{"id":222350,"date":"2026-01-05T22:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/222350\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T22:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:06:08","slug":"jmu-ranked-20th-in-usa-lacrosse-preseason-top-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/222350\/","title":{"rendered":"JMU Ranked 20th in USA Lacrosse Preseason Top 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SPARKS, Md. \u2013 James Madison lacrosse earned the No. 20 ranking in USA Lacrosse&#8217;s Division I Women&#8217;s Preseason Top 20, the outlet announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Dukes&#8217; ranking comes on the heels of a 14-5 campaign in which they won their first American title since joining the league in 2023, advancing to the first round of the NCAA Championship.<\/p>\n<p>JMU finished 2025 No. 17 in both the USA Lacrosse and the\u00a0ILWomen\/IWLCA coaches&#8217; final polls.<\/p>\n<p>The Dukes will face four opponents that also made the top 20, with all four landing within the top 10: No. 1 North Carolina, No. 7 Virginia, No. 8 Maryland, and No. 10 Johns Hopkins.<\/p>\n<p>JMU will open the 2026 season at Sentara Park against the defending national champions, No. 1 North Carolina, on Feb.7 at 12 p.m.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPARKS, Md. \u2013 James Madison lacrosse earned the No. 20 ranking in USA Lacrosse&#8217;s Division I Women&#8217;s Preseason&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-222350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}