Bumblin' B's

[Knightstalker]

How in the world will that tournament work?  Everone gets to play who wants to and can afford to fly to a central location?  Seeding?  Sites?

Whew - what a mess!

C

Last season NJCU played in this tournament and won it.  It was held at Maine-Prescott Island and was four teams.  Lincoln, NJCU, Maine Prescott and Finlandia.  It is for teams that have no conference affiliation and is a good idea.  The tournament win that NJCU had over Lincoln helped get NJCU into the NCAA tournament last year as a pool B team.

[Coach C]

Presque Isle I think you mean!

How did the 4 teams get selected?  i though we were talking about a post-season kind of thing.

C

[Knightstalker]

You are right is Presque, I was pulling the name from the top of my head.  There aren't that many independents, I think they took the top four teams for the tournament.

[Pat Coleman]

There's more than one tournament, it's not national. The western one will likely feature UC Santa Cruz, Chapman, Colorado College and Nebraska Wesleyan.

Except it will involve regional games, so Chapman may not be interested.

[Gregory Sager]

Gregory, are you aware of any requirements for a mininum number of D3 games against in-region D3 teams that NebWes or a UDallas or a UCSCBanana Slugs must play?

I also wonder if NebWes will try to forego any GPAC post-season tourney and try for a D3 Independents post-season tourney.

http://www.d3independents.org/

There's nothing in the D3 handbook about requiring a minimum number of D3 games against in-region opponents. As far as I can tell, Nebraska Wesleyan is very much eligible for postseason play in D3.

Since the GPAC postseason tourney is set up to facilitate NAIA-2 seeding, my impression is that NebWes will forego it in favor of the West Region indie tourney of which Pat spoke.

[Coach C]

I'll put money on Neb Wes in that one.

C

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I did read somewhere about a required minimum of in-region games, but pehaps that was taken out for the 2006 handbook.  Either way, the waiver policy is still in play.  I also remember hearing that NebWes declared NCAAd3 this year already, so they will be gunning for a PoolB.  Sorry to not have difinitive proof here guys, but I'm on vacation for the holiday already and don't have all my info handy.

the Eastern Indy tournament was just set up by Presque Isle, I believe.  They just invited teams, but few wanted to come because there was little chance of them making it into the tournament.  Finlandia was a last minute addition; I wonder if NJCU and Lincoln had to pay them anything to get them to show up.

[Pat Coleman]

There's an NCAA rule at the D-III level to that extent -- it's part of the basic bylaws, not specific to a sport. Must play one-half of all games in each sport in-region.

Nebraska Wesleyan may have applied for a waiver. Not sure what that does for its eligibililty.

[Gregory Sager]

There's an NCAA rule at the D-III level to that extent -- it's part of the basic bylaws, not specific to a sport. Must play one-half of all games in each sport in-region.

Nebraska Wesleyan may have applied for a waiver. Not sure what that does for its eligibililty.

That explains why I didn't see it in the D3 basketball handbook.

If NebWes is declaring for D3 in terms of postseason play, they must have a waiver. In fact, since they declare for D3 every year, their waiver must be something of a pro forma annual exercise as far as the NCAA is concerned.

[njlincolnlion]

Ralph, Knightstalker, Gregory, Pat:

Good to see you guys back for another season of roundball.  Lincoln beat Salem Int'l 87-74 at home  and lost at Albright at the buzzer 97-96  .  The Lions are now 3-1.

[wilburt]

njlincolnlion

Glad to see Lincoln off to a great start!  They should be ranked in the D3hoops Top 25 poll by January if they keep up this pace.

[joe smith]

  Bethany loses again to a bad Marietta team last night by 3 at home.  They went undefeated at home last year  That's two bad in-region losses already for the Bison.  Their leading scorer Matt Dahos looks like he only played the first half.  Poor foul shooting kills them again.  They fall to 1-2 on the season.  WOW!  Couldn't be a worse start for this team.

[Coach C]

wilburt -

The pace will be tough to keep up given the upcoming road schedule.

C

[njlincolnlion]

Wilburt; Coach C:

Here's hoping that Lincoln keeps it up.  The next game for Lincoln is aganist  rival Cheyney (DII) at Temple on Sunday.  It was Lincoln's OT win over Cheyney that got the Lions going towards their best record in school history.  Hopefully the road games will allow the guys to focus on one game at a time and take care of business in the "W" columns. 

[njlincolnlion]

Pat:

Just saw the article and picture on Lincoln knocking off Salem International,  thanks for the publicity.  Unfortunately the Lions lost by a point to Albright within the last few seconds  .  I hope Lincoln rebounds aganist DII and rival Cheyney on Sunday.