A year after being considered one of the biggest snubs of the tournament, the Rutgers men's lacrosse team is yet again on the bubble, albeit in a much better spot than last year. Let's take a look at the landscape of the NCAA as a whole and how that could affect the Scarlet Knights chances.
Coming into the 2017 season, the NCAA actually reduced the number of NCAA qualifiers from 18 to 17. The point of this was to remove one play-in game, and only have two teams vieing to play their way into the tournament. The way the bracket is set up is there are eight seeded teams and nine non-seeded teams.