2015 NCAA Tournament

[Gregory Sager]

Augustana 82
Mt. Union 69

[Gregory Sager]

UWSP 73
Emory 53

[Gregory Sager]

So tomorrow night in the Elite Eight, we've got:

Trinity (CT) @ Babson
Virginia Wesleyan @ Randolph-Macon
Marietta @ Augustana
East Texas Baptist @ UW-Stevens Point

[7express]

So tomorrow night in the Elite Eight, we've got:

Trinity (CT) @ Babson
Virginia Wesleyan @ Randolph-Macon
Marietta @ Augustana
East Texas Baptist @ UW-Stevens Point

I'd say Babson & RMC are the most likely to lose.  How many times do you play and beat a team 4 times in 1 season??  When's the last time that happened??

[Greek Tragedy]

So tomorrow night in the Elite Eight, we've got:

Trinity (CT) @ Babson
Virginia Wesleyan @ Randolph-Macon
Marietta @ Augustana
East Texas Baptist @ UW-Stevens Point

I'd say Babson & RMC are the most likely to lose.  How many times do you play and beat a team 4 times in 1 season??  When's the last time that happened??

In 2003-2004 Stevens Point played Oshkosh 4 times. Point played them in a Las Vegas holiday tourney as a non conference game, beat them twice during the conference season and a 4th time in the conference tournament.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I think Albertus would've matched up a lot better against VWC.  Dickinson played well, not to take anything away from them, but they have been less than consistent this year.  I picked their off game one round too early.

[Greek Tragedy]

If today was their off-game, they wouldn't make the Final Four as you predicted.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

If today was their off-game, they wouldn't make the Final Four as you predicted.

I thought last game would be their off night, which is why I had Albertus in the Championship game.  Last game they fooled me into thinking four fantastic games in a row meant they were buckled down for the stretch run.  I think they're certainly better than they played last night, but consistency does matter in March.  It's one of the good things about a tournament like this - the best team might not win, but the winner will always deserve it.

[Greek Tragedy]

Umm. Ok. I thought you were talking up whomever won that game would go to the Final Four. My apolozies.

[Gregory Sager]

So tomorrow night in the Elite Eight, we've got:

Trinity (CT) @ Babson
Virginia Wesleyan @ Randolph-Macon
Marietta @ Augustana
East Texas Baptist @ UW-Stevens Point

I'd say Babson & RMC are the most likely to lose.  How many times do you play and beat a team 4 times in 1 season??  When's the last time that happened??

I'm pretty sure that it happens more often than a scenario in which a team beats an opponent three times and then loses to that opponent in the fourth contest between them.

Randolph-Macon beat Virginia Wesleyan by eight @ VWC, by three @ RMC, and by seven @ the Salem Civic Center in the ODAC championship game. All three games were close, but, when you get the same outcome three times in three tries, it tells you something about the comparative abilities of the two teams. At this point, RMC has clearly demonstrated that it's a better team than VWC. If the Marlins win tonight, it will have to be seen as a significant upset -- especially since the game will be played at RMC's Crenshaw Gym.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Umm. Ok. I thought you were talking up whomever won that game would go to the Final Four. My apolozies.

Well it's sort of more a wish than anything else.  I do think Dickinson and Albertus both have higher ceilings than any other team in that bracket - if everybody's playing their best game, I think Albertus is the best team in the country.  The problem is they don't always do it.  Randolph-Macon is by far the most consistent team in the country - it makes sense to pick them #1 and to go to the Final Four.  I rarely win bracket competitions, because I tend to go with the team that is better in a vacuum.  Sometimes it just seems unfair games aren't played in a vacuum.

It's a really dysfunctional way of looking at the world.  I'm a recovering perfectionist.

[Gregory Sager]

I rarely win bracket competitions, because I tend to go with the team that is better in a vacuum.  Sometimes it just seems unfair games aren't played in a vacuum.

I guess that I just don't see the attraction in watching teams play basketball in spacesuits.

[y_jack_lok]

So tomorrow night in the Elite Eight, we've got:

Trinity (CT) @ Babson
Virginia Wesleyan @ Randolph-Macon
Marietta @ Augustana
East Texas Baptist @ UW-Stevens Point

I'd say Babson & RMC are the most likely to lose.  How many times do you play and beat a team 4 times in 1 season??  When's the last time that happened??

I'm pretty sure that it happens more often than a scenario in which a team beats an opponent three times and then loses to that opponent in the fourth contest between them.

Randolph-Macon beat Virginia Wesleyan by eight @ VWC, by three @ RMC, and by seven @ the Salem Civic Center in the ODAC championship game. All three games were close, but, when you get the same outcome three times in three tries, it tells you something about the comparative abilities of the two teams. At this point, RMC has clearly demonstrated that it's a better team than VWC. If the Marlins win tonight, it will have to be seen as a significant upset -- especially since the game will be played at RMC's Crenshaw Gym.

I suppose it's fair to call it an upset, but I wouldn't apply any adjectives to it. The ODAC tournament win was in OT. And so far VWC has not been adversely affected by Pat Coleman picking them to win it all.

[Ralph Turner]

I didn't want to say anything, but I did not think that Northwestern had the athletes to run with the ETBU/ASC style of play.  Unless ETBU completely lays an egg for the last 9 minutes of the game, this one is over.

64-40 with 8:00 left

I don't a problem expressing that opinion prior to the game.

It's what typically happens to a Cinderella that makes it out of the first weekend. The sectionals are a very unforgiving place to be if you've been getting by thus far on a wing and a prayer.

I am glad to have an ASC team this far, but we are so isolated from the rest of D3.  The men have never hosted a Round of 16/8.

Is ETBU the only team that was flown in the "8"?  At least they are seeing the court for the second time.

UWSP demolished a UAA team, arguably a conference in the first tier/upper 2nd tier at worst.  The ASC only has one Final Four and only 3 previous Elite 8 appearances since the conference began receiving bids, about 1999.

Most likely to lose?  Wow!  ETBU is up against the most formidable challenge. 

[Ralph Turner]

(Are we still calling the first tier conferences, WIAC, NESCAC, UAA, CCIW, ODAC?)