
UMass goalie Matt Knote made 19 saves in the win over Army on Saturday. (UMass Athletics)
It was a slate loaded with possibilities that turned out to be a weekend of upsets. No, not the Super Bowl squares you lost -- the true Week 1 of the NCAA season.
Every lacrosse fan will remember where they were when Loyola smacked around Maryland, maybe even when Jacksonville beat Duke or top-ranked Georgetown capitulate to Johns Hopkins.
Perhaps those results overshadowed the big wins in the region a little bit, but diving a little deeper into the opening-day defeats of ranked programs -- and a resurgence of quite a few more -- is what we are getting ourselves into today.
So let’s examine our top takeaways from the weekend.