The Undefeated and the Winless

[NEPAFAN]

Was curious to see how Scranton had managed to get off to a hot start and the roster provides the answer -- will that team EVER run out of Danzigs??  Every four years, another one seems to appear. 

Also happy to see that Scranton is lead by Matthew Mancuso, a Bridgewater-Raritan (NJ) alum (my alma mater).  BRHS has had a crazy-good recent run of D3 hoops stars for a public high school -- before Mancuso, Eric Murdock, Jr., Vinny Pace, Andrew August, and James McNally, just an incredible number of big-time D3 stars from one high school over the past decade.  I have to think they'd do well against any other lineup of recent D3 players from a single school, and certainly a single public school ...

Ha. This is the last one, unfortunately. May turn out to be the best of the bunch, but time will tell. Mancuso has started off strong this season, after being overshadowed and a few hiccups. I am aware of Vinny Pace, but where did the rest of them play?

[nescac1]

Murdock (son of an NBA BRHS alum) - TCNJ
McNally - F&M
August - Montclair

All all-region guys, or better. 

[ronk]

Scranton was in the running to recruit Pace. Mancuso will also be in the running for all-region or better, this season. The only one that has slowed him so far is Matt, himself.

[hopefan]

Through 12/3/18.... with new rankings

Fell off undefeateds since prior listing:
    Christopher Newport lost to: Lynchburg
     Johnson and Wales lost to: Santa Cruz

Fell off winless since last posting:
     Centenary NJ beat SUNY-Delhi

UNDEFEATED (25)               WINLESS  (24)
               
Nebraska Wesleyan  (8 - 0)  No. 1               Penn State-Berks ( 0 - 9)
Williams  (7 - 0)  No. 2               Clarks Summit ( 0 - 8)
Hamilton  (7 - 0)  No. 4               Curry ( 0 - 7)
Illinois Wesleyan  (7 - 0)  No. 8               Clarkson ( 0 - 7)
Plattsburgh State  (6 - 0)  No. 10               NVU-Johnson ( 0 - 7)
Marietta  (7 - 0)  No. 12               Kenyon ( 0 - 7)
UW-Whitewater  (5 - 0)  No. 12               Penn College ( 0 - 7)
Wooster  (6 - 0)  No. 15               Elms ( 0 - 7)
Randolph-Macon  (9 - 0)  No. 16               Rutgers-Camden ( 0 - 7)
Rochester  (6 - 0)  No. 17               Trinity (Texas) ( 0 - 7)
Amherst  (5 - 0)  No. 19               Finlandia ( 0 - 6)
North Central (Ill.)  (5 - 0)  No. 20                 Keystone ( 0 - 6)
Lynchburg  (7 - 0)  No. 22                 Houghton ( 0 - 6)
Nichols  (6 - 0)  No. 25                 Willamette ( 0 - 6)
Salisbury  (7 - 0)  No. 26  ORV               Averett ( 0 - 6)
Scranton  (6 - 0)  No. 34  ORV               CCNY ( 0 - 5)
Oswego State  (6 - 0)  No. 35  ORV               Defiance ( 0 - 5)
WPI  (6 - 0)  No. 36  ORV               Alma ( 0 - 5)
Centre  (6 - 0)  No. 40  ORV               Rockford ( 0 - 5)
Millsaps  (8 - 0)                               Lesley ( 0 - 5)
MSOE  (6 - 0)                               Lewis and Clark ( 0 - 5)
Coast Guard  (6 - 0)                       Heidelberg ( 0 - 4)
DePauw  (5 - 0)                                  Merchant Marine ( 0 - 4)
Wabash  (5 - 0)                                     Fredonia ( 0 - 4)
Occidental  (5 - 0)               

[hopefan]

Nobody falls off the lists on 12/4/18

[fantastic50]

Two of these teams will collide on Saturday, as Wabash (6-0) hosts #15 Wooster (7-0).

[hickory_cornhusker]

Rockford gets off the winless list with 4 OT win over Marian in the Big Fond du.

[hopefan]

Rockford gets off the winless list with 4 OT win over Marian in the Big Fond du.

Don't ya just love D3!!!!  That must have been one heck of a game!!!!

[Greek Tragedy]

Rockford gets off the winless list with 4 OT win over Marian in the Big Fond du.

LOL +1. Or the FDL works.

[hopefan]

So changes to our list last night....12/5/18

Off the Undefeated list:  No Change

Off the winless list:
Penn St Berks... beats winless Penn College
Rockford, as mentioned before, wins in 4 OT over Marian....

Current count:
Undefeated Teams : 25
Winless teams : 22

[ronk]

 Looks like Scranton is the only one with both men and women undefeated at this point.

[Schwami]

You can remove DePauw from the undefeated list, with their loss last night to Wittenberg.

[hopefan]

You can remove DePauw from the undefeated list, with their loss last night to Wittenberg.

Ugh. Forgot to update my list !!

In reality, 4 teams fell off the undefeated list yesterday!!

DePauw loses to Wooster
Illinois Wesleyan falls to Wheaton's buzzer beater
Lynchburg beaten by Guilford
MSOE crushed by Wisconsin Lutheran

This brings the number of undefeated down to 21

[hopefan]

Amherst loses to Babson on 12/6.

Undefeated down to 20.
Winless remains at 22.

[hopefan]

Plattsburgh loses to Brockport

Undefeateds down to 19

Willamette beats Portland Bible
CCNY beats John Jay

Winless down to 20

Here is what our lists look like after games of 12/7/18.... lots of games to be played today, Saturday 12/8

UNDEFEATED                                                WINLESS
               
Nebraska Wesleyan  (8 - 0)  No. 1               Curry ( 0 - 9)
Williams  (8 - 0)  No. 2                               Clarks Summit ( 0 - 8)
Hamilton  (8 - 0)  No. 4                                Clarkson ( 0 - 8)
Marietta  (7 - 0)  No. 12                               NVU-Johnson ( 0 - 8)
UW-Whitewater  (6 - 0)  No. 12                        Kenyon ( 0 - 8)
Wooster  (7 - 0)  No. 15                                Penn College ( 0 - 8)
Randolph-Macon  (10 - 0)  No. 16                   Elms ( 0 - 8)
Rochester  (8 - 0)  No. 17                               Rutgers-Camden ( 0 - 8)
North Central (Ill.)  (6 - 0)  No. 20               Finlandia ( 0 - 7)
Nichols  (7 - 0)  No. 25                                Keystone ( 0 - 7)
Salisbury  (8 - 0)  No. 26                                 Lesley ( 0 - 7)
Scranton  (7 - 0)  No. 34  ORV                        Trinity (Texas) ( 0 - 7)
Oswego State  (7 - 0)  No. 35  ORV               Averett ( 0 - 7)
WPI  (7 - 0)  No. 36  ORV                                 Houghton ( 0 - 6)
Centre  (6 - 0)  No. 40  ORV                         Defiance ( 0 - 6)
Millsaps  (8 - 0)                                                  Alma ( 0 - 6)
Coast Guard  (7 - 0)                                        Fredonia ( 0 - 6)
Wabash  (6 - 0)                                                Lewis and Clark ( 0 - 5)
Occidental  (6 - 0)                                         Merchant Marine ( 0 - 5)
                                                                        Heidelberg ( 0 - 4)