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Men's Lacrosse: Duke vs. Syracuse Sunday April 3 6:30 PM in NJ; #1 and 3 Teams on ESPNU in Big City Classic
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No. 3 Duke vs. No. 1 Syracuse

Konica Minolta Big City Classic
April 3, 2011 l 6:30 p.m. l ESPNU
New Meadowlands Stadium l East Rutherford, N.J.


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Duke Takes on No. 1 Syracuse on Sunday

Duke will put its seven-game win streak to the test on Sunday, April 3 against top-ranked Syracuse in the Konica Minolta Big City Classic ... The two top five squads square off at 6:30 p.m. at the New Meadowlands Stadium.

Previous Two National Champions Meet

Sunday's game will be the meeting of the last two national championship squads ... The Orange won the 2009 NCAA title with a 10-9 overtime win over Cornell ... Duke defeated Notre Dame 5-4 in overtime in 2010 ... It marked the first time in NCAA history the championship game went into overtime in consecutive years.

A Win Over Syracuse Would

Be Duke's 2nd win over the Orange
Be the program's 464th all-time victory
Be John Danowski's 294th career victory and 75th at Duke
Be Duke's 97th win since 2005
Be the first win since over Syracuse since 1978
Push Duke's win streak to eight games
Be Duke's sixth win over a top-ranked team since 2007
Duke/Syracuse Series History

Duke and Syracuse will meet for just the seventh time in the programs' histories ... Two of eight programs to win a national title, the Blue Devils and Orange have not met in the regular season since March 28, 1992 ... The Orange leads the all-time series 5-1 and defeated Duke 17-10 in the 2009 NCAA semifinals ... The Blue Devils' lone win over Syracuse was a 10-7 triumph in Durham in 1978 ... The two squads have met three times in the NCAA Tournament.

Last Time Out

Five different Blue Devils registered a multiple-point game to lead No. 3 Duke to a 12-7 victory over Brown on Tuesday ... Eleven players notched at least one point in the game for the Blue Devils as Duke had eight different goal scorers ... Senior Zach Howell and freshman Jordan Wolf both had three points apiece , while junior Robert Rotanz and freshman Christian Walsh each added two goals ... The win was the seventh straight for Duke ... Freshman Brendan Fowler took the majority of faceoffs, winning 8-of-13 restarts, while rookie Charlie Payton was 6-of-8 ... Sophomore goaltender Dan Wigrizer had eight saves.

Last Time They Met

Syracuse outscored Duke 9-3 in the second half to cruise to a 17-7 victory in the 2009 NCAA semifinals in Foxborough, Mass. ... Max Quinzani led all scorers with three goals and an assist and Zach Howell had three tallies ... The Orange had nine different players with a goal with Patrick Perritt and Kenny Nims pacing the attack with four goals apiece.

Scouting Duke

Duke is riding a seven-game win streak after defeating Brown 12-7 on Tuesday ... The Blue Devils feature the nation's third-ranked scoring offense, averaging 12.88 goals per game ... Senior Zach Howell leads all scorers with 33 points from 25 goals and eight assists ... Freshman Jordan Wolf has 18 goals and 10 assists for 28 points, 26 of which have come in the past seven games ... Senior Justin Turri anchors the midfield with 10 goals and eight assists ... Handling faceoff duties are junior CJ Costabile and freshman Brendan Fowler ... Costabile has won 52 percent (52-of-100) of his draws, while Fowler has won 40-of-61 (.656) of his restarts ... Costabile also paces the team in ground balls (50) ... Senior Tom Montelli leads the team with 10 caused turnovers and is third in ground balls with 23 ... In goal, sophomore Dan Wigrizer has a 7-2 overall record with a 8.76 goals against average and a .570 save percentage ... Duke is allowing just 8.49 goals per game this season.

Scouting Syracuse

Syracuse heads to the New Meadowlands with an unblemished 7-0 record and a No. 1 ranking in hand ... The Orange last defeated No. 7 Villanova 5-4 on March 26 ... Syracuse has three players with 18 points apiece ... Tim Desko has a team-high 15 goals to go with three assists ... Stephen Keogh owns 14 goals and four assists and JoJo Marasco has 11 tallies and a team-best seven assists ... Jeremy Thompson has taken just over a third of the draws for the year, winning 36-of-60 (.600) ... Longstick midfielder Joel White leads the Orange with 25 ground balls and is second with nine caused turnovers ... Brian Megill has a team-best 12 caused turnovers ... In goal, John Galloway is 7-0 with a 7.09 goals against average and a .551 save percentage for the year.

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Major Men's Lacrosse Game Sunday

Duke's Lacrosse team has improved dramatically during the last month; after consecutive late-February losses to Notre Dame and Penn, we have defeated Maryland, Loyola, Mercer, UNC, Dartmouth, Georgetown and Brown to regain the #3 ranking. FYI, Loyola, UNC and Maryland were top-ten rated when we defeated them in March.

In the interim, highly ranked UVa was beaten last weekend by Hopkins; this leaves undefeated Syracuse as the nation's clear #1 team. On Sunday, however, Duke has the opportunity to defeat Syracuse and to contend for its preseason #1 rank. This critically important game is part of the "Big City Classic" played at the Meadowlands, and it will be televised by ESPNU at 6:30. We are clearly the underdog in this contest, but Duke has demonstrated exceptionally rapid improvement in a team that is underclassmen-dominated. Further, our Syracuse and Virginia (16 April) games will both certainly show how ready this year's team currently is for Final Four level competition and will have a substantial NCAA Tournament seeding impact.
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Big City Classic NCAA Lacrosse GameThread
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just a reminder
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3-0 Syracuse, 10:32 left in Q1
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4-0 Syracuse, 9:19 Q1
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4-1 Syracuse, 7:04 Q1
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5-1 Syracuse, 5:55 Q1
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6-1 Syracuse, 3:34 Q1
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~J~ is in Wonderland
It hard to watch hockey and lacrosse at the same time.
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Syracuse 13- 7 4th Q
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http://www.cstv.com/gametracker/launch/gt_mlacros.html?event=980206&school=fo&sport=mlacros&camefrom=&startschool=&

Syracuse 13-8
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Come on Devils!
Winning in most stats except tending...
and scoring.
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Syracuse 13-9

Duke is trying to catch up but the Blue Devils dug themselves a big hole by allowing Syracuse 6 goals in the first period.
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Syracuse 13-10

Duke is staging a major 4th period rally!
Edited by sceptical, Apr 3 2011, 07:47 PM.
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