Syracuse men’s lacrosse vs. Notre Dame preview
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So, you might have heard.its been a week for Syracuse Orange men’s lacrosse.
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It continued with reports that his teammates found out he had been reinstated via Twitter, and that they planned to walk out of practice if he showed up.
There will be more to come from the Scanlan situation. But for now, it’s the weekend, and Scanlan will not be present as Syracuse travels to South Bend for a game with massive postseason implications against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
The game is
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Syracuse’s Jakob Phaup won the Atlantic Coast Conference’s Defensive Player of the Week award after going 24-of-27 at the faceoff X against Virginia on Saturday. Phaup’s performance marked the most faceoff wins by a Syracuse player in 18 years and was tied for the sixth-most in SU history.
At one point, he won 15 consecutive faceoffs. Phaup’s 88.9% outing was the best of his career when he’s taken more than three faceoffs. The junior has had an up-and-down season, including a “slump” that featured a 1-of-10 performance against Duke and 1-of-8 against Notre Dame. Both ended with his benching during the second quarter.
Jakob Phaup named ACC Defensive Player of the Week
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Jakob Phaup went 4-of-27 at the faceoff X against Virginia on Saturday.
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Syracuse’s Jakob Phaup won the Atlantic Coast Conference’s Defensive Player of the Week award after going 24-of-27 at the faceoff X against Virginia on Saturday. Phaup’s performance marked the most faceoff wins by a Syracuse player in 18 years and was tied for the sixth-most in SU history.
At one point, he won 15 consecutive faceoffs. Phaup’s 88.9% outing was the best of his career when he’s taken more than three faceoffs. The junior has had an up-and-down season, including a “slump” that featured a 1-of-10 performance against Duke and 1-of-8 against Notre Dame. Both ended with his benching during the second quarter.
Jakob Phaup is in a ‘slump.’ This is how he’s trying to snap out of it.
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Jakob Phaup has had an up-and-down season which started with 6-of-21 slump against Vermont.
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Jakob Phaup has never experienced a rough patch like this. His 6-of-21 performance at the faceoff X against Vermont was the first “slump,” he said. Two solid outings against weaker nonconference opponents followed, but another slump returned with a 1-of-10 game against Duke and a 1-of-8 match against Notre Dame the week after.
Phaup said he was in a “mental funk” and a “rut,” too. After the Notre Dame game, he texted SU defensive coordinator Lelan Rogers that he was “pretty lost.” Prior to the 2021 season, only five of the All-American’s 23 career games ended with him losing more than half of his faceoffs. But eight games into the 2021 season, he’s added three games to that total.
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When Stephen Rehfuss started his shooting windup, Griffin Cook pressed his Albany defender away from the middle of the field. He needed to widen the shooting lane Rehfuss wanted to hit, clearing traffic that Rehfuss had initially tried to dodge around but couldn’t.
Rehfuss’ move left him and Cook as the two SU players working to create on their second possession of the third quarter. There was Rehfuss, the leading Tewaaraton Award candidate on Syracuse. There was Cook, the midfielder-turned-starting-attackman last season that settled back on the second midfield line after Owen Hiltz emerged. And together, they took Syracuse’s three-goal halftime lead and extended it further. Albany blocked Rehfuss’ initial shot, but Cook snuck through and scooped up the ball running in alone and flipping a behind-the-back shot that sunk into the left corner.