GRR: College Men
This is a massive weekend in college rugby.
The #1-ranked US naval Academy makes it a double-dip Army-Navy season with a spring game at West Point Friday night.
Army is ranked #7 by GRR and last fall lost to the Midshipmen 27-14 in Rugby East Conference play. This followed on from their fall 2021 clash in which Army won 24-17 on their way to winning the D1A National Championship.
The nominees for the 2023 Rudy Scholz Award have been announced.
Thomas More won the latest Big Rivers 7s on a last-minute try from Ta'Veon Veal to beat Principia.
That 21-15 result clinched the tournament for TMU and puts them in a good position to qualify for the CRC in May.
Who else has been doing well in men's college 7s this spring?
The D1A playoffs are fast approaching and, as everyone knows, the the rankings have a lot to do with how they get populated.
First off, a quick reminder: D1A is the organization under CRAA that runs what is the most high-level collegiate playoff in men's college rugby. NCR is separate and NCR runs their own D1 playoff in the fall. That playoff was won by Brown over Queens.