The biggest game of the year?

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Penn-Princeton in basketball, or frankly any sport, is a big game. But perhaps the biggest matchup of the last few years has been Penn versus Northwestern in women's lacrosse.

Today No. 3 Penn (13-0) will travel to No. 1 Northwestern (16-0) in a huge matchup of undefeated teams. The opening draw is slated for 8 p.m., or actually 7 p.m. Central. The Quakers are out for revenge after last year's 10-6 loss in the NCAA final. The Wildcats want to keep dominating, and prove that last year's Penn 11-7 win in the regular season was a fluke (the Quakers are 1-5 all-time against Northwestern according to Penn, 2-5 according to Northwestern).

Here is some reading material before the game. We've got a much more detailed preview (be sure to check out our Game Day extra on page seven of the PDF of the newspaper).  Here's a preview from The Daily Northwestern. For a more statistical breakdown, check out the Penn and Northwestern official press releases. And here's a feature on Penn (as well as the West Chester team).

One interesting thing to note, despite Northwestern's dominance in the last four years, only its 2005 champion team was undefeated. And before that, the 2001 Maryland team was the last to go undefeated. So ironically, the loser of this game might actually have history on its side.

Fortunately, I'm actually going to Evanston, Ill., to cover the game for the DP. (My flight leaves in about nine hours, so maybe I should be asleep now instead of writing this.) I've been told that there's internet in the Northwestern press box, so assuming that works I'll do live updates here on the Buzz.