“We sort of thought we could get him back [against Duke], but he just couldn’t go on Saturday,” Starsia said Tuesday morning. “He felt a little better yesterday, but he’s still not practicing. I would call his status day-to-day, and I’m hopeful that there’s a chance that he’ll play this coming weekend, but I probably won’t know until maybe tomorrow. He probably won’t practice today, but we’ll see if he can do anything tomorrow.”

Without Stanwick – the team’s leading scorer with 44 points on 23 goals and 21 assists – the No. 9 Cavaliers started junior Chris Bocklet, sophomore Nick O’Reilly and freshman Mark Cockerton against the Blue Devils. Bocklet registered two goals and one assist, O’Reilly finished with a goal and an assist, and Cockerton went pointless.

Starsia said Stanwick could play in the re-match against Duke even without practicing this week.

“That’s what he’s been doing the last three or four weeks,” Starsia said. “He hasn’t really practiced because of the foot, and he’s still effective. That’s the way it happens at this level with athletes like this. Sometimes they get an injury, but they can play on gameday. If you’re not going to make them worse, then you give the kid a chance to work through it. It would be great if he could practice because when the quarterback of our offense isn’t there, it kind of changes the chemistry of things a little bit. But if you told me that I could just have him on gameday, I’d still be thankful for that.”