Inside Lacrosse Podcasts

IL's Terry Foy and Nick Ossello are back to unpack the first round of the NCAA Tournament, starting with the Delaware Blue Hens' shocking upset over Georgetown. They then go through each of the weekend's games, starting with Princeton's defensive lockdown of BU, Penn's Sam Handley reliance, Yale-Saint Joe's unbridled playmaking, the electric atmosphere at Brown-UVA, Luke Wierman's improvement on display in Maryland's win over Vermont, Gavin Adler's production despite his assignment in Cornell's win over Ohio State and Rutgers' offensive explosion vs. Harvard. They end with Nick saying many, many nice things about the NCAA selection committee.

This week, D-Fly & Dixie present your guide for the first round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Lacrosse Tournament, one of our favorite episodes of the year. Definitely the longest. The show begins with some thoughts on the tournament field and reactions to Selection Sunday. Both Dan and Mark get a chance to rant a bit, and it’s quite healing. They then review both Vermont and Delaware’s victories in the mid-week NCAA play-in games before getting into the game previews. Eight games on tap. Four each day. All available on ESPNU.This week’s guest is Harvard head coach, Gerry Byrne. In his first full season at the helm in Cambridge, Byrne and the Crimson earned an at-large berth and are preparing to face Rutgers on Sunday. The guys cover Harvard’s lost season, building culture with a young, inexperienced group, the surprising dominance of the Ivy League in 2022, earning a bid at the possible expense of his old team, Harvard’s team leaders, game planning for Rutgers, Boston’s food scene and music documentaries.In an Italian restaurant-inspired Give & Go, the fellas provide a definitive ranking of the very best pastas. Mangia!

Welcome back for the bittersweet NCAA Tournament pod, marking that the end is near but will be absolutely loaded with action. Join Caleb "The Big Dog" Abney and Dan Kaplan as they dive in on a conference championship weekend and the selection show. The boys are back in town to take a deep look in to how brackets take shape, make some predictions, and have a ton of fun talking DIII lax.

With summer around the corner, LI Sting founder Ken Miller joins IL's Terry Foy along with his coaches Kevin Donovan and Mark Glicini to discuss how and why he developed Sting, his philosophy around running the organization, the utilization of video to select players and more.

In the wake Selection Sunday's NCAA Tournament bracket reveal, IL's Terry Foy talks to Loyola AD Donna Woodruff, who chaired the Committee, as well as Harvard coach Gerry Byrne, Penn coach Mike Murphy, Ohio State coach Nick Myers, Yale coach Andy Shay, Saint Joseph's coach Taylor Wray and Manhattan coach Drew Kelleher.

IL's Dan Kaplan and Caleb "the Big Dog" Abney get together for another awesome episode of the IL DIII podcast. As always the guys have a ton of fun chatting through the DIII landscape, and there are tons of storylines. With conference play rounding out and the big dance looming, the guys have a ton to discuss. Join as they react to conference voting, the Wednesday night results, and dive in on a loaded weekend.

Thursday of Championship Week is the single-best day of the year for college lacrosse fans. It’s a marathon day of intriguing rematches of playoff-worthy teams battling for their postseason lives. Championship Thursday is so significant and so awesome that this week’s D-Fly & Dixie Podcast is delivered a day early to get you pumped and prepped for a massive day of upsets, season-ending disappointments, survive-and-advance moments, but always high-caliber lacrosse.This is it. This is what every team in lacrosse has been gunning for since Fall Ball started nine months ago, namely to get better every day so that you are playing your best lacrosse in May. Everything is on the line - the glory of a conference championship, the league’s AQ and a trip to the NCAA Tournament.After discussing some news, including the RPI and head coach openings at Providence and St. John’s, the guys commence the game previews. In this week's food-inspired Give & Go, you finally get the definitive ranking of over-the-counter salad dressings that you've all been starving for.Let’s get it.

In the midst of a season in which they’ve clearly been “ahead of schedule,” Harvard assistants Neil Hutchinson and Will Corrigan join Peet Poillon and Matt Bocklet to discuss the Crimson’s season, working for Gerry Byrne, fitting into the culture in Cambridge and life in Boston.

Five teams competed at the first women's edition of the annual European Box Lacrosse Invitational. The event is commonly called EBox, so the women's version has taken the nickname SheBox. The tournament was the first opportunity for women in Europe to play box lacrosse, which will have a women's world championship for the first time in 2024. This week on LaxBeat, host Stephen Stamp has conversations with five participants in the inaugural SheBox, which was universally acclaimed as a huge success. Lizzie Bottrill is from England, where she has been part of the national development field lacrosse team, and was one of three English women to play for Prague Sports at SheBox.  Becky Moloney has been a goalie for Ireland's field team and is a driver of the sport in the nation. She played between the pipes for Team Eire, which was coached by Bellingham, Wash., native and Prague resident Garrett Goshorn at the tournament. Mac MacDonough and Delaney Benson both grew up in California and have both been living in Israel, where they put enormous time and energy into coaching lacrosse. They'll both be representing Israel at World Lacrosse championship this summer. The five guests have diverse backgrounds, but they all agree that SheBox was a huge first step for lacrosse in Europe and was a seminal moment in the growth of the women's box game.

The regular season is all but over — we're onto conference tournaments (aside from Duke-Notre Dame). Did this weekend's results ensure that only two (at most) ACC teams can make the NCAA Tournament? Terry and Nick start by discussing Yale's OT win vs. Harvard — one of the most entertaining games of the year — and Cornell's win over Princeton before transitioning to Notre Dame's one-sided win over Syracuse (continuing a trend) and touch on SoCon and Patriot League Madness.