This Is May: Conference Tournament Season Is Here In College Lacrosse

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There may not be a greater time to be alive every year than the first full weekend in May. You've got NHL and NBA Playoffs going on. You have the Kentucky Derby. This year you have Dave and Big Cat calling the entire card for the Canelo vs Bivol fight (buy here at DAZN.com/barstool). And on top of everything, we have the conference tournaments in college lacrosse. 

Sure, there have been a few conference tournament games already with the Big Ten getting things going last weekend and the Patriot League starting their tournaments earlier in the week. But we have a full slate of conference semifinal games today, a great lineup of games for Friday night, and then conference championships on Saturday and Sunday. It shouldn't get any better than this. But luckily for all of you, it does. Because we brought former Brown All-American LSM Larken Kemp back onto the podcast this week to preview everything about the Ivy League tournament as well as give our picks and predictions for the rest of the conference tournaments this week/weekend. It all gets going at 1pm this afternoon so toss on the latest episode and get yourself ready for the final weekend before it all comes down to the final 16 teams standing.

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College Lacrosse Weekend Schedule:

Thursday 5/5 Conference Semifinals

NEC

  • 1pm – 1 St. Joe’s vs 4 LIU (Regular Season Final: 14-10 SJU)
  • 4pm – 2 Bryant vs 2 Hobart (14-11 Bryant)

ASUN

  • 2pm – 1 Utah vs 4 Bellarmine (12-11 Utah)
  • 5pm – 2 RMU vs 3 Air Force (11-10 RoMo)

America East

  • 4pm – 2 Binghamton vs 3 UMBC (12-8 Binghamton)
  • 7pm – 1 Vermont vs 4 Albany (14-6 UVM)

CAA

  • 4pm – 1 Delaware vs 4 Drexel (16-15 UDel)
  • 7pm – 2 Towson vs 3 UMass (12-9 Towson) 

MAAC 

  • 4pm – 1 St. Bonnies vs 4 Siena (14-11 Siena)
  • 7pm – 2 Marist vs 3 Manhattan (13-12 Marist)

SoCon

  • 5pm – 1 Jacksonville vs 4 VMI (25-6 Jacksonville)
  • 8pm – 2 Richmond vs 3 High Point (15-6 Richmond)

Big Ten

  • 5:30pm – 1 Maryland vs 4 Hopkins (22-7 Maryland)
  • 8pm – 2 Rutgers vs 3 Ohio State (18-7 Rutgers)

Big East 

  • 5:30pm – 2 Denver vs 3 Villanova (12-10 Denver)
  • 8:30pm – 1 Georgetown vs 4 Marquette (20-10 Hoyas)

Friday 5/6 Conference Semifinals

Patriot League

  • 4pm – 1 Boston vs 4 Lehigh (9-8 BU)
  • 7pm – 2 Army vs 3 Loyola (14-12 Troops)

Ivy League

  • 6pm – 2 Cornell vs 3 Yale (13-12 Cornell)
  • 8:30pm – 1 Brown vs 4 Penn (12-10 Brown)

Saturday 5/7 Conference Championships 

  • Duke @ Notre Dame (regular season) – Noon on ACC Network
  • SoCon – Noon on ESPN+
  • America East – Noon on ESPNU
  • ASUN – 2pm on ESPN+
  • CAA – 2pm on LaxSportsNetwork
  • Big East – 4:30pm on CBS Sports Network
  • Big Ten – 8pm on BTN

Sunday 5/8 Conference Championships

  • Patriot League – Noon on CBS Sports Network
  • Ivy League – Noon on ESPNU

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