The Undefeated and the Winless

[Mr. Ypsi]

Still following football much more than basketball, but know that John Gleich has gone out on the first day of basketball season. 
IWU went down on day one.

(Oh, well, they can still be 24-1! )

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Don't look now, but UNE almost beat Middlebury tonight as well.  Something's going on in Biddeford.

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Albertus Magnus lost game 2 to Richard Stockton 84-75... and I'm out of the undefeated... TGHIJGSTO

Pine Manor won game 2 against ME-Machias 87-82... and I'm out completely. No one can complain about my Pine Manor pick now

[magicman]

Albertus Magnus lost game 2 to Richard Stockton 84-75... and I'm out of the undefeated... TGHIJGSTO

Pine Manor won game 2 against ME-Machias 87-82... and I'm out completely. No one can complain about my Pine Manor pick now

I was never complaining about your pick, I was trying to help you by telling you that the team... AT THE TIME THAT YOU CHOSE THEM... was not eligible as a D3 team. I didn't want you to choose a team that was ineligible for the contest.  The NCAA sent the Plattsburgh State and Buffalo State coaches a letter, which I have seen, informing them that Pine Manor was a club team and that the game wouldn't count in their team's standings. So they cancelled the games against them. Several weeks later Pine Manor completed the necessary paperwork to be compliant with the NCAA and they were granted D3 status. So as I stated earlier, they were...they weren't...they are.  They are also no longer winless.    

[KnightSlappy]

UPDATED through Tuesday 11-18,  corrections welcome

Undefeated:
FCGrizzliesGrad: Albertus Magnus (1)   lost to Tghijgsto
Greek Tragedy: Webster lost to Monmouth
Mr. Ypsi: UW-Whitewater  lost to Cardinal Stritch
7express: SUNY-Purchase  changed to Western Connecticut
CityD3: Albertus Magnus (2)  lost to Tghijgsto
John Gleich: Illinois Wesleyan  lost to Benedictine
Stag44:  Claremont-MS  lost to Ohio Northern
ronk: Scranton lost to Misericordia
magicman: Plattsburgh St
smedindy: Wooster
Gregory Sager: Amherst
hopefan: Augustana
KnightSlappy: Calvin
Ralph Turner: UT-Dallas
augie77: Stevenson
dahlby: Whitworth
Hoops Fan: Eastern Nazarene
wooscotsfan:  Wooster

Winless:
FCGrizzliesGrad: Pine Manor   defeated Maine-Machias
hopefan: Principia  beat Lincoln Christian
Mr. Ypsi: Iowa Wesleyan Northland (2) (replaced provisional)  beat Maranatha Baptist
7express: Blackburn Knox (changed pick)
augie77: Northland (1)  beat Maranatha Baptist
John Gleich: Maranantha Baptist beat Concordia-Chicago
Greek Tragedy: U of New England  defeated Maine-Maritime
sac:  Maine-Maritime  (too late so just for fun)
CityD3: Sarah Lawrence (provisional)
Hoops Fan: Cairn (2)
magicman: Caltech
smedindy: D'Youville
Gregory Sager: Cairn (1)
ronk: Wilson
KnightSlappy: Frostburg St
dahlby: Rust
Wooscotsfan:  Willamette

[Greek Tragedy]

Wow. Monmouth picked 7th in the weak MWC. Guess I bought into everyone's talk on Webster. Your plan worked.

[hopefan]

Wow. Monmouth picked 7th in the weak MWC. Guess I bought into everyone's talk on Webster. Your plan worked.

  I apologized to the world over in the SLIAC room.... unfortunately both big men (and basically the ONLY big men) for Webster out with injury...still, I was very disappointed....  hoping a +1 eases the pain...

[Greek Tragedy]

It didn't. LOL

[sac]

Pine Manor picked up its second win last night, perhaps setting a record for speed in which a win-less candidate reaches 2 wins.

[smedindy]

Pine Manor picked up its second win last night, perhaps setting a record for speed in which a win-less candidate reaches 2 wins.

Once again, the strum und drang and gnashing of teeth are all for naught...

[Gregory Sager]

Wow. Monmouth picked 7th in the weak MWC. Guess I bought into everyone's talk on Webster. Your plan worked.

As hopefan said, two of Webster's top three players were out with injury, while the other one was just back after having missed several weeks of practice due to injury. Also, I think that the MWC coaches are wrong about Monmouth. The Scots brought back their entire starting five from last year, and ten lettermen in all.

Probably doesn't make you feel any better about getting knocked out of the winner's bracket, but at least you can rest assured that there was no conspiracy afoot.

[smedindy]

Ten lettermen from a 6-17 team...could be good, or....maybe not so good if they're a little talent bereft.

[Mr. Ypsi]

I think I set a personal record for speed in getting knocked out of both contests!  At least I had plenty of company (including both of the UWSP 'twins').

[Gregory Sager]

Ten lettermen from a 6-17 team...could be good, or....maybe not so good if they're a little talent bereft.

Of the twelve Scots who played against Webster, nine were returnees and three were freshmen. The minutes were pretty evenly distributed -- only one Scot played more than 26 minutes -- so Todd Skrivseth obviously has faith in his returnees.

[smedindy]

I think sometimes when you have a lot of returnees from a less-than-stellar team, the team will remain less-than-stellar.