With two events to go, UR trails GW by just half a point...524.5 to 524. Unfortunately, it's not looking good for the Spiders to pull out the win.

If placing from prelims were to hold, GW would score 32 points and UR would score 11 in the 200 fly. GW has two in the A final and one in the B final, while UR has two in the B final, so barring a DQ by an A-final GW swimmer, the Spiders will likely have a ~20-point deficit heading into the 400 free relay.

UR and GW should both be very strong in the relay, so the Spiders are very unlikely to have a big enough gap in placing (if any) over GW to make that up. I'm sure GW will coach their swimmers to have safe starts to make sure the relay doesn't get DQ'd.

Still a very impressive performance going up against a GW squad with much better resources.

Edit: Things swing even further GW's way in the 200 fly, outscoring the Spiders 42–7 to take a 35.5-point lead. GW's relay would now have to get DQ'd for the Spiders to take the trophy, as the relay point difference between 1st and 11th (last) is only 28 points.

There will be a decent break before the relay as the men have a diving final coming up.

Trump is making a big mistake with Ukraine. He was not elected to capitulate to Russia.

How Germans vote will now be a critical component of Europe’s response to Mr. Trump’s new world order, and will resonate far beyond their borders.

“It is not just another change of government” under Mr. Trump, Friedrich Merz, the leading candidate for chancellor, warned on Friday after taking the stage for an arena rally in the western town of Oberhausen, “but a complete redrawing of the world map.”

Long Time Spider Fan said:

Do you applaud the effort to carve away fat when most or all of the savings will go to tax reductions for the extremely wealthy? And maybe the US can up its average daily payments to Musk companies to $10 million a day.

Click to expand...

Total speculation.

Vcu is good again and again we are not

Meanwhile, across town…..

bullfrog91 said:

Anyone going? As of this moment, I plan to be there..

Click to expand...

Where do you guys get your tickets?

whampas said:

Fortunate to win given how bad we are at the x. Defense played well.

Click to expand...

If we are to have any shot against Cornell we gotta do much better than winning only 25% of the X. 5 v 15.

spiderstudent17 said:

Looks like that win against Penn State may have been fool’s gold. Spiders not as good as #19 ranking suggests. Lost to Liberty today.

Login to view embedded media

Click to expand...

The sweet,holy babes from Farwell U were nasty including a double yellow expulsion.

Pathetic

whampas said:

Moon’s defense. Two words that don't belong together.

Click to expand...

I would add and Moon's offense.

Looks like that win against Penn State may have been fool’s gold. Spiders not as good as #19 ranking suggests. Lost to Liberty today.

Login to view embedded media

Glad we were able to pull this one out in the end. This was the ultimate trap game. 1) We came off a win against a UVA team, granted their record was better than what UVA will likely be this year. 2) We have top 5 Cornell at home next week. 3) We went into a Lehigh team that is much better than their 0-3 record suggests who is motivated for a win against the #13 team in the country.

How has Chemotti done such a great job in building this program, yet 10 years laters we still struggle with face-offs? One thing to lose badly to the Maryland’s of this world, but we need to do much better against the Lehigh’s of this world. We won 25% of the face offs against them today. That is not good at all.

Moon’s defense. Two words that don't belong together.

All season we don’t guard 3 point shooters. Today we especially ran into a hot shooting team, and they made so many wide open 3’s my neck started hurting. Good shooting teams make Moon’s defense look like something you’d see on a middle school team.

I will be there - looking forward to our sweep of VCU and clinching a first seed

Hey, we won the second half!

whampas said:

Fortunate to win given how bad we are at the x. Defense played well.

Click to expand...

Dr. Spidey said:

Anything within 40 is considered competing for us

Click to expand...

Maybe, DOGE should pay the Spider bb program a visit? I kid....

Anything within 40 is considered competing for us

Fortunate to win given how bad we are at the x. Defense played well.

Survived 9 to 8 ..Lehigh made it tough.....Faceoffs were a tough go.....but Spiders win................

Eight Legger said:

Quality effort so far! Maybe we can lose by 40.

Click to expand...

We have already lost by 40 this season, dream bigger

On brand

Login to view embedded media

Looks like the tweet with a typo got deleted - we had a whopping three game tweets today, now 2.

urfan1 said:

Tried many cases before (and against when not on bench) David Meade, knew be very prepared and tread carefully. Got along well with him, even helped him with an issue or two after he retired.

Click to expand...

Judge White had some of the best stories, but as you said, he expected you to be prepared.