Wednesday, May 23, 2018

When the little guys win

I love it when the "little guys" of college sports win big. And, one of the places where that happens is in the "lesser," lower-profile sports. Take lacrosse, for instance. In this year's Final Four, two of the participants were Yale and Albany - not exactly sports powerhouses these days. Johns Hopkins is a perennial lacrosse powerhouse. And Denver and Loyola MD made the Elite Eight. (Denver, of course, is one of the true giants in NCAA ice hockey.) So three-fourths of the best eight teams in NCAA lacrosse are not household names to those who follow only football and basketball in the college landscape. That makes it sort of fun for those of us who love to root for the little guys.

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