This weekend's NCAA tournament games were incredible. An instant classic game between Syracuse and Virginia, along with a Hpokins upset made for some great lacrosse. The final game on Monday will be very interesting.

Syracuse - Virginia 1st game of the day

To say the least, this game was epic. Mike Leveille played amazingly, putting up 5 goals and 2 assists. He's my pick for player of the game. Syracuse gave us a scare however. They were down for quite a while, and had long scoring defecits. UVA struck first with a goal by Shamel Bratton at 11:23 in the first. Mike Leveille scored at 9:20 to tie the game at 1. At 8:23, Brendan Loftus scored to give Syracuse their first lead of the game. The first quarter ended with Virginia leading 3-2. Syracuse didn't score again until right before halftime, with a Kenny Nims goal at 0:50 left in the 2nd period. By then, UVA had already scored 3 goals, making it 6-3 after Nims' goal. The score remained 6-3 going into halftime. Syracuse had a tough first half, going 22 minutes without putting up a goal. But, they put together a great second half comeback that tied the game up 11-11 by the end of regulation. After a back-and-forth series of overtime periods, Mike Leveille scored the game winner in the second overtime, sending Syracuse into the championship for the first time since 2004. Danny Brennan did an awesome job on face-offs, going 19-27 on the day. Bud Petit played very well in goal for Virginia, keeping Syracuse out of his cage for most of the first half. Coach John Desko himself said that Petit "played great today. It was scary to think at halftime that we outplayed them and didn't have the goals to show for it." Petit had 17 total saves on the day. The final, after two overtime periods, was Syracuse 12 Virginia 11.

Duke - Hopkins 2nd game of the day

Duke came out shooting. They had possession for a good portion of the first quarter. They had 11 shots in the first quarter with goals scored by Zack Greer and Max Quinzani. The second quarter didn't have much action in it, for the first few minutes. After Brian Christopher's goal at 9:14, the game began picking up, with Hopkins leading at halftime 4-2. Duke pulled it together somewhat, pulling the score to 7-5 by the end of the 3rd. The 4th quarter was exciting, with possession going back-and-forth quite a bit. Duke tied up the game 8-8 on a goal by longpole Nick O'Hara at 7:07 left in regulation. Two Hopkins goals, by Stephen Boyle and Kevin Huntley brought the game to 10-8. Duke scored with 28 seconds left to make it 10-9, and tried to send the game into OT. That didn't work however, and Hopkins pulled off an upset, putting them in the championship game for the second year in a row. Kevin Huntley was on fire today, scoring 4 goals for Hopkins. Duke played pretty well overall, but Hopkins just came out to play today. Duke also made a few mistakes that ended up costing them. Hopkins dominated faceoffs, winning 14-23 and picked up more groundballs than Duke, with 39 to Duke's 26. Tough loss for Duke. Final Score: Johns Hopkins 10 Duke 9.

I personally can't wait for Monday now. It's going to be a very exciting game.

Also, some of my information was gained from Inside Lacrosse blogs. I have provided the link to one of the blogs. There, I cited my sources, now you can't nail me for plaigiarism.