Health & Fitness
Blog: The McDaniel College Green Terror Get Selected to Host the ECAC D3 Men's Lacrosse Tournament.
After being snub on Sunday, McDaniel College gets a shot to prove they should have been selceted to the NCAA D3 men's Lacrosse tournament as they are selected to host the NIT equivalent of Lacrosse.
One day after the appalling decision by the NCAA selection committee to snub McDaniel out of a spot in the 2012, D3 National Men's Lacrosse tournament, McDaniel is finally getting some recognition.
On Sunday, the NCAA picked Connecticut College, which was ranked lower in every category that's taken into consideration, as well as Kenyon College, who McDaniel had beaten, earlier this year, to go to the NCAA national tournament.
Well just as D1 Basketball has the NIT (National Invitation Tournament) for teams that missed the cut of the NCAA national basketball tournament, D3 lacrosse has the ECAC Tournament. The Eastern College Athletic Conference or ECAC as its known, could be describe as a conference of conferences, ranging from D1-D3. The ECAC also runs a traditional conference in sports, such as Lacrosse, in which Loyola University, Maryland participates in. For D3, however, the ECAC normally holds tournaments for its members, that did not make it into the NCAA national tournament, similar to NIT in D1 Basketball.
On Monday Night the ECAC not only announced that McDaniel College will be in, said tournament, but will also be the host team and get a first round bye. Games will be held at the college this Saturday and Sunday. Although, the ECAC website is vague, it looks like in some years, such as last, the winner of EACA D3 Men's lacrosse tournament for the New England region played the winner of the Mid-Atlantic region. (the one held at McDaniel this weekend.) Hopefully, this will occur, giving the McDaniel Green Terror a chance to be the unanimous best team of the ECAC tournament and show the NCAA selection committee, that it belonged in the national tournament.
