Top 25 talk

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

So Spence is back, then? I'm beginning to recognize the pattern. That's a non-expiring ban.

I read this... didn't really put it together... stepped away to do something else, and then it slammed into me. Wow, the pattern is there.

[Gregory Sager]

If it's true, he's done a creditable job of masking it, since I haven't seen the alleged undercover exile refer even once to Marietta.

Let's test him, though:

Has anybody seen 'etta play lately?

[sac]

picturing a guy staring at his monitor unable to log into his banned account.


"who the heck is spence?"

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Pretty sure Massey had Alabama and Georgia as the top 2 teams before the championship game, btw.

This is not helping your Massey argument, though.

[Gregory Sager]

picturing a guy staring at his monitor unable to log into his banned account.


"who the heck is spence?"

He used to go by the handle "ElRetornodelEspencio". He was a real squabble jockey here last season, and not a very well-mannered one at that.

[Greek Tragedy]

Stevens Point, who was 6-5 in nonconference play, just knocked off #2 Whitewater on the road, 75-69, to improve to 5-0 in the WIAC...

#6 Oshkosh lost at Platteville 72-57
#13 River Falls lost at La Crosse 62-54

[warriorcat]

I can not figure out the WIAC.  On any given night, anyone can win home or away.

Platteville over Oshkosh ?

LaCrosse Over River Falls ?

[Darryl Nester]

How They Fared (So Far)
Occidental @ Chapman scores will be edited in later (probably tomorrow morning).

Top 25

Rank	Pts	Team	W-L	Results
#1	625	Whitman	15-0	01/19 at Linfield; 01/20 at Willamette
#2	555	UW-Whitewater	13-3	LOST to UW-Stevens Point, 69-75; 01/20 at UW-La Crosse
#3	541	Washington U.	12-2	01/19 at Case Western Reserve; 01/21 at Carnegie Mellon
#4	519	York (Pa.)	16-0	won at St. Mary's (Md.), 88-74; 01/20 at Mary Washington
#5	497	Wittenberg	16-0	def. #23 Ohio Wesleyan, 93-72; 01/20 at Allegheny
#6	444	UW-Oshkosh	13-3	LOST at #29 UW-Platteville, 57-72; 01/20 at UW-Eau Claire
#7	440	Whitworth	13-2	01/19 at Willamette; 01/20 at Linfield
#8	434	Augustana	13-3	won at Elmhurst, 90-80; 01/20 at North Park
#9	415	MIT	14-2	LOST to Springfield, 65-68; 01/20 at Babson
#10	371	Lycoming	16-1	01/20 vs. Hood
#11	357	Williams	13-3	def. Amherst, 72-69; 01/20 at #16 Middlebury
#12	347	St. John's	13-1	def. Macalester, 133-80; 01/20 vs. St. Thomas
#13	346	UW-River Falls	11-4	LOST at UW-La Crosse, 54-62; 01/20 vs. UW-Stout
#14	331	Hamilton	15-0	def. SUNY Geneseo, 74-70; 01/20 at Amherst
#15	295	Swarthmore	14-2	won at Haverford, 65-60 OT; 01/20 vs. Dickinson
#16	268	Middlebury	12-3	def. Albertus Magnus, 77-73 OT; 01/20 vs. #11 Williams; 01/21 at Pine Manor
#17	212	Emory	12-2	01/19 at New York University; 01/21 at Brandeis
#18	189	Marietta	13-3	def. Capital, 82-68; 01/20 at #20 John Carroll
#19	176	Wesleyan	11-3	01/18 at Johnson and Wales; 01/20 vs. Connecticut College
#20	121	John Carroll	13-3	LOST at T#37 Baldwin Wallace, 79-88; 01/20 vs. #18 Marietta
#21	106	Franklin and Marshall	13-3	LOST at Dickinson, 50-55; 01/20 at Haverford
#22	104	Eastern Connecticut	14-2	won at #39 Keene State, 70-64; 01/20 vs. Rhode Island College
#23	84	Ohio Wesleyan	11-5	LOST at #5 Wittenberg, 72-93; 01/20 at DePauw
#24	66	Illinois Wesleyan	13-3	def. Millikin, 78-62; 01/20 at Carroll
#25	41	Rochester	11-3	01/19 at Brandeis; 01/21 at New York University

Others receiving votes

Rank	Pts	Team	W-L	Results
#26	38	Emory and Henry	14-1	01/18 vs. Lynchburg; 01/20 vs. T#41 Randolph-Macon
#27	33	Nichols	13-2	won at Eastern Nazarene, 79-76; 01/20 vs. Roger Williams
#28	31	Tufts	12-4	01/20 vs. Bates
#29	28	UW-Platteville	14-2	def. #6 UW-Oshkosh, 72-57; 01/20 at UW-Stevens Point
#30	18	New Jersey City	13-3	def. Rutgers-Newark, 80-68; 01/20 vs. Rutgers-Camden
#31	15	Wartburg	12-4	def. Buena Vista, 85-65; LOST at Nebraska Wesleyan, 60-99
#32	13	Adrian	13-3	LOST to Olivet, 62-65; 01/20 at Alma
T#33	11	Ramapo	13-4	won at William Paterson, 73-61; 01/20 vs. Stockton
T#33	11	Salem State	14-3	won at Bates, 83-81; def. Bridgewater State, 85-79; 01/20 vs. Westfield State
#35	9	Juniata	13-3	LOST at Susquehanna, 68-70; 01/20 vs. Moravian
#36	7	Cabrini	13-2	def. Neumann, 105-76; 01/19 at Marywood
T#37	5	Baldwin Wallace	13-3	def. #20 John Carroll, 88-79; 01/20 vs. Muskingum
T#37	5	Hanover	12-4	won at Mount St. Joseph, 64-41; 01/20 vs. Franklin
#39	4	Keene State	11-5	LOST to #22 Eastern Connecticut, 64-70; 01/20 at Mass-Boston
#40	3	Bethel	11-4	LOST at St. Thomas, 78-81; 01/20 at Carleton
T#41	2	Loras	13-4	def. Central, 109-92; 01/20 at Luther
T#41	2	Occidental	13-2	won at Chapman, 70-60; 01/20 at Redlands
T#41	2	Randolph-Macon	12-3	01/18 vs. Hampden-Sydney; 01/20 at #26 Emory and Henry
T#41	2	Wheaton (Ill.)	12-4	won at Carthage, 90-81; 01/20 vs. Illinois Tech
T#45	1	North Central (Ill.)	12-4	def. Finlandia, 102-50; 01/20 at Elmhurst
T#45	1	Wooster	12-4	won at Kenyon, 75-55; 01/20 at Wabash

[me]

I can not figure out the WIAC.  On any given night, anyone can win home or away.

Platteville over Oshkosh ?

LaCrosse Over River Falls ?

It's a great league. Good teams beating other good teams. LaCrosse is also the only team to beat St. John's. WIAC has 6 teams that are all good and any of them could beat anyone else and most of them could probably beat most non-conference teams.

Was basically a toss up game and UW-L grabbed it. River Falls has Stout and Eau Claire next, so every chance to right the ship and get back in the race.

Platteville served some notice against Oshkosh though. They dominated from start to finish. Their reward is playing at Stevens Point and at Whitewater. Pretty much either Stevens Point beats Platteville and goes into the halfway mark the team to beat, or they lose and it's all a big mess.

[sac]

 

[Ralph Turner]

Stevens Point, who was 6-5 in nonconference play, just knocked off #2 Whitewater on the road, 75-69, to improve to 5-0 in the WIAC...

#6 Oshkosh lost at Platteville 72-57
#13 River Falls lost at La Crosse 62-54

That is why we refer to the league as "WIAC-ky", in almost every sport!

[KnightSlappy]

I can not figure out the WIAC.  On any given night, anyone can win home or away.

Platteville over Oshkosh ?

LaCrosse Over River Falls ?

Those who follow the efficiency ratings will know that neither of these results were particularly surprising. Platteville and LaCrosse had odds of 76% and 67% to-win according to this system. (Stevens Point was only 25%).

http://tomaroonandgold.blogspot.com/p/division-iii-mens-basketball-efficiency.html

[Greek Tragedy]

I can not figure out the WIAC.  On any given night, anyone can win home or away.

Platteville over Oshkosh ?

LaCrosse Over River Falls ?

Those who follow the efficiency ratings will know that neither of these results were particularly surprising. Platteville and LaCrosse had odds of 76% and 67% to-win according to this system. (Stevens Point was only 25%).

http://tomaroonandgold.blogspot.com/p/division-iii-mens-basketball-efficiency.html

Well excuuuuuuuuse me! LOL

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

It is already the midway point of January. In a month's time, we will be looking at conference tournaments and discussing who has a chance to make the NCAA tournaments. However, there is still a lot of basketball to be played and many teams are starting to take the turn into the second half of conference play.

On Thursday's edition of Hoopsville, Dave will chat with a number of guests to get a landscape of where things are in Division III. The conversation will include checking in at the NCAA Convention where legislation will be voted on by DIII members and conferences on whether to start the season a week earlier.

Dave then talks to some of the hotter teams in the country. Two women's programs (ranked and unranked) who are leading their respective conferences and looking to build on recent success. Also two men's programs one of which is not in the spotlight as much as they traditionally are along with a program we haven't talked to in a number of years.

This week's WBCA Center Court will feature a women's coach who is doing what she can to spread the word about women's basketball including giving more of her time to make sure her colleagues are taken care of and heard.

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- Kris Huffman, No. 9 DePauw women's coach
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[me]

Is it just me or is Logie one of a few former D-I players to be head coach in D3? Maybe I'm just ignorant and there are a lot more than I think.