2018 NCAA Tournament

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Also spittballing here.   Does the fact that the NESCAC put 4 teams into the tournament (and there was huge argument on this board that they should have had 5), combined with the fact that only one team made the elite eight and zero made the final four, mean that there may be a chance that this league is slightly over-hyped?  Perhaps they are not the power conference of the East, that they have been dubbed?

I don't think so. You have to take the long view, not just look at one season, or one March, to draw conclusions like this. The NESCAC has definitely earned its status as a power conference, and it's kept that status for a long time now, this weekend notwithstanding.

Yeah... honestly, Hamilton was one long three away from being in the Elite 8 (Springfield hit a hell of a shot). We have a lot more good teams in the country now, but considering how the NESCAC tends to prove they have a number of good teams... I am not holding them accountable for not having more further in the tournament. Just as I am not holding the WIAC accountable after having three teams in the Sweet 16 for the first time and only one remains. That happens.

[Gregory Sager]

Ramapo leads MIT at the half, 44-40.

[Gregory Sager]

Swarthmore leads Springfield at the half, 40-33. The Garnet should've had an even bigger lead than that, as they missed a bunch of shots at the rim in the first part of the half.

[Gregory Sager]

Has Whitman been down by 20 all season yet? The Blues are doubled up right now by NebWes, 42-21.

[WUPHF]

The MIT-Ramapo has been a good one. Tie game with 50 seconds left.

[Mr. Ypsi]

With just under 7 to go in the first, Augie has never led, but has finally caught up and tied UWO (at 22, then again at 24).  Oshkosh stormed out to an early 9 point lead., but it looks like yet another tight game in the E8.

[Gregory Sager]

Congratulations to Springfield, which rode superstar Jake Ross tonight to qualify for the school's first-ever D3 Final Four appearance with a 74-62 win over host Swarthmore.

[Gregory Sager]

Christopher Morley hit a pair of free throws with two seconds left to propel Ramapo to its first Final Four appearance since 1991 with a 68-66 win over MIT.

[Gregory Sager]

Nolan Ebel hit a lunging halfcourt shot at the buzzer to send Augie into the locker room with a 39-39 tie with UW-Oshkosh.

Folks across the country are getting a taste of what these two leagues are all about. It's a classic CCIW/WIAC physical, defense-oriented halfcourt game.

[mailsy]

Congrats to Springfield. As much as I would have liked to have seen a team from PA make it I am not displeased to see the Pride win. They took out my Cavs. They have a solid team. I hope their fan base has a great time in Salem. Enjoy it!

[Yogao]

Tied 39-39 at the half in Rock Island. UWO hit a 3 with 6 seconds left, and Augie hit one 10 ft from half court to tie it up going into the half.

[dunkin3117]

UNRANKED Nebraska Wesleyan out of the IIAC up 67-41... Over #1 Whitman...yep...the IIAC is trash...hope I don't eat my words in 20 minutes 

[Mr. Ypsi]

So the first two teams into the Final Four were not only unranked in the last pre-tourney poll, neither received a single vote!   And unless #1 Whitman stages a helluva second-half comeback (they trail NebWes by 26 at the half), that will be a THRIRD unranked team (though NWU at least was the highest among the ORVs).

Parity gone mad!!  (And a few legitimate upsets.)

[Gregory Sager]

Meanwhile, up in Lead City the Prairie Wolves of Nebraska Wesleyan are putting on a shooting clinic en route to a 67-41 lead over #1 Whitman at the half. Check out these team shooting splits for NWU in the first half: .703/.700/.727. The Wolves are beating the Whitman press (only five turnovers) and getting easy layups, and they've hit a bunch of treys off of secondary break kick-outs to the corner.

[Gregory Sager]

I just got name-dropped on the air on the Augie broadcast. That's a weird feeling.