The Undefeated and the Winless

[magicman]

Results from 1-11:

In Undefeated Pool action:

#3 Middlebury 12-0    Won vs Connecticut College 85-68

#4 Rochester  13-0      Won vs Chicago 64-47

In Winless Pool action:

Houghton  0-13            Lost vs Utica 85-66

Northland  0-10              Lost vs Crown 63-45

 

[magicman]

Updated through 1-14-13:

Total of 4 Undefeated teams left in D3 through 1-14-13

Total of 6  Winless teams left in D3 through 1-14-13

Updated Players list with teams still in contention through 1-14-13:

UNDEFEATED POOL       magicman and Middlebury were winners of the Undefeated Survivor's  pool 
                                                   
1.   magicman                 #3 Middlebury 13-0 Won vs Wesleyan 78-77 in OT on 1-12 Next at Castleton State 1-15                       
                     
   
Undefeated teams that were never claimed:

#1 St. Thomas  15-0              Won at St. Olaf 94-64 on 1-14  Next vs Macalester on 1-16
#2 Rochester  14-0                Won vs Washington University 93-81 on 1-13 Next at Carnegie Mellon on 1-18               
#6 WPI  16-0                        Won at Wheaton (Mass.) 58-41 on 1-12 Next vs Clark on 1-16
#24 Randolph  13-0                Lost at Virginia Wesleyan 72-66 on 1-12 

         



WINLESS POOL                    Down to the Terrible Two

                                   
1. hopefan       Principia 0-12     Lost vs Westminster (MO.) 73-49 on 1-12 Next at MacMurray on 1-15  37 losses in a row
                               
2. sac             Franciscan 0-16  Lost vs Mount Aloysius 87-57 on 1-14  Next at Penn State-Altoona on 1-17  40 losses in a row
                                   
                                   
                                                                                                   
Winless Teams that were never claimed:

Houghton  0-14                                 Lost vs Elmira 63-55 on 1-12 Next at Hartwick 1-18   
Southern Vermont  0-13                    Lost at Mitchell 101-72 on 1-12 Next vs Lesley on 1-15
Washington College 0-14                   Won vs #14 Franklin & Marshall 62-61 on 1-12   WOW!!                     
Northland  0-11                                Lost vs Minnesota-Morris 73-58 on 1-12 Next vs Finlandia on 1-15
Piedmont                                          Remainder of season cancelled. Record was 0-7                           

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I'm going to see F&M play at winless Washington College here in a couple hours.  F&M has been struggling of late, so I'm hoping to bring some good will to Chestertown today.

Let's go home team!

[njf1003]

I'm going to see F&M play at winless Washington College here in a couple hours.  F&M has been struggling of late, so I'm hoping to bring some good will to Chestertown today.

Let's go home team!

Well Washington gets off the winless list with a 62-61 over F&M...

[Ralph Turner]

I'm going to see F&M play at winless Washington College here in a couple hours.  F&M has been struggling of late, so I'm hoping to bring some good will to Chestertown today.

Let's go home team!

Well Washington gets off the winless list with a 62-61 over F&M...

If you are going to come off the winless list, you might as well hang a loss on a Top 25 team while you are doing it!

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I'm going to see F&M play at winless Washington College here in a couple hours.  F&M has been struggling of late, so I'm hoping to bring some good will to Chestertown today.

Let's go home team!

Well Washington gets off the winless list with a 62-61 over F&M...

If you are going to come off the winless list, you might as well hang a loss on a Top 25 team while you are doing it!

If F&M is a Top 25 team, this is a terrible year for d3 basketball.  I won't even consider voting for them in the Poster's Poll after seeing them play.  They've got some good young talent, but they're night and day from the team I watched trash Amherst last year.

The game was awesome.  It doesn't appear that school is back in session just yet at Washington College, but there was 100-150 people there.  The gym was pretty full and certainly loud by the end.  The Shoremen had to endure a tough 7 seconds of defense at the end (not even allowing F&M to get the last shot off) before celebrating like they won the national title, quickly shaking hands, then sprinting out the front door of the building to ring the giant bell on campus.  It was a pretty cool sight.

This team doesn't deserve to be on the winless list; I'm glad they got off.  The talent was less than F&M, but not drastically.  I'd chalk the record up to abhorrent coaching.  I've never seen a worse coached college team.  I thought, with a 1 point lead and 90 seconds to play, that Glenn Robinson was going to be the difference for his team, but the WC guys overcame their obstacles and pulled it out.

Fun afternoon.

[magicman]

Results from 1-12:

In Undefeated Pool action:

#3 Middlebury 13-0                Won vs Wesleyan 78-77 in OT

#2 St. Thomas  13-0              Won vs St. John's 94-63

#8 WPI  15-0                        Won at Wheaton (Mass.) 58-41

#24 Randolph  13-0                Lost at Virginia Wesleyan 72-66


In Winless Pool action

Principia 0-12                        Lost vs Westminster (MO.) 73-49    Lost by 24 points

Franciscan 0-15                     Lost at Medaille 82-56  sac says anything you can do I can do better  Lost by 26 points

Houghton  0-14                      Lost vs Elmira 63-55

Southern Vermont  0-13           Lost at Mitchell 101-72

Northland  0-11                       Lost vs Minnesota-Morris 73-58 on

Washington College 0-14          Won vs #14 Franklin & Marshall 62-61  Somebody forgot to tell the Shoremen they couldn't win this game   
     

[magicman]

Only action today:

In the Undefeated Pool

#4 Rochester 14-0 won vs #12 Washington University 93-81

[sac]

Not much chance Franciscan pulls the upset Wednedsday and beat league leader Mt. Aloysius.

off-track a little but Mt. A was picked 6th in the AMCC and is currently leading the pack.

[KnightSlappy]

Not much chance Franciscan pulls the upset Wednedsday and beat league leader Mt. Aloysius.

off-track a little but Mt. A was picked 6th in the AMCC and is currently leading the pack.

What, like it's hard?

[magicman]

Results from 1-14:

In Undefeated Pool action

#1 St. Thomas  15-0              Won at St. Olaf 94-64


In Winless Pool action

Franciscan 0-16                     Lost vs Mount Aloysius 87-57

The Barons have now lost 40 games in a row. It's officially the longest current winless streak in Men's D3 hoops. Principia is close behind with 37 straight losses. The two schools should have scheduled each other so one of them could have gotten off the schneid. Then we would have a definitive winner in the Winless Survivor Pool between hopefan and sac. Their battle to survive may not end this year. We'll have to do a carry over into next season or declare it a tie. I'd vote for the carryover   The tie thing is like   :-*ing your sister.

[smedindy]

Now, there's still the return matchups with St. Louis Pharmacy and Blackburn for Principia, and the home games with Pitt-Greensburg and D'Youville for Franciscan. All is not lost.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Now, there's still the return matchups with St. Louis Pharmacy and Blackburn for Principia, and the home games with Pitt-Greensburg and D'Youville for Franciscan. All is not lost.

Franciscan lost by only 3 AT D'Youville.  Next week they meet AT Franciscan.  Barring a change of heart, Pickems posters should think that it pretty likely to appear!

[sac]

  The tie thing is like   :-*ing your sister.

I'm not kissing hopefan.

[hopefan]

Practically speaking, I'm shocked if Prin doesn't beat either St Louis Pharma or Lincoln Christian, and as mentioned, the Blackburn game could also be close... I just have to root that PSU Altoona takes care of business vs Franciscan before Prin plays those 3.... 

This contest could get interesting if Prin loses to Pharma and Fran loses to Altoona.... that would likely generate both remaining winless to Jan 26, when Fran plays DYouville and Prin plays Lincoln CHristian... technically if they were both to win, Prin and I would enjoy 1 hour of Winless championship, as Prin tips off an hour later than Franciscan on the 26th.. but in the interest of fairness, I think I'd be willing to share the crown