Everybody Into The Poll

Just a few quick notes this morning before heading off to the dentist. ...

The Any Given Saturday preseason poll is out and five of Dartmouth's 10 opponents received votes:

• 8. New Hampshire
• 28. Colgate
• 29. Harvard
• 32. Holy Cross
• 42. Pennsylvania

Defending champion Richmond is No. 1 in the poll with Applachian State second. The top five is rounded out by No. 3 Montana, No. 4 Villanova and No. 5 Northern Iowa.

Green Alert Take: Nice to see Holy Cross finally getting a little well-deserved recognition. And it should be no surprise that Penn is receiving notice. Given that preseason polls often look back as much as they look ahead, defending Ivy League co-champion Brown's absence is notable. Granted, the Bears lost their starting quarterback, but so did Harvard. Of course, Brown doesn't have Harvard's cache.

The Daily Dartmouth has a story about the Big Green baseball team's visit to Army Sunday along with a quick mention of the NCAA Regional date with North Carolina.

And finally, the Cornell-Syracuse lacrosse national championship game yesterday was about as dramatic – and heartbreaking for the Ivy Leaguers – as they come. Syracuse scored three goals in the final 3:37 to force overtime and then denied Cornell the championship on a score 80 seconds into the extra period. The goal that sent the game into overtime came with just 4.5 seconds left and only happened, as ESPN replays showed, because everything went wrong for Cornell and right for Syracuse. Find a story in the Ithaca Journal.