South Region playoffs

[BDTartan]

PA_wesley, W&L???  Do you mean W&J?  Cuz if its W&J, who would be closer than CMU at 20 miles??

[Ralph Turner]

Llamaguy, should Trinity lose this weekend, could they receive a Pool C?  What would that do to the South bracket?

I don't think that a 2-loss Trinity gets a Pool C bid.

[Ralph Turner]

PA_wesley, W&L???  Do you mean W&J?  Cuz if its W&J, who would be closer than CMU at 20 miles??

CMU and W&J makes sense from a student-athlete perspective.

It is basically a home game for both, played on the field of the higher seed!

Any playoff game where you can spend the night before in your own bed is a good thing!

[patcummings]

PAWesley...

AGAIN...the committee will not make a pairing because one school is closer to another if all possible opponents are driving anyway.  The committee has made it known they attempt to eliminate flights in the first round.  Driving 230 or 290 miles will not make a difference to the committee. 

[BDTartan]

Good point Ralph!!  I would love to see that game, but we'll have to wait and see.

[Josh Bowerman]

PAWesley...

AGAIN...the committee will not make a pairing because one school is closer to another if all possible opponents are driving anyway.  The committee has made it known they attempt to eliminate flights in the first round.  Driving 230 or 290 miles will not make a difference to the committee. 

I disagree, Pat.  It's very much a real possibility, in my mind, that W&J and CMU will be paired with one another in the first round.

[Rikki_Tikki_Tavi]

Here you go, W&L vs. CNU with the winner going to Wesley. That's an easy one to the untrained eye (me!). Close proximity, bus trip with the winner going to Dover, which is another bus trip. Just a thought.

[Llamaguy]

LLama  

 I was thinking that the committee would leave W&L with a closer game and send Dickinson or CMU to Wesley. But you think they will seat according to actually ranking after whateve becomes of thew Tex, bracket. I guess other than a plane ride, a bus rise is a bus ride be it 250 miles or 150 ?

Actually precedent was set last year. Ferrum was sent to Wesley and W&J was sent to BC. It would have actually been 12 miles shorter for W&J to go to Wesley and much closer for Ferrum to have traveled to BC.

Bill,
No, if Trinity loses this week I don't see them getting a bid. I see the last two Pool C spots going to 2 of the following 5 teams: Cortland State, Bethel, Wartburg, UW-Lax, and Franklin. All of those are 1 loss teams.

[Llamaguy]

Here you go, W&L vs. CNU with the winner going to Wesley. That's an easy one to the untrained eye (me!). Close proximity, bus trip with the winner going to Dover, which is another bus trip. Just a thought.

Except they are both in the bottom 4 seeds. Put them in a remote South D3 location, like Texas  and then you would have a shot at that matchup. Unless one of the teams higher in the South Region poll loses, or CNU jumps W&J and Dickinson, CNU will not host a first round game.

[PA_wesleyfan]

As long as they all come to Wesley .... Boy I know someone that's going to be in the dog house when Wesley plays three home games in a row...Me

[Rikki_Tikki_Tavi]

Llama, you are officially the Dali-llama!! I posted that before i read what came about the same time I hit the post button. But I gotcha. CNU to Dickinson huh. Damn NC Wesleyan!!

[Ralph Turner]

As long as they all come to Wesley .... Boy I know someone that's going to be in the dog house when Wesley plays three home games in a row...Me

Isn't that scenario covered on one of the commercials for "Man Rules"?

I clearly remember that old Florida State football player, Burt Reynolds, covering that one.

[Bill McCabe]

Ralph, what is do you think of sending HSU to the West?

[PA_wesleyfan]

But someone here has tHERe own man rules!!!!

[Llamaguy]

Llama, you are officially the Dali-llama!! I posted that before i read what came about the same time I hit the post button. But I gotcha. CNU to Dickinson huh. Damn NC Wesleyan!!

You got it man! Dickinson is a manageable matchup though.