Pool C

[Onward on, John Carroll]

I'm "working" too. Maybe when I get home...

Ha.  I usually shut it down this time of year and spend exorbitant amounts of time worrying about numbers and scenarios over which I have no control whatsoever.  If I were smarter, I would simply watch the games and log in for the selection show on February 26

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

The first regional rankings are out which in itself brings on a lot of conversation, but the jockeying and positioning contines in conferences around the country for teams trying to keep their seasons going into March.

On Thursday's edition of Hoopsville, Dave talks to a number of high-ranking squads about the pressure to stay atop their respective conference races while also positioning themselves well in the regional rankings.

Dave also welcomes a coach who has played in DIII, coached in both DII and DIII, and coached both men and women. He talks about the road, possibly, less traveled in the "WBCA Center Court" segment.

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Guests include (in order of appearance):
- Ryan Gould, No. 7 Trine women's coach
- Michelle Ferenz, No. 5 Whitman women's coach
- Charlie Just, Spalding women's coach (WBCA Center Court)
- Landry Kosmalski, No. 11 Swarthmore men's coach
- Tom Curle, Plattsburgh State men's coach

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[middhoops]

You stat monsters are my new heroes.
Thanks for all your great stuff.

[gordonmann]

Ryan Scott takes you inside the committee process that builds the NCAA Tournament bracket in this week's Around the Nation column:

http://d3hoops.com/columns/around-the-nation/2017-18/ncaa-tournament-committees

[Ralph Turner]

Ryan Scott takes you inside the committee process that builds the NCAA Tournament bracket in this week's Around the Nation column:

http://d3hoops.com/columns/around-the-nation/2017-18/ncaa-tournament-committees

Great article.  If your Pool C team is still on the table (or off the table) by the 21st round, you can look at your season and see the game that  you should not have lost!

The general statement is that the Committees do an excellent job getting the job done right.

[Onward on, John Carroll]

Ryan Scott takes you inside the committee process that builds the NCAA Tournament bracket in this week's Around the Nation column:

http://d3hoops.com/columns/around-the-nation/2017-18/ncaa-tournament-committees

Great article.  If your Pool C team is still on the table (or off the table) by the 21st round, you can look at your season and see the game that  you should not have lost!

The general statement is that the Committees do an excellent job getting the job done right.

Let me get that out of the way right now  - Muskingum and Mount Union.  If we win those two (very) winnable games, we are thinking about hosting one weekend if not two with the right bracket.  Now, we have to worry about even making it and taking a road trip to the East if we do not win out and take the OAC title.

[Gregory Sager]

A road trip to the East might be a boon for JCU rather than a penalty.

[fantastic50]

Here's what I have, though Saturday's games. Four NESCAC teams appear to be locked in, but (thanks to the five-way tie), the top seed is not one of them.

Locks
(C#1) Hamilton (20-3, SOS 0.572, 3-1 vRRO)
(C#2) Middlebury (19-5, SOS 0.578, 4-4 vRRO)
(C#3) Wesleyan (19-5, SOS 0.573, 5-3 vRRO)
(NESCAC) Williams (18-5, SOS 0.585, 5-3 vRRO)
(C#4) New Jersey City (19-5, SOS 0.571, 6-4 vRRO)
(WIAC) UW-Platteville (18-3, SOS 0.576, 3-2 vRRO)

Near-locks
(CSAC) Cabrini (20-3, SOS 0.535, 3-2 vRRO)
(CAC) York (Pa.) (20-3, SOS 0.522, 3-0 vRRO)
(OAC) John Carroll (19-4, SOS 0.536, 5-1 vRRO)
(NCAC) Wittenberg (21-1, SOS 0.513, 3-0 vRRO)
(C#5) Wooster (19-4, SOS 0.556, 5-1 vRRO)
(CCIW) Augustana (18-5, SOS 0.580, 5-2 vRRO)
(UAA) Washington U. (19-2, SOS 0.554, 7-1 vRRO)
(MIAC) St. John's (20-2, SOS 0.515, 3-1 vRRO)
(NWC) Whitman (22-0, SOS 0.505, 4-0 vRRO)

Strong contenders
(LEC) Eastern Connecticut (19-3, SOS 0.542, 3-1 vRRO)
(CC) Johns Hopkins (19-4, SOS 0.544, 4-3 vRRO)
(C#6) Marietta (18-5, SOS 0.562, 3-4 vRRO)
(C#7) Swarthmore (19-4, SOS 0.530, 2-3 vRRO)
(C#8) Emory (17-4, SOS 0.535, 3-2 vRRO)
(C#9) St. Olaf (18-5, SOS 0.541, 3-3 vRRO)
(SUNYAC) Plattsburgh State (18-4, SOS 0.526, 3-3 vRRO)
(LL) Hobart (20-3, SOS 0.527, 1-2 vRRO)

Bubble-in
(C#10) Christopher Newport (18-5, SOS 0.522, 2-1 vRRO)
(ODAC) Randolph-Macon (17-6, SOS 0.565, 3-3 vRRO)
(C#11) UW-Oshkosh (18-5, SOS 0.549, 4-2 vRRO)
(MACC) Albright (18-5, SOS 0.542, 2-1 vRRO)
(C#12) Whitworth (20-3, SOS 0.513, 1-2 vRRO)
(C#13) Keene State (16-7, SOS 0.584, 2-5 vRRO)
(ASC) Sul Ross State (18-3, SOS 0.503, 3-0 vRRO)
(C#14) Franklin and Marshall (19-4, SOS 0.506, 2-2 vRRO)
(C#15) UW-Stevens Point (16-7, SOS 0.606, 4-5 vRRO)
(NJAC) Ramapo (18-6, SOS 0.536, 4-5 vRRO)

Bubble-out
(out via "bid thief") Illinois Wesleyan (17-5, SOS 0.546, 2-3 vRRO)
(USAC) Maryville (Tenn.) (15-4, SOS 0.527, 1-2 vRRO)
(out via "bid thief") Wheaton (Ill.) (16-6, SOS 0.552, 4-3 vRRO)
(out via "bid thief") Amherst (16-7, SOS 0.566, 4-5 vRRO)
(out via "bid thief") Baldwin Wallace (16-7, SOS 0.554, 3-4 vRRO)
(out via "bid thief") Tufts (16-7, SOS 0.572, 1-6 vRRO)
(out via "bid thief") Rochester (14-7, SOS 0.574, 1-4 vRRO)

Fringe contenders
(CCC) Nichols (20-3, SOS 0.511, 0-1 vRRO)
(out) Brockport (17-6, SOS 0.524, 2-3 vRRO)
(NEWMAC) Springfield (16-7, SOS 0.556, 4-1 vRRO)
(out) Emory and Henry (18-5, SOS 0.519, 2-2 vRRO)
(MASCAC) Salem State (21-3, SOS 0.511, 1-2 vRRO)
(out) Loras (17-6, SOS 0.535, 3-2 vRRO)
(out) East Texas Baptist (19-4, SOS 0.493, 1-2 vRRO)
(out) LeTourneau (20-3, SOS 0.476, 0-3 vRRO)
(out) MIT (18-5, SOS 0.536, 2-3 vRRO)
(out) Cortland (17-6, SOS 0.519, 1-2 vRRO)
(out) Ohio Northern (16-7, SOS 0.544, 3-4 vRRO)
(out) UW-River Falls (15-7, SOS 0.570, 2-5 vRRO)
(out) Gwynedd Mercy (17-5, SOS 0.508, 2-2 vRRO)
(out) North Central (Ill.) (15-6, SOS 0.538, 0-4 vRRO)
(MWC) Ripon (15-6, SOS 0.529, 1-2 vRRO)
(IIAC) Nebraska Wesleyan (20-3, SOS 0.503, 2-2 vRRO)

Other projected Pool A teams
(GNAC) Albertus Magnus (18-4, SOS 0.516, 0-4 vRRO)
(E8) Stevens (18-5, SOS 0.513, 0-4 vRRO)
(HCAC) Hanover (16-5, SOS 0.481, 1-4 vRRO)
(MIAA) Hope (13-7, SOS 0.548, 1-4 vRRO)
(PAC) Thomas More (18-4, SOS 0.477, 0-0 vRRO)
(AMCC) La Roche (17-6, SOS 0.488, 0-2 vRRO)
(LAND) Juniata (18-4, SOS 0.480, 2-0 vRRO)
(MACF) Wilkes (15-6, SOS 0.483, 0-1 vRRO)
(NAC) Husson (18-5, SOS 0.451, 0-0 vRRO)
(NACC) Benedictine (16-7, SOS 0.491, 0-2 vRRO)
(NEAC) Lancaster Bible (19-4, SOS 0.453, 0-1 vRRO)
(SAA) Centre (14-7, SOS 0.440, 1-0 vRRO)
(SCAC) Schreiner (12-10, SOS 0.502, 0-3 vRRO)
(SCIAC) Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (12-7, SOS 0.476, 0-2 vRRO)
(SKY) Farmingdale State (16-7, SOS 0.506, 0-3 vRRO)
(SLIAC) Eureka (14-5, SOS 0.478, 0-0 vRRO)
(UMAC) Bethany Lutheran (16-8, SOS 0.472, 0-3 vRRO)
(CUNYAC) Lehman (20-4, SOS 0.447, 1-1 vRRO)
(NECC) Southern Vermont (16-4, SOS 0.472, 1-1 vRRO)

[Onward on, John Carroll]

A road trip to the East might be a boon for JCU rather than a penalty.

That could be the case from a win-loss perspective and it has certainly benefited our football team in the past.  In fact our only final four run was earned on the road at Wittenberg and at Wooster. I was looking at it strictly from a miles traveled standpoint and, selfishly as to the miles I'd have to travel to see them.

[Onward on, John Carroll]

A road trip to the East might be a boon for JCU rather than a penalty.

That could be the case from a win-loss perspective and it has certainly benefited our football team in the past.  In fact our only final four run in basketball was earned on the road at Wittenberg and at Wooster and one of our two football final fours went through the east. I was looking at it strictly from a miles traveled standpoint and, selfishly as to the miles I'd have to travel to see them.

[ronk]

A road trip to the East might be a boon for JCU rather than a penalty.

That could be the case from a win-loss perspective and it has certainly benefited our football team in the past.  In fact our only final four run was earned on the road at Wittenberg and at Wooster. I was looking at it strictly from a miles traveled standpoint and, selfishly as to the miles I'd have to travel to see them.

For the postseason, it's all about us. 

[Onward on, John Carroll]

A road trip to the East might be a boon for JCU rather than a penalty.

That could be the case from a win-loss perspective and it has certainly benefited our football team in the past.  In fact our only final four run was earned on the road at Wittenberg and at Wooster. I was looking at it strictly from a miles traveled standpoint and, selfishly as to the miles I'd have to travel to see them.

For the postseason, it's all about us. 

Ha. Exactly.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Wait... what?! Who won? Hold on, who lost?!

How did... but they... so... wow... okay.

Another crazy week(end) of Division III basketball leaves us more questions to answer, heads to scratch, and what-ifs to contemplate.

Sunday night's episode of Hoopsville promises to ... hmm, maybe we shouldn't promise too much if this season is a lesson in anything. Nothing is guaranteed.

Tune in LIVE starting at 7pm ET as Dave is joined by a few guests from around the country, but more importantly takes the time to look at some of the more interesting conference races and upcoming tournaments. There is plenty to dissect just two weeks away from the close of the regular season.

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Guests include (in order of appearance):
- Lauren Johnson, Ripon women's coach
- Kelly Thompson, Roger Williams women's coach
- Clif Carroll, Sul Ross State men's coach
- Ryan Scott, "Top 25 Double-take"

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[fantastic50]

As of today, expected Pool C berths, by region...

New England 5.10 (at least 3 for the NESCAC)
Mid-Atlantic 3.25
Central 2.95
Great Lakes 2.73
South 2.38
West 2.06
Atlantic 1.68
East 0.86

[ronk]

As of today, expected Pool C berths, by region...

New England 5.10 (at least 3 for the NESCAC)
Mid-Atlantic 3.25
Central 2.95
Great Lakes 2.73
South 2.38
West 2.06
Atlantic 1.68
East 0.86

Sounds low for the Central with 7 teams in the running from just the WIAC and CCIW.