🥍 In Today’s Newsletter. The start of the 2026 season. Great Debate: Is This The Right Weekend to Start College Play? Inside Lacrosse Top 20. SAA Previews. To Avoid Accusations of AI Cheating, College Students Are Turning to AI.

🎶 Your Morning Pick Me Up. Let’s Get It Started. The Black-Eyed Peas

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The 2026 Division III men’s lacrosse season gets underway today at noon as Elizabethtown travels to Newport News to take on Christopher Newport.

Two other contests are slated for Saturday - Southern Virginia at Savannah College of Art and Design, and LaGrange at Centenary (La.).

Click on the links for the live video.

“In case you're still counting down the weeks to the start of new prep and high school seasons, you may have missed that Saturday marks the beginning of the college lacrosse season.

And it's not just one game - it's over two dozen tilts across all three divisions.

There are two feet of standing snow in some areas and the groundhog is still fast asleep in his hovel. So why are we playing college lacrosse games so soon?”

“Tufts is the no-doubt No. 1 in IL’s KANE Men’s DIII Rankings.

The Jumbos lead the preseason rankings after a 23-0 season in which they dominated the NCAA Title Game. They return the DIII Player of the Year in Jack Regnery and have a shocking level of talent returning.

The Jumbos will look to claim the rare three-peat, something that’s been done by three programs: Middlebury 2000-01-02; Salisbury 2003-04-05; Hobart 1980-81-82-83-84-85-86-87-88-89-90-91.

» Inside Lacrosse Top 10. 1-Tufts, 2-Salisbury, 3-Christopher Newport, 4-RIT, 5-Dickinson, 6-Bowdoin, 7-Wesleyan, 8-Gettysburg, 9-York, 10-Washington and Lee | Complete Top 20

“The Sewanee Tigers have been tabbed as the 2026 favorite for the Southern Athletic Association Women’s Lacrosse Crown.

Sewanee had the most first place votes at five to total 30 points. Berry and Rhodes were deemed second place contenders with 26 points a piece while the Lynx captured one first place vote.”

SAA Coaches Poll. 1-Sewanee, 2-Berry, 3-Rhodes, 4-Centre, 5-Oglethorpe, 6-Southwestern.

D3Lacrosse Preseason All-SAA Team. A-Marlin Price, Sr., Sewanee, 62-24-86; A-Sally Herrington, Sr., Sewanee, 49-19-68; A-Anna Ramsden, Sr., Oglethorpe, 38-10-48; A-Alex Kelly, Jr., Sewanee, 15-2-17, 110 DC; M-Kennedy Harcourt, So., Sewanee, 12-4-16; M-Sophia Richardson, Jr., Centre, 20-10-30; M-Ella Townsend, Jr., Sewanee, 7-8-15; M-Dani Taraska, Sr., Berry, 45-19-64, 99 DC, 52 CT; D-Elizabeth Mitchell, Sr., Centre, 20 CT; D-Katherine Herrero, So., Berry, 33 CT; D-Elisabeth Vickrey, Jr., Berry, 18 CT; GK-Myskina Bolavong, Jr., Berry, 43.7%.

D3Lacrosse Preseason Favorite. Sewanee
Preseason Player of the Year. Marlin Price, Sr., A, Sewanee

“The Sewanee Tigers have been selected to earn the 2026 SAA Men’s Lacrosse title.

Sewanee had the most first place votes at five to total 41 points. Centre and Rhodes each had a first place nod to tie for second with 34 points. Southwestern took fourth with 28 points.”

» SAA Coaches Poll. 1-Sewanee, T2-Centre, T2-Rhodes, 4-Southwestern, 5-Berry, 6-Hendrix, 7-Oglethorpe.

D3Lacrosse Preseason All-SAA Team. A-Manoli Loupassi, Jr., Sewanee, 43-11-54; A-Gavin Nagle, Jr., Rhodes, 35-19-54; A-Charles Moran, Sr., Sewanee, 24-30-54; M-Lucas Pagliarulo, Sr., Rhodes, 27 GB; M-Ryan Black, Sr., Centre, 13-14-27; M-Matthew Houtz, Sr., Southwestern, 28-10-38; D-Mac Shafer, Sr., Centre, 22 CT; D-James Bogusky, Jr., Sewanee, 12 CT; D-Patrick Tatro, Jr., Centre, 43 GB; LSM-Gus Albright, Jr., Sewanee, 23 CT; FO-Caleb Johnston, Sr., Berry, 55.2%; GK-Hayden Burns, Sr., Centre, 63.0%.

D3Lacrosse Preseason Favorite. Rhodes
Preseason Player of the Year. Manoli Loupassi, Jr., A, Sewanee

On college campuses across the United States, the introduction of generative artificial intelligence has sparked a sort of arms race.

Rapid adoption of AI by young people set off waves of anxiety that students could cheat their way through college, leading many professors to run papers through online AI detectors that inspect whether students used large language models to write their work for them. Some colleges say they’ve caught hundreds of students cheating this way.

Amid accusations of AI cheating, some students are turning to a new group of generative AI tools called “humanizers.” The tools scan essays and suggest ways to alter text so they aren’t read as having been created by AI. Some are free, while others cost around $20 a month.”

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