University Athletic Association

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End of third quarter in the 2 PM Eastern tip games--

NYU 56, Rochester 47

Emory 56, Brandeis 37

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End of first quarter in the Midwest games--

Wash U 20, Carnegie Mellon 20

UChicago 19, CWRU 12

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Halftime in the Midwest games--

UChicago 38, CWRU 32

Carnegie Mellon 40, Wash U 38

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Finals in the 2 PM Eastern tip games--

Emory 76, Brandeis 53

Emory improves to 7-6 in the UAA, 16-7 overall.

Brandeis drops to 1-12 in the UAA, 6-18 overall.

NYU 72, Rochester 62

NYU improves to 11-2 in the UAA, 21-2 overall.

NYU clinches at least a share of the 2022-23 UAA Women's Basketball title, and can clinch the AQ outright with a Wash U loss today or an NYU victory over Brandeis on Friday.  At halftime, Carnegie Mellon is leading over Wash U, 40-38.

Rochester drops to 6-7 in the UAA, 16-8 overall.

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End of third quarter in the Midwest games--

Carnegie Mellon 71, Wash U 67

UChicago 57, CWRU 43

Game update-- UChicago 66, CWRU 50 6:25 left in regulation.

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Game update--

Wash U 78, Carnegie Mellon 77 5:57 left in regulaton.

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Finals in the Midwest games--

UChicago 76, CWRU 64

UChicago improves to 9-4 in the UAA, 20-4 overall.   UChicago was eliminated from the title race today when NYU won at Rochester.

CWRU drops to 6-7 in the UAA, 15-9 overall. 

Wash U 98, Carnegie Mellon 93

Wash U improves to 10-3 in the UAA, 17-7 overall.  Wash U remains in second place in the UAA-- 1 game back of NYU with 1 game left.  Wash U would clinch a share of the UAA title and the Pool A automatic bid on Saturday with a victory over UChicago if last place Brandeis defeats NYU on Friday.   If that scenario happened, Wash U would clinch the AQ on the second tiebreaker by virtue of going 2-0 vs third place UChicago while NYU finished 1-1 vs UChicago.

NYU will clinch sole possession of the UAA Women's Basketball title and the Pool A automatic bid outright with a victory over Brandeis on Friday afternoon at the Brooklyn Athletic Facility.   NYU women play Brandeis at 4 PM Eastern this upcoming Friday.

Carnegie Mellon drops to 2-11 in the UAA, 11-13 overall, and is eliminated from consideration for ECAC Tournament play.

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Reviewing the race for the UAA Women's Basketball title and the AQ going into Friday's and Saturday's action--

This weekend marks the final day of UAA play-- as UAA play concludes with the travel partners playing each other to end the season.

NYU starts the weekend having been assured of at least a share of the UAA Women's Basketball title, but Wash U has the tiebreaker advantage on second tiebreaker due to results of Wash U v UChicago (Wash U leads 1-0 in that series this year) vs NYU v UChicago (NYU split 1-1 vs UChicago this season.)  Therefore, NYU needs a win tomorrow to clinch the AQ.

Tip time for NYU Senior Day at the Brooklyn Athletic Facility vs Brandeis is tomorrow (Friday) at 4 PM Eastern. 

Standngs of the top two teams in the UAA going into round 14-- (Post updated at 4:24 AM Eastern-- Friday, Feb.24, 2023)

1.)  NYU--   11-2 in the UAA, 21-2 overall.  (Has clinched at least a Co-Championship-- win over Brandeis clinches outright Championship and AQ.)

2.)  Wash U-- 10-3 in the UAA, 17-7 overall  (Clinches a UAA Co-Championship and the AQ on second tiebreaker with a win over UChicago on Saturday if Brandeis defeats NYU today (Friday)).

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Halftime from Brooklyn--

NYU 51, Brandeis 33

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Final from Brooklyn, NY--

NYU 85, Brandeis 62

  Congratulations to NYU-- 2022-23 outright UAA Women's Basketball Champions-- AQ to NCAA DIII Women's Basketball Tournament

Per announcement from NYU play by play and color commentator crew-- NYU Violets will not be hosting NCAA DIII Tournament games this season due to their being forced to play UAA games in the small 180 seat Brooklyn Athletic Facility due to a pipe break in December in the basement of the Paulson Center at 181 Mercer Street in Manhattan that forced the delay of the opening of their new athletic facilities there. 

Violets women's and men's basketball teams will be playing any NCAA tournament games on the road this season.

NYU finishes regular season at 12-2 in UAA, 22-2 overall-- UAA Women's Basketball Champions-- AQ to NCAA DIII tournament.

Brandeis finishes their season at 1-13 in UAA, 6-19 overall.

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 NYU could have arranged for a nearby school(Baruch, e.g.) to serve as a proxy host in their place and eliminate travel aspects of the tourney games; I wonder if they attempted it. They would have known in plenty of time that the women, at least, would be hosting the 1st, if not both, weekends. I'm remembering this happening in the past in the NYC area, maybe 10 years ago.

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NYU could have arranged for a nearby school(Baruch, e.g.) to serve as a proxy host in their place and eliminate travel aspects of the tourney games; I wonder if they attempted it. They would have known in plenty of time that the women, at least, would be hosting the 1st, if not both, weekends. I'm remembering this happening in the past in the NYC area, maybe 10 years ago.

NYU would need to rent out and have complete control of the facility for the entirety of the time periods requested by the NCAA DIII Women's Basketball Committee during those weekend periods when the Tournament games and practices are to be held in order for NYU to host these games.  Those rental costs would have to be put in as part of the paperwork. 

If it was an easy feat for NYU to quickly rent out either Baruch or Hunter on short notice to play UAA or NCAA games this season, they would have done it.  NYU has never rented out the Baruch facility, but the Violets did play UAA games at the Hunter Sportsplex pre-pandemic for 4 seasons, with a backup rental court at Pace University in Pleasantville, NY for use during the game nights when Hunter was not available for UAA games.

The same thing also applies to Pratt, which NYU rented out to host the UAA Volleyball Championships this year.  The problem is, St. Francis Brooklyn, a DI team, is playing their basketball games at Pratt from now on due to the permanent closure of "the Pope" back in November when St. Francis Brooklyn moved from Remsen Street to a campus in downtown Brooklyn.

Last year, NYU already had a rental agreement in place with St. Francis Brooklyn to use "the Pope" for UAA home games, so it was easy enough to extend that existing rental agreement to use "the Pope" for first weekend NCAA DIII tournament games as well.

Who knows-- NYU may be playing first weekend this year at Brooklyn College, with Brooklyn running the facility for the weekend rather than NYU.  The Brooklyn Bulldogs did win the CUNYAC, so maybe that was what NYU was hoping for.

Who also knows-- There are a lot of RRO teams in southern New England who are capable of hosting pods and probably have sent in paperwork.   NYU fans will not mind travelling to the Boston or Providence areas (or even Connecticut) for first and second round games this year, as the Violets have a great first year player from Easton, MA who will draw in fans from the Oliver Ames HS team to watch the Violets play in the NCAAs.

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NYU could have arranged for a nearby school(Baruch, e.g.) to serve as a proxy host in their place and eliminate travel aspects of the tourney games; I wonder if they attempted it. They would have known in plenty of time that the women, at least, would be hosting the 1st, if not both, weekends. I'm remembering this happening in the past in the NYC area, maybe 10 years ago.

NYU would need to rent out and have complete control of the facility for the entirety of the time periods requested by the NCAA DIII Women's Basketball Committee during those weekend periods when the Tournament games and practices are to be held in order for NYU to host these games.  Those rental costs would have to be put in as part of the paperwork. 

If it was an easy feat for NYU to quickly rent out either Baruch or Hunter on short notice to play UAA or NCAA games this season, they would have done it.  NYU has never rented out the Baruch facility, but the Violets did play UAA games at the Hunter Sportsplex pre-pandemic for 4 seasons, with a backup rental court at Pace University in Pleasantville, NY for use during the game nights when Hunter was not available for UAA games.

The same thing also applies to Pratt, which NYU rented out to host the UAA Volleyball Championships this year.  The problem is, St. Francis Brooklyn, a DI team, is playing their basketball games at Pratt from now on due to the permanent closure of "the Pope" back in November when St. Francis Brooklyn moved from Remsen Street to a campus in downtown Brooklyn.

Last year, NYU already had a rental agreement in place with St. Francis Brooklyn to use "the Pope" for UAA home games, so it was easy enough to extend that existing rental agreement to use "the Pope" for first weekend NCAA DIII tournament games as well.

Who knows-- NYU may be playing first weekend this year at Brooklyn College, with Brooklyn running the facility for the weekend rather than NYU.  The Brooklyn Bulldogs did win the CUNYAC, so maybe that was what NYU was hoping for.

Who also knows-- There are a lot of RRO teams in southern New England who are capable of hosting pods and probably have sent in paperwork.   NYU fans will not mind travelling to the Boston or Providence areas (or even Connecticut) for first and second round games this year, as the Violets have a great first year player from Easton, MA who will draw in fans from the Oliver Ames HS team to watch the Violets play in the NCAAs.

Worth noting that all schools mentioned here (except Pace) are also in season for men's volleyball and their matches/practices probably take some precedence.

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 Pratt ARC facility seemingly isn't needed for either their men's volleyball or St Francis College basketball next weekend. Hope NYU considered it. Same for Baruch men's basketball that will be traveling next weekend, not hosting.

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Emory 19, NYU 8  End of first quarter