Conference Tournaments

[David Collinge]

NCAC is set.

Quarterfinals Tuesday at higher seed:
#8 Wooster 40 at #1 DePauw 71
#7 Oberlin 72 at #2 Ohio Wesleyan 81
#6 Allegheny 56 at #3 Denison 60
#5 Wittenberg 58 at #4 Kenyon 78

Semifinals Friday at DePauw.
Denison 67 vs. OWU 57
Kenyon 62 at DePauw 88

Finals Saturday at DePauw
Denison 41 at DePauw 69

Average MOV for the Tigers: 28.3. That's what happens when you have the audacity to beat them in the final game of the regular season.

[7express]

Whitworth hands Whitman their first loss of the season 68-65 to win the NWC auto bid and send 3 NWC teams to the tournament.  Whitworth is a lock to go, George Fox should be there as well, but Whitman was going to be squarely on the bubble if they lost.

[LA RAMS]

Still have to think that, despite Whitman's loss tonight, that Concordia-Moorhead is still in.  They'd better be or I'll raise hell come Monday. 

[7express]

Saturday's tournaments updated.

[7express]

Sundays updated, so that concludes it.

[7express]

The LEC tournament sends all 8 teams to the playoffs and goes down as follows:

Quarterfinals Tuesday, February 24 at higher seeds
Semifinals and finals Friday, February 27-Saturday, February 28 at the highest seed remaining after the quarterfinals.

As it stands now Plymouth is locked into the #8 seed and will be playing on the road of the regular season champion which will all but likely come down to whoever wins the Eastern Connecticut/ UMass-Dartmouth game on Saturday afternoon.

After Tuesday's play:
RI College is locked into the 7 seed and Eastern Connecticut/UMass-Dartmouth will be going 1/2 in some order.  Dartmouth is a game up, but Eastern Connecticut holds the tiebreaker should they finish tied. 
Onto the top 4 (top 4 host quarterfinals games) only Eastern Connecticut and Dartmouth have guaranteed home playoff games while Western Connecticut will join RIC (#7) and Plymouth (#8) in playing road games in the quarterfinals but Western Connecticut can finish either 5th or 6th depending on results.  As for the other 3 teams: UMass-Boston, Southern Maine and Keene state: Boston and USM currently hold down the final 2 spots (3 & 4 respectively) 1 game ahead of Keene state who currently sits in 5th.....however Keene owns the tiebreaker over BOTH Boston and Southern Maine, so Keene can sneak in the back door and steal a home quarterfinal game if they win and 1 of Boston or USM loses.  All 3 teams can still finish in a 3 way tie for 3rd at 8-6.  In that case Keene would get the 3rd seed (they would be 1-1 against Eastern Connecticut while the other 2 would be 0-2 each), USM would get the 4 seed (they'd have more conference road wins then Boston) and Boston would end up 5th.

In Saturday's action:
Keene topples first place Dartmouth; Eastern Connecticut beats USM; and Boston over Western in the 3 games that were still meaningfull today.  The other game was Plymouth vs. RIC both both teams were already locked in @ #8 & #7 respectively.  With those results today, that set's up the LEC tournament as follows:

#8 Plymouth State (6-19, 0-14) (37)
@ 2/24 5:30
#1 Eastern Connecticut (17-8, 10-4) (77)

#7 RI College (7-18, 5-9) (49)
@ 2/24 5:30
#2 UMass-Dartmouth (18-7, 10-4) (67)

#6 Western Connecticut (16-9, 6-8) (48)
@ 2/24 7:00
#3 UMass-Boston (17-8, 9-5) (56)

#5 Southern Maine (12-13, 8-6) (46)
@ 2/24 5:30
#4 Keene State (16-9, 8-6) (63)

#4 Keene State (17-9, 8-6)
@ 2/28 5 PM
#1 Eastern Connecticut (18-8, 10-4).  Season series was tied 1-1 with the road team winning both games.  Keene held Eastern to 35 points overall and 12 in the second half last time they played.

#2 UMass-Dartmouth (19-7, 10-4)
vs. 2/28 7:30 PM
#3 UMass-Boston (18-8, 9-5).  Season series was tied 1-1 with the home team winning both games.  Last time they played Boston won by 2 on a 3 pointer at the buzzer.
Dartmouth is #7 in Northeast.  IF UNE (#5), AND Westfield (#6) both win the AQs Saturday I think Dartmouth will be in since the NESCAC trio will clear fairly quickly and if those 2 favorites win their conferences Dartmouth would be next up and I think they'll get in.  Eastern at #10 has no chance and NEEDS to win the auto bid as they'll get blocked by Roger Williams at #9 who is not making the field.

Dartmouth was 1-1 against Boston, whereabouts Eastern was 2-0, so that's why Eastern gets the 1 seed;  Keene was 2-2 against Eastern & Dartmouth while Southern Maine was 1-3 that's how Keene ended up 4th with the final quarterfinal game.  Dartmouth, Keene & Eastern all have double headers with the men's teams who will also open at home so those 3 start at 5:30 while Boston hosts a single game that's why that game starts at 7 PM
Quaterfinal games are Tuesday, February 24 at higher seeds.  Semifinals and finals are Friday, February 27-Saturday, February 28 at the site of the highest remaining seed after the quarterfinals.  Since the Eastern Connecticut men also have the #1 seed, if both the men and the women win on Tuesday, I believe the women's semifinal games will be at 1 PM & 3 PM Friday; if one or both lose, the semifinals will be at 5:30 & 7:30 PM Friday.

[7express]

List of conference's that have conference tournaments.  I'll be out of town the weekend of 2/28 for a wedding, when most of the conference finals take place, but as long as nobody minds most of the updates coming 1 or 2 days late, I'll try to update most of the conferences this year.

AMCC
American Southwest
Capital Athletic
Centennial
CUNY
CCIW
CSAC
CCC
Commonwealth
Empire 8
Freedom
GNAC
GSAC (having a conference tournament this year??)
HCAC
IIAC
Landmark
Liberty
LEC
MASCAC
MIAA
Midwest
MIAC
NEWMAC
NECC
NESCAC
NJAC (starts Saturday I believe)
North Atlantic
North Coast
NEAC
NACC (starts Saturday I believe)
Northwest
Ohio Athletic
ODAC
President's
Skyline
SAA
SCIAC
SCAC
SLIAC
SUNYAC
UMAC
USA South
WIAC

[7express]

NESCAC tournament is officially set:

#8 Hamilton (12-11, 3-7) (43)
@ 2/21 4 PM
#1 Tufts (23-1, 10-0) (64)

#5 Conn College (16-8, 6-4) (44)
@ 2/21 3 PM
#4 Williams (19-5, 7-3) (45)

#7 Middlebury (11-13, 3-7) (52)
@ 2/21 4 PM
#2 Bowdoin (21-3, 9-1) (80)

#6 Colby (16-8, 4-6) (40)
@ 2/213 PM
#3 Amherst (22-2, 8-2) (62)
Amherst has a Little 3 (non NESCAC) game vs. Wesleyan on Tuesday that was postponed from earlier in the season.

Semifinals & finals @ Tufts 2/28-3/1

#4 Williams (20-5, 70-3)
@ 2/28 2 PM
#1 Tufts (24-1, 10-0)

#2 Bowdoin (22-3, 9-1)
vs. 2/28 4 PM
#3 Amherst (23-2, 8-2)

[Captain_Joe08]

NACC will be this....

1. Wisconsin Lutheran (19-4, 17-2)
2. Benedictine (15-9, 15-4)
3. MSOE (19-5, 15-4)
4. Concordia Wisconsin (18-6, 14-5)
5. Concordia Chicago (14-10, 11-8)
6. Edgewood (11-13, 10-9)
7. Lakeland (10-14, 9-10)
8. Aurora (7-17, 7-12)

Basically, picked the favorites here for tomorrow. MSOE has the head to head tiebreaker over CUW for #3. 6th seed depends on the outcome of Edgewood and Lakeland. Aurora has the head to head over Marian

[Captain_Joe08]

NACC Tournament is set.

#8 Aurora (8-17, 8-12) at #1 Wisconsin Lutheran (20-4, 18-2) (WLC won series 2-0)
#5 Concordia Chicago (15-10, 12-8) #4 Concordia Wisconsin (19-6, 15-5) (Series Tied 1-1)
#6 Edgewood (12-13, 11-9) at #3 MSOE (19-6, 15-5) (MSOE won series 2-0)
#7 Lakeland (10-15, 9-11) at #2 Benedictine (16-9, 16-4) (Series Tied 1-1)

[Captain_Joe08]

NJAC

#5 William Patterson (14-11) at #4 TCNJ (15-10) Winner faces #1 Montclair State (24-1)
#6 Rutgers-Newark (13-12) at #3 Rowan (17-8) Winner faces #2 Richard Stockton (20-5)

[mailsy]

CSAC

First Round: Monday February 23, 2015 7:00 pm
Cabrini #1 bye
Immaculata #2 bye
#3* Gwynedd Mercy hosts #6 Rosemont
#4* Marywood hosts #5 Keystone

Semifinals: Wednesday February 25, 2015 7:00 pm
Cabrini #1 hosts lowest remaining seed
Immaculata #2 hosts next lowest remaining seed

Finals: Saturday February 28, 2015 6:00 pm
Winners play at highest remaining seed.

*Gwynedd Mercy beatsMarywood  79-63

[Captain_Joe08]

NWC Tournament field looks like....

1. George Fox (24-0)
2. Puget Sound (20-3)
3. Whitworth (20-3)
4. Whitman (15-8)

Seeds 2-4 could change hands as Puget Sound, Whitworth and Whitman have one game remaining against each other.

[BruinFan]

NWC Tournament field looks like....

1. George Fox (24-0)
2. Puget Sound (20-3)
3. Whitworth (20-3)
4. Whitman (15-8)

Seeds 2-4 could change hands as Puget Sound, Whitworth and Whitman have one game remaining against each other.

In fact, Puget Sound, Whitworth, and Whitman could finish in a 3-way tie with 12-4 conference records if Whitman beats UPS and UPS beats Whitworth. They would all have 1-1 records against each other and identical records against every other team in the conference. I believe in that case the tie will be broken by a pre-season drawing to determine seeds 2-4.

[BruinFan]

Puget Sound wins at home against Whitman and gets the sweep (2-0). Whitman is now the #4 seed in the NWC and will play at George Fox on February 26.

Whitworth plays at Puget Sound today to finish the regular season. The winner will be the #2 seed and host the loser on the 26th. So they will play each other twice in less than a week.