NE Region General Questions

[GnacBballFan]

Lol +1 for PJ

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Remember the National Selection Committee can and often does overrule a regional committee's ranking if they feel it's inappropriate.

[WPI89]

Hoops fan - is that true?  Following my example - I thought it was impossible for WPI to get an at large before Eastern if they remain below them in the regional rankings?

Huge Nerd used to talk about teams "blocking" other teams.

[mass_d3fan]

"Remember the National Selection Committee can and often does overrule a regional committee's ranking if they feel it's inappropriate."

They may be able to, but "often"?  Do we have any info on exactly how often?  I am sure every year there could be cases made.  Perhaps if you are correct this is the biggest reason that last set of regional rankings are not made public.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

The national committee made several changes, according to a source, last week... not sure about this week's rankings.

And the men's basketball committee has been a vocal proponent of keeping the final regional rankings public. They are very much against the fact they are required to keep them private... which may be the reason a reliable source leaked the final regional rankings to me last year.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Hoops fan - is that true?  Following my example - I thought it was impossible for WPI to get an at large before Eastern if they remain below them in the regional rankings?

Huge Nerd used to talk about teams "blocking" other teams.

Right, they can't get a bid over a team ranked ahead of them, but the rankings have to be approved by the national committee.  The last ranking is private, so we won't see it, but if they feel WPI should be ahead, they'll move them before accepting the ranking.

Often is a tricky word.  I guess what I mean is it happens more often than I would have thought, but in the grand scheme of things 2 or 3 teams moved in a season is not often.  Sorry for misleading anyone.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Those interested: The final week of the regular season is upon us and already teams are on the bubble hoping to qualify for the NCAA national championships and that can also mean some upsets. So tonight, we focus on the bubble and who has to get it done this week in conference tournaments. We will be talking to Lyndon State MBB coach Joe Krupinski especially about his out-of-conference scheduling mentality along with the following guests tonight:

- Rhodes WBB coach Matt Dean
- Emory MBB coach Jason Zimmerman
- Wheaton (MA) WBB coach Melissa Hodgdon
- UW-Stevens Point WBB coach Shirley Egner
- Ohio Wesleyan WBB coach Stacey Lobdell off their upset of #1 DePauw
- Baruch WBB coach Machli Joseph
- MSOE MBB coach Brian Miller

We will also feature a special #whyd3 story from York (Pa.) women's basketball you have to see.

Show starts at 7 PM EST and will run until at least 9:30 tonight.

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[GnacBballFan]

What time will the northeast regional committee take names out of a hat today to determine the regional rankings? Lol I kid, kinda

[WPI89]

^ +K

[GnacBballFan]

LOL <gives thumbs up>

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

They took them out of the hat yesterday... right now the national committee is pulling their names to see if the order matches... and that is published later this afternoon - usually at 3pm... but sometimes that time is pulled out of a hat as well!

[pjunito]

Dave, glad to see you have a good sense of humor about the rankings..

I saw your new top 25... Very interesting things happening. I don't know about you, but I think the tournament will have a lot of interesting match-ups the first weekend.

[GnacBballFan]

They took them out of the hat yesterday... right now the national committee is pulling their names to see if the order matches... and that is published later this afternoon - usually at 3pm... but sometimes that time is pulled out of a hat as well!

LOL can't wait

[7express]

If I had to guess:

The top 5 are unchanged from last week: Amherst, Williams, Babson, Eastern & WPI.  Springfield & Bowdoin swap spots , AMC, RIC & Nichols are still 8-10 and who knows who #11 will be.

[pjunito]

The only team that lost was Bowdoin in top 10.. I completely agree 7. Top 5 remain the same, Springfield 6, Bowdoin 7, no changes 8-11. I think Midd stays there.