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Tewaaraton Watch List: 2013 Men’s Lacrosse

The 2013 Tewaaraton Watch List has been released, and since everyone else is putting up the same press release and calling it content, I thought we’d do something just a little bit different. First we will run through the Watch List guys by NCAA their schools, and then I’ll provide a probability scale that a player from a particular school will be the eventual winner. Fun, right?

2013 Tewaaraton Award men’s watch list

Albany – Lyle Thompson – Soph., A; Miles Thompson – Jr., A; Ty Thompson – Jr., A – 5/10

Army – John Glesener – Soph., A/M; Garrett Thul – Sr., A – 3/10

Binghamton – Tyler Perrelle – Sr., M – 1/10

Brown – Roger Ferguson – Sr., LSM/D – 1/10

Bryant – Colin Dunster – Jr., M; Mason Poli – Sr., LSM – 3/10

Bucknell – Kyle Feeney – Sr., G; Mike Huffner – Sr., D – 3/10

Cabrini (NCAA D3) – Bobby Thorp – Sr., A – 1/10

Canisius – Tim Edwards – Soph., M – 1/10

Colgate – Peter Baum Sr., A; Ryan Walsh – Soph., A – 5/10

Cornell – Connor English – Sr., M; Steve Mock – Sr., A; Rob Pannell – Sr., A – 5/10

Delaware – Dom Sebastiani – Sr., M; Eric Smith – Sr., A – 2/10

Denver – Chase Carraro – Sr., M; Cameron Flint – Sr., M; Jeremy Noble – Jr., M – 5/10

Detroit Mercy – Shayne Adams – Jr., A – 2/10

Dickinson (NCAA D3) – Brandon Palladino – Sr., LSM – 1/10

Drexel – Robert Church – Sr., A – 2/10

Duke – Josh Dionne – Jr., A; Christian Walsh – Jr., A; Jordan Wolf – Jr., A – 3/10

Endicott (NCAA D3) – Sam Ozycz – G-Sr., FO/M – 1/10

Fairfield – Marshall Johnson – Sr., M; Sam Snow – Sr., M – 3/10

Georgetown – Brian Casey Sr., A/M – 2/10

Harvard – Daniel Eipp – Jr., A – 2/10

Hobart – Alex Love – Jr., A – 2/10

Hofstra – John Antoniades – Sr., FO/M; Adrian Sorichetti – Sr., M – 3/10

Holy Cross – James Kennedy – Sr., A – 1/10

Johns Hopkins – Tucker Durkin – Sr., D – 2/10

Lehigh – David DiMaria – Sr., A; Dante Fantoni – Sr., A; Matt Poillon – Soph., G – 4/10

Limestone (NCAA D2) – Riley Loewen – Sr., A; Tor Reinholdt – Sr., M – 1/10

Loyola – Joe Fletcher – Jr., D; Scott Ratliff – Sr., LSM; Mike Sawyer – Sr., A – 4/10

Lynchburg (NCAA D3) – Joe Lisicky – Sr., D – 1/10

Manhattan – Sean McMahon – Jr., LSM – 1/10

Marist – Connor Rice – Sr., A – 1/10

Maryland – Niko Amato – Jr., G; Jesse Bernhardt – Sr., LSM; John Haus – Sr., M – 6/10

Massachusetts – Will Manny – Sr., A – 3/10

Mercyhurst (NCAA D2) – Brian Scheetz – Sr., A – 1/10

Merrimack (NCAA D2) – Corey Lunney – Sr., M – 1/10

Navy – Tucker Hull – Jr., A – 2/10

Notre Dame – John Kemp – Sr., G; Jim Marlatt – Jr., M; Sean Rogers – Sr., A – 6/10

Ohio State – Logan Schuss – Sr., A – 2/10

Oneonta (NCAA D3) – Jimmy van de Veerdonk – Sr., M – 1/10

Penn State – Austin Kaut – Jr., G – 3/10

Pennsylvania – Brian Feeney – Jr., G; Zack Losco – Jr., M – 3/10

Pfeiffer (NCAA D2) – Hayden Kirk – Jr., G – 1/10

Princeton – Tom Schreiber – Jr., M – 3/10

Robert Morris – Jake Hayes – Sr., A; Dave Morton – Sr., A – 2/10

Salisbury (NCAA D3) – Ryan Clarke – Sr., M – 1/10

Siena – Danny Martinsen – Sr., A – 1/10

St. John’s – Kieran McArdle – Jr., A – 2/10

Stony Brook – Jeff Tundo – Sr., M – 2/10

Syracuse – Derek Maltz – Jr., A; JoJo Marasco – Sr., M; Brian Megill – Sr., D – 3/10

Towson – Thomas DeNapoli – Jr., A/M; Andrew Wascavage – Sr., G – 2/10

UMBC – Scott Jones – Sr., A – 1/10

UNC – Jimmy Bitter – Soph., A; Marcus Holman – Sr., A; RG Keenan – Jr., FO – 4/10

Vermont – Drew Philie – Sr., A – 2/10

Villanova – Max Hart – Sr., M; Jack Rice, – Sr., A – 3/10

Virginia – Rob Emery – Jr., M, Chris LaPierre – Sr., M; Scott McWilliams – Jr., D; Matt White – Sr., M – 5/10

Yale – Peter Johnson – Sr., D; Brandon Mangan – Jr., A; Michael McCormack – Sr., D – 4/10

Phew. What a list of names! Virginia leads the way with FOUR nominations, while teams like Albany, Duke, Cornell, UNC, Yale, Syracuse, Notre Dame, Loyola, Maryland, Denver and Lehigh all have three players on the list. Albany is ALL attack, as is Duke, while Denver is ALL midfield. It’s interesting to see how teams are regarded via their players!

When it comes to “X/10” score for each team, here is my rational:

D2 and D3 teams, as well as low ranked D1 teams can’t go above a 1 or a 2. It’s unrealistic to think that one of these guys is going to win the award, and it’s certainly not because they aren’t great players. It’s just that if their team isn’t in the fight for a title at the D1 level, they probably aren’t being seriously considered for Heisman of lacrosse. Since D2 and D3 teams literally CAN’T win the D1 title, all their players are given a 1 automatically.

More players helps your programs’ chances and probability. If you look down the list of schools that have a number of players on the watch list, you’ll see these teams are also thought to be contenders. See above for the rationale here, just in the opposite way.

So who do YOU think is going to win the Tewaaraton in 2013? From the above at least, it seems pretty wide open!