10 DUKE
2016 record // 11-8 (2-2 ACC)
Last seen // Getting steamrolled at Loyola on the first weekend of the NCAA tournament, the Blue Devils’ second consecutive early exit.
Starts lost // 48% Scoring lost // 59%
Forecast // No one rode its first midfield harder than Duke last spring. Deemer Class and Myles Jones had plenty to do with that. But so, too, did the lack of developed options behind them. Brad Smith was solid on the seldom-used second line. Duke might ask more of its defense in 2017 than at any point in John Danowski’s tenure in Durham.
ENEMY LINES
“DO THEY GET BACK TO MORE OF A TEAM GAME WITH JONES GONE?”
36 US LACROSSE MAGAZINE February 2017
DIVISION I MEN
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VIRGINIA 2016 record // 7-8 (0-4 ACC)
Last seen // Sealing a sub-.500 season with a blowout loss against Brown during ACC tournament weekend. A little more than three weeks later, the school opted to make a coaching change, ending Dom Starsia’s 24-year run in Charlottesville.
Starts lost // 19% Scoring lost // 31%
Forecast // The Cavaliers’ overall level of talent isn’t the same as it once was. Two of the top three scorers graduated, and goalie Matt Barrett was suspended following an arrest for drug possession. Can new coach Lars Tiffany and his former Brown staff awaken this sleeping giant? Ryan Lukocovic is primed for a big senior year.
ENEMY LINES
“NEW BLOOD WILL LEAD TO A RESURGENCE.”
12 ALBANY
2016 record // 12-4 (6-0 America East)
Last seen // Dropping back-to- back tournament games, falling to Hartford in a conference tournament shocker before being overtaken by Syracuse in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
Starts lost // 29% Scoring lost // 14%
Forecast // This much is certain: Led by Connor Fields Great Danes will score, they’ll be fun to watch and they’ll probably be the class of the America East so long as they don’t get demolished at the faceoff X. In other words, just a normal year for Scott Marr’s team. If the Great Danes can find steady goalie play, they’ll be a final four sleeper.
ENEMY LINES
“WILD-CARD PLAYERS WITH INSANE SKILL. WEIRD OFFENSE TO DEFEND, SNEAKY GOOD.”
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