2012 Division III NCAA Tournament

[Jacketfan2011]

HEY COAST GUARD!! 

I hear UMASS-Dartmouth thinks you are NA-VY RE-JECTS (clap, clap, clap clap clap)

Just saying.....

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Maybe because it is very late after a very long day... but that was hysterical! LOL!

[Greek Tragedy]

UWW falls at home to Loras, 71-68.  [My pick ems is officially dead.]

Actually, 71-70...

I saw two great games (as a neutral fan) in Whitewater tonight.  An OT game and a one point game.

[smedindy]

St.Marys took control around the 14 min mark of the 2nd half by turning a 46-39 deficit into a 54-46 lead with a 15-0 run. Guilford never got closer than 8 or 9 after that.
I always thought the Massey Ratings were OVER-RATED. 

You know, any rating system can't take into account human elements, flukes, karma, kismet, or other such things that happen during games. These things do happen, often.

This definitely will be in the "10 most unlikely results" that he tracks.

Pabeggs power rating had Guilford at 10 and St. Mary's at 187. So that seems to validate Massey more than denigrate.

I mean, Denison beat Wittenberg one year.

[Knightstalker]

HEY COAST GUARD!! 

I hear UMASS-Dartmouth thinks you are NA-VY RE-JECTS (clap, clap, clap clap clap)

Just saying.....

Everybody on the Coast Guard team should be 6' or over, they have to be that tall so they can wade to shore if their cutter sinks.

[David Collinge]

Last Saturday, when the Wooster coaches were nervously tracking scores of other games to assess their Pool C chances, one of them pointed out to me that it looked like four teams they had beaten would likely get bids (Ohio Wesleyan, St. Thomas, Farmingdale St., and St. Mary's).  He then pointed out--without my having reacted in any way--that he though St. Mary's was being drastically overlooked and that they were a much better team than everyone was giving them credit for.  Now, he didn't exactly pick an upset win over Guilford, since the brackets hadn't even been drawn up yet, but in retrospect I think this is a very interesting offhand comment.  (Wooster beat St. Mary's 85-70 in the Bahamas in December.)

[HopeConvert]

UWW falls at home to Loras, 71-68.  [My pick ems is officially dead.]

Mine too. I had UWW winning it all. Sigh. Oh well - Hope's still alive (an advantage of not yet having played).

[Mr. Ypsi]

UWW falls at home to Loras, 71-68.  [My pick ems is officially dead.]

Mine too. I had UWW winning it all. Sigh. Oh well - Hope's still alive (an advantage of not yet having played).

Yeah, I had Guilford (who was also upset) winning it all, and beating UWW in a semi in Salem - the entire left side of the bracket wiped out almost before it began!

And, stubborn cuss that I am, I STILL liked my picks - it is just that kind of a year.

[ILive4This]

Is there any place where they post the scores for the bracket pick em contests, is it in the pick em league thread or some where separate?

[John Gleich]

Buena Vista beats UWSP 54-53.  Bad shooting night for both teams, Point has an opportunity with 1.8 to go, but can't get a shot off.

Wheaton beats Loras 76-73, Raymond gets 36 points.  White gets 25 for Loras, had a look at the buzzer, but missed it.

Augie and Wash U going to overtime 61-61. 

[Hugenerd]

WashU wins 70-67 in OT.  UAA 3-0 in round 2.

[fcnews]

Last night at Millsaps College, Fontbonne asked if there would be media timeouts. Fu was told no media timeouts this weekend. Tonight in the MC v. MH-B game they are playing with regular media timeouts. How can this be? FU plays basically 6 players and could of use the time to get the extra rest intead of subbing. This is very very wrong.

[magicman]

Plattsburgh State comes back from a 7 pt halftime deficit to beat Kings College 83-77 in OT. Kings up 63-60 with 1:44 left in regulation when Plattsburgh clamps down and grabs a 69-66 lead with 20 secs left. King's hits a 3 pt shot that goes in and out and rolls around the rim before it drops thru with 7 ticks left to force overtime. Plattsburgh freshman Chris Ruiz hits 3 straight shots to open up the extra session and the Cardinals never looked back. Plattsburgh moves on to face Brandeis in the sectionals next Friday, in an as yet undetermined location. But it'll probably be Amherst. unless the NCAA decides to spread the wealth a bit. I think Amherst has hosted 3 sectionals in the past 4 years.(I may be wrong on that but I know they've hosted 2.

[pbrooks3]

The team that sticks out to me at this juncture is Wash U with two terrific wins over stellar competition. Have they got what it takes to cut down the nets in Salem?

[algernon]

Score for the so-called "Power Conferences":

UAA -- Washington, Brandeis, and Rochester have all made the Sweet Sixteen
NESCAC -- Amherst is the only one left of the original 4 NCAA entries
ODAC -- No one left, with VA Wesleyan and Guilford both eliminated
WIAC -- No one left, with Whitewater and Stevens Point both eliminated
CCIW -- Wheaton is still in, with Augustana eliminated

Overall, 16 of 59 teams are still in.  That's 27%.

Of teams from the "power conferences," 5 of the original 14 teams are still in.  That's 36% ... so maybe one could argue that the Pool C bids to these conferences were not misplaced, that they deserved the 1-3 Pool C bids that each received.

I guess that the only conference other than the UAA to have more than 1 team among the Sweet Sixteen is the Centennial Conference (Ursinus and Gettysburg).