Pool C

[John Gleich]

Is this the best link for the 12:30pm Selection Show?  http://www.ncaa.com/sports/basketball-men/d3

not if you're a Whitewater fan.....

I can't believe they did that.  Wow.

So instead of changing the picture to honor the defending champs, they just changed the year to 2010.  Why not throw in 2004 and 2005?  This should give everyone a lot of confidence in the upcoming pool C selections......

At least they were close... they showed a WIAC team that wears purple... it just wasn't the RIGHT WIAC team.

[SevenTen]

Is this the best link for the 12:30pm Selection Show?  http://www.ncaa.com/sports/basketball-men/d3

not if you're a Whitewater fan.....

I can't believe they did that.  Wow.

So instead of changing the picture to honor the defending champs, they just changed the year to 2010.  Why not throw in 2004 and 2005?  This should give everyone a lot of confidence in the upcoming pool C selections......

At least they were close... they showed a WIAC team that wears purple... it just wasn't the RIGHT WIAC team.

If they were just going to grab a picture from a team from the past.. they couldn't find one of the 1984 or 1989 champs somewhere?

[ronk]

When we got to the end, UW-Platteville, Tufts, Augustana, NYU, Texas-Dallas, Thomas More and SUNY-Old Westbury were left on the table.

  You don't have a Mid-Atlantic team in that group; I'll attribute that to the lateness of the hour.l

[gordonmann]

Whichever region has the last at-large selection doesn't have a team left at the table.  When we picked Albright as the last Pool C, the process stops.  There's no need to identify which Mid-Atlantic team would've come to the process next because the process is over.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Is this the best link for the 12:30pm Selection Show?  http://www.ncaa.com/sports/basketball-men/d3

not if you're a Whitewater fan.....

I can't believe they did that.  Wow.

So instead of changing the picture to honor the defending champs, they just changed the year to 2010.  Why not throw in 2004 and 2005?  This should give everyone a lot of confidence in the upcoming pool C selections......

At least they were close... they showed a WIAC team that wears purple... it just wasn't the RIGHT WIAC team.

If they were just going to grab a picture from a team from the past.. they couldn't find one of the 1984 or 1989 champs somewhere?

You're assuming they have more than one picture of d3 men's basketball.  I'm not so sure that's a safe assumption.

[Titan Q]

http://www.d3hoops.com/playoffs/men/2013/projected-mens-bracket

When down to Albright and Augustana, Albright had a two-and-a-half-game better record and had more wins against regionally ranked teams. Plus, Albright had beaten the No. 1 team in its region, while Augustana had had three shots at the top team in its region (North Central, in our projections) and had lost them all.



Note, I don't think this would be true if UW-Platteville is ranked in the West (which it looks like D3hoops.com projecion has Platteville ranked)...Augustana beat Platteville, so Augie and Albright would both have 3 wins vs RR.

[Pat Coleman]

Bracket: http://www.d3hoops.com/playoffs/men/2013/bracket-released

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Rutgers-Newark AND Randolph?

Wow.

[SevenTen]

Wow.  WashU, Whitewater, North Central, and Illinois Wesleyan all in the same 8 team grouping... yeesh.  Only the #2, #3, #6 and #12 teams in the nation per Massey's ratings:  http://masseyratings.com/rate.php?lg=cb&yr=2013&sub=11620

Basically what I was concerned about.  Not having the ability to create "central hosting sites" means compressing the tournament into 8 little geographic tournaments which doesn't spread the top teams across the nation all that well.

Who the heck hosts the second and third round games of that group if the first round is chalk?

[hickory_cornhusker]

Wow.  WashU, Whitewater, North Central, and Illinois Wesleyan all in the same 8 team grouping... yeesh.  Only the #2, #3, #6 and #12 teams in the nation per Massey's ratings:  http://masseyratings.com/rate.php?lg=cb&yr=2013&sub=11620

Basically what I was concerned about.  Not having the ability to create "central hosting sites" means compressing the tournament into 8 little geographic tournaments which doesn't spread the top teams across the nation all that well.

Who the heck hosts the second and third round games of that group if the first round is chalk?

Or if the first round is mass anarchy.

[deiscanton]

Rutgers-Newark AND Randolph?

Wow.

My heart sank when I saw Rutgers-Newark announced on the board. 

[Titan Q]

My first 17 got in.  No surprise with Rutgers-Newark...but Randolph?  I didn't even look at them...I should have had ahead of Texas-Dallas though, no question.  I didn't think that final South team had a prayer though, so I didn't spend any time on it.

I think it's fair to say that the 1-1 added to Randolph's games vs regionally ranked, from Randolph-Macon, made the difference.

Pool C selection projection
1. UW-Stevens Point (West, WIAC) - 21-5 (.808)/.585/7-2 
2. Rochester (East, UAA) - 20-4 (.833)/.575/7-3   
3. Williams (Northeast, NESCAC) - 21-4 (.840)/.577/5-4
4. Virginia Wesleyan (South, ODAC) - 18-6 (.750)/.560/8-5*
5. Middlebury (Northeast, NESCAC) - 19-3 (.864)/.545/2-3
6. Wooster (Great Lakes, NCAC) - 22-5 (.815)/.557/3-2
7. Illinois Wesleyan (Midwest, CCIW) - 18-5 (.783)/.556/5-4 
8. Mary Hardin-Baylor (South, ASC) - 23-5 (.821)/.550/3-3
9. MIT (Northeast, NEWMAC) - 19-5 (.792)/.555/4-4
10. Wheaton (Midwest, CCIW) - 17-6 (.739)/.566/4-4
11. Hampden-Sydney (South, ODAC) - 19-4 (.826)/.512/6-3*
12. Emory (South, UAA) - 19-6 (.760)/.556/5-4
13. Wesley (Mid-Atlantic, CAC) - 17-4 (.810)/.530/5-3
14. Plattsburgh State (East, SUNYAC) - 19-7 (.731)/.559/5-5
15. Transylvania (Midwest, HCAC) - 19-6 (.760)/.548/4-1* 
16. Springfield (Northeast, NEWMAC) - 19-8 (.704)/.575/4-6
17. Stevens (East, E8) - 20-5 (.800)/.533/3-3 
18. SUNY-Old Westbury (Atlantic, Sky) - 21-3 (.875)/.500/2-1
19. Brandeis (Northeast, UAA) - 17-8 (.680)/.569/4-7 

Projected left at the table after round 19 (in order of competitiveness)
(MA) Albright (MACC) - 20-6 (.769)/.546/3-1
(GL) Thomas More (PrAC) - 22-4 (.846)/.512/1-3 
(AT) Rutgers-Newark (NJAC) - 19-7 (.731)/.548/3-4
(MW) Augustana (CCIW) - 18-8 (.692)/.553/2-8
(W) Buena Vista (IIAC) - 18-7 (.720)/.563/1-2
(NE) Tufts (NESCAC) - 16-6 (.727)/.535/0-6
(S) Texas-Dallas (ASC) - 20-7 (.741)/.516/0-4
(E) Oswego St (SUNYAC) - 19-8 (.704)/.518/2-6


(S) Randolph (ODAC) - 15-6 (.714)/.520/4-5 (I have added 1-1 for Randolph-Macon) 

[Ethelred the Unready]

Maybe this has been addressed elsewhere, but where will the Morrisville/Ramapo game be played?

[7express]

Here are my projections (note NOT in order they'll be selected):

Middlebury
Williams
Stevens Point
Rochester
Virginia Wesleyan
Wooster
Illinois Wesleyan
Plattsburgh
Hampden-Sydney
Mary Hardin Baylor
Wheaton (IL)
Wesley
MIT
Stevens
Old Westbury
Transy
Emory
Thomas More
Albright

Last 3 in:
Thomas More, Albright, Old Westbury
First 4 out:
Springfield, Rutgers-Newark, Brandeis, Augustana

I'm quoting this for tomorrow so I can't modify it tomorrow    I'm fairly confident in 17 of my 19 with Thomas More & Old Westbury in and Springfield & Brandeis out the ones I'm not confident in.

Yah I was way off.  I knew this morning I should've swapped either Thomas More/Old Westbury with Springfield, but I went back to bed instead  
Not a real surprize Newark made it, they were my second team out.  Randolph, however was so far down the list you needed a magnifying glass to see them.  I don't think anyone saw that coming.
17/19 last year 16/19 this year.  Obviously could be a lot better, but I'll take 33/38 the last 2 years, not overly terrible, especially when 2 of the selections were so far out of left field that no one else had them projected in either (Adolphus last year, Randolph this year).

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Maybe this has been addressed elsewhere, but where will the Morrisville/Ramapo game be played?

Nyack College in New York state. And Stevens is playing at Lehman College in New York.