Pat,

Is their a place anywhere on d3hoops that contains an ongoing list of teams, and by region, that have received the AQ? Also a list of regular season champions that have been knocked out and pushed to pool C?

Region 1: Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont.

Region 2: New York, Pennsylvania.

Region 3: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia.

Region 4: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming.

Pat, 

Does it make sense that Michigan can play teams in Puerto Rico and not Illinois if they are more than 200miles away?  Illinois can play teams Hawaii, Alaska and California as regional games?   

As far as Wesley they can play teams in maine and 2 Loses against Christopher Newport 217 miles away in Virginia don't count?

The Index for home and away games and the numbers don't add up correct. 

Do you have the 4 regions available to post?  I remember seeing that Delaware and Virginia were not together.  In fact I think I remember Virginia could play games in Florida and the Dominican Republic and not Delaware? I understand where the logic started and the idea of attempting to create an equal system.  However, it appears that they took a good idea too far and because of the unbalanced amount of division 3 teams throughout the country they continued to make more decisions based on the first idea to try to make an unbalanced map balanced.  Illinois and Michigan is another interesting one.  Look at the states they can play. 

A game is a game. 

Why are we relying on a numbers system that obviously does not work?

Pat,

d3hoops seems to have a better grasp on who the better teams, leagues and players are throughout the country and within each region.  Would d3 hoops be interested in posting their own regional rankings based on their knowledge of basketball and looking at National rankings and overall schedules?

I think everyone would be interested in comparing the two. 

It is an improvement that more games count, but why not count all division 3 games.  If you look closely at the criteria for what counts as a regional game it make absolutely no sense at all.  Games 201 miles away in neighboring states do not count and games up to 3000 miles away can count.  The way the numbers work to determine the strength of schedule even make less sense.  If it made any sense at all to use the numbers the first place team in our region would not be the second place team in their own league with the first place team in that league not even ranked.  This happened in the first week of rankings.

Why not count all division 3 games?  

I'm sure F@M's parents and recruits will enjoy to know that it is FREE to view the games live for F@M games and will cost at many schools like Williams and Gettysburg.   Congrats to coach Robinson and Kathy for all the memories.  800 is an amazing number.  That's an average of 20 wins a year for 40 years straight.  It's not about the wins, but rather the people that have been apart of those wins.  The amazing web of talented alum on and off the court speaks for itself. Pretty incredible. 

Hopefully the regional rankings will fix themselves by the end of the season.  How can a game for a team from Delaware count as a game in Maine but not in Virginia?  The regional ranking system needs to be fixed, changed, or tossed. 

Robinson Earns National Media Attention


Franklin & Marshall men's basketball coach Glenn Robinson has been all over the national media scene this week.  Robinson is one game shy of reaching 800 career wins and the country's top media outlets took notice. Below is a "Glenn Guide" to help you follow the coverage.

RADIO

Coach Robinson was interviewed live Tuesday night on the by Brian Kenny on ESPN radio. You can listen to the entire interview by clicking here.

TELEVISION

Coach Robinson was interviewed on ESPN's First Take Wednesday morning. You can watch the interview by clicking here.

Robinson talked with Jason Bristol from CBS 21 in Harrisburg. That segment was aired last night (Tuesday) at 11:00 p.m. You can watch the interview by clicking here.

Bristol followed on the interview with post game coverage. Click here to view it.

NEWSPAPER

The New York Times Sports Writer Adam Himmelsbach's story here

Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer Mike Jensen's story here.