2011 Final Four

[diehardfan]

Someone actually keeping track of this?

Of what? 

[Greek Tragedy]

Everyone's Final Four picks so we don't have to scroll back.  No big deal, it's not like it has to be official or anything!

[diehardfan]

I'm pretty sure no one is.  Maybe I'll do it if I get the time at some point

[frodotwo]

UWSP
VWC
Amherst
Wooster

UWSP
Wooster

UWSP

[tigerphil]

Well, one of my Final Four teams is out HSC, but I am a proud alumn, if HSC weren't in that Sectional, I would have picked VWC, but alas I picked my alma mater and I have no shame (you have to have one cinderella)

[Greek Tragedy]

UWSP
VWC
Amherst
Wooster

UWSP
Wooster

UWSP

You can't play now! lol 

[frodotwo]

UWSP
VWC
Amherst
Wooster

UWSP
Wooster

UWSP

You can't play now! lol 

How come, didn't I make it before anyone tipped off

[WLCALUM83]

Who will take home the Walnut and Bronze?

[JeffRookie2]

I think this is Amherst's best team of the three that have been to the final four in the last four years. I think they have the size to handle some larger interior players, which they have certainly lacked in the past. Although their half-court game is unspectacular, they play strong defense and can outrun anybody. Between Olson, Wheeler and Hopkins and strong supporting players like Baskauskas and McLaughliln, I think Wooster will have their hands full. Can't wait to get down to Salem.

[Mr. Ypsi]

There were 15 entrants to the final four pickems (including frodotwo whose picks were indeed before the first tip-off).  The picks (winners in bold):

Amherst 11, Ramapo 4
UWSP 10, Augustana 2, Wash U 2, Hope 1
Wooster 11, Capital 2, Brockport 1, Rochester 1
Va Wes 7, Miss Col 6, HSC 1, Lincoln 1

Because of the overwhelming support for Amherst and Woo (and, negatively, for UWSP), 6 posters went 3-1, but no one went 4-0.  The winners are:

PrideSportBBallGuy, diehardfan, and frodotwo - all with Va Wes, Woo, Amherst, and UWSP
Mr. Ypsi and pufin - both with Va Wes, Woo, Amherst, and Augie, and
Old School - with Va Wes, Amherst, Wash U (though as an attempted jinx for the sake of UWSP!), and Rochester

[K-Mack]

Ralph,
What happened to the mighty ASC at Va. Wesleyan?

You know I have to let you have it now, because when football rolls back around, me and my ODAC brethren haven't a leg to stand on. At least we didn't last year. 

And now it's off to the brainiacs-who-want-to-secede thread to point out that Wash. U. and Amherst are in the final four.

[jagluski]

Wooster-Amherst is the 6pm game.  Wash U-Va Wesleyan is 8pm.

[imderekpoe]

I visited the 4 team websites this morning and compiled their stats into one file.

Its available here in Excel format
http://www.jtaswell.com/D3BB/2007_FinalFour_Stats.xls

And here in html
http://www.jtaswell.com/D3BB/2007_FinalFour_Stats.htm

[division3hoops]

I'm sorry I just have to respond to this...

The only thing that scares me, is women who know little about basketball often do really well in march madness pools (I have no idea why)

Wow... what a statement.  April, I agree with you.  A lot of women know a lot about basketball, even more than some men   And many men who know nothing about basketball do well on polls. 

There may be more women on this website than you'd think...

[David Collinge]

I just listened to Pat's podcast interview with Amherst's coach Dave Hixon.  At the end he talks about how difficult it was for him to coach while he was restricted to a wheelchair with his leg in a cast, and I had to wonder what would have happened if Amherst had been sent to play a sectional at St. John Fisher.  The players there sit on the front row of the bleachers, so obviously there's no room for him to be in a wheelchair behind the "bench."  Plus the sidelines are so narrow that players inbounding the ball on the bench side generally had to have bench players move aside to make room, so I don't think there even would have been room for the coach to be on the bench with crutches and a leg cast, nor would it have been particularly safe for him to try it.  It wouldn't have been fair to make him coach from all the way down in the corner, which seems to be the only place where there'd have been room for him in that condition. 

I wonder if the NCAA would have taken these peculiar circumstances into account when deciding on host schools, had the questions been relevant at the time?  Just a rhetorical question.