2015 D3 Season: NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

[Mr.Right]

Also,

Maybe a list of the 5 Hottest teams in the country right now, not the most talented sides but the sides who are playing really well going into the NCAA's.

I gotta say In no particular order:

Oneonta St
Haverford
RUC
Kenyon
Lycoming
Trinity TX

[PaulNewman]

Amherst, Montclair, Wheaton (Ill), F&M, Macalester, Trinity/Colorado Coll, Brockport/Plattsburgh, Middlebury, OWU, CMU, Wash U???, Rowan

That's 12, and doesn't include UW-W....

Then you have Brockport/Platts (again), Bowdoin/Tufts, Stockton???, Chicago???, E'town?, Dickinson/Haverford, Pac Luth, DePauw, TMC....MIT still hanging out there.

Other names that have been mentioned.....RPI, North Park, Redlands (if needed), St Johns?, Messiah, Hobart, CNU, Rut-Newark, UW-Osh, Hopkins

[PaulNewman]

Haverford, MSU, and Oneonta all very hot.  Wheaton (Ill) was very hot until a PK loss.  And Loras is peaking at right time.

[Mr.Right]

LOL I try to narrow are lists as best I could and NCAC always adds like 10 teams to confuse us even more..Narrow that down

[Mr.Right]

Oh I see what you did you were getting all the Pool C's together but we all kind of can guess about 8-10 CERTAIN Pool C's, we need a DEFINITE BUBBLE list of 7 teams at the most.  LGOTB and NCAC are always good at this stuff and it is helpful. Maybe Offpitch can keep the standings of that as well...LOL j/k

[PaulNewman]

LOL I try to narrow ar elists as best I could and NCAC always adds like 10 teams to confuse us even more..Narrow that down

Well, I think there are more spots than some have been thinking.  Got to get to 18, and there are very few absolute LOCKS like Amherst and Montclair.  MSOE winning helped.  Calvin winning helped.  Lycoming winning helped somebody. 

IMHO, bubble teams are DePauw, TMC, E'town, Rowan or Stockton, Bowdoin/Tufts, Plattsburgh or Brockpt, Dickinson if they lose

[PaulNewman]

Oh I see what you did you were getting all the Pool C's together but we all kind of can guess about 8-10 CERTAIN Pool C's, we need a DEFINITE BUBBLE list of 7 teams at the most.  LGOTB and NCAC are always good at this stuff and it is helpful. Maybe Offpitch can keep the standings of that as well...LOL j/k

If you give me the 8-10 definites (I can't name that many) I'll give you the 7-8 bubbles.

[Mr.Right]

No you are correct that list is a good start. I truly believe Tufts / Stockton / Etown / Plattsburgh are all sitting on the bubble more than others.

[PaulNewman]

For example, in the UAA, all we know for sure is Brandeis.  Is Wash U still a lock after today?  What if CMU loses to Case right now?  Is Chicago in after beating Wash U?  Do 3 Pool Cs go to UAA?

[blooter442]

Case and Carnegie still deadlocked at 0-0 late in the second half...the UAA must have more conference games end regulation (and overtime) 0-0 than any other conference...unlike conferences w/a tournament every UAA game counts big, so teams know that if they can't win that it's even more important not to lose.

For example, in the UAA, all we know for sure is Brandeis.  Is Wash U still a lock after today?  What if CMU loses to Case right now?  Is Chicago in after beating Wash U?  Do 3 Pool Cs go to UAA?

I think WashU is in, and I believe Carnegie will definitely be in if they don't lose. Skeptical there'll be three Pool Cs, but with Chicago winning it's possible.

Even if Carnegie does lose, I think they're still in a good position. A Case fan just jinxed his team by screaming "YES!" before the header hit the back of the net - it drifted wide.

In other news, the Case fans have made #8 on Carnegie (Friedlander, who I really like as a player) their target for insults tonight. It's all in good fun, but they're blaming "Number 8" for everything. Quite humorous to hear the whole thing.

[PaulNewman]

Bubbles at this point want MIT, Redlands, Bowdoin to win AQs and maybe W&L just to be on safe side.  Also hard to know if we'll get a surprise out of the CNU/RPI/North Park/Denison/Messiah/Endicott/ECSU group....like some team that isn't even on your board anymore.   And I'm gonna bet that E'town has a bid.  And are we absolutely positive that a team unranked this week can't get in, like Hobart, Ohio Northern, Concordia (Wis)?

[blooter442]

Case wins it with 2:01 left in 2OT. Failed clear off a free kick that pinballed around and #4 hit a dipping volley from about 15 yards out into the far corner. Really nice goal, and thought that Case probably deserved the victory.

Carnegie will have to sweat, but as I said before I think they'll be fine. But this year, who knows?

Case Athletics site says that it was a "header off a deflection." Maybe my eyesight isn't 20/20? I'll believe that they were sitting at the wrong angle, because it looked like a darn good strike to me, and I saw no header.

[PaulNewman]

Case finally catches a break after losing two heartbreakers in OT to Wash U and Chicago.

Case, btw, is 13-4-1, probably with a SoS around .535ish and 1-4-1 RvR (lost two because Emory and Rochester dropped out of rankings).

CMU likely still safe but probably good news for OWU as OWU may well jump CMU.  I would hate to be on the cmte deciding how to place CMU, DePauw and TMC, and sitting there as the chair (Case coach) knowing his team is good enough to be right there as well.

[PaulNewman]

Pac Luth falling off bubble on wrong side.  Losing 2-1 under 10 min to Puget Sound.

Pac Luth lost 2-1.

Redlands losing 1-0 in 65th minute.

[backyarddawg]

Who's getting the bye with this group?

With MSU tie, does Haverford have a shot for a bye with win vs Dickinson?

Brandeis, Amherst, Kenyon, Trinity my favorites.

Also,

Maybe a list of the 5 Hottest teams in the country right now, not the most talented sides but the sides who are playing really well going into the NCAA's.

I gotta say In no particular order:

Oneonta St
Haverford
RUC
Kenyon
Lycoming
Trinity TX