Maryland men’s lacrosse Coach John Tillman was surprised by the NCAA tournament selection committee’s decision to tab his team as the No. 6 overall seed on Sunday night – he thought his team would be picked as the seventh seed – but all of that had long become an afterthought by Tuesday.
“All that being said, we knew we were going to get a really good team,” Tillman said, “and that’s exactly what we got in a team with Yale that has already beaten us. Obviously head to head, they took it to us and beat us by four goals.