UMass 9, UAlbany 8

[UAalum72]

Albany never led, trailing at different times 3-0, 5-2, 9-6. Small scored the last goal with < 1:30 to go.

[danefan]

[Dane96]

Wow...what a heartbreak year. The good thing....four losses by 8 goals. This team is VERY young. We may have an ugly year...but my lord will we be good.

[danefan]

Wow...what a heartbreak year. The good thing....four losses by 8 goals. This team is VERY young. We may have an ugly year...but my lord will we be good.

 

 

I'm hoping these will be "character" games and allow us to roll through America East play. We'll see though.

[bob87]

Wow...what a heartbreak year. The good thing....four losses by 8 goals. This team is VERY young. We may have an ugly year...but my lord will we be good.

 

 

I'm hoping these will be "character" games and allow us to roll through America East play. We'll see though.

 

We will win our share of league games, but most won't be easy. There are still some pretty good teams in the league unlike the league the other lacrosse team in this area plays in.

[purplehaze]

2 consecutive one goal losses.tough start..let's hope the home field will put them over the hump

[Dane Pound]

Hopefully playing at home helps, four straight games at Fallon coming up.

[slickwilly]

2 consecutive one goal losses.tough start..let's hope the home field will put them over the hump

 

Actually that is 3 consecutive one goal losses (ND, Delaware, UMASS)

[gkzhukov]

Laxpower computer rankings has UAlbany in their top 20 despite their dismal record. When looking at how UAlbany's ranking was calculated it seems a better measure of how good the team is than W/L record. Albany has played all 4 games on the road. The first 3 games were against highly ranked teams. Laxpower computer rankings are based on predicted winner and especially margin of victory. The predicted margin of victory automatically give the home team 3 goals. They then calculate how much to add or subtract from the predicted margin of victory in addition to the home team's 3 goals. The difference between predicted and actual margin of victory (or defeat) determines a numerical value given to each team as a result of each game. The results for UAlbany are relatively good despite being 0-4. They still have a relatively high computer score because they beat the predicted margin each game until the UMass game which UAlbany was one under the predicted margin of victory. Don't forget they played 3 of the top 8 ranked teams (as per poll) all on the road in their first 3 games. In any other sport, this would be considered the most brutal schedule possible. So despite their terrible record so far, there is hope!

[purplehaze]

absolutely...amd there hasn't been a game at home yet