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2016 MAY MADNESS


Seven more players likely to make an impact this tournament season


WILL GURAL, BROWN, SR. FO BIGGEST X-FACTOR


SUPERLATIVES TYLER WHITE


TOWSON, R-SR. G MOST LIKELY TO GET HOT


A hot goalie can take you places. White, a 6-foot-3, 230-pound stopper, is arguably the nation’s best and the backbone of Towson’s highly-rated defense under former Team USA stud Shawn Nadelen. He’s a 23-year-old redshirt senior. “Not much gets him rattled,” Nadelen said.


JAKE FROCCARO, VILLANOVA, JR. A MOST LIKELY TO SCORE


The Princeton transfer owns single- game scoring records at two schools now after a seven-goal outburst for the Wildcats against Penn State this year. He was leading the nation in goals per game (4.29) by a wide margin in early April for an offense that pushes the tempo. “He enjoys the freedom to probe defenses from behind the goal, from up top with a downhill dodge or the wings,” said Simon Connor, Villanova’s offensive coordinator.


With a no holds barred offense like Brown’s that can hang 15 on any given day, a guy who gets it possession is even more dangerous. Gural is one of the few to outdraw Denver’s Trevor Baptiste (in last year’s NCAA fi rst round) and led the nation in faceoff win percentage (74.1) at the mid-point.


BEN REEVES


YALE, SO. A POISED TO BREAK OUT


Yale in general has been knocking on the door of the fi nal four the last couple of seasons. Reeves is the reigning Ivy League rookie of the year. He scored a combined nine goals and had fi ve assists in wins over Maryland, Cornell and Princeton this season.


JOSH BYRNE


HOFSTRA, JR. A HIGHLIGHT MAKER


The Nassau Community College transfer by way of Canada has burned up the lacrosse Internet with Lyle Thompson-esque goals. If Hofstra wins the CAA, Byrne will become more widely known. “He’s got some ‘Wow’ factors going for him,” Hofstra coach Seth Tierney said.


ZACH MILLER, DENVER JR. M


SERGIO PERKOVIC, NOTRE DAME JR. M BIGGEST CLUTCH PERFORMERS


The end of the game is often Miller time. He’s won the last two OT tilts against Notre Dame and had a hand in the third. All Perkovic does is score fi ve goals in crunch time in the fi nal four, but the Irish need to win. — Corey McLaughlin


BY THE NUMBERS 22.1 18


Percentage of NCAA Division I men’s games that were decided by a goal, either in regulation or in overtime, through the fi rst seven weeks of the season. Expect a similar trend in May.


Teams that will


comprise the Division I men’s tournament fi eld, with 10 automatic qualifi ers via conference title games and eight at- large bids. Get the most up-to-date projections from LM’s bracketologist Patrick Stevens at LaxMagazine.com/ MayMadness.


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Programs that were ranked in the Nike/LM Top 20 in the same span. Parity is real among the 70 NCAA Division I men’s teams. The success of relatively new programs at Richmond, Boston University, High Point and Marquette, all ranked at some point this season, are examples.


NCAA men’s tournament games to be broadcast by ESPNU, starting with the fi rst round the weekend of May 14-15.


A Publication of US Lacrosse


©JOHN STROHSACKER (JF); ©BRIAN SCHNEIDER


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