Liberty League

[stlawus]

Agreed...how does the committee put SLU in the Amherst regional?  Makes no sense.

Tradition mostly

[Saint of Old]

SLU and Amherst has quite the history in the NCAAs.
Many games hosted at Canton and in MA.

SLU v. Williams 1998 Quarter Final is one of the classic NCAA d3 games.

Something tells me these 13-1-5 teams will meet again in this years dance, but obviously St. Lawrence would have to handle business against a good Roger Williams team.

[College Soccer Observer]

Where should they have gone?  The other two parts of the bracket has one Quarter where Messiah is the top seed and includes NYU, Williams, Calvin, Kenyon, and Washington and Lee.  The other quarter of the bracket is Cortland St, Stevens, Middlebury, Christopher Newport, and Hopkins.  Chicago's part of the bracket was probably not an option geographically as it includes all the California, Texas, and upper Midwest schools.  There are no easy draws.

[stlawus]

Yea I'm not really hung up on it.  It was unlikely they were going to send them to Oneonta for the first round after having played each other already.    The only other spot they could have landed was the Bowdoin regional, but would you rather take your chance playing RWU and possibly Amherst or play Babson in the first round?   Don't see where else they should have been put.

[PaulNewman]

Am very happy for Vassar as well.  Should get into the tournament if you go undefeated in the Liberty League.  I feel for West Conn given they went 20-0-2 and beat Vassar and got no love.  Very tough draws for SLU and Vassar.  While the LL has had recent success against Roger Williams, Babson is a tough first round out in Brunswick, ME for Vassar and then the next rounds are against arguably the two best NESCAC teams and arguably two of the top teams in the nation on their home fields.  Amherst's players are HUGE.  Sibanda will be dancing among the redwoods.

Sibanda will be on the ground.

[PaulNewman]

Where should they have gone?  The other two parts of the bracket has one Quarter where Messiah is the top seed and includes NYU, Williams, Calvin, Kenyon, and Washington and Lee.  The other quarter of the bracket is Cortland St, Stevens, Middlebury, Christopher Newport, and Hopkins.  Chicago's part of the bracket was probably not an option geographically as it includes all the California, Texas, and upper Midwest schools.  There are no easy draws.

I think they'd gladly switch with Cortland.  SLU went from dreams of hosting to going to Amherst.

[Saint of Old]

Am very happy for Vassar as well.  Should get into the tournament if you go undefeated in the Liberty League.  I feel for West Conn given they went 20-0-2 and beat Vassar and got no love.  Very tough draws for SLU and Vassar.  While the LL has had recent success against Roger Williams, Babson is a tough first round out in Brunswick, ME for Vassar and then the next rounds are against arguably the two best NESCAC teams and arguably two of the top teams in the nation on their home fields.  Amherst's players are HUGE.  Sibanda will be dancing among the redwoods.

Sibanda will be on the ground.

Football is more of a mental game than a physical one.

[PaulNewman]

Am very happy for Vassar as well.  Should get into the tournament if you go undefeated in the Liberty League.  I feel for West Conn given they went 20-0-2 and beat Vassar and got no love.  Very tough draws for SLU and Vassar.  While the LL has had recent success against Roger Williams, Babson is a tough first round out in Brunswick, ME for Vassar and then the next rounds are against arguably the two best NESCAC teams and arguably two of the top teams in the nation on their home fields.  Amherst's players are HUGE.  Sibanda will be dancing among the redwoods.

Sibanda will be on the ground.

Football is more of a mental game than a physical one.

Sibanda will be the best player on the field (maybe by far).  Do you think Amherst will have a game plan?

[Saint of Old]

Do you think SLU will have one as well?

[PaulNewman]

Do you think SLU will have one as well?

They damn sure better, lol.  And I'll be rooting like crazy for them.  I've been very pro-SLU all year, so there's that.

[Saint of Old]

Over the years there have been some great battles.
Amherst have won most but each NCAA game is always entertaining.
We will see what happens and if SLU even gets to the 2nd round, but this is a different type of SLU team than before.
Similar, but different.

[OldMCGuy]

As am Old Messiah Guy from Zimbabwe, I look forward to meeting you and Sibanda in Greensboro

[Saint of Old]

Every man have a right to decide his own destiny...

I am sure you and the Saint#10 have loads in common man. Best of the Motherland mixed with American higher education.
Great combination.

[slu888]

RWU is no walkover for SLU...they have kept a clean sheet 11 times this year.

If they do advance, Amherst will physically try to dominate......huge size advantage. 

Just bummed they couldn't host in Canton!

[Saint of Old]

I agree with all you say, but if there is any Saint team in the past 10 seasons that can do a job on the road, its this one.
Dances are strange man, sometimes the teams you think you will play get upset. You just have to give it to whoever you are facing.