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

1. Yale fortified its hold on the No. 1 ranking in the Nike/US Lacrosse Division I Men’s Top 20 with its convincing win over Cornell, while Penn State’s grip on the top spot in the USILA coaches poll weakened a bit after the Nittany Lions were idle over the weekend. Penn State also remained atop the Inside Lacrosse media poll. Penn State, Duke, Yale and Maryland all received first-place votes.

2. Undefeated Notre Dame jumped 10 spots to No. 7 in the Nike/US Lacrosse Division I Women’s Top 20, bolstered by its first marquee win of the season, a 10-9 victory at Virginia. The top four teams — No. 1 Boston College, No. 2 Maryland, No. 3 North Carolina and No. 4 Syracuse — are identical across all three major national rankings. BC earned all 25 first-place votes in the IWLCA coaches poll, while Maryland siphoned off three of the 24 first-place votes in the Inside Lacrosse media poll.

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

3. Syracuse relocated its lacrosse games this weekend to local high schools to accommodate the NCAA women’s basketball tournament at the Carrier Dome and Lacrosse Twitter predictably took issue with the decision.

The Orange women will play Notre Dame at Christian Brothers Academy on Saturday. The men will play Duke at Cicero-North Syracuse High on Sunday.

4. The Buffalo Bandits clinched their first NLL playoff berth since 2016 against the team they met in the championship finals that season. Jack Goods recapped Week 14 and previews Week 15 in his weekly NLL notebook.

5. Yale’s Matt Brandau and Hofstra’s Alyssa Parrella earned Warrior/US Lacrosse Player of the Week and Brine/US Lacrosse Player of the Week honors as the week’s top performers in Division I men’s and women’s lacrosse, respectively.

 

WHAT WE’RE READING

  • Another case of a high school player, this time in Delaware, who has been sidelined because standardized helmets do not fit his head.

  • New college rules are trickling down to the high school level and coaches are taking notice especially in New York and Baltimore.

  • Born with cataracts, Harvard’s Shea Jenkins had vision-saving surgery that allows her to see things much more clearly now on the field.

  • McDonogh (Md.) girls’ lacrosse enters a new era under first-year coach Taylor Cummings, who says it’s a clean slate now that the streak is over.

  • Ohio Machine standout Bryce Wasserman was a stud quarterback in high school in football-crazed Texas.

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WHAT WE’RE WATCHING

The Barstool Sports personality known as Barstool Jordie tried out for the Philadelphia Wings—or at least that’s how he approached the NLL team’s media clinic.

WHAT’S ON TAP

  • Tuesday trap games. Among intriguing games with upset potential, Michigan hosts the No. 7-ranked Notre Dame men, and No. 11 Princeton visits No. 17 Florida on the women’s side.

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