Bumblin' B's

[Ralph Turner]

Save the money!

If they go to Salem, use the money to upgrade your computer system to maximize the program content that Pat will be putting out from the Final Four.  8)

[crusaders]

So you're tellin me there's a chance...YEA!

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Revisiting out list of "in the hunt" schools:

Lincoln
Bethany
Fisk
Maryville
Villa Julie
Clarke
Chapman
Huntingdon
Rust
St Joe's
Keuka

I can't find scores for the Rust-Fisk game or St. Joe's last game.  Losses here would knock them out.  Keuka beat Baptist Bible and seems to be playing well.  If something odd happens this week and they get ranked in the East, they could become a contender, even without the resume for it.

[Pat Coleman]

Just got word that Rust/Fisk has been postponed until Tuesday.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

St Joe's beat UMPI; I just found that score.  I can't imagine St. Joe's is still in it, but with the way this committee picks pool B bids, I am so hesitant to take anyone off the list.  I need to do another QOWI now that we know what the possibilities are for the post-season.


Any word from Lincoln on whether or not this Indy tournament is going to take place?

[Pat Coleman]

Hoops Fan,

You're the only one who has questioned whether it is taking place.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Yeah, its just my way of saying "why don't we have any information on it yet?"  I'm a see it to belive it kind of guy.

[Pat Coleman]

There's a release on Lincoln's site dated Feb. 17 that might be of interest.
http://www.lincoln.edu/athletics/mbasketball/indexa209.html

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I just checked that page like a hour ago and that was not there.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

So Lincoln and St Joe's are the only one's with anything to gain (or lose) in this tourney.

Mitchell is a provisional, so if Lincoln can get them in the first round, they avoid losing QOWI points with the win.

A Lincoln win over St Joe's is a 12 pointer, so that should help.  Just God forbid if they lose.  I think they are safe either way, but it could mean the difference between hosting or not.

[Pat Coleman]

Well, they aren't regional games, so unless they go to the secondary criteria, it doesn't do anything.

Independent tourney games do not get counted as regional unless teams are from the same region or the 200-mile rule is in effect, as far as I know.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I thought the independant post-season tournament counted as regional games?  Wasn't that the reason they let them do it?  It certainly can't be because of revenue.

[Pat Coleman]

The reason is opportunities for competition equitable to everyone in a conference.

[Pat Coleman]

QOWI through games of Sunday, Feb. 19:

1-10
Amherst     11.826     22-1
Lawrence    11.550    20-0
York (Pa.)    11.043    21-2
Worcester Polytech    11.000    19-3
Mississippi College    10.913    22-1
Trinity (Texas)    10.833    16-2
Tufts    10.826    19-4
Lincoln    10.813    12-4
St. John Fisher    10.810    20-1
Augustana    10.773    19-3
               

11-20
Cortland State    10.609    21-2
Virginia Wesleyan    10.538    23-3
Gordon    10.522    21-2
William Paterson    10.435    17-6
Carnegie Mellon    10.389    14-4
Wittenberg    10.350    17-3
Wooster    10.333    19-2
Lakeland    10.200    17-3
Widener    10.174    19-4
Transylvania    10.167    20-4
               
21-30
Calvin    10.167    11-1
Keene State    10.136    16-6
Randolph-Macon    10.125    19-5
Washington U.    10.111    13-5
Carroll    10.095    18-3
Occidental    10.071    11-3
Illinois Wesleyan    10.053    14-5
Bates    10.048    16-5
Baruch    10.045    20-2
Alvernia    10.045    19-3
               
31-40
UW-Stout    10.000    16-4
Baldwin-Wallace    10.000    19-4
Trinity (Conn.)    10.000    15-4
Carleton    9.952    17-4
UW-Whitewater    9.950    15-5
New Jersey    9.905    14-7
North Central    9.895    14-5
Hope    9.875    14-2
UW-La Crosse    9.870    17-6
Ursinus    9.826    18-5
               

   
41-50
St. Thomas    9.783    18-5
Richard Stockton    9.783    15-8
Fisk    9.769    9-4
New Jersey City    9.739    16-7
Nebraska Wesleyan    9.714    6-1
Puget Sound    9.706    15-2
New York University    9.696    17-6
SUNY-Farmingdale    9.667    16-5
Utica    9.652    18-5
Lake Erie    9.650    16-4
               

51-60
MIT    9.636    15-7
Rhode Island College    9.625    16-8
Albright    9.619    14-7
Salem State    9.583    18-6
Catholic    9.571    16-5
Wartburg    9.524    17-4
Messiah    9.500    15-7
Maryville (Tenn.)    9.500    14-6
Plymouth State    9.480    16-9
Westfield State    9.478    16-7
               
61-70
Williams    9.478    15-8
Wheaton (Mass.)    9.455    14-8
Whitworth    9.455    17-5
Rochester    9.450    13-7
Hanover    9.400    13-7
Emmanuel    9.391    18-5
Howard Payne    9.391    17-6
Mary Hardin-Baylor    9.391    17-6
Bethany    9.364    18-4
Albion    9.357    11-3
               

71-80
Johns Hopkins    9.286    15-6
UW-Oshkosh    9.286    13-8
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps    9.278    13-5
Scranton    9.217    17-6
Willamette    9.211    16-3
Ohio Northern    9.200    15-5
Franklin    9.182    16-6
Elizabethtown    9.182    13-9
UW-Stevens Point    9.182    14-8
Brockport State    9.150    12-8
               

81-90
Hamilton    9.150    16-4
Bowdoin    9.143    13-8
Elmhurst    9.143    14-7
Elms    9.143    17-4
Mount St. Mary    9.136    17-5
McMurry    9.136    16-6
Centre    9.100    13-7
Mass-Boston    9.091    13-9
Endicott    9.091    14-8
Rutgers-Newark    9.083    16-8
               
91-100
Averett    9.053    14-5
Ohio Wesleyan    9.045    16-6
Oswego State    9.043    17-6
Wilmington    9.040    19-6
Coe    9.000    14-6
Colby-Sawyer    8.955    14-8
Chicago    8.947    11-8
Pomona-Pitzer    8.933    11-4
Manhattanville    8.913    15-8
Gettysburg    8.913    15-8
               
101-110
Villa Julie    8.895    15-4
Coast Guard    8.864    15-7
Norwich    8.864    17-5
St. John's    8.857    15-6
Milwaukee Engineering    8.857    14-7
Ramapo    8.857    12-9
La Verne    8.857    8-6
Penn State-Behrend    8.850    15-5
Southwestern    8.850    14-6
King's    8.783    15-8
               

111-120
Gustavus Adolphus    8.773    15-7
Pitt-Greensburg    8.762    14-7
Kean    8.760    13-12
Montclair State    8.727    11-11
Mass-Dartmouth    8.714    11-10
Baptist Bible    8.706    13-4
Brandeis    8.696    13-10
Loras    8.682    14-8
Clarke    8.650    13-7
Christopher Newport    8.615    9-4

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

OK, glad I waited and didn't do these myself:

Lincoln 10.813 12-4
Fisk 9.767 9-4
Maryville 9.500 14-6
Bethany 9.364 18-4
Villa Julie 8.895 15-4
Clarke 8.650 13-7


There are your contenders folks.  I can't imagine anyone else sneaking in, with the possible exception of Keuka, Chapman or St Joe's