With all due respect to Villa Julie and taking nothing away from their good season.  There conference is a total joke.  Bethany might not be in the strongest conference in the nation, but its definitely a stronger conference then Villa Julie's.  Bethany's QOWI is currently 9.311, 19-4 in region, 22-4 overall, and are riding a 17 game win streak.  If they are able to beat Waynesburg 16-10 (11-9 in region) on Saturday in the PrAC championship their QOWI would go up to 9.410 and would have 20 region wins and the highest "in region" win percentage of any Pool B squad in the nation.
The only decent teams in Villa Julie's conference are Keystone who is a provisional member and Baptist Bible who made themselves ineligible for the NCAA DIII Tourney by making themselves eligible for the Christian Tourney.  Plus the only common opponent between Villa Julie and Bethany is Keystone and as stated before Bethany was up 20+ on Keystone before they cleared the bench and VJ lost to Keystone by 26.  Granted the PrAC only has two teams with winning records outside the conference, but they also had teams in Westminster and Washington & Jefferson that play really good non-conference schedules and are proverbial underachievers year in and year out.  It's not that the conference lacks talent.  With all of this being said, I'm not sure that VJ gives much of a challenge to Bethany in the Pool B ranks.

Okay, I would first like to say that I usually just read all of these posts by such notables as Pat Coleman, Ralph Turner and Hoops Fan, but after seeing all of this I decided it was time for me to get in the act and talk about one of the schools in the heat of Pool B. 

I follow DIII hoops religiously and have been an active reader of the site for a few years now.  Pool B is always one of the most intriguing threads on the whole site, and I just wanted to give some credit to one of the schools that is being somewhat overlooked in their accomplishments.

Let me first say that I agree Lincoln should be a lock for a Pool B bid because of all they have done this year, they have proven worthy of a spot.  I also think that the winner of the GSAC conference whether it be Maryville 19-6 (14-6) or Fisk 15-10 (10-4) deserve one of the bids.  However, lets not over look that Fisk is only 15-10 overall and I know their 9.769 QOWI 44th overall, but still 10 overall losses and a .714 win % in region isn't earth shattering numbers.  I think that Huntington QOWI is too weak to gain them a berth, outside chance if they win the GSAC. 

With all of that being said I think the team that should have the best chance of locking up on of the two remaining Pool B slots is Bethany College (Bethany, WV).  They are currently 21-4 (19-4) in region, just went undefeated in the PrAC conference at 12-0 (which is the first time that has been done since 1993-1994 season when Washington & Jefferson went to the Elite 8), and they are currently riding a 16 game win streak.  Their QOWI is 9.3.64 (68th overall) and their in region win percentage is 19-4 (.826) which is probably the highest in the Pool B contenders.  They also have some quality wins outside of their conference.  Bethany blew out Keystone (20-6) and Pitt-Greensburg (16-9).  Also had key wins against Muskingum who is 17-8 in the OAC at Muskingum.  However, their best win of the season gets the least credit by the committee when they beat DII power Wheeling Jesuit 71-70 at a nuetral site.  Wheeling Jesuit is currently ranked #5 in the East Region in DII and wins 20+ games yearly at that level.  Now if you take a look at their losses they all took place early in the year and to quality teams including Carnegie Mellon 87-85 at the buzzer and to Lake Erie who is the frontrunner in the AMCC.  Their only other losses came to Case-Western at their place the second game of the season followed up by a loss to Marietta in which their stud, Matt Drahos had 21 and 8 at halftime but mysteriously didn't play in the 2nd half, as a result they lost.  Anyways, I just wanted to speak my peace on a team that I feel isn't getting some of the credit they deserve!