When you see a team earn their first ranking in program history, but only just kind of barely, and then they lose to a top five team and they only score five goals in that loss, you get nervous. How will the poll voters react to seeing that loss to a ranked team, especially when it’s a performance that doesn’t match up with the general tone of how the team has played all season long?
That’s the situation facing Marquette women’s lacrosse after they lost 12-5 to then-#3 Denver in the regular season finale on Saturday.