Great Lakes Region

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

I'll update final numbers after tomorrow's games, but looking like:

1. Marietta, even with the two losses this week.
2. Ohio Wesleyan
3. Wooster
4. Case Western Reserve
5. Mount Union
6. John Carroll
7. Calvin
8. Hope
9. St. Vincent

Still tricky 5-8. I could see those teams slotting in almost any order. Question is does Calvin's 2-0 over Hope bring them up above Mount Union, or does it bring Hope down below Calvin?

All I know is St. Vincent is behind Calvin. Could make an argument for .914 Penn State-Behrend being in the mix as well.

I disagree... Marietta now has three losses, just one less than OWU, who has a better SOS. Marietta is going to slip out of first.

FYI - Regionally rankings will come out on Thursday next week due to the planned stat computer outage (upgrade) at the NCAA headquarters this weekend. Thus all committee calls pushed back a day and as a result rankings will be posted Thursday this week. Game info still through Sunday's games.

[goscots]

Marietta has two losses, both this week.

[OC_SID]

FYI - Regionally rankings will come out on Thursday next week due to the planned stat computer outage (upgrade) at the NCAA headquarters this weekend. Thus all committee calls pushed back a day and as a result rankings will be posted Thursday this week. Game info still through Sunday's games.

Dave, I wonder if the regional rankings will now come out on Wednesday. The server upgrade at the NCAA headquarters was completed much sooner than they planned. The upgrade was done by 3 p.m. yesterday. They originally thought it could be until Tuesday morning when everything was back up and running.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Correct - I was working on a fuzzy brain last night.

I have looked at the numbers again, and Marietta has a .513 SOS through yesterday's games (as best as we, KnightSlappy, can do the math based on NCAA information). That isn't as bad as feared. OWU has a .528 and Wooster has a .548. Marietta has a 4-2 vRRO while OWU has a 2-1 and Wooster has a 3-2. Just looking at those numbers and understanding the WL%, you could make an argument that Wooster is #1 with Marietta #2 and OWU #3. HOWEVER, the 2-0 head-to-head OWU has on Wooster leads to OWU being ahead of Wooster especially with one less loss for OWU. However, I think Marietta's numbers are worthy to keep ahead of OWU based on less losses, better vRRO, to outweigh a slight SOS disadvantage.

So I will agree with KnightSlappy's previous statements of Marietta - Ohio Wesleyan - Wooster... and who knows the rest.

One thing to keep in mind: the committees look at the rankings fresh each week. They don't base their decisions on last week and decide to move up or down from previous rankings. They start over. That actually might help Marietta also because their SOS is at least average.

FYI - Regionally rankings will come out on Thursday next week due to the planned stat computer outage (upgrade) at the NCAA headquarters this weekend. Thus all committee calls pushed back a day and as a result rankings will be posted Thursday this week. Game info still through Sunday's games.

Dave, I wonder if the regional rankings will now come out on Wednesday. The server upgrade at the NCAA headquarters was completed much sooner than they planned. The upgrade was done by 3 p.m. yesterday. They originally thought it could be until Tuesday morning when everything was back up and running.

I doubt it... mainly because of the following reasons:
- The servers might be back up, but the data might not be updated in time for today - more like dealing with that tomorrow.
- Any glitches will cause delays. I think there was confidence they could get up and running today, but expected the rest of today and tomorrow to get data into those servers that has been waiting for several days. And that might cause glitches.
- They have already put the plan in motion to have the rankings delayed for Thursday including conference calls and the like. I am not sure how easy it is to roll those back at this point.

That all being said, I will check to see if things have changed again.

[sac]

Case Western's game with Brandeis was postponed this afternoon.  Rescheduled for Monday.

FYI - Regionally rankings will come out on Thursday next week due to the planned stat computer outage (upgrade) at the NCAA headquarters this weekend. Thus all committee calls pushed back a day and as a result rankings will be posted Thursday this week. Game info still through Sunday's games.

Dave, I wonder if the regional rankings will now come out on Wednesday. The server upgrade at the NCAA headquarters was completed much sooner than they planned. The upgrade was done by 3 p.m. yesterday. They originally thought it could be until Tuesday morning when everything was back up and running.

under promise, over deliver

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Case Western's game with Brandeis was postponed this afternoon.  Rescheduled for Monday.

Not a big deal for Brandeis... they probably can't get back to Boston anyway! Though, getting anyone to Down East Maine would be far more difficult even if they did have an airport like Logan.

[sac]

Case Western's game with Brandeis was postponed this afternoon.  Rescheduled for Monday.

Not a big deal for Brandeis... they probably can't get back to Boston anyway! Though, getting anyone to Down East Maine would be far more difficult even if they did have an airport like Logan.

The game is in Boston

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Oh right... ROFL... I am having trouble keeping track of all of this! Makes more sense, doesn't it?!

Well then... Monday Funday?

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

To follow up... the regional rankings will still be released on Thursday this week despite the NCAA stat computers coming back online a day earlier than expected this weekend.

[sac]

Case Western 71  Brandeis 55

[sac]

This week's schedule for the Great Lakes rankings candidates.  Since this weeks poll is released tomorrow I've underlined last weeks ranked teams for tonight

Wednesday games
Otterbein 69 at Marietta 95
Oberlin 76 at Ohio Wesleyan 106
Allegheny 63 at Wooster 80
Kalamazoo 55 at Hope 67
Thiel 58 at St.Vincent 78
Mt. Union 81 at John Carroll 88
Hilbert 60 at PSU-Behrend 64
Calvin 87 at Olivet 74
Mt. St. Joeseph 82 at Anderson 69


Friday
Emory (17-5) at Case Western (15-7)

Saturday's games
Ohio Northern (12-12) at Marietta (22-2)
Ohio Wesleyan (20-4) at DePauw (16-8)
Wooster (19-5) at Oberlin (10-14)
Adrian (8-16) at Hope (17-7)
Thomas More (16-8) at St. Vincent (18-6)
Muskingum (6-18) at John Carroll (18-5)
Mt. Union (18-6) at Wilmington (11-12)
Pitt-Greensburg (13-11) at PSU-Behrend (22-2)
Calvin (18-6) at Albion (12-12)
Mt. St. Joeseph (19-5) at Rose-Hulman (14-10)

Sunday
Rochester (9-13) at Case Western (15-7)

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Week 2's regional rankings made an early appearance today: http://www.d3blogs.com/d3hoops/?p=2630

[wally_wabash]

You almost knew it was going to happen but it's weird to see Mount Union ahead of JCU in these rankings. 

[sac]

1 Marietta 21-2 21-2
2 Ohio Wesleyan 19-4 19-4
3 Wooster 18-5 18-5
4 Mount Union 18-5 18-5
5 John Carroll 17-5 17-5
6 Case 12-6 14-7
7 Calvin 16-5 17-6
8 Penn St.-Behrend 21-2 21-2
9 Hope 14-7 15-8

[Ohigy]

Rankings will look different next week.