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5/24 Let's Ride to End the Season & Begin the Summer
May 24, 2022
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Peet Poillon and Matt Bocklet are back for a solo episode in which they talk about NCAA Quarterfinal venue selection, the Final Four teams, head and assistant coach openings and the transition to the summer club season.
5/23 The Tailgate: Maryland Is Officially a Wagon
May 23, 2022
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Well that wasn't as dramatic as the First Round. On the heels of Maryland's 18-9 win over Virginia in the last of four NCAA Quarterfinal games, IL's Terry Foy and Nick Ossello dive into the games, moving from the Terps to the Tigers, who beat Yale 14-10, to Rutgers' 11-9 win over Penn and finishing with Cornell's 10-8 win over Delaware.
5/20 D-Fly & Dixie: Quarterfinal Preview
May 20, 2022
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On the eve of Quarterfinal Weekend, D-Fly & Dixie sit down with IL contributor and author of We Showed Baltimore, Christian Swezey, to break down the four titanic matchups. Before they get into the game previews, they talk about the incredible crowds and game day atmosphere of the first-round games, the IL All-American Team and the departure of John Grant, Jr. from Johns Hopkins. The guys then go in-depth to break down each of the Quarterfinal games on Saturday and Sunday. All games are available on ESPNU. Saturday, May 21 from Hempstead, N.Y.No. 3 Penn (11-4) vs. No. 6 Rutgers (14-3), noonNo. 4 Yale (12-4) vs. No. 5 Princeton (10-4), 2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 22 from Columbus, OhioNo. 7 Cornell (12-4) vs. un-seeded Delaware (13-5), noonNo. 1 Maryland (15-0) vs. un-seeded Virginia (12-3), 2:30 p.m. In this week’s Emmy-inspired show, Dan and Mark talk about the best current programming available on cable and streaming, while Swezey sits idly by. Destiny is indeed All.
5/19 DIII: Eight Elite Teams, How Did We Get Here?
May 19, 2022
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IL's Dan Kaplan and links up with Caleb Abney to discuss all things DIII lacrosse. Listen in as they discuss the Elite 8 and how the remaining field came to be set. Caleb throws out some predictions and the guys go back and forth on which site Kaplan should attend. That and much more here in the Quarterfinal/Semifinal edition of the DIII pod.
5/17 Playing Catchup: On to the Quarterfinals!
May 17, 2022
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From 29 to eight in four days — ILWomen's Alyssa Murray Cometti, Halley Griggs and Rachael DeCecco reflect on a jam-packed Friday and Sunday set of DI women's games, diving in on Syracuse's win over Princeton, North Carolina's domination of Virginia and Jacksonville's upset vs. Stanford. They finish with their Quarterfinal predictions as this coming Thursday promises to be another great day of action.
5/16 The Tailgate: Delaware Did What?!
May 16, 2022
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IL's Terry Foy and Nick Ossello are back to unpack the first round of the NCAA Tournament, starting with the Delaware Blue Hens' shocking upset over Georgetown. They then go through each of the weekend's games, starting with Princeton's defensive lockdown of BU, Penn's Sam Handley reliance, Yale-Saint Joe's unbridled playmaking, the electric atmosphere at Brown-UVA, Luke Wierman's improvement on display in Maryland's win over Vermont, Gavin Adler's production despite his assignment in Cornell's win over Ohio State and Rutgers' offensive explosion vs. Harvard. They end with Nick saying many, many nice things about the NCAA selection committee.
5/13 D-Fly & Dixie: Mangia! with Harvard's Gerry Byrne
May 13, 2022
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This week, D-Fly & Dixie present your guide for the first round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Lacrosse Tournament, one of our favorite episodes of the year. Definitely the longest. The show begins with some thoughts on the tournament field and reactions to Selection Sunday. Both Dan and Mark get a chance to rant a bit, and it’s quite healing. They then review both Vermont and Delaware’s victories in the mid-week NCAA play-in games before getting into the game previews. Eight games on tap. Four each day. All available on ESPNU. This week’s guest is Harvard head coach, Gerry Byrne. In his first full season at the helm in Cambridge, Byrne and the Crimson earned an at-large berth and are preparing to face Rutgers on Sunday. The guys cover Harvard’s lost season, building culture with a young, inexperienced group, the surprising dominance of the Ivy League in 2022, earning a bid at the possible expense of his old team, Harvard’s team leaders, game planning for Rutgers, Boston’s food scene and music documentaries. In an Italian restaurant-inspired Give & Go, the fellas provide a definitive ranking of the very best pastas. Mangia!
5/12 DIII: NCAA Tournament Preview
May 12, 2022
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Welcome back for the bittersweet NCAA Tournament pod, marking that the end is near but will be absolutely loaded with action. Join Caleb "The Big Dog" Abney and Dan Kaplan as they dive in on a conference championship weekend and the selection show. The boys are back in town to take a deep look in to how brackets take shape, make some predictions, and have a ton of fun talking DIII lax.
5/10 The 'Anti' Club with Ken Miller, Kevin Donovan and Mark Glicini
May 10, 2022
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With summer around the corner, LI Sting founder Ken Miller joins IL's Terry Foy along with his coaches Kevin Donovan and Mark Glicini to discuss how and why he developed Sting, his philosophy around running the organization, the utilization of video to select players and more.
5/9 NCAA Tournament Reaction Special: Committee Chair Woodruf
May 09, 2022
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In the wake Selection Sunday's NCAA Tournament bracket reveal, IL's Terry Foy talks to Loyola AD Donna Woodruff, who chaired the Committee, as well as Harvard coach Gerry Byrne, Penn coach Mike Murphy, Ohio State coach Nick Myers, Yale coach Andy Shay, Saint Joseph's coach Taylor Wray and Manhattan coach Drew Kelleher.