games in the Patriot again.

 

[Powellfan]

Definitely not the margin I expected but more shocking is the Lafayette win over Army. I had the Leopards pegged for a good season but this is huge for them.

Army dropping games in the Patriot again.

Can’t wait for Alberci to complain about RPI again next year …

 

[Lax Mouse]

Can’t wait for Alberci to complain about RPI again next year …

Curious how much their RPI will drop. They were #1.

They haven't played a team below .500 yet.

That UNC game will be more important than ever. Probably too soon to say it's AQ or bust for Army but . . .

 

[JeremyCuse]

Can’t wait for Alberci to complain about RPI again next year …

Death, Taxes, SU playing undisciplined under Gait and Army dropping a bad loss to a mediocre conf opp and then wondering why they keep missing the tournament.

This happens literally every year.

 

[DMVCuseLax]

Syracuse -2
Notre Dame -2.5
Duke -9
UNC -7
UVA -4.5

 

[JeremyCuse]

Curious how much their RPI will drop. They were #1.

They haven't played a team below .500 yet.

That UNC game will be more important than ever. Probably too soon to say it's AQ or bust for Army but . . .

If they dont beat UNC its gonna be AQ or bust. The Rutgers win isn't gonna hold up and Yale is middling again.

Edit - They did add Michigan to this year's schedule but that win isn't gonna mean much either with how they look. They need to beat UNC and make the Patriot champions game at minimum.

 

[nocohalo]

No use scheduling Army. They continue to not be resume boosters. And Maryland were 9 goal favorites against Delaware. Might want to stop remembering Spallina's goal celebrations.

 

[JeremyCuse]

No use scheduling Army. They continue to not be resume boosters. And Maryland were 9 goal favorites against Delaware. Might want to stop remembering Spallina's goal celebrations.

I've been beating the stop scheduling Army drum for the better part of a decade. It's a lose/lose for Syracuse. They play like a title contender everytime they matchup with SU and then lose multiple games in the Patriot and haven't even gotten to the patriot league finals the last 2 years despite getting a 1st round bye.