2017 Season - National Perspective

[PaulNewman]

Rochester quietly having a nice season.  And also Lynchburg.

[Shooter McGavin]

Shooter's Top 15
1. Messiah (15-1-0)
2. Tufts (12-1-1)
3. Calvin (15-0-1)
4. St. Thomas (15-1-0)
5. Chicago (13-2-0)
6. Oneonta St. (12-1-2)
7. Lycoming (15-2-0)
8. Rowan (15-2-1)
9. Springfield (13-0-1)
10. St. Joe's (15-0-1)
11. Trinity Tx (16-1-0)
12. Drew (16-0-1)
13. Lynchburg (14-1-1)
14. North Park (13-1-1)
15. Cortland St (15-2-0)

16-25: Newark (17-2-0), Amherst (10-2-2), JHU (13-1-2), CT College (9-1-4), Kenyon (12-2-2), Buffalo St. (13-1-3), CNU (12-2-1), John Carroll (13-2-1), Brandeis (11-3-0), Otterbein (13-2-0)

RV: J&W (14-1-1), W&L (11-3-1), UR (10-2-2), Gettysburg (12-3-0), Transylvania (13-1-0), Ogelthorpe (13-2-1), Dean (12-1-2), DeSales (12-1-2), Bowdoin (10-3-1) CMU (10-3-1), Leb Val (10-3-1), UW-Platteville (10-3-1), Redlands (11-3-2), St. Norbert (13-3-1), Williams (8-2-4)     

[PaulNewman]

Paul Newman's Own Top 15

1)  Tufts
2)  Messiah
3)  Calvin
4)  Lycoming
5)  Rowan
6)  Chicago
7)  Trinity (TX)
8)  St Thomas
9)  Oneonta St
10) Lynchburg
11) North Park
12) Rutgers-Newark
13) Kenyon
14) Drew
15) Cortland St

RV -- Amherst, Bowdoin, JHU, Buff State, CNU, JCU, Brandeis, UR, Redlands, Gettysburg, Conn College, Springfield

[Mr.Right]

I still do not understand how the Alleghany Mountain Collegiate Conference plays all these games at 11:30am or 1:00pm on weekdays...I guess class is not priority as we have a Medaille at Penn State Behrend match slated to kick off in 15 minutes..Unreal...Unless it is travel as Medaille is in Buffalo and Penn State Behrend in Erie...Total distance is only an 1 1/2 hours...Looks like the game will decide the winner of the regular season in this conference

[Mid-Atlantic Fan]

What is the best region this year? New England is always loaded but the Mid and South Atlantic's look strong as well. Great Lakes a little sluggish in the second half of the season as well as the East. The North, Central, and West all rounding out the next grouping. If I had to rank them I would align them as so:

1. New England
2. Mid-Atlantic
3. South Atlantic
4. Great Lakes
5. East
T6. Central
T6. North
8. West

[Mr.Right]

I do not think New England is #1 this year. IMO they are way down this year. I think the Mid-Atlantic would be #1 and possibly the South and Great Lakes at #2 and #3. Even the East could be #3. New England would be #4 in my book.

[Flying Weasel]

Men's Regional Rankings are out:

http://www.d3soccer.com/rankings/2017/Men/regional-rankings-2

http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-men/d3

[Mr.Right]

It seems that Tuesday's results were not factored in. Is that normal? I always thought it was results up to the day the rankings come out.

[Flying Weasel]

No.  It has always been results thru Sunday.

[Mr.Right]

Oh that is right..Ok thanks

[Flying Weasel]

Loras makes huge jump from unranked to #2 in North.  That's the biggest thing I saw on a first glance.

That's the effect of now having RvR which didn't exist last week.

[Dubuquer]

I think it's odd that Loras and UW-Platteville (#2 and #3 in the North) are 20 miles apart and didn't play each other this year. That would have been a good game.

[Gregory Sager]

North Park clinched the CCIW championship and home pitch in the conference tourney by downing second-place North Central tonight, 3-0. The Vikings, who now find themselves in first place in the Central Region rankings, trading places with Chicago atop the region after having beaten the Maroons last Wednesday, advance to 14-1-1 on the season.

NPU's archrival and fellow traditional CCIW power Wheaton went in the opposite direction, as WC suffered a shocking draw at the hands of lowly Millikin tonight, 2-2. That eliminates Wheaton (4-3-1 in CCIW) from contention for a spot in the four-team CCIW tourney, as fourth-place Carthage (4-2-1) owns the tiebreaker with one league match remaining for the Red Men. After making the first 15 CCIW tourneys, Wheaton's streak is snapped, and WC will instead clean out the lockers after the final regular-season match on Saturday. The last time Wheaton's season ended without at least one extra match tacked on to the end of the schedule was 1992.

[Mid-Atlantic Fan]

I do not think New England is #1 this year. IMO they are way down this year. I think the Mid-Atlantic would be #1 and possibly the South and Great Lakes at #2 and #3. Even the East could be #3. New England would be #4 in my book.

I don't disagree with that! From the eyeball test and not considering any AQ bids, looks like the top 5 in NE are almost locks. Top 4 in the East are heavy favorites to be locks as well as the top 4 in the Mid-Atlantic and South-Atlantic. Top 3 in GL and North are locks and Calvin still at 4th behind Benedictine could cause some issues in the Central. The West has 2 locks and could get a 3rd.

From there the AQ's will spread out and take some of these teams away and once that happens I then agree Mr. Right that the Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic probably have the best chance to get more teams in after the AQ's take shape. 

[Mid-Atlantic Fan]

Also since I have seen some others do rankings I will give you the special edition of "MAF Top 10"

MAF Top 10 Power Rankings
1. Calvin
2. Tufts
3. Messiah
4. St. Thomas
5. Lycoming
6. Chicago
7. Trinity
8. Oneonta St
9. Springfield
10. Rowan
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11-25 (no order): Amherst, JC, JHU, Newark, Drew, Lynchburg, St. Joe's, Kenyon, Brandeis, North Park, Bowdoin, Cortland, Buff St, UR, Ogelthorpe