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Everything was set up for a thrilling game heading into Thursday night’s Big East Semifinal between Georgetown and Villanova.
The teams had met twice prior once a blowout, once a close Hoya win.
They came in with contrasting paths as Georgetown dropped its last outing with a disappointing performance vs. Loyola. Villanova, meanwhile, was earning some well-deserved buzz after drubbing Lehigh.
The stakes were there, too. With the Big East’s AQ the ultimate goal, the semifinal game also had tremendous potential to boost an at-large resume with another quality win.
Throw in a nice night, a sizable, raucous crowd of fans inside Providence’s Chapey Field, a national TV platform and it’s hardly a surprise that Georgetown’s 14-12 win was one of the most exciting of a full slate of conference tournament games this week.
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D-Fly and Dixie are back with a new episode of the Inside Lacrosse weekend preview. Conference races are peaking as we start looking ahead to May. This weekend features several matchups of Top 20 teams with conference and national implications.
To start off, they offer a recap and analysis of the Thursday night battle of top ACC teams No. 3 Duke’s 13-12 thrilling overtime win against No. 2 Notre Dame. The experience and star power of Michael Sowers and Nakeie Montgomery helped fuel the Blue Devils stunning 6-0 run to end the game.
In the conversation with Georgetown head coach Kevin Warne, they discuss COVID life on the Hilltop campus, the New York Jets, James Reilly’s emergence as one of the nation’s top face-off athletes, Jake Carraway and the potent Hoyas offense and the stingy defense anchored by Gibson Smith and Owen McElroy. Warne also answers questions about Georgetown assistant coaches, Hoya culture, his coaching mentors, th
Next week, the Supreme Court will be asked to decide who should be on the hook for the $160 million cleanup of a dump the U.S. Navy built in the 1940s to dispose of military waste on the small, remote Pacific island of Guam a case that could offer precedent for other states and territories.