Lacrosse exhibition games get underway this week. LaxPower went under unfortunately, so Inside Lacrosse is now the best place to follow along.
https://www.insidelacrosse.com/league/di/teams/19Preseason Top 251 Yale - Ivy
2 Duke - Acc
3 Maryland 4 Loyola - Patriot
5 Cornell - Ivy
6 Notre Dame - Acc
7 Denver - Big East
8 Virginia - Acc
9 Johns Hopkins 10 Penn State .
11 Syracuse - Acc
12 Rutgers 13 Lehigh - Patriot
14 Princeton - Ivy
15 Albany - America East
16 North Carolina - Acc
17 Ohio State 18 Robert Morris - Northeast
19 Michigan 20 UMass - Colonial
21 Georgetown - Big East
22 Villanova - Big East
23 Penn - Ivy
24 Vermont - America East
25 Bryant - Northeast
No ranked teams: Metro, SoCon, D1 Independents.
Utah goes varsity this year, and becomes the third D1 program out west. Air Force was the first to have a team in the 80s. They are in the SoCon. Denver went varsity in the 90s. They are in the Big East. Utah will be forging on as an Independent for the time being. /Even though Denver is the only one of the three with a women's team, the Pac 12 has a wlax auto-bid with six teams, and there are three additional Cali wlax teams outside of the Pac 12.
In the Midwest (plus Louisville) we currently have Ohio State, Michigan, Notre Dame (Acc), Marquette (Big East), Detroit Mercy (Metro), Cleveland State (D1 Independent), and Bellarmine(KY) (SoCon). /On the women's side: Northwestern, Ohio State, Michigan, Notre Dame (Acc), Louisville (Acc), Marquette (Big East), Butler (Big East), Cincinnati (Aac), Detroit Mercy (SoCon), Central Michigan (SoCon), Kent State (Atlantic Sun), and Akron (2020).