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By: Glen
Random thoughts and topics from the world of lacrosse.
I saw a breakdown of the schools feeding MLL rosters a while back; but I wanted to put up an updated breakdown. Of course this isn’t necessarily an indication of a programs overall strength because there’s obviously a lot of variables at play. Some great college players decide not to pursue a professional lacrosse career.
These numbers are based on the 10 MLL rosters on their websites as of 1/2/08. It’s possible that some of the players on those rosters won’t make the final squad. When a player attended multiple colleges, the most recent school was used.
It’s amazing how many players the top 5 schools put into the MLL. I’m surprised to see only 5 from G-town and 4 from Duke. I guess the alum are too busy making boat loads of money on Wall Street or wherever else. Dartmouth with 4 players surprised me; I need to stop sleeping on them I guess. Salisbury was the only non-D1 team to make the top 25.
Rank | School | # of MLL players * |
1 | Syracuse | 24 |
2 | Johns Hopkins | 22 |
3 | Virginia | 21 |
4 | Maryland | 19 |
5 | Hofstra | 16 |
6 | Navy | 11 |
7 | Princeton | 10 |
tie | Towson | 10 |
9 | Cornell | 9 |
tie | UMASS | 9 |
11 | Delaware | 8 |
tie | Salisbury | 8 |
13 | Loyola | 7 |
tie | North Carolina | 7 |
tie | Penn State | 7 |
16 | Brown | 6 |
tie | Denver | 6 |
tie | Ohio State | 6 |
tie | UMBC | 6 |
20 | Georgetown | 5 |
21 | Rutgers | 5 |
22 | Dartmouth | 4 |
tie | Duke | 4 |
tie | Notre Dame | 4 |
25 | Albany | 3 |
tie | Fairfield | 3 |
* Based on Rosters on Website as of 1/2/08
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Mark on 01/02/2008
Due to the small number of teams in the MLL, many excellent players get overlooked. I know that on some of my club teams, there are guys that should be playing, but for one reason or another they're not.
Good info.
Per the Duke/Gtown comment...I wonder why JHU has so many if their institution is right there on par academically. It's probably their 'lax'idasical admissions practices. Just a joke JHU fans! :)
Glen on 01/02/2008
Yeah that's not to say that there aren't other outstanding academic schools on this list. And there are certainly very successful business (or other industry) professionals playing in the MLL. I'm not sure there's any rhyme or reason to why Princeton doesn't have more MLL players either. Guys like Scott Diggs (Duke 99) must have just chose to not continue their careers; because he was certainly capable of playing pro.
