D3 Championship Belt

AO · February 09, 2011, 10:30:39 PM

Crown has been effectively eliminated sitting 3 back of the last playoff spot with 4 to go. The UMAC has moved to a 4 team playoff with no byes for the first year of the automatic bid. But if Crown really is going to knock off Stout, they would probably return back to earth shortly thereafter and lose to Bethany Lutheran or Martin Luther. Martin Luther would be their first game after stout; Martin Luther won't make the UMAC playoffs either, but their last game on the regular season is against my squad (Northwestern). So basically, don't expect Crown to beat anyone from the WIAC in any game in the next decade and ignore everything I've just written.

Gregory Sager · February 09, 2011, 10:43:28 PM

Quote from: PointSpecial on February 09, 2011, 10:03:57 PM
The Belt will move west... UWP beats Whitewater 65-59

Platteville's remaining schedule:

2/12    vs. UW-Stout
2/16    at UW-Stevens Point
2/19    vs. UW-River Falls

Stout is out... they were eliminated tonight. Stevens Point and River Falls are both in.

Should Stout beat Platteville and wrest the Belt away from the Pioneers, here's their schedule:

2/12    at UW-Platteville
2/15    vs. Crown
2/19    vs. UW-Eau Claire

That wouldn't be good... I'm not sure about the UMAC's conference tourney this year (if Crown would even be eligible), but EC is all-but-eliminated from the WIAC tourney, if they're not out already.

Are you kidding me, PS? It would be fantastic if Crown held The Belt^TM going into the off-season! It's hard to think of a more unlikely place for it to rest than in the trophy case of an also-ran from a bottom-tier conference that only got an automatic bid this season. It would be madcap, hilarious, and quirkier than a three-legged dog in a greyhound race if Crown were to end the season with The Belt^TM.

Mr. Ypsi · February 09, 2011, 10:48:04 PM

Now. now, don't you guys goes making fun of Crown - they won me the 'winless' contest!

Go, Crown - you did your duty for me, now go seize The Belt^TM!

Ralph Turner · February 10, 2011, 09:10:12 AM

People were making some disparaging comments about The Diva Belt^TM and how it spent a summer in Alpine, Texas when Sul Ross State Lady Lobos held The Diva Belt^TM but did not make the ASC post-season tourney.

Getting to spend a summer in the wilderness of Big Bend National Park seems to be a wonderful thing.

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) · February 10, 2011, 09:31:22 AM

Let's go Stout. I've been rooting for this scenario since the Belt's inception. We've never been closer to a Belt-less championship.

Gregory Sager · February 10, 2011, 01:49:11 PM

Quote from: Hoops Fan on February 10, 2011, 09:31:22 AM

Let's go Stout. I've been rooting for this scenario since the Belt's inception. We've never been closer to a Belt-less championship.

It's not just the idea of a Final Four without The Belt^TM present in Salem that tickles my fancy. It's the idea of Crown holding The Belt^TM for the entire off-season.

It would be like if Megadeth held a tryout for a new lead vocalist, and Justin Bieber won the audition.

hopefan · February 10, 2011, 03:32:34 PM

Greg - I'm assuming that you have been reading the great turmoil in the Diva Belt room? 2 years in a row, 2003-04, and 2004-2005 the belt holder was in the ASC and DID NOT make the conference tourney... consequently, when the Diva belt championship history was written up starting in 2005-2006 with Defending National champ Milikin holding the belt at the beginning of the season, it was in error.... you, as a hof'r, may be on the committee that will make a ruling on this unfortunate miscarriage of justice... I'm expecting to be suppoena'd to testify.....

sac · February 10, 2011, 04:04:49 PM

I'm rooting for Crown just because a school called Crown holding a belt sounds pretty awesome.

Just Bill · February 10, 2011, 04:11:39 PM

Quote from: Gregory Sager on February 10, 2011, 01:49:11 PM
Quote from: Hoops Fan on February 10, 2011, 09:31:22 AM

Let's go Stout. I've been rooting for this scenario since the Belt's inception. We've never been closer to a Belt-less championship.

It's not just the idea of a Final Four without The Belt^TM present in Salem that tickles my fancy. It's the idea of Crown holding The Belt^TM for the entire off-season.

It would be like if Megadeth held a tryout for a new lead vocalist, and Justin Bieber won the audition.

Dear Crown,

Just to be clear, in the above hypothetical, you are Justin Bieber.

Gregory Sager · February 10, 2011, 04:14:33 PM

Sorry, Hopefan, but at the moment I'm fixated upon the idea of The Belt^TM residing in Crown's trophy case all summer long.

Crown College: The NCAA Division III men's basketball answer to the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.

David Collinge · February 10, 2011, 04:15:35 PM

If Crown keeps the Belt^TM in the Royal Treasury for the offseason, they and whoever wins the NCAA tournament should both be invited to Las Vegas to hold a Unification Match at the D3hoops.com Classic.

Gregory Sager · February 10, 2011, 04:17:17 PM

Quote from: sac on February 10, 2011, 04:04:49 PM
I'm rooting for Crown just because a school called Crown holding a belt sounds pretty awesome.

If Crown wins The Belt^TM, Bill ought to create a scepter to mark the occasion.

Just Bill · February 10, 2011, 04:18:42 PM

Quote from: Gregory Sager on February 10, 2011, 04:14:33 PM
Crown College: The NCAA Division III men's basketball answer to the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.

I'm required by law to declare every time a reference in a Greg Sager post requires me to use Google or Dictionary.com to decipher it. Check.

Gregory Sager · February 10, 2011, 04:34:38 PM

Crown's record over the past five seasons:

2006-07	3-23
2007-08	8-20
2008-09	0-24
2009-10	4-21
2010-11 (to date)	3-17

This scenario for The Belt^TM just keeps getting better and better.

smedindy · February 10, 2011, 04:47:24 PM

QuoteCrown College: The NCAA Division III men's basketball answer to the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.

Then is UMPI the Nagorno-Karabakh of D-3??