User:Gounc123/sandbox/2015 men's lacrosse

Ways lax stats can improve and questions

 * More stats on face-offs: who was on wings, who got possession after faceoff, who got ground ball after faceoff

New to roster

 * One player from 2014 (Spencer Parks) transferred out of North Carolina to Towson

UNC and Calvert Hall and Kelly family
Brothers: Frank Kelly, III (Cornell 1985) David Kelly (UNC 1989): won championship at UNC in 1986 Bryan Kelly (UNC 1991): coaches the Calvert Hall lacrosse team in Baltimore, Maryland

Dads and sons: Frank Kelly, III (Cornell 1985): Frankie Kelly (UNC 2014) and Stephen Kelly (UNC 2017) David Kelly (UNC 1989): Patrick Kelly (UNC 2016) and Timmy Kelly (UNC 2020) Bryan Kelly (UNC 1991): Jacob Kelly (UNC 2023)

Brothers: Patrick Kelly (UNC 2016) and Timmy Kelly (UNC 2020) Frankie Kelly (UNC 2014) and Stephen Kelly (UNC 2017)

An uncle of Patrick and Timmy Kelly on their mother's side (Ken Miller) played football at UNC.

David Kelly (UNC 1989) and Bryan Kelly (UNC 1991) played on the UNC lacrosse team with current head coach Joe Breschi.

NCAA automatic qualifiers and rankings
America East (Albany, Hartford, Stony Brook, Vermont) = Albany ACC = Syracuse Big East (Villanova, Denver, Georgetown, Marquette) = Denver Big 10 (Maryland, Ohio State, Penn State, Johns Hopkins)= Johns Hopkins Colonial (CAA: Fairfield, Umass, Towson, Drexel) = Towson Ivy (Princeton, Cornell, Yale, Brown)= Yale MAAC (Quinnipiac, Detroit, Marist, Monmouth) = Marist Northeast (Saint Joseph's, Hobart, Bryant, Mount St. Mary's) = Bryant Patriot (Colgate, Bucknell, Army, Navy) = Colgate Southern (SoCon: Richmond, Furman, Mercer, High Point) = High Point 18 teams make the tournament, with two play-in games for lowest seeded automatic qualifiers Qualify based on ranking (eight teams outside of AQs): Notre Dame UNC Duke UVA Brown Cornell Maryland Ohio State

Denver

 * Will actively rotate first offensive set between attack and midfield
 * Berg said Denver has close to 70-80 plays, if include man-up
 * There will be main sets, but Denver will change the sets for specific teams
 * Tierney says Canadian kids on his roster come back from the summer banged up after competing for annual Minto Cup
 * Brown in a Feb. 2015 article: "If a team doesn't want to slide and is slow to go, then you probably want to play in the middle of the field. You have a better angle to turn the corner and get your hands free. It might be more of a dodge-to-score day than a ball-movement and assisted goal day."

Duke
Duke's coaching staff places a priority on ground ball statistics in their post-game reviews. In comparison, Johns Hopkins has found that the four most important post-game statistical considerations are shooting percentage, your opponent’s shooting percentage, your save percentage and your opponent’s save percentage.

Game-by-game participation

 * Syracuse had one player transfer (Dylan Maltz, A, Fr., to Maryland) after the 2014 season