Good morning. Here’s the latest from around the lacrosse world:

1. In late-breaking news, Bill Wagner of the Capital Gazette confirmed MLL's decision to become a single-entity league and forego the franchise model on which it was founded. Learn more here.

2. In typical Premier Lacrosse League fashion, the league made waves on social media last night when it released its list of protected players ahead of the expansion draft on Feb. 12. The league had initially said this information would be made public on Wednesday. The list of unprotected players was surprising, to say the least. Check out the full breakdown here. 

3. We continued rolling out extensive previews of our top 20 teams, and No. 15 for both the men and women was the Loyola Greyhounds. Check out the men’s preview here and the women’s preview here.

4. In Jack Goods’ latest NLL notebook, he broke down the early success of Halifax and highlighted Philadelphia’s big night. Did you see Kevin Crowley’s unreal goal? It’s here, if you missed it.

5. Pittsburgh checked in at No. 1 in the Nike/US Lacrosse WCLA Division I Preseason Top 20.

6. Pittsburgh’s star defender, Julia Lynch, earned US Lacrosse WCLA Division I Preseason Player of the Year honors.

WHAT WE’RE READING

• Over the next 20 weeks, Major League Lacrosse will be celebrating the past 20 years of the league’s history. Here’s a tweet breaking down MLL Championship Weekend rosters from 2001. Feel old?

  Check out the rosters for MLL Championship Weekend 2001
  
  Who had the most stacked squad? pic.twitter.com/2aOgjvSGzk

  — Major League Lacrosse (@MLL_Lacrosse) January 12, 2020

• And here are the standings and statistical leaders from that inaugural season.

• Lindsay Kramer of Syracuse.com spoke with Chase Scanlan about his early thoughts on playing for Cuse.

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING

It looks like the guys from Boston U. had a good time on video day.

We know Oscar nominations were already announced but we’re submitting this for “Funniest Green Screen Footage” anyway. pic.twitter.com/SZsIsuATwW

— BU Men's Lacrosse (@TerrierMLAX) January 13, 2020

Sometimes, all you need is a wake-up slap from a friend.

When you need your teammate to pump you up pic.twitter.com/VQ1r27gX3s

— Temple Lacrosse (@Templelacrosse) January 13, 2020

This looks difficult.

A fabulous hidden strength session for our U14 lax team this week. Great team effort by Megan and Lucy here pic.twitter.com/lUUiYJgijo

— Caterham Lacrosse (@CaterhamLax) January 13, 2020

WHAT’S ON TAP

• We continue our breakdown of top 20 teams with the UMass men and the James Madison women.

• We also publish the MCLA Division I preseason rankings and the MCLA Division I preseason player of the year, as found in the January 2020 edition of US Lacrosse Magazine.

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