2020 NCAA Tournament

[Oline89]

Liberty League goes 3/3.  Big wins for RPI, Ithaca and Hobart

[CNU85]

I was worried about this game earlier in the week when I heard #45 wouldn't be playing. Glad he can suit up tomorrow.

[CNU85]

Congrats to York for their win!

[Gregory Sager]

Steve Moore's tremendous coaching career comes to an end, as Wooster is upset on its home floor by Grove City, 67-62.

If I'm reading the NCAA record book correctly, this marks the first tourney win for a PrAC team since Bethany beat PSU-Behrend in the first round all the way back in the 2002 tourney, 110-98.

[Gregory Sager]

Big upset at Goldfarb Gym in Baltimore, as host Johns Hopkins goes down in overtime to first-time tourney participant PSU-Harrisburg, 104-96, behind Donyae Baylor-Carroll's 45 points. JHU star Connor Delaney was hurt and missed most of the game.

[Ralph Turner]

if NCAA would only open its wallet, this could happen like it does in D1.  How cool of an experience would that be for players?

I like the unique elements of how the D3 tournament works.  I wish they'd loosen the reigns a little in terms of budget to better balance the bracket, but we don't need to do a 100% national bracket like d1.  You do lose something in that.

The only I would like a more national level is so we don't  see St. Thomas and St. John's possibly  meeting sooner than later. So we don't  see conference opponents like Texas-Dallas and LeTourneau possibly meeting in the 2nd round. Move conference teams as far away from each other as possible.

I am just glad to see the ASC get a Pool C bid!

It was a great first round at UT-Dallas tonight...two 2-point games!

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

For those wondering ... I'll have opinions on the Hopkins thing on Hoopsville Sunday.

Simply, the inconsistencies and the actions those on hand were instructed to carry out didn't hold up to any tests. They blamed cases in Maryland, but ...

Just watch the show ... i'm not doing this tonight.

[Greek Tragedy]

Sounds intriguing.

[Ralph Turner]

Big upset at Goldfarb Gym in Baltimore, as host Johns Hopkins goes down in overtime to first-time tourney participant PSU-Harrisburg, 104-96, behind Donyae Baylor-Carroll's 45 points. JHU star Connor Delaney was hurt and missed most of the game.

Did the ban of fans attending the JHU-PSU-Harrisburg game make it almost a "Neutral Court"? Just thinking...

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Big upset at Goldfarb Gym in Baltimore, as host Johns Hopkins goes down in overtime to first-time tourney participant PSU-Harrisburg, 104-96, behind Donyae Baylor-Carroll's 45 points. JHU star Connor Delaney was hurt and missed most of the game.

Did the ban of fans attending the JHU-PSU-Harrisburg game make it almost a "Neutral Court"? Just thinking...

There's probably less of a home court advantage, but you get familiar lockerrooms and a normal schedule.  It's definitely not netural.

[Ralph Turner]

The recent talk of splitting men's and women's hoops in the ten regions makes me think that we saw a "Region (Roman numeral) X" playoff with a Northwest Conference team, a SCAC team and 2 ASC teams in the pod.

[Ralph Turner]

Big upset at Goldfarb Gym in Baltimore, as host Johns Hopkins goes down in overtime to first-time tourney participant PSU-Harrisburg, 104-96, behind Donyae Baylor-Carroll's 45 points. JHU star Connor Delaney was hurt and missed most of the game.

Did the ban of fans attending the JHU-PSU-Harrisburg game make it almost a "Neutral Court"? Just thinking...

There's probably less of a home court advantage, but you get familiar lockerrooms and a normal schedule.  It's definitely not neutral.

Then "the stars were aligning" for PSU-H to have a chance to pull it off!

[Greek Tragedy]

The recent talk of splitting men's and women's hoops in the ten regions makes me think that we saw a "Region (Roman numeral) X" playoff with a Northwest Conference team, a SCAC team and 2 ASC teams in the pod.

From the sounds of it, the WIAC will move back into the West with the MIAC? We'll have two regional playoffs tonight with Eau Claire taking on St. John's and Platteville hosting St. Thomas.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Big upset at Goldfarb Gym in Baltimore, as host Johns Hopkins goes down in overtime to first-time tourney participant PSU-Harrisburg, 104-96, behind Donyae Baylor-Carroll's 45 points. JHU star Connor Delaney was hurt and missed most of the game.

Did the ban of fans attending the JHU-PSU-Harrisburg game make it almost a "Neutral Court"? Just thinking...

There's probably less of a home court advantage, but you get familiar lockerrooms and a normal schedule.  It's definitely not neutral.

Then "the stars were aligning" for PSU-H to have a chance to pull it off!

PSUH was ahead when Delaney went down.  That's not to say he couldn't have helped JHU comeback - obviously he would've been tough to handle - but Harrisburg was ready and they played really well.

[lmitzel]

Big upset at Goldfarb Gym in Baltimore, as host Johns Hopkins goes down in overtime to first-time tourney participant PSU-Harrisburg, 104-96, behind Donyae Baylor-Carroll's 45 points. JHU star Connor Delaney was hurt and missed most of the game.

Did the ban of fans attending the JHU-PSU-Harrisburg game make it almost a "Neutral Court"? Just thinking...

There's probably less of a home court advantage, but you get familiar lockerrooms and a normal schedule.  It's definitely not netural.

I did a little research on this in grad school. Crowd support is an oft-cited home advantage factor, but based on a study of European soccer where teams would have to play in front of empty crowds, or another that factored in two clubs that shared a stadium, crowd support isn't as big a factor as you think it would be. I'd have to go back and look at the actual study and data though.