Originally Posted by pardfan
Six teams (of the nine competing) are tied for first place in men's lacrosse with 4-2 league records and two games remaining. For me, Patriot League parity in athletics is what makes the league special.

When a team breaks parity for an extended period of time (recently, Colgate Men’s Hoops and Holy Cross football) it is particularly impressive.
Quote Originally Posted by NY Crusader 2010 View Post
Both of those runs also did coincide with traditional league powers being down during that time. Lehigh and Colgate in football during Holy Cross' football run + Bucknell and Holy Cross in basketball during Colgate's hoops run. Although we've been bad for long enough to really consider whether HC is a "traditional power" or "flagship" when it comes to Patriot League Men's Basketball. Our last stretch of being consistently very good at the mid-major level ended in the late 2000's, basically half the lifetime of the PL ago.
Yes. The new facilities (Luth, etc.), superior coaching (Chesney and staff), and superior recruiting (Sluka, Dobbs, Coker, etc.) at Holy Cross certainly put them at an advantage over the rest of the league including Colgate and Lehigh.

Fordham (DeMorat, etc.) was very good at about the same time HC was excellent in this recent football run.

I don't think folks think of HC as a traditional PL basketball power given what's been going on in the Hart Center (with exceptions) this century.