Is there an easy answer to why D3 mens basketball has a 62 team field? It's such an awkward number.  Even the women's bracket is a more logical 64. What's magic about 62?

Quote from: wooscotsfan on February 25, 2014, 09:33:05 PM
`3 minutes left:  Ohio Wesleyan 65  Kenyon 51    Bishops will play Wooster in Round 3 on Friday night!

I was at the OWU / Kenyon game last night, and OWU did look good. Kenyon fell into a big hole (which included what must have been 5 rim outs). The Lords played super hard until the final whistle to try and get back in the game but OWU's big inside presence, and excellent foul shooting, was too much for them to overcome.

OWU / Wooster figures to be quite a game.

Quote from: David Collinge on February 13, 2014, 06:49:46 AM
Oh, it's a shame the replay isn't available. It started at midcourt, where (evidently) a very hard screen set by (I think) Reuel Rogers sent a Wabash player to his knees in agony. No call on that, and Rogers goes into the lane, jostles with Marcus Kammrath for rebound position, then simply grabs him by the waist and hurls him to the floor, WWE-style. The Wabash announcers correctly described it as a takedown; "if this were wrestling, he'd have just scored two points." Rogers ends up on top of him, evidently going for the pin. Other Wabash guys intercede, small fracas breaks out but no general fight. Remarkably, Rogers is not ejected (but does get both personal and technical fouls), but Claude Gray is for coming off the bench, and DeWitt is for getting two T's while arguing with the refs about god-knows-what. Kammrath was also T'd up, according to the box score, but OWU did not get any free throws.

The full replay is here: http://new.livestream.com/wabashcollegelive/events/2765147/ with the events in question at around the 1:53 mark.

1. Wooster (8).............................................. 98
2. Wittenberg (2).......................................... 88
3. Ohio Wesleyan  ........................................ 74
4. Kenyon.................................................... 71
5. Wabash................................................... 58
6. DePauw................................................... 55
7. Hiram...................................................... 34
8. Denison................................................... 33
9. Allegheny................................................. 23
10. Oberlin................................................... 16

http://www2.northcoast.org/basketball/preseasonpoll/2013-14

As I understand it, the NCAC has switched to a full round robin for basketball -- so 18 games, which only leaves 7 non-conference games.