Syracuse women’s lacrosse to face 12 ranked opponents in 2018, opens season Feb. 9 against Connecticut
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Syracuse plays seven conference games, five of which are against ranked opponents.
UPDATED: Jan. 4, 2018 at 9:50 p.m.
Syracuse women’s lacrosse released its full 2018 schedule Thursday afternoon. The slate features 12 opponents ranked in the Inside Lacrosse Faceoff Yearbook Top 25 poll.
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— Syracuse Women's Lax (@CuseWLAX) January 4, 2018
The Orange, ranked No. 9 in the poll, will debut its 16-game schedule on Feb. 9 against former Big East Conference rival Connecticut and begin its conference slate against No. 13 Virginia on March 4.
The conference schedule will consist of seven games with five of the Orange’s opponents ranked among the Top 25 teams in the country: No. 3 North Carolina, No. 4 Boston College, No. 13 Virginia, No. 16 Notre Dame and No. 21 Duke.
SU will face four of the top five teams in the Inside Lacrosse poll with its toughest matchup coming against No. 1 ranked Maryland on March 11.
Coming off a 15-7 season, the Orange looks to improve upon a year in which it was eliminated in the first round of the NCAA tournament to Boston College, whom SU faces off against in the penultimate regular-season game.
Below is Syracuse’s full 2018 schedule (conference games in bold):
Friday, Feb. 9, 5 p.m. — vs. Connecticut
Sunday, Feb. 18, 4 p.m. — at Oregon
Thursday, Feb. 22, 5 p.m. — vs. Albany
Sunday, March 4, noon — at Virginia
Wednesday, March 7, 2 p.m. — vs. Florida
Sunday, March 11, 1 p.m. — vs. Maryland
Friday, March 16, 2 p.m. — vs. Harvard
Tuesday, March 20, 5 p.m. — at Cornell
Saturday, March 24, 1 p.m. — at Notre Dame
Monday, March 26, 1 p.m. — at Northwestern
Thursday, March 29, 5 p.m. — at Princeton
Saturday, March 31, noon — vs. Duke
Thursday, April 5, 4 p.m. — at Loyola
Saturday, April 7, 1 p.m. — at Virginia Tech
Saturday, April 14, noon — vs. North Carolina
Thursday, April 19, 4 p.m. — at Boston College
Sunday, April 22, 1 p.m. — vs. Louisville
CORRECTION: In a previous version of this post, the number of ranked opponents Syracuse women’s lacrosse will face this semester was misstated. The Daily Orange regrets this error.
Published on January 4, 2018 at 4:47 pm
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