2026 Schedule Tidbits

[DoctahLexus]

disagree on weak sauce, seems just what the doctor ordered for this year. they can't take a tosu/rich/hop hit again this year. that doesn't even include the terps ooc.

7 games ooc look like they should win unless they're just not good enough. dartmouth and towson of that group very likely top 20.

then 7 games of acc with umd/hop/rich. even if they only pulled 2 or 3 of those games, that's 9-5 or 10-4, pre-hopeful acc tournament. and they're plugged back into the ivy.

absolutely a schedule that works for them in 2026.

Agreed mostly. When you are in the ACC you have several high quality opponents built in to the schedule, with the ACC tourney adding at least one more if you can get in. MD and Richmond are top 10 OOC and their 4 ACC opponents are projected to be top 10 or close to it. Hop Towson and Dartmouth should be borderline top 20. Colgate may be a little down this year and Utah High Point and Drexel have been strugging lately. That may be one too many easy opponents and I don't get playing Drexel that late into the season. But you have several top 10 opponents built into the schedule.

The goal is the same, beat enough quality teams and you will be fine. Plenty of opportunities there still. If they go 0-4 in the ACC again the biggest gauntlet in the word couldn't save them.

 

[Hoo's That]

Dartmouth is "Old Home Week" for Kirwan.

 

[jbfried3]

Boston

Feb 7: At Denver
Feb 13: UMD
Feb 22: St Joseph
Feb 27: At Princeton
Mar 1: At Penn
Mar 7: At JHU
Mar 15: Colgate
Mar 22: Georgetown
Mar 29: At Duke
Apr 4: UNC
Apr 11: UVA
Apr 18: Stony Brook
April 25: At UND

This could be a possible schedule. I have heard rumors about the Denver game and the Stony Brook game is a complete guess

 

[jbfried3]

If not Stony Brook then Albany. That game could either be at home or on the road

 

[Hawknate144]

Boston

Feb 7: At Denver
Feb 13: UMD
Feb 22: St Joseph
Feb 27: At Princeton
Mar 1: At Penn
Mar 7: At JHU
Mar 15: Saint Joseph
Mar 22: Georgetown
Mar 29: At Duke
Apr 4: UNC
Apr 11: UVA
Apr 18: Stony Brook
April 25: At UND

This could be a possible schedule. I have heard rumors about the Denver game and the Stony Brook game is a complete guess

is St Joes supposed to be listed twice

 

[jbfried3]

is St Joes supposed to be listed twice

No I thought I put Manhattan for the 2nd St Joseph game

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Where's Colgate?

 

[jbfried3]

Where's Colgate?

Scratch Manhattan, Colgate should be on the 15th

 

[Hawknate2]

Where is the Harvard game, or was that moved?

 

[jbfried3]

Where is the Harvard game, or was that moved?

Since when were we playing Harvard

 

[jbfried3]

Was that game supposed to be on the 22nd?

 

[Hawknate2]

Gait said last spring they are playing at Harvard in Feb

This was said a while ago.

 

[JeremyCuse]

Boston

Feb 7: At Denver
Feb 13: UMD
Feb 22: St Joseph
Feb 27: At Princeton
Mar 1: At Penn
Mar 7: At JHU
Mar 15: Colgate
Mar 22: Georgetown
Mar 29: At Duke
Apr 4: UNC
Apr 11: UVA
Apr 18: Stony Brook
April 25: At UND

This could be a possible schedule. I have heard rumors about the Denver game and the Stony Brook game is a complete guess

Highly unlikely were playing SB unless there was a late schedule switch. Denver that early on the road also seems highly unlikely.

 

[jbfried3]

If that’s true then we’re probably playing sju in april and harvard on 2/22

 

[outoftownie]

No stony brook, but we are playing the rest of those teams plus at least one more. Some of your dates are right, some are close and other are pretty far off. We will all have the full schedule shortly.

 

[jbfried3]

No stony brook, but we are playing the rest of those teams plus at least one more. Some of your dates are right, some are close and other are pretty far off. We will all have the full schedule shortly.

I hope, I made this at dinner so it was a little rushed. That’s why there was so many mistakes

 

[DMVCuseLax]

I believe St. Joes is game 2 on the 7th.

 

[wgdsr]

Agreed mostly. When you are in the ACC you have several high quality opponents built in to the schedule, with the ACC tourney adding at least one more if you can get in. MD and Richmond are top 10 OOC and their 4 ACC opponents are projected to be top 10 or close to it. Hop Towson and Dartmouth should be borderline top 20. Colgate may be a little down this year and Utah High Point and Drexel have been strugging lately. That may be one too many easy opponents and I don't get playing Drexel that late into the season. But you have several top 10 opponents built into the schedule.

The goal is the same, beat enough quality teams and you will be fine. Plenty of opportunities there still. If they go 0-4 in the ACC again the biggest gauntlet in the word couldn't save them.

if you have 7-9 strong teams on your schedule and good backup from there, your schedule will be = or + vs most of the contenders and then your record isn't handicapped, and often helped.
consider a team's opponents on left from 2025 and uva 2026:

4 ACCs......4 ACCs
umd...umd
hop...hop
cornell......richmd
harvard.....dart
gate...gate
towson.....towson
utah...utah
jax.....hi point
vermont......stony
manhattan...drexel

those schedules from jump look... pretty identical all added in. they're not different level schedules at all and anyone could argue more difficulty on either side.

the 7 weakest ooc opponents for uva had well over a .500 record combined, which works out real well if you go 7-0 against it and they're not all MAAC schools.

probably the 1st time in lars' tenure since 2018 or so i haven't had some kind of an issue small or larger with it.

 

[FloridaCuse]

Boston

Feb 7: At Denver
Feb 13: UMD
Feb 22: St Joseph
Feb 27: At Princeton
Mar 1: At Penn
Mar 7: At JHU
Mar 15: Colgate
Mar 22: Georgetown
Mar 29: At Duke
Apr 4: UNC
Apr 11: UVA
Apr 18: Stony Brook
April 25: At UND

This could be a possible schedule. I have heard rumors about the Denver game and the Stony Brook game is a complete guess

A lot of Fridays and Sundays

 

[jbfried3]

2026 Men's Lacrosse Schedule - Air Force Academy Athletics

The official 2026 Men's Lacrosse schedule for the Air Force Academy Falcons

goairforcefalcons.com

Save the date, March 12th on the road Air Force vs. Cuse.

 

[DMVCuseLax]

2026 Men's Lacrosse Schedule - Air Force Academy Athletics

The official 2026 Men's Lacrosse schedule for the Air Force Academy Falcons

goairforcefalcons.com

Save the date, March 12th on the road Air Force vs. Cuse.

Cuse vs Denver on the trip too.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

What idiot thought it was a good idea to take a West Coast trip on a short week?

Princeton, Hop, AF and Denver would make 4 road games in a row.

 

[DMVCuseLax]

What idiot thought it was a good idea to take a West Coast trip on a short week?

Spring Break

 

[jbfried3]

What idiot thought it was a good idea to take a West Coast trip on a short week?

Exactly what I was thinking. I assume we’re not playing anyone on the 14th, unless that Denver game is being played

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Spring Break

Who takes Spring Break in the snow?

Give me Myrtle Beach anytime.