It was great to see Coach Frey get his 500th win.  With winning 90% of his games I would guess 600 wins is within reach if he coaches another 4 to 5 years.

Looking forward to this Friday's game @ 4pm (on a nuetral field and no paywall) between #3 Christopher Newport (4-0-0) and the now #8 Case Western (5-0-0).  Both teams undefeated and both teams have not conceded a goal yet this year.  So something has to give!

Happy Thanksgiving - I just watched SimpleCoach's Thanksgiving video and he recapped the women's final four: https://youtu.be/5FIQOAw1u3o

Hopkins definitely has to be the favored team for all the reasons mentioned in some of the above posts.  I watched the Hopkins / Misericordia game and after looking at the Box Score (and even knowing about the D1 transfers), I was still a little surprised at what's happening at Hopkins this year.

During the Misericordia game they used 4 subs out of a total roster of 35.  The starting 11 consisted of 6 5th year grad students (more than half) 2 of which are "home grown" and 4 are D1 transfers.  The remaining 5 starters include 3 freshmen and 2 sophomores.  The four that were used off the bench include 2 5th year D1 transfers and one freshman and one sophomore.  What you don't see on the field at all during the game are any juniors or seniors!  Imagine being a senior that came to Hopkins in 2019 (the year before COVID) and now in 2022 you are sitting on the bench because 7 D1 5th year transfers came in (I'm purposely ignoring the 2 home grown 5th year seniors).  Talk about renting a team for a year.

The games in Scranton this coming weekend will be very intriguing.

Two undefeated teams playing each other (Scranton vs TCNJ) where one of the teams could loose their first game of the year (unless it goes to PKs then technically it is a tie) and their remarkable season will be over!  Scranton has given up just 4 goals all year while TCNJ has given up only 5 all year.  Could easily be a 0-0 tie with penalty kicks to decide.

The other game features two one-loss teams.  Misericordia has scored 89 goals this year while giving up 9 goals and William Smith has scored 79 goals this year while giving up 10 goals - 4 of which where given up in their second game of the year - their only loss to Messiah (2-4).  Misericordia's only loss was to Scranton (0-1).

Tomorrow begins the tournament almost two years since the last tournament game was played!

I'm planning on being at the TCNJ games this weekend.  IF TCNJ and Messiah both prevail on Saturday (certainly not a given), then Sunday's matchup between those teams would be quite an early tournament matchup.  Seems a bit unfortunate that the defending national champion (currently ranked #11) and the number #1 ranked team would face each other on the very first weekend of the tournament.