Welcome to Monday Night Lacrosse, ya’ll!
For years, Syracuse and Cornell matched up on a Tuesday night, but as the teams play each other for the 106th time, the game has been moved to the start of the week.
While the two programs have played each other almost annually going back a century, this is actually the first meeting between the two in three years, going all the way back to 2019. The 2020 season got shut down before the Cornell game, and then the Ivy League didn’t play in 2021. So, weirdly, many of the current players are not as familiar with the Orange’s upstate rivals as they normally would be.