Eastern also scores a big win, and Brooks is taking the West Conn game over.  Could be a great night for the LEC. 3 of the 32 teams left and a 50 point scorer, best conference?

77-60 RIC wins by 17 and to be honest it was not that close.  Salem State hit a 3 at the buzzer to to keep it from being a 20 point win.

Although Cherry was a league leader in steals this season, as a freshman.  So from that and being he is 2 inches smaller I bet he is on Brooks to start that game.

Conley Taylor and Mike Cherry do seem to be quite a talented backcourt for Newport. Taylor is 3 time all conference and a D3Hoops Regional Team winner.  Can score and looks to be a good sized strong kid.  Cherry is a very talented looking Freshman.
Neither sound like shut down defenders but they do look like very good players, should be a good game.

Very interesting numbers from the D3 Index.  I have been looking at this site all year and the numbers have been pretty spot on.
https://sites.google.com/site/d3basketballindex/tourney-odds

Eastern CT: 78.7% chance they win their first game, good odds in my mind. 43.9% they make the Sweet 16, second in their pod behind Oswego with 48.7 so pretty close.

RIC: 74.5% they win game one and 43.6% they make the Sweet 16.  Even though that is lower than Eastern it still makes them the favorite in their weaker more balanced pod, Staten Island is second behind them to win the pod.

Western: Projected to lose round one 53.3% of the time. So not great numbers even worse when you look Sweet 16 with only a 18.5% chance of making it.

Overall this site at least gives decent if not good odds at least one team makes the round of 16. The odds almost even favor us sending both Eastern and RIC. That would be a great weekend for the LEC!

So RIC will host. They get Baruch in the first round. This is not a bad draw for the anchorwomen at all.

I agree that SUNY is good, but this season is what 7 was getting at I think and this years the LEC is better. Eastern, Western, RIC and Keene are better than Cortland their second place team this season.

Overall though not bad for the LEC.
Eastern gets a very winnable first game and Oswego can be taken down as well, RIC did last year.

Western not as great Could first round match up but Franklin and Marshall in the second is tough for sure.

RIC did the best in my mind. Salem State in the first round is a good matchup, they started fast this years but has a few bad loses. The Staten Island is the second, I am sure Coach Walsh would take that. Not easy but two winnable games for sure.

Keene State left on the table....
Three teams in but none host.

Yeah RIC has hosted many games in recent years, and I bet will this year on the women's side, but I would love to see an LEC team host a whole 4 team pod.  Only real chances at that are Eastern and RIC so good luck to those schools, almost time to find out.  If they start even close to on time....

That would be nice for sure, but still not a true pod location which is too bad.

Yeah I do think this will happen but it really is off that only one conference gets 4 teams in and none of hem host a pod and all get brutal match ups.  One would think that if you put all 4 in you would have to show some respect and give Eastern and maybe even RIC a home game or two.
Still would be very cool to be the only 4 bid conference of the year, the LEC is making strides for sure.

I think WConn will get in, but I am almost sure they wont host.  I would even think RIC is outside looking in to host when you look at NE. 

Yeah WPI is off on this one RIC is in.  I have looked at all the projections they are a lock either way.  I also de believe in this season the LEC will get 3 bids. Just because they have not in recent years doesn't mean they wont.
There just seems do be a lot of fans, outside the LEC, that don't ever believe how good the conference is.
That being said my picks:
RIC 73 WConn 67
Akinrola and Choice are too battle tasted this time of year.
Eastern 81, Keene 79 in OT
I think Keene could win this but I believe this is closer to a muct win for both teams than the other game.  The loser here very well might be out and that has to drive Eastern to a win.  That team is too good to not make the NCAAs.

I am a RIC alum and this one looks tough for the Anchormen.  Akinrola is slightly larger than listed.  RIC leaves players the same height and weight they were when they entered the program on their site, not sure why.  He has added some muscle and maybe an inch. But I still feel that on the road this is a game the Anchormen will drop. 
Would love to see RIC win as this should be their last loss till tourney time, 6 games they should win to end the season after this.
If Amherst can handle 'Rola down low and stay in front of Choice, who seems to struggle in games like this, Amherst wins by 8-10.  If Akinrola can get going who knows.