Congrats to the Violets! And to the UAA in general. It was a sever oversight leaving Emory out last year. It sounds silly to say about a conference so highly thought of as ours, but I feel we have been recently underrated. I've watched a decent amount of games in the last few weeks from around the country, and I would take an Emory or Rochester over many of the teams that received Pool C bids. Now just hoping for the Violets to get a big win this Thursday and move on for a big match up with Amherst. And of course congratulations Wash. Hope to see the Bears in a few weeks!

KnightSlappy,
I'm a little curious about Rochester's jump in your Bracketology post.  In your previous post they weren't even on your bubble, and now you list them as in. Is that due entirely to SOS? I'm all for more UAA teams in the field, but I'm surprised to see a 13-7 team that did not make the regional rankings in the field. Of course, I'm pretty hopeless in understanding how Pool C works. I'm just hoping my Violets can edge out Wash, Brandeis, etc for the Pool A.

I have to say I'm disappointed in to see the UAA discussion so dead where I see in years past it has been so lively! I felt compelled to throw my hat in the ring here as my Violets are in the heat of the UAA race. This past weekend was big for NYU, taking care of business against this year's cellar dwellers Carnegie and Case, and sunday's game wasn't as close as the 98-85 final score might indicate, as Junior forward Carl Yaffe poured in 36.   This next road weekend facing Emory and Rochester will be a challenge as the key appears to be containing the point guards in Austin Claunch and John DiBartolomeo.  When NYU met these teams at Coles, sophomore guard Ryan Tana did just a super job, holding Claunch to 5-19 shooting and forcing him to turn the ball over 7 times, and on Sunday holding DiBartolomeo to 3-12  shooting. If the Violets can pull off the road victory this Friday, it will effectively knock Emory out of the UAA hunt.

Now WashU gets to face Case/Carnegie at home, and while I expect them to take care of business, I also wouldn't be surprised to see Carnegie hand someone a key loss one of these next two weekends.  They are improving, as evidenced both by their defeat of the Violets as well as their OT loss to Brandeis in a game they played without Rashaun Riley, who, along with fellow sophomore guard Asad Meghani, has improved greatly since their Freshmen seasons, in my estimation.

As far as Brandeis, facing the same opponents as NYU this weekend, it seems to me they need a split at the very least, as I can't imagine the UAA champion will finish with any worse than a 10-4 record, but this season seems so wide open who even knows?

So that is essentially my thoughts on the current state of the conference, I would love to hear any thoughts/reactions, in any case I'm getting ahead of myself discussing this weekend, as NYU still needs to close out its non-con schedule tomorrow evening vs. New Paltz.