<< Wow...my friends who play it seem so tough...yet those schools you talk about doing well at it sound so gerbil :Q >>
yeah-- becuase lacrosse is an expensive sport to play-- sort of like hockey. Pads and equipment are not cheap- so the people who play it are primarily upper - middle class white guys with parents who can afford to buy all the equipment for them to get them started in the sport.
So becuase the preppy kids with money were the ones who started playing lacrosse, they then went to more expensive schools like princeton and syracuse... so those schools built up reputations as being the premire LAX schools.
that trend is starting to change now, and lacrosse is sreading to more and more schools and its moving out from the east coast. It wont be long untill its really popular everywhere.