The weather was not really a factor on Sunday. I think a
lot of the lower seeds just came out fired up. I know we
(NC State) took advantage of UVA poor decisions and also
worked on denying the underneath cuts, forcing them to huck
it. I heard from some USC guys that UMD just came out fired
up with hard man defense and took half on them 8-5. We had
a huge come from behind win against UMD running a 3-3-1 zone
to help stop their underneath cuts. Players on both sides
made some ridiculous plays. One I'm thinking of was a cross
field flick huck where a UMD defender poached off and went
up huge to tip the disc only to have the NC State receiver
catch it on a layout at the back of the endzone to start our
string of breaks. Kinda sucked for us because while our
game went to universe and we had to rally late, in the other
semi, UNC went up 8-0 on Georgetown... They came out rested
and with a ton of subs, we were already down players and had
no response to their hard running. Gotta give credit to
them, they never let up and did what needed to be done. But
just sayin, was NC State really the best team they played
all weekend?