2016 NCAA Tournament

[AmherstStudent05]

As for the other three sectionals:

* Either Augustana or St. Thomas can host the two fly-in teams (Emory and the Whitman @ Whitworth winner), but it appears that Augie's the higher seed, so I suspect that this sectional will be held in Rock Island.

* St. Norbert and Ohio Wesleyan aren't within 500 miles of each other, but it won't matter -- top seed Benedictine's within bus reach of both of them as well as Alma. This sectional will be held in west suburban Chicagoland.

* All four survivors in the remaining section are New England teams, so this sectional won't have geography problems. Amherst is a higher seed than Tufts, J&W, and Babson, so The Artist Formerly Known As Lord Jeff will host at LeFrak Gym in western Massachusetts.

I confess that I know little about the factors that go into hosting, and I know even less about women's basketball, but my understanding is that for this round the Amherst men must yield to the Amherst women.  I have also been informed that our women are (once again) damn good and deserve to host in their own right so I think the men will have to be on the road but I would be more than happy to be proven wrong.

[OldCardinal]

I think you're right but I don't which of Babson, JW or Tufts would host.

[pg04]

Dave McHugh, on Twitter, predicted these hosts:

Augustana
Benedictine
Babson
Oswego

I am pretty sure that you are right that the Women get the priority next weekend.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Women do have the priority... and the twist I also tweeted was that if the women go with Scranton over Tufts or someone else over Amherst (unlikely)... then Amherst or Tufts would host over Babson. I am predicting they go with Amherst and Tufts as hosts.

[David Collinge]

...and down goes Whitworth!

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

One of the worst announcing jobs I have heard in a long time... and I have developed a long rope for them in the NCAA tournament.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

I need to correct my perdictions for hosts:

Augustana
Benedictine
Oswego
Tufts

CNU women can't get to Tufts, so that host will most likely be Scranton freeing up Tufts to host over Babson because they are ranked higher.

[7express]

As for the other three sectionals:

* Either Augustana or St. Thomas can host the two fly-in teams (Emory and the Whitman @ Whitworth winner), but it appears that Augie's the higher seed, so I suspect that this sectional will be held in Rock Island.

* St. Norbert and Ohio Wesleyan aren't within 500 miles of each other, but it won't matter -- top seed Benedictine's within bus reach of both of them as well as Alma. This sectional will be held in west suburban Chicagoland.

* All four survivors in the remaining section are New England teams, so this sectional won't have geography problems. Amherst is a higher seed than Tufts, J&W, and Babson, so The Artist Formerly Known As Lord Jeff will host at LeFrak Gym in western Massachusetts.

Women get priority next round, so the St. Thomas women probably host there while the Amherst women will almost certainly hold that, so the Amherst men likely get shipped off to Tufts along with J&W and Babson (I don't think Babson seats enough to host, but if they do it's probably at Babson).

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

7express... Babson hosted last season the same weekend... they seat plenty.

Here are my predictions:

MBB:
Augustana
Benedictine
Oswego
Tufts

WBB:
Amherst
Scranton
St. Thomas
Thomas More

[7express]

Ok thanks for the clarification Dave!

[wooscotsfan]

Two long tourney win streaks ended this year already - both IWU and Virginia Wesleyan had won at least one game in six consecutive NCAA tournaments.  Neither made this field.

Whitworth and Wooster have the longest active streaks and will look to each add an 8th consecutive year.

Amherst is working on their 6th.

With Whitworth being upset last night, Wooster has the longest active streak of winning at least one game in the NCAA tourney at 8 years.  Amherst is at 6.

[David Collinge]

One of the worst announcing jobs I have heard in a long time... and I have developed a long rope for them in the NCAA tournament.

Yeah, I only tuned in with about 5 minutes left and it was pretty outrageous. I used to listen to Bob Castle quite a bit and expected better. He lost any sense of decorum, to say nothing of impartiality, when he objected to the hard foul at midcourt with 4 or so minutes left. He was even giving it to the ref, which would be unacceptable from a student much less a professional.

[warriorcat]

According to their websites, Tufts, Benedictine, Oswego and Augustana will serve as this weekend's sectional hosts.

[David Collinge]

According to their websites, Tufts, Benedictine, Oswego and Augustana will serve as this weekend's sectional hosts.

http://www.d3hoops.com/playoffs/men/2016/sectional-hosts-announced

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

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