Congrats to Men's LAX: BIG EAST CHAMPS

[The Reptile]

Huge 2nd half comeback to beat the defending national champs and #1 ranked Denver. Denver had never lost a Big East game in 3 years.

[Smitty]

Hell yeah! Goin' dancin'!!

[MU/Panther]

10-9 win over #1 Denver.

First ever Big East lose for Denver. Denver lead 7-2 at halftime.

[MU/Panther]

https://vine.co/#/v/iQn0YhJj0LE

[ge1974]

Give Joe Amplo and his staff a big raise! Denver is the defending national champion, current #1 NCAA ranked team and they are two time defending Big East Champs. Also, they had their 22 home field winning streak snapped in a front of a sold out crowed. I cannot recall a bigger non-basketball win for the university. Congrats to MU and let's hope this win is good enough to warrent a first round home game. MU outscored Denver 6-0 in the third period after being down 7-3 at half.

[MU/Panther]

I can't image a first round home game. You would need to be a national top 8 seed.

[The Reptile]

Give Joe Amplo and his staff a big raise! Denver is the defending national champion, current #1 NCAA ranked team and they are two time defending Big East Champs. Also, they had their 22 home field winning streak snapped in a front of a sold out crowed. I cannot recall a bigger non-basketball win for the university. Congrats to MU and let's hope this win is good enough to warrent a first round home game. MU outscored Denver 6-0 in the third period after being down 7-3 at half.

Agreed.

To put this win in basketball terms, we represent a Team that was D2 5 years ago and moved up to D1. Denver was Duke, UNC, Kentucky or basically any team with a head coach that won 7 National Titles. And we did this without one of our leading scorers who had a season ending injury in his senior year the same way that Travis Diener did several years ago.

Congrats to the administration who believed we could compete at this leve this quickly, the coaching staff who started with nothing and built a national program with an identity and the players who had nothing, believed and worked 5 years to make this happen. This is an amazing story and I can't wait for our next chapter.

[Nukem2]

Agreed.

To put this win in basketball terms, we represent a Team that was D2 5 years ago and moved up to D1. Denver was Duke, UNC, Kentucky or basically any team with a head coach that won 7 National Titles. And we did this without one of our leading scorers who had a season ending injury in his senior year the same way that Travis Diener did several years ago.

Congrats to the administration who believed we could compete at this leve this quickly, the coaching staff who started with nothing and built a national program with an identity and the players who had nothing, believed and worked 5 years to make this happen. This is an amazing story and I can't wait for our next chapter.
Some real kudos to Steve Cottingham here!

[MU/Panther]

Today's win is the first victory over a No. 1 team for a @muathletics squad since #mubb over Kentucky in 2003.

[Phantom Warrior]

Amen on Cottingham!

[Markedman]

I can't image a first round home game. You would need to be a national top 8 seed.

Not so fast my friend.......

https://twitter.com/laxfilmroom/status/729128178514571264

[Gato78]

Amen on Cottingham!

Cottingham saw this could happen. Started the program and hired a helluva coach.

[MU/Panther]

Not so fast my friend.......

https://twitter.com/laxfilmroom/status/729128178514571264
Marquette was a bubble team coming into the Big East Tournament. With two great RPI wins over Villanova and Denver. If, Marquette earns a national seed, it will be one hell of story!

Selection Show is tonight at 8pm on ESPNU.

[Phantom Warrior]

I don't follow lacrosse at all. But I just checked the roster and noticed that out of more than 50 players, not one is from Wisconsin, more than three dozen are from the East, especially Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey. Another half dozen or so are from the Midwest, and about a half dozen from the West Coast. There are also about a half dozen from Canada.

The size of the team shocked me. I don't know how many are on some sort of scholarship and how many are walk ons, but a roster of around 50 seems to me to be insane. I also can not imagine the time - and maybe the money - spent recruiting 60 players, even 30-40 players. I figured the number would be more like in soccer, which I believe has a roster for around 24-25 players.

I mean, how may players actually get minutes in a game? In soccer, you might see as many as 16-18. I figured it would be roughly the same for lacrosse. I can not imagine it being more than 20, and if that's the case, then roughly 30 players are not playing at all.

I've watched maybe four or five high school lacrosse games, but never a college game. Maybe someone can provide some info on how the numbers game works at MU.

[Halo]

Some real kudos to Steve Cottingham here!
Wonder what Larry Williams is thinking today!

[Nukem2]

Wonder what Larry Williams is thinking today!Yeah, Larry really thought LaX was a bad idea.

[MU/Panther]

Automatic Bids
Syracuse, ACC
Loyola, Patroit League
Harford, American East
Air Force, Southern
Quinnipiac, MAAC
Hobart, NAC
Towson, CAA
Marquette, Big East
Maryland, Big Ten
Harvard vs Yale on Sunday for the final auto bid in the Ivy League

[MU/Panther]

Wow! Marquette is a national seed. #6

[MU/Panther]

North Carolina at #6 Marquette
1:30pm on Saturday on ESPNU

[Markedman]

Wow! Marquette is a national seed. #6

I told you!

[MU/Panther]

I told you!

Good! I hope you keep telling me good news like that.

ESPNU's Quint Kessenich was shocked in Marquette going from a bubble team to a national seed. Said something like, there is no way they are the six best team in the country. Might even be an underdog to Carolina.

[Markedman]

https://twitter.com/RPDLacrosse/status/741286225450012672

[IWB]

Well that sucks.

[CaribouJim]

Well that sucks.

Ouch - I'll say.

Losing all those seniors I assume they have a large freshmen class coming in? If so, wonder how things go with that. Critical hire for the program.

[TheSultan]

That was pretty much inevitable. Much closer to home and a traditional lacrosse power. If this happen, they have to make another good hire. That's how the program will need to be built. Look at Butler in basketball.

[TedBaxter]

If I'm Bill Scholl, I first look at the associate coach who's been involved since the start of the program.

[warriorfan4life]

Has Amplo officially taken the Princeton job, or just interviewed for it?

[IWB]

He is on the list to interview, but if Princeton is calling, so will others.

[ge1974]

Pay Joe and his assistants top program money!

By the way, the Men's lacrosse team is supposed to go to Italy on Monday for a European tour:

http://www.gomarquette.com/sports/m-lacros/spec-rel/061016aab.html

[MU Viking]

If I'm Bill Scholl, I first look at the associate coach who's been involved since the start of the program.

Stephen Brundage. Great, sharp guy also. He's a Loyola (Md) grad too, so easily identifies the value of Jesuit education.

Would really be a shame to lose Joe Amplo.

[Markedman]

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https://twitter.com/marquettemlax/status/741775569734520833

[TheSultan]

I will gladly eat my words if that happens.

[MKE_GoldenEagleFan]

That would be a huge win for MU, after this season he deserved a raise and an extension anyhow.

[warriorfan4life]

I think everyone jumped the gun a bit on assuming Amplo was gone. He was one of three guys interviewing at Princeton, not reported as the next head coach there (or in discussions to be the next head coach). He could be choosing to stay at MU, or this could be a good faith renegotiation after he did not land the Princeton job.

[MU/Panther]

He said last week on the Dennis Krause Show that he wants to stay in Milwaukee.

[The Reptile]

He said last week on the Dennis Krause Show that he wants to stay in Milwaukee.

That's consistent with what I have heard from people who know him. I also think that once the new facility is built it will become a huge recruiting tool for him.

Leaving for Princeton he will lose not only that but he will have to start over but it will never truly be his program until he wins several national titles - difficult to do these days when there is so much parity in the game.

[The Reptile]

http://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/coach-joe-amplo-affirms-commitment-to-marquette/35552