Pool C

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

After upsets today, four of the five top ranked NE teams (from the last ranking) will all be in Pool C consideration (5 of 6 is Springfield loses tomorrow).

[HOPEful]

Calvin is now 22-5, 21-4 in D3 and all 4 losses were to regionally ranked opponents... (Claremont Mudd Scripts, Carthage, Hope, Hope)

Doesn't beating Hope tonight @ Hope put Calvin into the regional rankings?

And it turn, that would give Hope two more wins against regionally ranked opponents...

[bopol]

^^ Spalding won't be in your Emory pod as they lost to Webster in the SLIAC championship game. Better start rearranging because I'm pretty sure the NCAA won't send Webster to Emory.

Given the Emory loss and Webster win, I'll just move that pod to Centre and that'll solve that problem.

Calvin in as well as Hope moving to Pool C probably solves some of my problems in the West/Midwest bracket. 

The losers I have at the moment are OWU and Rutgers-Newark; adding in Springfield (potential Pool A) and Calvin.

[y_jack_lok]

^^ Spalding won't be in your Emory pod as they lost to Webster in the SLIAC championship game. Better start rearranging because I'm pretty sure the NCAA won't send Webster to Emory.

Given the Emory loss and Webster win, I'll just move that pod to Centre and that'll solve that problem.

That could happen. Google Maps has the distance door-to-door from Webster to Centre at between 350 and 375 miles. I like that scenario.

[David Collinge]

Very difficult to beat a good team 3 times in 1 season.

Wooster just completed that hat trick vs. their archrival (and a very good team) Wittenberg...for the second consecutive season. Wooster gets the Pool A bid, while Wittenberg joins conference mates DePauw and OWU on the bubble (their position is a little less bubbly than the others.)

[bopol]

Dickinson gets dropped by Johns Hopkins. 

[USee]

Wheaton 48
IWU 27
Halftime

Battle for the AQ in Bloomington.

[njf1003]

Dickinson gets dropped by Johns Hopkins.

and I think Dickinson is on the wrong side of the bubble after they lost to F&M last week as well, but we'll see!

[mck99]

Webster is 4.2 miles down Big Bend from Washington U. I expect the Gorloks to be sent to WASHU.

[7express]

Very difficult to beat a good team 3 times in 1 season.

Wooster just completed that hat trick vs. their archrival (and a very good team) Wittenberg...for the second consecutive season. Wooster gets the Pool A bid, while Wittenberg joins conference mates DePauw and OWU on the bubble (their position is a little less bubbly than the others.)

Of course on the flip side of that, after 2 wins vs. RIC in the regular season, including a 15 point beatdown on the road, Eastern Connecticut loses by double digits at home in the conference finals.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Wheaton in an absolute beat-down of IWU tonight for the CCIW AQ; up 21 at the half, they won by 21.

IWU will still be one of the first Cs (and Wheaton was already a near-lock for a C, so this doesn't knock any hopefuls out of the tourney).  Augie also looks like a pretty definite pick, so it is up to Carthage whether the CCIW is a 3-bid or 4-bid conference.  IWU will probably still be a first weekend host, but this probably all-but-kills their chances of hosting a sectional (unless geography helps them out).

[y_jack_lok]

Webster is 4.2 miles down Big Bend from Washington U. I expect the Gorloks to be sent to WASHU.

Wash U men hosted the first round last year. The Wash U women are likely in a position to host the first round this year. So hard to know which way the NCAA will go. If the men host the first round, I agree with you. However, people smarter than me about these things don't think the Wash U men will be first round hosts.

[Denny McKinney]

Webster is 4.2 miles down Big Bend from Washington U. I expect the Gorloks to be sent to WASHU.

Webster's WBB team, maybe. Wash U women have the right to host this year, first and maybe 2nd weekend!

[Mr. Ypsi]

Webster is 4.2 miles down Big Bend from Washington U. I expect the Gorloks to be sent to WASHU.

Wash U men hosted the first round last year. The Wash U women are likely in a position to host the first round this year. So hard to know which way the NCAA will go. If the men host the first round, I agree with you. However, people smarter than me about these things don't think the Wash U men will be first round hosts.

Don't recall for sure which years are which, but isn't this the year that men have priority the first weekend and women the second?

[monsoon]

Webster is 4.2 miles down Big Bend from Washington U. I expect the Gorloks to be sent to WASHU.

Wash U men hosted the first round last year. The Wash U women are likely in a position to host the first round this year. So hard to know which way the NCAA will go. If the men host the first round, I agree with you. However, people smarter than me about these things don't think the Wash U men will be first round hosts.

Men have hosting priority the first weekend this year.