[
THE SCOOP] ground balls 4
Number of unseeded
teams — Albany,
Bryant, Drexel and Johns Hopkins — to reach the NCAA Division I men’s quarterfinals, the first time that’s ever happened. That’s as far as the Cinderella stories went, though. Four seeded teams comprised the final four for the first time since 2009.
11.3
Seconds it took Drexel
to score three goals, including consecutive scores off faceoffs by Nick Saputo, to turn a 6-4 deficit into a 7-6 halftime lead in an NCAA men’s first- round game at Penn. The Dragons went on to win 16-11. Drexel, which took the CAA title with back- to-back overtime wins, was
playing in its
first NCAA tournament since moving to Division I in 1974.
Nick Saputo 7
Years between NCAA semifinal appearances for
the Virginia women, who got there this year with a 10-9 win May 17 at North Carolina, the Cavaliers’ first- ever NCAA tournament win in
Chapel Hill.
406 24
Career wins for Hall of
Famer Missy Foote, third-most in NCAA history. Foote, who has led Middlebury to five Division III titles, will retire after the 2015 season.
Years former Yale star Jon Reese held
the NCAA Division I men’s single-season goals record of 82 goals before Albany’s Miles Thompson tied the mark in the Great Danes quarterfinal loss to Notre Dame.
68.8 Faceoff win
percentage of Bryant’s Kevin Massa, best in the nation in 2014, just edging Maryland’s Charlie Raffa at 68.6.
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423
Goals scored by
Division III men’s champ Tufts, an NCAA record in any division. The Jumbos broke the previous mark of 417 set by Salisbury in 2007.
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