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Good morning. Here’s the latest from around the lacrosse world:

1. The Premier Lacrosse League held its college draft Monday at NBC Sports headquarters in Stamford, Conn., but mum’s the word until tonight, when the picks will be revealed on a network broadcast at 10 p.m. Pacific (1 a.m. Eastern) following its coverage of the NHL playoffs. Bone up with this primer by PLL writer and stats analyst Joe Keegan.

The league also announced Monday that its Week 11 games will be held at the University at Albany’s Casey Stadium.

2. Boston College just put the finishing touches on its second consecutive perfect regular season, is again ranked No. 1 in the Nike/US Lacrosse Division I Women’s Top 20 and will be the subject of a special video edition of “Overtime,” the podcast produced by US Lacrosse Magazine and hosted by ESPN analyst Paul Carcaterra.

3. College rankings dropped Monday, with new No. 1 teams taking over in Division III men’s and women’s lacrosse. RIT rose to the top spot in the Nike/US Lacrosse Division III Men’s Top 20, while Middlebury did the same in the Nike/US Lacrosse Division III Women’s Top 20. Here’s everything, including links to the media and coaches polls in the respective divisions.

NIKE/USL RANKINGS
MD1 | WD1 | MD2 | WD2 | MD3 | WD3 
IL MEDIA POLLS
MD1 | WD1
USILA POLLS
MD1 | MD2 | MD3
IWLCA POLLS
WD1 | WD2 | WD3
NJCAA
MEN | WOMEN

4. Yale’s TD Ierlan and Virginia’s Maggie Jackson were named the Warrior/US Lacrosse Player of the Week and the Brine/US Lacrosse Player of the Week, respectively, for the top performances in Division I men’s and women’s lacrosse.

5. The Buffalo Bandits, who missed the National Lacrosse League playoffs last year, continued their remarkable turnaround by clinching the top seed in the postseason.

WHAT WE’RE READING
 

  • The Women’s Professional Lacrosse League will stream its college draft Thursday at 8 p.m. Eastern.

  • The IWLCA and IMLCA issued a joint release praising the NCAA Division I Council’s decision to allow lacrosse to retain Sept. 1 of a prospective student-athlete’s junior year of high school as the contact start date.

  • A Minnesota high school coach who came out in the fall has found freedom and complexity in being openly gay in lacrosse.

  • University of Georgia lacrosse player Tate Prezzano was shot Monday after another student was robbed at gunpoint. Prezzano’s high school team tweeted that he was in stable but critical condition.

  • Just Lacrosse’s Dan Witmer hypothesizes why JV teams are disappearing in upstate New York.

  • Inside the lack of racial diversity in lacrosse, as chronicled by the Daily Orange, Syracuse’s independent student newspaper.

  • Penn is riding high after clinching its first Ivy League regular season title in 31 years.

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING

Christian Brothers Academy (N.Y.) boys’ lacrosse coach Ric Beardsley coaches the Brothers with the same passion and fire that made him a four-time All-American defenseman at Syracuse.

WHAT’S ON TAP

  • Patrick Stevens’ latest bracket projection for Division I men’s lacrosse.

  • “Overtime” with Paul Carcaterra, featuring the Boston College women’s lacrosse team, drops on iTunes and Spotify, with a special look on the US Lacrosse YouTube channel.

  • The PLL college draft on NBC Sports at 1 a.m. Eastern.

  • The red-hot Stony Brook women’s lacrosse team, ranked No. 17 in the Nike/US Lacrosse Top 20, visit a Penn State team that just took down Johns Hopkins. Highlighting the men’s slate is an intrastate rivalry game between Brown and Bryant.

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