Tillman and Starsia (UVA Coach) Talk About The Possible End of the Maryland UVA Lacrosse Rivalry – from Ed Lee of the Sun

With Maryland leaving the Atlantic Coast Conference for the Big Ten after this season, the Terps could bid farewell to a number of long-standing rivalries. Their series with Virginia (91 games) ranks as the second-longest rivalry in program history, just behind their series with Johns Hopkins (103).

After No. 7 Maryland’s 9-6 victory over No. 8 Virginia on Sunday, Terps coach John Tillman acknowledged that he would like to keep playing the Cavaliers in the future.

“We hope it continues,” he said. “We hope that’s something they want to do. We’re certainly open to it. If that’s something they don’t want to do, there’s not much that I can control. But we would like to continue to play them, and that’s a question you can ask [Virginia head] coach [Dom] Starsia. I have a lot of respect for him. But regardless of what happens, we’re going to control what we can control and play who we can play.”

Starsia was noncommittal about continuing the rivalry with Maryland.

“In general, I hate to see the rivalry with Maryland in all the different sports go by the board,” he said. “But born of necessity, I’ve got to make some adjustments in my schedule to accommodate bringing on Notre Dame and doing some other things. It’s just going to happen. I don’t think it’s a good thing for the sport necessarily that Virginia or Maryland may not play in the regular season in the future, but we’ve got plenty of games on our schedule.”

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