Ben,

Both losses hurt WC, especially the loss to Kalamazoo (they might have finshed above .500). However, both were early season losses that in an ideal world would have been igonored by the selection committee (especially since Franklin is usually a contender and is probably glad to have WC out of their conference so they can start winning it again). Anyway, we're beating a dead horse here, best to just congratulate the team on a great season and look forward to next season.

Hate to say it, but since there's no Capital posters here to irratate, I'll go ahead and say it. If Capital had lost to BW in the OAC championship, they would have received a bid, based on ancient history, not recent achievements. Anyone notice that Capital was getting votes right behind WC in the last few D3Hoops polls? This was after they had fallen to 4th place in the OAC and BW was tied with WC for 1st. Yet BW was not receiving any votes. This just goes to show you that not even the coaches are fully aware of how teams are faring. I'm sure that same problem exists in the D3 selection committees.

JDean,

I'm not saying that Greensboro doesn't deserve to be in the tourny, they do, regardless of how good or bad their conference is. They cannot control that. However, Wilmington deserved to be invited too, and should have received a higher seed than Greensboro. Unfortunately, the NCAA is not interested in fielding the most competitive tournament with the best teams possible, seeded in such a way as to reward the good teams from the good conferences. Of course, determing who the good teams and good conferences are is a problem in D-3 because for obvious reasons schools don't play outside their region like they do in D-1. Any SOS or other index ranking D-3 programs is not going to give a very accurate estimate of who the best programs are. I've seen both WC and Greensboro play this season, so I know what the selection committee does not about these two teams, WC by 20+ pts. Maybe the selection committee should start watching videos of games from all regions starting about February, that might sort the contenders from the pretenders. Of course, B-W's loss to Denison doesn't help my cause here does it? :-)

Some of the teams that are in a conference are questionable picks too (Greensboro comes to mind). If this were D-1, Wilmington is the 2nd place Big 10 team and Greensboro is the winner of some conference no one has heard of. In D-1, Greensboro is happy with their #15 seed and the spanking they receive, and WC is happy to provide that spanking. Here in D-3 though, WC stays home and Greensboro gets a 1st round bye. Check the USA-South standings, 3 teams above .500 and most every school has a sub-500 record against non-conference competition...

What a (insert your favorite 4 or 5 adjectives here) joke!!! Only in D-3 would the defending national champions win their conference (a power conference at that) and not receive an invite to the NCAA tournament! C'mon NCAA, put the best teams in the tournament and can this "equal participation", or should I say "politics, incompetence, and greed", stuff. If it's really about equal participation and the student-athlete, then D-3 should eliminate all conference tournaments. That way the conference champions will get the chance they deserve. Anyway, good luck to B-W!