Hofstra to play Giants Stadium

On Saturday, April 4, the Hofstra men’s lacrosse team will play Delaware at the Meadowlands as part of a three-game event called the Big City Classic.
The Pride will face the Fightin’ Blue Hens at 5 p.m., closing out a tripleheader that features Virginia-North Carolina at noon and Syracuse-Princeton at 2:30 p.m.
This is the first lacrosse event, to my knowledge, that will attempt to draw people from the New York metropolitan area to such a high-profile venue. It will be interesting to see how many fans from around the area show up. Similar doubleheader events have been held with success at the Baltimore Ravens’ stadium in Baltimore during the past two years.
The teams competing in this one are no slouches and, of course, include multiple players from Long Island. Syracuse is the defending national champion. Virginia made the final four last year. North Carolina is an ACC program on the up-and-up, and Princeton is always solid.
Delaware reached the national semis in 2007, and Hofstra made the NCAAs last year, getting bounced by Johns Hopkins in the first round.
All six programs have agreed to a two-year commitment to the event, according to its organizer, Inside Lacrosse.
Here's the rest of the Hofstra schedule...
2/21 UMass – 1 p.m.2/28 @ Brown – Noon3/7 @ Johns Hopkins – Noon3/14 Princeton – 1 p.m.3/21 @ Sacred Heart – 1 p.m.3/24 @ U.S. Military Academy – 7 p.m.3/28 Robert Morris – Noon4/4 Delaware (at Giants Stadium) – 5 p.m.4/8 Drexel – 7 p.m.4/11 @ Towson – 1 p.m.4/18 North Carolina – 7 p.m.4/21 Stony Brook – 7 p.m.4/25 Villanova – 7 p.m.