University Athletic Association

[newtonnancy]

Good luck to NYU, Rochester and Wash U this weekend.....

[BachDog]

I am heading down to NYU now. Nancy, do you see NYU passing at least tonight?

Pretty harsh on the Brandeis team, by the way...Although I agree completely. I have learned that inciting the wrath on the boards does little but that...Ask TC Hoops, aka the GMC brawler...Just kidding TC!!

[mark_reichert]

Have fun in Boston deis! I will be at the NYU sectionals and hopefully make it for both games. Go UAA!!!!

I think Emmanuel will win, and I am hoping (sorry papa) that Rocehster pulls off the upset of Bowdoin. I am thinking Wash U. will probably make it thorugh too...Everyone cross their fingers...

I would find it highly ironic if WashU gets past Luther and Howard Payne to get to the Final Four, achieving what none of the Manning led teams managed.

I think it more likely they beat Luther and lose to HP who go on to win the championship, making it the fifth time in six years that the Bears got knocked out by the champion.

[newtonnancy]

Doesn't look good for Rochester even though Bowdoin not as good as last year....andI agree about Wash U....guess NYU has Best shot at final 4 though RM will be real tough if they get past a very good Kean

[jagluski]

Doesn't look good for Rochester even though Bowdoin not as good as last year....andI agree about Wash U....guess NYU has Best shot at final 4 though RM will be real tough if they get past a very good Kean

Rochester's out...63-53 loss to Bowdoin

[jagluski]

NYU beats Simpson 76-58.  NYU plays Kean tomorrow night for a trip to Springfield.

[newtonnancy]

Feel vindicated....

Was right about Depauw spanking an average Emmanuel

[jagluski]

Wash U beats Luther 59-58.  They play Puget Sound tomorrow for a trip to Springfield.


And we're two wins tomorrow from a Wash U - NYU III.

[WLCALUM83]

Wash U's men are up by 15 pts on UW-Stevens Point with 5 minutes left in 2nd half. You have a great chance to "do the double."

[jagluski]

Wash U's men are up by 15 pts on UW-Stevens Point with 5 minutes left in 2nd half. You have a great chance to "do the double."

I wonder how long it's been since a school sent two teams to the Elite 8...and further.

What would make it more incredible is that both of these games are on the opponent's home court.

[jagluski]

Wash U's men are up by 15 pts on UW-Stevens Point with 5 minutes left in 2nd half. You have a great chance to "do the double."

I wonder how long it's been since a school sent two teams to the Elite 8...and further.

What would make it more incredible is that both of these games are on the opponent's home court.

Pat answered this query elsewhere.  UWSP's men and women both went to the Final Four in 2004.  Ironically, the UWSP women hosted a sectional at Quandt that year, where they beat Wash U in the Round of 16.

[BachDog]

Wanted to give a shout-out to the overrall NYU performance tonight. The home court advantage aside, they played like a determined team. GOOD LUCK TOMORROW. Throw down!

Congrats to Wash U. as well...Everyone questioning the toughness of this league might be changing their tune come Final Four time....Springfield or BUST.

[pureshooter]

 newton,
           nice calls on rochester and emmanuel.
        you think wash. u.  gets by puget?

[deiscanton]

To be honest, IMO, Emmanuel was never beaten that badly in an NCAA playoff game prior to last night's loss against DePauw.    All one had to do was look at DePauw's season stats and one would have made DePauw the favorite to advance to the Elite Eight no matter who won the Brandeis v. Emmanuel match last Saturday.  DePauw would have beaten Brandeis in a hypothetical match if that match took place yesterday-- I am confident of that.

I read on the SCAC board this morning that Oglethorpe ran a full court press over the season that is very similar to Emmanuel's full court press, and that, as a result of DePauw's conference games against Oglethorpe, DePauw was well prepared to handle Emmanuel's press yesterday.  Before yesterday's game, I spoke with coach Yosinoff, and he said that by looking at DePauw through the videotape, he thought that this year's DePauw team would be the toughest challenge that any Emmanuel program ever had to face.  (That is saying a lot, considering how good the 2001 Wash U team was, and it gives me an impression that Division III women's hoop, as a whole, has improved a lot over the past 6 years.)

As for the other results yesterday, my quick thought on this is that only in the UAA can I feel that the Wash U women got a break yesterday by Howard Payne going down to defeat at the hands of Puget Sound-- and Puget Sound is going to be a very tough challenge for the Wash U women tonight, so I don't know that the break was really that big.

I will be seeing the Calvin v. DePauw match tonight.  DePauw looks like a team that can get to the national championship game-- Calvin has 8 very talented players that play 10+ min. a game (the Knights would be playing 10 deep but for 2 injuries that occurred just prior to the MIAA conference tournament)-- does Calvin have enough to be able to defeat DePauw after a grueling match vs. Southern Maine yesterday?

Good luck to Wash U and NYU tonight, and hopefully both remaining UAA teams will win tonight and face off against each other next Friday.

[newtonnancy]

Ok..

I think DePauw wins tonight (would have gone with Calvin were all players healthy) and am leaning on Depauw winning the National Championship

Wash U is a game that I just don't have solid knowledge on PS, and although I don't think Wash U is as good as in the recent past, I will base picking them on the fact that I believe PS could bounce off of yesterday's performance and be a bit flat.

Bach won't like this, but I am picking Kean to beat NYU. I think their Athleticism and speed will hurt NYU.....if NYU wins I would excpect that the NYU Home Court Advantage  would send them to the foul line for at least 1o more opportunities then Kean...