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...

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MCLA Tournament Bracket Challenge

Bracketology 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...

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Bracketology Week 3

The 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...

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The Ideal MCLA Tournament Location

Bracketology 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...

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Bracketology Week 2

Bracketology 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....

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Bracketology Week 1

Week 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...

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Week 6 Power Rankings – Winning Bias

A 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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A Plea for Transparency