Polls for Mar 10: Media #9 / Coaches #10

[OrangeXtreme]

Penn State entered the Top 5, Syracuse is back in the Top 10, Ohio State was the big winner, and there are two new teams featured in the KANE Men’s DI Media Poll.

A significant week caused shake-up toward the top, as two teams previously in the Top 5 —Notre Dame and Cornell— took losses.

By taking down the Irish, Ohio State gained more than anyone else, rising from 15 to 10. The Buckeyes have won seven-straight games, including Virginia and the Irish.

The new Top 5 is:

1. Maryland, which remains undefeated and handled Delaware in College Park.
2. Princeton, which won an in-state rivalry with Rutgers.
3. Army, which is unbeaten at 6-0, beat Holy Cross and has Lehigh up next.
4. Penn State, which was shorthanded personnel-wise in its wild comeback win against Cornell. The Nittany Lions only loss is to Princeton in OT.
5. North Carolina, which easily beat Hofstra and only owns a loss to Princeton.

Find the full KANE Men's DI Media Poll here.

Rank	Team	Points	Prev
1	Maryland (6 - 0)	520 (26)	1
2	Princeton (4 - 1)	489	4
3	Army (6 - 0)	441	5
4	Penn State (5 - 1)	439	8
5	North Carolina (5 - 1)	423	6
9	Syracuse (5 - 2)	308	11

 

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Quint Kessenich’s Top 20: March 10, 2025

Just three undefeated D1 lacrosse teams survived the weekend—Maryland, Fairfield, and Army have yet to taste defeat, while Hampton, Loyola, and Wagner are | College, NCAA, News, D1 Lacrosse

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7) Syracuse
An early lead in the Dome behind Dwan, Leo, and Hiltz dissipated into a 4-4 tie after one quarter. Hopkins committed a two-minute non-releasable penalty, but SU fouled immediately. Not smart. Syracuse doesn’t play championship-brand lacrosse when it comes to game management. They make all sorts of clock and score mistakes and have to deal with self-inflicted wounds. SU would benefit from executing the fundamentals better.

The second midfield delivered as Wyatt Hottle drew the JHU slide, and Tyler Cordes finished to tie it 5-5. Spallina was being taken out by Scott Smith.

Down 6-5 in the third, #HHH couldn’t find the cage and had already hit three pipes. Luke Rhoa face-dodged and somehow squeaked one past Staudt to tie it 6-6. Down 8-6, shot selection and execution became an issue—too much sidearm. Off a restart from the end line, Cordes scored his second of the game off the dodge to make it 8-7. Michael Leo then dodged from the left GLE and buried an overhand finish to tie it 8-8.

Then came the momentum swing. Spallina and English executed the hidden ball trick to give Otto a 9-8 lead heading into the fourth. That should never happen. English seems to be playing the entire game.

A 9-9 tie after Trey Deere’s shot was stuffed by Staudt turned into a 10-9 Orange lead with eight minutes to play. When Rhoa stung the net, it was 10-10 again. But then Hiltz, with his fourth goal of the afternoon, gave SU a 12-10 lead after getting fouled on the shot.

Syracuse’s lack of discipline showed again when Trey Deere retaliated against Weishaar and got flagged. It didn’t cost them this time, but it could have.

Hopkins fouled, and SU was patient. Deere reset the shot clock at 3:35, and JHU didn’t press out despite being down two goals. Leo sealed it with a lefty rip after English drew slides from four different defenders. 13-10.

Jimmy McCool made a stop with 1:30 to play to secure the win.

Orange (5-2) play Manhattan and Colgate this week. The Raiders won’t back down.

 

[DomeHolmes]

Overrated:

1. Georgetown
2. Penn state. Won in a total fluke fashion. Not that good
3. Army. Like last year, schedule is incredibly weak. Can’t imagine them being undefeated if they played the same schedule Cuse/Hop/ ND/ Md played.

 

[Powellfan]

9. Syracuse (5 - 2)​

Johns Hopkins wasn’t the only coming into the rivalry game with injury woes, as ‘Cuse has already ruled out Jackson Birtwistle out for the season with a torn ACL and coach Gary Gait said postgame that Finn Thomson was out for a while, though he immediately followed that up with he expects him to be back in a couple of weeks.

A moment to celebrate how awesome of a signature moment Joey Spallina’s fake flip was a now that we are a couple of days removed. For 22 to celebrate fiercely on the logo with the 8,607 fans going out of their minds after he pulled up from 35 yards as Sam English fooled Hopkins goalie Luke Staudt, that was incredible. It’s the kind of highlight that’ll surely get included in his career highlight tape. The Orange still needed defensive stops and another 3-0 run to end the game in the fourth, but that goal was massive to land three strikes in quick succession under a minute to get the home crowd rocking. It came after a series of drops and misses, so while it felt like the crowd was getting quite disgruntled (to which fans there have said it was due to the refereeing decisions), leave it to the star man to have an epic star moment.
—KB