Mon Feb 8 2021 | Patrick Stevens | College
PHOTO BY NATALIE LeDONNE / DUKE ATHLETICS
Michael Sowers contributed one goal and six assists combined in Duke s 2-0 opening weekend.
There’s one big absence from the first rankings update of the year, and it’s a team that didn’t even play this past weekend.
Or, it would seem, any weekend this season.
With much of Yale’s roster not enrolled this semester to save a year of eligibility based on Ivy League rules, the Bulldogs will not participate in the 2021 season, according to multiple reports. And that explains why Yale, which won the national title in 2018, was the NCAA tournament runner-up the following year and was the preseason No. 8 this season, is no longer in the rankings.
Tue Jan 19 2021 | Gary Lambrecht | College
PHOTO BY THOM KENDALL/UMASS ATHLETICS
UMass All-American Jeff Trainor’s evolution into a two-way midfielder coincided with the advent of the shot clock.
College lacrosse is back.
As perhaps the most anticipated season in NCAA history approaches, we’re featuring every team ranked in the Nike/US Lacrosse Preseason Top 20.
Check back to USLaxMagazine.com each weekday for new previews, scouting reports and rival analysis.
No. 14 UMass
Pre-COVID Ranking: 16th
UMass midfielder Jeff Trainor says he feels in a sense as if he’s had two overlapping college lacrosse careers. The graduate student out of Billerica, Mass., who is entering his fifth and final season with the Minutemen, has a point.