LaxFactor College Lacrosse Show

The 2021 college lacrosse season featured some of the highest profile transfers the sport has seen, headlined by Michael Sowers ditching Princeton for Duke. The 2022 season doesn't have any Sowers level transfers to boast of, but that doesn't mean that there aren't...

The ACC has been the best top-to-bottom lacrosse conference for many years now. With teams like Virginia, Syracuse, Duke, North Carolina and Notre Dame, how could it not be? The 2021 season saw the ACC beat the living crap out of each other, each team having to play 6...

In this episode, we'll start by talking some general news, but we'll dive deep into InsideLacrosse.com's Top 50 Returning Players list. We'll talk about #50 through #31 skipping over the girls only because I know nothing about girls lacrosse. Guys that made the cut,...

2022 is going to be huge for college lacrosse as we'll see a bit of a "changing of the guard" in terms of who is doing battle for end of the year awards and the Tewaaraton. Guys like Brennan O'Neill and Logan Wisnauskas both played Robin to Sowers & Bernhardt...

The High Point men's lacrosse squad will once again play one of the most brutal early season schedules in all of college lacrosse including Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia and Duke. Throw in conference foes Richmond and Jacksonville along with solid programs like...

Lots of 2021 fall ball action to talk about including Syracuse vs Ohio State, Virginia taking on Lehigh, Johns Hopkins hosting Hobart and Richmond, High Point and Harvard did battle and much more. Syracuse supposedly took down Ohio State, both both teams looked good....

At least one person asked for it, so you all shall receive. I'm going to revisit my predictions for the 2021 NCAA Lacrosse Tournament starting with the first round and see how I actually did in terms of (a) picking the winners and (b) picking the spread. I'm...

We're back with season #3 of the LaxFactor Lacrosse Podcast, and today marks our 174th episode. Today, we're going to answer InsideLacrosse's "10 Questions For Fallball 2021" that was posted to their website late this week. The questions include… How do the Ivies...

There is no shortage of incredible offensive talent we will be able to enjoy in 2022's upcoming lacrosse season, but there are 5 guys that I'm really excited about, that I wanted to talk about. Caveat, I'm not going to talk about Chris Gray, even though we know he's...

OK, so news first, Gary Gait, Syracuse's new head coach, only the 5th in the programs history, wasted no time making headlines in hiring Dave Pietramala, former adversary, and long time head coach at Cuse rival Johns Hopkins. Pietramala is one of the most storied...

Virginia won an instant classic over Maryland by a score of 17-16 capturing their second national title in a row, the first back to back championship in the programs history. Connor Shellenberger was a huge part of the win going for 4 goals and 2 assists. The redshirt...

Memorial Day Weekend is upon us, the most beloved weekend of the year by lacrosse fans all over the world. We have the top four seeds in the tournament doing battle this weekend so it's sure to be exciting. In Saturday's first game we have #4 Virginia taking on #1...

Maryland made sure the NCAA Lacrosse Final Four wasn't an all ACC affair by knocking off Notre Dame in overtime on Sunday. We had three incredible lacrosse games that saw Duke and North Carolina also advance thanks to winning in overtime. One of the best quarterfinal...

We had some incredible games for this weekends first round NCAA Lacrosse Tournament action. To summarize, we saw Drexel give Notre Dame some trouble, losing 10-8 to the Irish in a game that came down to the final minutes. We saw Vermont lose by a margin to Maryland,...

May Madness is upon us, and today is the day I make predictions for the entire first round, complete with a predicted "margin of victory", and I'll also reveal my full bracket and pick my winner for this years NCAA Division I Lacrosse Tournament. I won't spoil my...

So North Carolina brings home the top seed, followed up by Duke, Maryland and Virginia. Army ended up being the first team out, and Rutgers the last team in, and this was a tough call for the committee. Matchups look like this… 1 North Carolina vs Monmouth UNC will...

We have had a great week of college lacrosse action with conference tournaments in full swing. On Thursday night we saw teams like Maryland, Denver, Georgetown and Drexel all handle their business. We also saw teams like Albany, Vermont and Hopkins pull upsets that...

Syracuse hit the road to face Notre Dame with revenge on their minds, and instead they come home huge losers as the Irish embarrassed the Orange in an absolute blowout that has the #FireDesko crowd screaming from the rooftops, and even myself, a long time Desko...

The Big Ten Lacrosse Conference seedings and tournament schedule is set. Maryland get's the #1 seed, Rutgers the #2, Penn State the #3, Ohio State #4, Michigan #5 (thanks to a coin toss) and Hopkins is the last seed. That tournament will kick off this weekend with...

A near must win for Syracuse in Charlottesville on Saturday and the Orange sent a message to everyone that doubted them letting us all know, they ain’t dead yet. Jakob Phaup who has struggled at the face-off dot against ACC foes went 24 of 27 against Petey LaSalla who...