Building For The Final 4

[Whitey23]

Building For The Final Four: How Virginia Revamped Its Recruiting

(Inside Lacrosse Photo: Dave Anderson) When Lars Tiffany and his assistants Kip Turner and Sean Kirwan came to Virginia following

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Building For The Final Four: A Blue-Collar, Slow Build For Penn State Recruiting

(Inside Lacrosse Photo: Andy Lewis) It’s no fluke that No. 1-seed Penn State is finally within reach of a NCAA title after years of

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Building For The Final Four: Yale's Blue-Collar Identity Developed Through Recruiting

(Inside Lacrosse Photo: Larry Humphrey) A sign that reads 'reward what you want to repeat' sits atop the desk of Yale head coach Andy

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Building For The Final Four: How Recruiting Sustains Duke's Success

(Inside Lacrosse Photo: Dave Anderson) For Duke, a wildly impressive model of consistency has helped turn the Blue Devils into a

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[Whitey23]

UVA
BY THE NUMBERS
Under Armour All-Americans on the roster: 12
IL Power 100 recruits on the roster: 26
IL class rankings: No. 1 in '18, No. 6 in '17, No. 2 in '16, No. 3 in '15
School breakdown: 25 private school, 17 public school
Leading state representation: 7 (N.Y.), 6 (Pa., Va.), 5 (Conn., Md.)
Top 100 Seniors (signed): 7; five UA All-Americans
Top 100 Juniors (verbals): 7; two five-stars

PSU
BY THE NUMBERS
Under Armour All-Americans on the roster: 7
IL Power 100 recruits on the roster: 10
IL class rankings: No. 18 in '18, NR in '17, No. 9 in '16, No. 12 in '15
School breakdown: 23 private school, 22 public school
Leading state representation: 13 (N.Y.), 11 (Pa.), 6 (Md., N.J.)
Top 100 Seniors (signees): 4; one UA All-American
Top 100 Juniors (verbals): 2

Yale
BY THE NUMBERS
Under Armour All-Americans on the roster: 5
IL Power 100 recruits on the roster: 18
IL class rankings: No. 2 in '18, No. 12 in '17, No. 11 in '16, No. 5 in '15
School breakdown: 26 private school, 23 public school
Leading state representation: 19 (N.Y.), 8 (N.J.), 4 (Pa.)
Top 100 seniors (signed): 5; three UA All-Americans
Top 100 juniors (verbals): 5; three five-stars

Duke
BY THE NUMBERS
Under Armour All-Americans on the roster: 18
IL Power 100 recruits on the roster:IL class rankings: No. 6 in '18, No. 3 in '17, No. 1 in '16, No. 6 in '15
School breakdown: 31 private school, 17 public school
Leading state representation: 11 (N.Y.), 6 (N.J.), 3 (Minn., Md., N.C., Conn.)
Top 100 Seniors (signees): 8
Top 100 Juniors (verbals): 5; three five-stars

Considering doing this breakdown for Cuse. Maybe when I’m back at work Tuesday.

 

[Zack80]

Yale's Blue Collar identity - sounds like an oxymoron.

 

[laxsummit]

Despite all those fanciful stats, Cuse beat Duke by one and lost to UVA by one in OT.

Be rooting for either ACC team in Final preferably against PSU

 

[Orangello]

We need to upgrade the attack plain and simple. Watching the passing and ball movement in these two semifinals shows we have a ways to go. We need more finishers a la Canadian box players.