Pool C

[bopol]

My Pool C Picks as of this morning:

1. UWSP
2. Wash U
3. Ohio Wesleyan
4. Amherst
5. Bates
6. Eastern Conn
7. William Paterson
8. Va. Wesleyan
9. St Olaf
10. Dickinson
11. IWU
12. WPI
13. Elmhurst
14. Franklin and Marshall
15. Centre (I have Rhodes as Pool A since they are a higher seed in the tournament).
16. North Central
17. Mount Union
18. Bowdoin
19. Springfield

Note: I have Hobart as the top Pool C pick in the East which might or might not stick.  If they are, they jam up the board the whole way, blocking NYU, which would compare better at the later rounds.  Similarly, I have Buena Vista as the #2 pool C in the West, and they jam up the board whereas Whitman might all compare better in the later rounds.

Left on the table:
AT: Brooklyn
CE: No one
EA: Hobart
GL: John Carroll
MA: Scranton
NE: Wesleyan would be coming onto the board
SO: Hardin-Simmons
WE: Buena Vista

[Greek Tragedy]

RMC and Babson both win by 10 to advance to their finals.

Skidmore wins the Liberty League. I don't Hobart has enough to get in as a Pool C So NYU has to hope for a win and a jump over Hobart.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

RMC and Babson both win by 10 to advance to their finals.

Skidmore wins the Liberty League. I don't Hobart has enough to get in as a Pool C So NYU has to hope for a win and a jump over Hobart.

That skidmore game is just at halftime - score posted incorrectly.

[Greek Tragedy]

Albertus Magnus saves themselves the headache or waiting. They win the GNAC AQ.

[Greek Tragedy]

RMC and Babson both win by 10 to advance to their finals.

Skidmore wins the Liberty League. I don't Hobart has enough to get in as a Pool C So NYU has to hope for a win and a jump over Hobart.

That skidmore game is just at halftime - score posted incorrectly.

I thought that was a low scoring game!

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

RMC and Babson both win by 10 to advance to their finals.

Skidmore wins the Liberty League. I don't Hobart has enough to get in as a Pool C So NYU has to hope for a win and a jump over Hobart.

That skidmore game is just at halftime - score posted incorrectly.

I thought that was a low scoring game!

That's low even for upstate NY standards.

[Greek Tragedy]

Skidmore officially wins 68-64, unless that's the 2nd intermission score.

[KnightSlappy]

Keene State beats Rhode Island College to win the LEC Pool A bid. Our first real bubble-popping result. (Bubble was half popped last night when Eastern Connecticut lost).

[Mr. Ypsi]

Keene State beats Rhode Island College to win the LEC Pool A bid. Our first real bubble-popping result. (Bubble was half popped last night when Eastern Connecticut lost).

How can that pop a bubble, when RIC was not even ranked?  ANYONE other than E. Conn winning the AQ had already popped the bubble.

The only for-sure bubble-poppers I see left would be UWW, UST or Babson losing (and with Babson even that might not be a bubble-popper if WPI wins the A).  (Alfred over SJF might qualify, but SJF might itself only be a bubble team.)

[KnightSlappy]

Keene State beats Rhode Island College to win the LEC Pool A bid. Our first real bubble-popping result. (Bubble was half popped last night when Eastern Connecticut lost).

How can that pop a bubble, when RIC was not even ranked?  ANYONE other than E. Conn winning the AQ had already popped the bubble.

The only for-sure bubble-poppers I see left would be UWW, UST or Babson losing (and with Babson even that might not be a bubble-popper if WPI wins the A).  (Alfred over SJF might qualify, but SJF might itself only be a bubble team.)

Because I wasn't completely willing to rule out a .741/.541 team making the tournament as a Pool C.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Keene State beats Rhode Island College to win the LEC Pool A bid. Our first real bubble-popping result. (Bubble was half popped last night when Eastern Connecticut lost).

How can that pop a bubble, when RIC was not even ranked?  ANYONE other than E. Conn winning the AQ had already popped the bubble.

The only for-sure bubble-poppers I see left would be UWW, UST or Babson losing (and with Babson even that might not be a bubble-popper if WPI wins the A).  (Alfred over SJF might qualify, but SJF might itself only be a bubble team.)

Because I wasn't completely willing to rule out a .741/.541 team making the tournament as a Pool C.

But a team that would only themselves BE a bubble team can't be called a bubble buster!  Trinity just lost to Wesleyan - is Trinity merely a bubble team, or did another bubble just burst?

[KnightSlappy]

Keene State beats Rhode Island College to win the LEC Pool A bid. Our first real bubble-popping result. (Bubble was half popped last night when Eastern Connecticut lost).

How can that pop a bubble, when RIC was not even ranked?  ANYONE other than E. Conn winning the AQ had already popped the bubble.

The only for-sure bubble-poppers I see left would be UWW, UST or Babson losing (and with Babson even that might not be a bubble-popper if WPI wins the A).  (Alfred over SJF might qualify, but SJF might itself only be a bubble team.)

Because I wasn't completely willing to rule out a .741/.541 team making the tournament as a Pool C.

But a team that would only themselves BE a bubble team can't be called a bubble buster!  Trinity just lost to Wesleyan - is Trinity merely a bubble team, or did another bubble just burst?

It may have been their own bubble that was popped.

Amherst and Bowdoin both look like solid selections (particularly Amherst), so as long as Wesleyan doesn't win the whole thing, probably not.

[Greek Tragedy]

I'm thinking a bubble buster is someone who takes the Pool A away from a Pool C candidate who was expected to take the Pool A. Oshkosh is a bubble buster if they beat Whitewater because only one of Point/Whitewater was supposed to occupy a Pool C, not both.

[Mr. Ypsi]

I'm thinking a bubble buster is someone who takes the Pool A away from a Pool C candidate who was expected to take the Pool A. Oshkosh is a bubble buster if they beat Whitewater because only one of Point/Whitewater was supposex tonto occupy a Pool C, not both.

That's my definition too - someone who produces an extra bid for a conference.  So Bethel over UST would be a bubble buster.  Someone other than Babson (or probably WPI) would be a bubble buster.  But IMO RIC losing to Keene St was not a bubble buster, because the bubble already popped when anyone but E. Conn was gonna take the AQ - but I'll get off the semantics kick now!

[Greek Tragedy]

Well, Oshkosh is getting smoked by Whitewater by +20 early in the 2nd half...