NE Region General Questions

[7express]

No tufts?

Isn't Tufts only like 9-7??  They were horrible in November & December.

[WPI89]

Tufts is actually 7-7.  Seemed to be huge early struggles but when you look at their losses (think they would like to have Regis back - but Johnson & Wales, MIT, WPI, Babson, Brandeis, and RIC).  Not a bad loss there - even Regis really - but they needed to figure out how to win a few of them.

Can't rank them because of that - but I sure would not have to play them in an elimination game.

[pjunito]

They have good wins so far in conference (even in a down year). Well see what happens. Can't wait for these two weeks; some great games in the region. Should make things very interesting come February.

[7express]

Tufts is actually 7-7.  Seemed to be huge early struggles but when you look at their losses (think they would like to have Regis back - but Johnson & Wales, MIT, WPI, Babson, Brandeis, and RIC).  Not a bad loss there - even Regis really - but they needed to figure out how to win a few of them.

Can't rank them because of that - but I sure would not have to play them in an elimination game.

WOW, even worse record than I thought they had!

[pjunito]

Less than 2 weeks away from the first regional rankings and I really don't how the top 10 will look. I know there is one more week of games (2-3 games per team) before the committee meets. However, let's start the conversation. I don't know what order, but I think that the best five teams in the region (at least most consistent) have been: Babson, Albertus, WPI, MIT, and Eastern. The next five teams I think Trinty and Bates will be in top 10. Then after that, I don't know.. Do we see teams like Hussion or Nichols, Do we see Keene State or RIC? Does Springfield make the rankings? Will Amherst? I just don't know.

Any thoughts?

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

To me, you might have to put the NEWMAC teams right on top.  Surely Babson is my #1 for the region (although I don't have the SOS numbers in front of me, so I'm not sure what they'll bear out for ranking-wise).

1. Babson
2. Albertus
3. WPI
4. E Conn
5. MIT
6. Bates


After that - Amherst, Trinity, J&W, Nichols, Springfield, RIC - Keene's got a record to be up there, maybe even Southern Vermont, too.  You also have to throw Williams, Bowdoin, Middlebury, and maybe Wesleyan into the mix as well.

It'd be a little easier to see once we have solid SOS numbers to compare.  We should get better SOS numbers this week.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

The NCAA won't release SOS numbers until the Feb. 11 regional rankings.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

The NCAA won't release SOS numbers until the Feb. 11 regional rankings.

No, but hopefully we'll get Matt Snyder's numbers.  He does a pretty good job getting close on the raw data.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

He's been blogging about them for weeks... and I have him some additional information that may have him close if not right on the numbers the NCAA produces this year.

[NEhoops]

Here's my take on the top teams in the Northeast - in alphabetical order with regional records. 

Albertus Magnus (15-0)
Babson (16-2)
Bates (15-2)
Eastern CT (12-2)
Trinity (12-2)
WPI (13-2)

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Here's my take on the top teams in the Northeast - in alphabetical order with regional records. 

Albertus Magnus (15-0)
Babson (16-2)
Bates (15-2)
Eastern CT (12-2)
Trinity (12-2)
WPI (13-2)

This year all games count as in-region so long as 70% of the total games were played against regional opponents - so Albertus' loss will count against them.  Just FYI.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Well to be honest... even by the old rules, the game against Richard Stockton is a regional game. It is within the 200-mile radius and in the same administrative region.

[falcons2010]

The committee has a tough task this year. Lots of teams could be ranked top 12. Will there be more representation from the conferences within the region?

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I have to figure Babson will be #1.  Magnus, despite the terrible SOS will probably be #2 - no other team has fewer than 4 losses (except ENC and SVT, which both have comparable SOS numbers).

What's also going to suck is likely RIC will get in, even though they lost tonight because they only count results through Sunday.

Not having everyone at exactly the same number of games throws things off, too.  The committee, at least in past years, has tended to look more at overall wins early than they have winning percentage.


I'll take a wild stab - this is not how I'd rank teams, but just a guess at what the committee might do:

1.   Babson
2.   Albertus
3.   Bates
4.   Trinity
5.   Amherst
6.   Eastern Connecticut
7.   WPI
8.   Bowdoin
9.   RIC
10. Springfield
11. Williams

I think perhaps Nichols and Southern Vermont are the other options near the bottom - I'm not confident in anything past #7

[Ferraro13]

Albertus usually seems to be lower then expected. Di t think that's changing. I'm Gonna go with this:

1) Babson
2) bates
3) trinity
4) Albertus
5) East conn
6) wpi
7) Amherst

My own rankings would be

1) bertus
2) Babson
3) Bates
4) wpi
5) east conn
6) trinity
7) amherst