2012 Division III NCAA Tournament

[Pat Coleman]

No problem, although my role in it was the easiest. Dominick Chierico did the lucky stuff of being in the right place, the skilled stuff of following the ball, and the painstaking work of layering in our scoreboard shot and our audio.

On top of that, Frank Rossi did the coordination of the process.

[Ralph Turner]

No problem, although my role in it was the easiest. Dominick Chierico did the lucky stuff of being in the right place, the skilled stuff of following the ball, and the painstaking work of layering in our scoreboard shot and our audio.

On top of that, Frank Rossi did the coordination of the process.

If he is poster on these boards, please give him 10 of my karma points!

He did an awesome job!   

[Greek Tragedy]

CON	REC   TEAMS
ODAC (4)	7-1   RMC, Virginia Wes, E. Men., Guilford
CCIW (3)	5-1   Carthage, Ill. Wes., Wheaton
UAA (2)	3-1   Washington U, Brandeis
WIAC (2)	3-1   Stevens Point, Whitewater
OAC (2)	2-2   John Carroll, Wilmington
CAC (2)	2-1   Wesley, St. Mary's
NESCAC (2)	2-1   Williams, Middlebury
Centennial	2-0   Franklin and Marshall
LEC	2-0   Rhode Island College
MACF	2-0   DeSales
NCAC	2-0   Wooster
NEAC	2-0   SUNYIT
Empire 8 (2)	1-2   Nazareth, St. John Fisher
HCAC (2)	1-2   Anderson, Defiance
NEWMAC (2)	1-2   Clark, MIT
AMCC	1-1   Medaille
ASC (2)	1-1   Mary Hardin-Baylor, Texas-Dallas
GNAC	1-1   Albertus Magnus
IND	1-1   Chapman
LAND	1-1   Merchant Marine
MWC	1-1   St. Norbert
NAC	1-1   Maine-Farmington
NWC	1-0   Whitworth
NJAC (3)	0-3   Rich Stock, Will Pat, Rutgers-Newark
MACC (2)	0-2   Albright, Lycoming
MIAC (2)	0-2   Carleton, St. Thomas
SUNYAC (2)	0-2   Oneonta State, Plattsburgh State
CCC	0-1   Gordon
CSAC	0-1   Cabrini
CUNYAC	0-1   Brooklyn
GSAC	0-1   Maryville
IIAC	0-1   Central
Liberty	0-1   St. Lawrence
MASCAC	0-1   Bridgewater State
MIAA	0-1   Hope
NathCon	0-1   Aurora
PrAC	0-1   Grove City
SCAC	0-1   Centre
SCIAC	0-1   Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
SKY	0-1   SUNY-Purchase
SLIAC	0-1   Westminster
USAC	0-1   Christopher Newport

[Greek Tragedy]

Despite St. Norb's only being at arm's length against the Pointers in the 2nd half, I felt they were a very good team and could compete with the Pointers.  I think they did just that.  Sure, they didn't have any games on their schedule that stood out much, but they are a very well coached team that plays solid defense.  Their coach, Gary Grzesk, played under Dick Bennett at UWGB and made Lakeland a solid basketball team prior to heading to DePere.  He comes from the Bennett tree and I expected a hardfought game...though others would call it "ugly"    With that rationale, Pat and Roop, are you saying that Hope, too, wouldn't have been competive against Stevens Point?

[The Roop]

I never said they weren't competitive, it just sounds like Pat and I define it differently. I was fearing a blow out before the game, and at times it appeared to be headed that way, but SNC held it together and stayed within striking distance until late. Unfortunately they never got over the top and grabbed the lead. Hope is a younger team and may or may not have been able to do the same. We won't know however as they didn't play Point.

With the 3 point shot I consider striking distance to be 12 points or less. Get a couple stops, hit a couple 3s and it's a game again.

[deiscanton]

The following men's sectionals were picked by the NCAA as the games that the NCAA will carry on NCAA TV this weekend.  NCAA TV is the NCAA's official on-line streaming player-- the player that we used to get the selection announcements last week.   Videocasts coming from these sectionals will be directly produced by the NCAA and will most likely be covered by D3Hoops.com personnel for play-by-play and commentary:

(1)  The sectional at Williams--   Friday's games in that sectional are Brandeis v RI College and Williams v SUNYIT with the winners meeting on Saturday.

(2)  The sectional at UW-Stevens Point-- Friday's games in that sectional are Illinois Wesleyan v Carthage and Texas-Dallas v UW-Stevens Point with the winners meeting on Saturday.

The NCAA player can be found at http://all-access.cbssports.com/player.html?code=ncaa


The other two sectionals will most likely be videocasted as well, but these will be on other streaming sites.

Note:  Post modified to provide a direct link to the NCAA streaming player.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I think those NE region games will be pretty good and I'm excited to see them, but if they're only choosing two sectionals, shouldn't one of them have been Guilford?  That seems like a no-brainer.

On the other hand, this probably means I'll get to listen to those Guilford announcers again.  I would listen to those guys do play by play on drying paint.

[Pat Coleman]

Like with our broadcast crews, the NCAA is somewhat hamstrung by where they have people in place.

Our people are centered around Minneapolis, Chicago, Baltimore/Philly and New England. The NCAA has a similarly small number of people available -- we're all using contractors seasonally because nobody can afford to hire full-timers to do this sort of thing.

So since Guilford has its own video, there's not a need there. I was hoping they would take the video production burden off our hands at St. Mary's, but it wasn't to be. So Dave McHugh will produce video for them again this week.

[nwhoops1903]

34-27 Whitworth, late first half 3:35 to go.  Live stats not working well.  ugg!

39-37 Whitworth at half.  Did I mention the lives stats are nearly worthless...

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

EMU wins.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

IWU wins.

[magicman]

Williams wins 104-70.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

TX-Dallas made a good run to get it close near the end, but Point just kept it out of reach.

[ScotsFan]

Williams wins 104-70.

[Hugenerd]

Williams wins 104-70.

Williams made 17 3s, shooting 63% from behind the arc.  Any team would have had trouble beating them with that type of shooting performance.  Troy Whittington is also a beast inside, he had at least 4 dunks and on two of those he went up flat-footed with a a guy draped all over him.