Very puzzling, she also is no longer listed in the UWRF Roster!

1. Stevens Point
2. River Falls
3. LaCrosse
4. Whitewater
5. Eau Claire
6. Stout
7. Oshkosh
8. Superior
9. Platteville

This seems like a good starting point, but about January 15th, this will start to take a firmer shape.

Sounds like a lot of changes/additions to most of the teams in the league.  With all of the new players, it will truly be very difficult to make predictions about the order of finish.  Sometimes players don't live up to the hype, and sometimes players not thought about, bring things to the table that are unexpected. 

Depending on the player, that should probably put River Falls into the mix as well.

Meek Introduced as Bruins' New Coach
PORTLAND, Ore. – With over 50 former and new players, family members, friends, and media representatives on hand, Michael Meek was introduced as the new head coach of the George Fox University women's basketball team at a press conference Monday morning here at the World Trade Center in downtown Portland.

After looking over the tournament brackets, I might tend to agree with you about the lack of respect.  In looking at the road that George Fox #5 had to take to get into the Sweet 16, they had to play two teams from the Top 20!

On the other hand, looking at Five (5) Teams getting into the tournament from the NESCAC, Amherst #1, Colby #20, Tufts #26, Bowdoin #29 and Williams (Not Ranked), the respective roads for the combination of all five of those teams would have provided only one potential game against a Top 20 Team through the first 2 Rounds into the Sweet Sixteen.  This seems a bit lopsided. 

I realize that geography plays a lot into the pairings of the tourney, but just the stats from the last two paragraphs seems like there is a huge disparity in treatment.  I am not faulting the NESCAC, but simply pointing out something that makes the NCAA DIII Tourney look bad. 

I have relatives in both Portland and Seattle.  We came out last august for a family vacation, and while there visited six schools in Oregon and Washington, four from the Northwest Conference.  After looking at schools pretty much all over the country, she fell in love with the school, and seemed to hit it off with the coach, who seemed to share a lot of the philosophies in which she approaches the game.  WHITWORTH!

Looking forward to the next four years, as my daughter is coming from a long way to play basketball in the Northwest Conference.  (East of the Mississippi) We are not real familiar with the Northwest Conference, but they obviously had some great success this past season.