2012 Division III NCAA Tournament

[Greek Tragedy]

The NCAA doesn't seed teams.  D3hoops does it for fun.

[bucs77]

where is that

[Gregory Sager]

2) What other cities have this many DIII programs? -- Fisher, Brockport, Rochester, RIT, Nazareth

NYC, Chicago, the Twin Cities, Boston, Philly, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Buffalo. That's just off the top of my head. But the Kodak City does have a pretty large number of D3s for a city its size.

[diehardfan]

The NCAA doesn't seed teams.  D3hoops does it for fun.

That's not true, I think it's more like this: The NCAA does seed them, but they just don't tell anybody. Then d3hoops.com works to figure out what they did.

[ChicagoHopeNut]

There is a nice SI.com article today on the NESCAC championship game (benefit of having a Williams' father working at SI). But the article also gives a shout out and link to d3hoops.com

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/tim_layden/02/26/williams.amherst/index.html

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

The NCAA doesn't seed teams.  D3hoops does it for fun.

That's not true, I think it's more like this: The NCAA does seed them, but they just don't tell anybody. Then d3hoops.com works to figure out what they did.

Well, the NCAA does seed them, but then doesn't necessarily bracket them by seed because of logistics and travel and all that jazz.

Brandeis is pretty far down the list just by virtue of their record, etc.  Even though they are a good team from a good conference, they just haven't gotten the greatest seed.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

2) What other cities have this many DIII programs? -- Fisher, Brockport, Rochester, RIT, Nazareth

NYC, Chicago, the Twin Cities, Boston, Philly, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Buffalo. That's just off the top of my head. But the Kodak City does have a pretty large number of D3s for a city its size.

If you count within 15-20 minutes of downtown, Boston has 15 d3 schools.  I assume Chicago is somewhere near that number as well.

If you're looking for small cities, Worcester, MA has five schools and Springfield, MA has four.

[FisherDynasty]

Fisher, Brockport, Rochester, RIT, Nazareth, Geneseo, Hobart.

[ILive4This]

Mr. Coleman and others, I do not want to make more work for everyone but since I am no hall of famer and have way to much school work this week, and also just not informed enough, I was wondering if anyone could give brief details on each of the teams in the field, and maybe an outlook, similar to that given in the USA Today for the div 1 tourny. Maybe if we could get a compilation from a number of people, who have seen different teams play in region or in conference etc..

[Pat Coleman]

I'll do our annual tournament preview but with 112 teams in the tournaments what you are looking for is not exactly going to happen.

I've worked at USA Today and seen the amount of work that goes into those capsules. There are about 6-8 people on the college desk alone and this work is distributed all over the newsroom -- the NFL desk gets involved, as well as anyone else in the newsroom and not working on their sport in-season.

I would love to do that someday but we don't even have representatives from all 112 teams on the board, nor do I have time to send out the hundred e-mails and compile the results from SIDs. We can barely get it done for 32 football playoff teams.

Sorry. 

[Pat Coleman]

I mean, I live 4 this too, but I still have to go to my day job tonight.

[ChicagoHopeNut]

I mean, I live 4 this too, but I still have to go to my day job tonight.

Well that is the problem! We need to find a rich D3 alum that will bank roll d3hoops and your salary so you can quit your day job during basketball season. I'd volunteer but I am only an alum. Not rich.

[Pat Coleman]

Appreciate the sentiment.

[PrideSportBBallGuy]

Appreciate the sentiment.

As much we seem to disagree with you on alot of issues.  I think d3hoops.com has done alot for d3basketball.  Give me a few years I will have some money to throw around.  I'd like to donate to d3hoops. I have been fighting a few people that say they support their alma mater's but won't travel or won't go to conference tournament games.  Even if it is at their alma mater's gym.  I find it disappointing. 
Keep up the good work.  Maybe one day I will make it to the d3sports Hall of Fame.

[Greek Tragedy]

OK, you got me.  The NCAA doesn't seed teams FOR THE VIEWING PUBLIC! lol