2016 D3 Season: NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

[PaulNewman]

Redlands have lost 3 in a row and somehow are listed as regular season champs.  Is that right?  Is La Verne ineligible?

[Christan Shirk]

Redlands have lost 3 in a row and somehow are listed as regular season champs.  Is that right?  Is La Verne ineligible?

No, I must have miscalculated or otherwise screwed up when I thought they had clinched the top spot.

[PaulNewman]

How can a smart school like Carnegie Mellon not know how to run their video?

[Domino1195]

How can a smart school like Carnegie Mellon not know how to run their video?

They must be using the Marietta videographers . . .

[blue_jays]

How can a smart school like Carnegie Mellon not know how to run their video?

Word is the high winds and rain made them shut it down.

[Mr.Right]

MSOE and Wisc Lutheran headed to OT in their conference tournament #6/#3 game....Only game on right now and decent video..2-2 and possibly PK's coming. I cannot believe Dominican won this league as when I saw them play Chicago earlier in the year they did not impress me. They were WHACKING everything and did not look very good. Maybe they had some injuries or had a bad game but it was UGLY. Chicago dominated them.

[Mr.Right]

Wisc Lutheran wins it in OT 3-2 over MSOE to end their season. Nice 25 yard rocket but the MSOE GK was to far off his line and if he had been onhis line he would have caught it. Love this time of year...

[PaulNewman]

If they hadn't already Whitworth clinches the NWC AQ with 2OT win over mid-table Willamette.

[PaulNewman]

NCAC NE Top 15 (Post-season)

1) Chicago
2) Rowan
3) Messiah
4) Amherst
5) Rutgers-Newark
6) Trinity (TX)
7) Carthage
8) Calvin
9) Kenyon
10) Christopher Newport
11) Cortland St
12) Ohio Northern
13) UMass-Boston
14) Franklin & Marshall
15) Oberlin/Washington & Lee (TIE)

Pool C Drama Club (random) -- SLU, Vassar, Rochester, Emory, Carnegie Mellon, Wash U, OWU, DePauw, Middlebury, Tufts, Bowdoin, Babson, Colorado Coll, Scranton, Drew, Johns Hopkins, Montclair St, Lynchburg, Rhode Island College, Hanover, Rose Hulman, John Carroll, Chapman, Dubuque, Texas-Dallas, Loras

No Pool C Support Group -- Maryville (TN), Springfield

[NEPAFAN]

NCAC NE Top 15 (Post-season)

1) Chicago
2) Rowan
3) Messiah
4) Amherst
5) Rutgers-Newark
6) Trinity (TX)
7) Carthage
8) Calvin
9) Kenyon
10) Christopher Newport
11) Cortland St
12) Ohio Northern
13) UMass-Boston
14) Franklin & Marshall
15) Oberlin/Washington & Lee (TIE)

Pool C Drama Club (random) -- SLU, Vassar, Rochester, Emory, Carnegie Mellon, Wash U, OWU, DePauw, Middlebury, Tufts, Bowdoin, Babson, Colorado Coll, Scranton, Drew, Johns Hopkins, Montclair St, Lynchburg, Rhode Island College, Hanover, Rose Hulman, John Carroll, Chapman, Dubuque, Texas-Dallas, Loras

No Pool C Support Group -- Maryville (TN), Springfield

No Elizabethtown?

[backyarddawg]

No Haverford?

[Mid-Atlantic Fan]

Halloween Edition   

MAF Power Rankings
1. Chicago (16-0-1)
2. Messiah (15-0-3)
3. Rowan (16-1-1)
4. Amherst (14-1-1)
5. Trinity Tx (18-1-0)
6. Ohio Northern (16-1-3)
7. Kenyon (15-2-0)
8. Calvin (16-2-0)
9. Cortland St. (15-2-0)
10. Newark (18-2-0)
11. Mass-Boston (15-1-2)
12. F&M (12-2-3)
13. Springfield (16-1-1)
14. Lynchburg (13-1-4)
15. PSU Behrend (15-1-3)
16. Newport (15-2-1)
17. Colorado College (15-2-1)
18. St. Thomas (14-1-3)
19. Carthage (16-3-0)
20. Haverford (11-3-3)
21. Loras (12-4-0)
22. W&L (13-3-1)
23. St. Joe's (14-1-4)
24. Etown (12-2-2)
25. Whitworth (12-3-2)

RV: St. Lawrence (11-4-0), Dominican (12-2-3), Macalester (12-3-3), Oberlin (14-3-1), DePauw (11-4-2), Oneonta St (13-5-1), Whitewater (13-4-3), Brandeis (10-4-3), Vassar (12-3-2), Scranton (12-3-1), Capital (13-3-2), Middlebury (10-3-3), Johns Hopkins (12-3-2)

[PaulNewman]

No Haverford?

Good questions.  I didn't include teams in the "Drama Club" that I either ranked (and that may end up that group like Oberlin, W&L, Kenyon, ONU, etc) to avoid duplicates OR teams like Haverford and E'town that I thought were relatively safe in terms of Pool C if they need one.

[Mr.Right]

CNU going into 2OT against Frostburg State. They were up 1-0 with about 10 minutes left so I do not know how Frostburg St scored. CNU has maybe 1 legit team on its shcedule and only 1 ranked win, a decent to good SOS at .570 and good Win %. Still a loss or draw for CNU in this game would PUT THEM on the bubble as well as many other teams across the nation. Usually this league the Capital Athletic Conference has a couple ranked teams every year but the league must be way down this year. I would think CNU needs to advance only being ranked #4 in the South Atlantic with teams behind them capable of moving ahead of them in the rankings.

[Mr.Right]

UPDATE: Bubble teams can breathe a little easier as CNU beats Frostburg St 2-1 it 2OT on a nice cross and header to finish off Frostburg. Bubble teams must root for CNU to get the AQ in this league