pretty good predictions.
yeah, i think that duke will beat cornell for a couple of reasons, one being that cornell hasn't been to the final four for awhile, and haven't had too much experience in big games this year. Also, as everyone has said, duke will be hungry after last year, and after coming sooooo close two years ago.
Not to mention that traditionally playoff remathes haven't been kind to the winner of the regular season game.
Alex Smith will give the jays a ton of problems, i'm thinking that they might try and use Koesterer to bully him, but they do have two good face-off men in peyser and koesterer.
But i think that if schwartzman and the defense plays like they did last week, that the hens will be in serious trouble, face-offs or not. The jays have also had a lot of experience playing vs. a slow-down offense this year, many teams have tried in the hopes of pulling the upset.
If both those hold up, im calling a close final that could go either way, but duke having the edge. I think that jhu would play a lot better than they did in the reg. season, and that it would come down to the final seconds, or OT, but i think duke would pull it off.