Mon May 24 2021 | Patrick Stevens | College
PHOTO BY RACHEL PINCUS
Anthony DeMaio celebrating with teammates after his game-winning goal in overtime.
Remember when the 2019 NCAA quarterfinals were supposed to be the best table-setter ever for championship weekend?
Well, 2021 made a run at that honor over the last two days.
Both sets of quarterfinals had three overtime games, though the relative dud of 2019 (Penn State’s 21-14 defeat of Loyola) was more compelling than this year’s dud (Virginia’s 14-3 drubbing of Georgetown). There wasn’t a call nearly as controversial as the 2019 Virginia-Maryland quarterfinal had, nor was there a cap to an epic trilogy like Yale-Penn that year.