The Undefeated and the Winless

[Ralph Turner]

McMurry defeats St Vincent 82-78 in Las Vegas.

[Ralph Turner]

Time to revive this board

I've noted a handful of teams with 2 or fewer games against D3 (including Linfield, with no D3 games to date).

Unbeaten

Washington U.
Ithaca
Elms
Carnegie Mellon
New York University
UW-Platteville
Texas-Dallas
Amherst
DeSales
Franklin and Marshall
St. Thomas
Wheaton (Ill.)
Millikin
St. Joseph's (L.I.)

Unbeaten vs. D3

LeTourneau
St. Vincent
Pacific (2-0)
Puget Sound (2-0)
Linfield (0-0)

Winless

Staten Island
Buffalo State
Macalester
Knox
Medgar Evers
CCNY
Chicago
Castleton State
Morrisville State
Suffolk
Polytechnic
Bard
Crown
Westminster (Pa.)
Caltech

Winless vs. D3

Thiel
Maranatha Baptist
Blackburn
Presentation
Principia
Goucher
Maine-Presque Isle
Philadelphia Bible
SUNY Cobleskill
Randolph
Lewis and Clark (0-1)
Hope (0-2)
Calvin (0-2)
Clermont (0-2)
Linfield (0-0)

How many people do you think thought we would be sitting here on December 20 and Chicago would be on the winless list?

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Wow; this got started early this season.  I'm glad it's not my responsibility anymore.

[OxyBob]

Winless

Polytechnic
Caltech

Jan. 5: Polytechnic (0-9) @ Caltech (0-8)

Polytechnic is idle until they play Caltech. The Beavers play Amherst on Dec. 31 and Babson on Jan. 2, and they'll certainly lose both of those games. I plan to be there to watch the Battle of the Beatens. The last Skyline Conference team to play at Caltech was Bard, which lost 81-52 on Jan. 6, 2007, snapping CIT's 207-game losing streak against D-III teams.

OxyBob

[pabegg]

12/20 Westminster PA 92, Thomas More 80; Westminster is 1-9.

[pabegg]

12/27 Lewis and Clark 85, Christopher Newport 79; L&C ges to 1-1 in D3.

[pabegg]

12/29 UW-Whitewater 69-58 LeTourneau (1st loss vs. D3)

12/29 Staten Island 89-83 Nazareth (1st win)
12/29 CCNY 64-58 Gallaudet (1st win)

12/29 Calvin 91-65 Geneva (1st win vs. D3)

And on successive days, Linfield plays its first two D3 games and drops off of both lists.

12/28 Ohio Northern 67-57 Linfield
12/29 Linfield 79-60 FDU-Florham

Unbeaten

Ithaca
Elms
New York University
UW-Platteville
Texas-Dallas
Amherst
DeSales
Franklin and Marshall
St. Thomas
Wheaton (Ill.)
Millikin
St. Joseph's (L.I.)

Unbeaten vs. D3

Pacific (2-0)
Puget Sound

Winless

Buffalo State
Macalester
Knox
Medgar Evers
Chicago
Castleton State
Morrisville State
Suffolk
Polytechnic
Bard
Crown
Caltech

Winless vs. D3

Thiel
Maranatha Baptist
Blackburn
Presentation
Principia
Goucher
Maine-Presque Isle
Philadelphia Bible
SUNY Cobleskill
Randolph
Hope (0-2)
Clermont (0-2)

[pabegg]

UW-Platteville loses to St. Norbert 70-68

The scores from yesterday have been corrected, and CCNY lost to Gallaudet, so they're back on the list (following it up with a 32-point performance in yesterday's loss).

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

The Tommies survived a close one.

[Ralph Turner]

Ralph Turner:  Washington U.
pabegg:  Buena Vista
Hoops Fan:  St. Thomas
Hope 1:  Hope College
ChicagoHopeNut:  Mary-Hardin Baylor
HopeCovert:  Gettysburg
Flying Dutch Fan:  Brandeis
Log Show:  Puget Sound
Mr. Ypsi:  IWU
WooScotsFan:  Wooster
Magicman:  Cortland State
Point Special:  Centre
Gregory Sager:  St. Mary's (MD)
Old School:  St. Thomas
Sac:  Mary-Hardin Baylor
unbearable:  Ithaca
April:  Wheaton (IL)

[gordonmann]

Two undefeated teams stay that way easily...

No. 8 Amherst 74 Pomona-Pitzer 52
No. 17 Ithaca 112 Elmira 72

Two unlikely undefeated teams win close ones to stay that way...

St. Joseph's (L.I.) 76 Potsdam State 73
Franklin & Marshall 78 TCNJ 74

St. Joseph's (L.I.) plays Montclair State (7-3) in Orlando on Sunday.  Franklin & Marshall hosts Susquehanna (7-3) tomorrow.


In the winless category, one gets off the schneid...

Buffalo St 77 Heidelberg 68

Others stay on the list...

Union 94 Medgar Evers 60
Bates 90 Castleton 50
U. New England 92 Suffolk 76

[pabegg]

Whitman 87, Pacific 72. First D3 loss for Pacific.

[Ralph Turner]

Leg #1 on the Abilene Death March (  ) and UT-Dallas loses to McMurry, 63-61.

UTD plays across town at HSU on Monday night.

That is a big win in the ASC.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Millikin's magical run came to a conclusive ending, as York (NY), despite a 2-10 record, crushed them by 20.  Since MU was picked for last in the CCIW in the coach's pre-season poll, a 10-0 start was quite unexpected.

[Hugenerd]

Chicago still winless, as they finished their non-conference schedule 0-11.  They lose by 4 to MSOE.  Up next for Chicago: WashU.