MCLA Tournament Bracket Challenge
Welcome to the MCLA Tournament Bracket Challenge - Presented by Virtually Varsity. Fill out your brackets for a chance to win MCLA swag, a free STX Surgeon 700 head from The Lacrosse Box, and whatever swag we can drum up at the tournament. Complete the...
Continue ReadingBracketology Week 3
After this weekend we are up to 8 spots that we are calling “locked-in” for the National Tournament. The SELC, CCLA, and LSA all handed out their AQs yesterday. The CCLA and LSA followed the chalk with the top seeds (Michigan State and Texas A&M) walking away...
Continue ReadingThe Ideal MCLA Tournament Location
As anyone who reads this website knows, the 2018 MCLA National Championships Powered by Under Armour takes place next month in Salt Lake City. This will be the fifth venue for the postseason tournament in the last 10 seasons. The previous locations were Irving, TX...
Continue ReadingBracketology Week 2
We are shifting bracketology to Monday from Thursday to hopefully give it a shelf-life of longer than a few hours. With so many good games happening later in the week, we wanted to move our analysis earlier. So here we are on Monday with Bracketology week 2. We’ve...
Continue ReadingBracketology Week 1
Goodbye, Power Rankings. You were mostly fun, but it's time to welcome in Bracketology. Here's the thing though. It's probably still too early for this. BUT IT'S FUN. It's fun to guess at what the tournament lineup would look like based on what we know today....
Continue ReadingWeek 6 Power Rankings – Winning Bias
It’s time to come clean about my bias. I have a winning bias. I love to reward teams that win big games against good opponents. In discussing the rankings with people I often hear “yeah, but you can’t ignore that bad loss” or “yeah but they have lost more games...
Continue ReadingWeek 5 Power Rankings – The Gang Ranks All 25
The poll came out Wednesday morning and for the first time all year my first thought was "I don't hate it". At first glance, the poll seemed like it was actually pretty good. As the day wore on and as I had some conversations on Twitter, I realized there are...
Continue ReadingWeek 4 Power Rankings – The Upside Down
Growing up Zoolander was cool and certainly overquoted. Whenever you were in the midst of something crazy it was always clever to pull out the famous Will Ferrell line from the movie. Well, the world has moved on to new pop culture...
Continue ReadingWeek 3 Power Rankings – Challenge Your Assumptions
One of the most important things I have learned in my business career is the value of challenging your assumptions. Often times project directions, product decisions, and business strategy are driven by assumptions you make at the outset. But what if the...
Continue ReadingA Plea for Transparency
A Plea For Transparency By James Harkey "Transparency generally has a habit of curbing bias and special-interest voting" *Note: One of the reasons we started Virtually Varsity was to give a voice to the opinions and stories that haven't had a platform...
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