WBB: Landmark Conference

[ronk]

 Look for the Royals women to get either Babson or Trinity as a 2 seed; Smith who will be hosting and Tufts who may be also, have already played Babson and Trinity this season.

[saratoga]

Nope...not the first weekend anyway.
Scranton will be ranked too high to have either of those teams roll in.
Second week...certainly a possibility.

I see them being split up with one headed to Desales & the other to G-burg.

[ronk]

Babson is ranked #12 and Trinity #16 before their losses; you need someone in #17-32 as a 2 seed, so they should qualify; you might be right in the sense that it should be someone in the 30-32 range if geography and prior having played some #1 seeds doesn't affect things.

[scottiedawg]

I have Scranton as the #3 overall seed. So they're a "high #1" who ideally gets a "low #2". Low #2 would be in the 24-32 range.

Babson is my #6 overall seed.
Trinity is my #8 overall seed.

Teams in my 24-34 (expanded by 2 spots) range who can bus to Scranton:

Skidmore (24)
Marietta (25)
Messiah (26)
Elizabethtown (27)
Stevens (28)
Washington & Lee (29)
Marymount (30)
Gettysburg (31)
SUNY New Paltz (33)

I would bet on that Stevens, W&L, Marymount, Gettysburg range being the #2 seed in a Scranton-hosted pod.

[scottiedawg]

aaaaaand, it was none of those.   

[Tim the Enchanter]

Scranton's hosting St. Joseph's Maine, with the winner of that taking on the winner of Rowan/Rhode Island College.  Welcome back to the Long Center to Danielle McCurdy!

E-Town is playing Stevens down at CNU.  That should be a good first round matchup.

[saratoga]

All things considered...our bracket seems about right.
However, we certainly didn't earn a first round game vs. one of the brackets weaker teams.
All teams in our bracket have had really great seasons.
Seems the committee feels the Lady Royals are the weakest of the four quads.

PS.
No Amherst...wow!
Not that I firmly believe they belong, just wondered if the committee could actually get themselves to trust another team.

[ronk]

 I'm thinking the seeds are 1-Smith, 2-CNU, 3-Scranton, and 4-NYU.

[Augie2020]

Not surprised Amherst didn't make it.Said it a couple weeks ago they would not.I think the Lady Royals have a nice pod(Will go through and see if any common opponents amongst the 4 in pod.Really nice job by the ncaa for splitting teams up.On Etown like are men (Nothing like being thrown into the fire) in that second game if they get by Steven's.

[saratoga]

I think the Women's Committee Chair was right up front when she said pretty clearly...at the end of the day, you need to win some games.
This view appears to be applied pretty consistently as Rochester didn't make the cut either.

[names jaismith]

Here's an idea: Keep the AQ for conference tournament winners plus UAA champ.   Use Massey to choose Pool C.  There'd still access for all conferences but a stronger overall field.

[Augie2020]

So going through the rosters came upon Rowans roster and find out Danielle McCurdy starts for them.My question why not come back to the U for your 5th year ?Small world didn't think she was playing!!!

[ronk]

 Danielle has been a big factor in their success all year.

[NEPAFAN]

Danielle has been a big factor in their success all year.

Maybe she is dating Ryan Ems and they decided Rowan was the place to be

[Augie2020]