Don't get Navy coach Richie Meade wrong. He's plenty pleased that the No. 10 Midshipmen are 1-0 courtesy of a 13-5 victory over VMI on Saturday rather than being 0-1. But he took umbrage with a line of thought that Navy should have won by a greater margin and that the score should not have been tied at five at halftime.

"There’s a little bit of thing that we should come out and do everything right and beat VMI, 10 million to nothing," Meade said earlier today. "The problem is, nobody told VMI that. They got a couple of goals, they shot the ball in early, and they had us behind. … We had to face what we face. I’ll leave it up to everybody else to decide if we’re good or not good. [The critics] seem to be good at that. But I thought our guys did a pretty good job of responding to it."

Several factors contributed to the Midshipmen's dominating second half in which they outscored VMI 8-0. Navy forced the Keydets into nine turnovers in the third quarter, which the Midshipmen converted into a 14-2 advantage in shots and a 5-0 output in goals. Navy converted on all four of its extra-man opportunities, and a decision to replace a long-pole with a short-stick on face-offs helped the Midshipmen win six of nine face-offs. Finally, an attack that graduated the likes of Nick Mirabito and Greg Clement accounted for 10 goals and three assists.

"We think we can get a lot better," Meade said. "Our attack has a pretty good feel for each other. We moved the ball pretty well; we just didn’t finish. We’d be a pass short or a shot short. We’ve just got to keep working on that."

Navy's next chance is Saturday when No. 15 Ohio State visits Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium at noon.