2021 NCAA Tournament

[PaulNewman]

The OWU video also has a strange, annoying buzz.  OWU used to have excellent broadcast with good PbP.

Game not over but give Calvin their props.  I used to underestimate them because they look a little rag-taggy which may be the uniforms, but they win and win and win.  Souders is just an unreal coach.

I hope Brown knows what he's doing with Kenyon.  He played 4-5 kids who rarely play and then another regular sub, and at least 3 of them including the regular sub lost the ball easily like 20 out of 20 times.  Seemed weird to have all those guys on the pitch with just a 3-1 lead and Catholic easily could have made the game 3-2.  Maybe strategizing to have key guys rested for tomorrow, but concerned that a regular sub looked so lackadaisical and he was one of the players completely oblivious on the play Catholic scored on that got called back.  Credit to Catholic for fighting to the end.

[blue_jays]

Both were pretty sick...

This OWU announcer is either announcing a calm quiet Tennis match or a really tense cat burglary in process.

Gotta say I LOLd on this one

EDIT: I tuned in for the final moments of this match and the announcer sounded tranquilized. The camera didn't keep up with the action, and they ended the broadcast 2 seconds after the final horn.

[PaulNewman]

Blast from the past....Loras knocks out North Central....Scoreboard earlier said North Central won.

Also was confused by Midd game as F&M screen score said Oneonta won.

[Falconer]

PaulNewman likely has his Xanax out, and with good reason — Catholic has a goal waved off with a few minutes left before the interval. Cardinal player does his best Trent Alexander-Arnold impression in playing the ball quickly from a restart but the ref wasn't having it. Kenyon started bright and Martinez looks wily and energetic on the ball, but Catholic has grown into it. Well-poised and 0-0 at half.

I echo this description of the first half, which I attended. It was damp and cold, with the best seats fully in the shade, so I didn't stay for the second half—when Kenyon wiped them out, judging from the 4-1 final score. What happened, that the Catholic keeper got a straight red?

Kenyon was clearly the better team in the first half, so the result isn't surprising. I would say, the Messiah-Kenyon match tomorrow is the toughest early game in the tournament for anyone, even tougher than Calvin-OWU.

[Hopkins Walk-On]

Pacific Lutheran beat Trinity in PKs.

[Falconer]

The OWU video also has a strange, annoying buzz.  OWU used to have excellent broadcast with good PbP.

Game not over but give Calvin their props.  I used to underestimate them because they look a little rag-taggy which may be the uniforms, but they win and win and win.  Souders is just an unreal coach.

I hope Brown knows what he's doing with Kenyon.  He played 4-5 kids who rarely play and then another regular sub, and at least 3 of them including the regular sub lost the ball easily like 20 out of 20 times.  Seemed weird to have all those guys on the pitch with just a 3-1 lead and Catholic easily could have made the game 3-2.  Maybe strategizing to have key guys rested for tomorrow, but concerned that a regular sub looked so lackadaisical and he was one of the players completely oblivious on the play Catholic scored on that got called back.  Credit to Catholic for fighting to the end.

My guess is resting the starters. Once the Falcons got their second goal, the starters left and didn't return.

[PaulNewman]

Pacific Lutheran beat Trinity in PKs.

Wow.  The tournament is phenomenal and brutal.

[deiscanton]

I just checked the NSN channel on my Roku TV, and it is stating that the suspended game of St. Joe's Maine vs NYU is scheduled to resume at 7:30 PM Eastern on a soccer pitch in the New London, CT area that has lights.   

It is scheduled to resume with St. Joe's Maine having a 2-1 lead over NYU in approx the 74th minute.

[Mr.Right]

Pacific Lutheran beat Trinity in PKs.

The Lutes "friggin storming the field"......Actually they hit 4 good kicks.

[Mr.Right]

I just checked the NSN channel on my Roku TV, and it is stating that the suspended game of St. Joe's Maine vs NYU is scheduled to resume at 7:30 PM Eastern on a soccer pitch in the New London, CT area that has lights.   

It is scheduled to resume with St. Joe's Maine having a 2-1 lead over NYU in approx the 74th minute.

What a sh*t show....4 hours later...just find a random field and start er up

[deiscanton]

I just checked the NSN channel on my Roku TV, and it is stating that the suspended game of St. Joe's Maine vs NYU is scheduled to resume at 7:30 PM Eastern on a soccer pitch in the New London, CT area that has lights.   

It is scheduled to resume with St. Joe's Maine having a 2-1 lead over NYU in approx the 74th minute.

What a sh*t show....4 hours later...just find a random field and start er up

I was not able to look at the St. Joe's Monks twitter feed until now, but according to their twitter feed, the tweet was sent around 5 PM Eastern on their feed that the game would be resumed at Silfen Field on the Conn College campus, which is their supplemental turf pitch with lights.  The game started on the grass pitch at Harkness Field.  NSN is providing coverage of the conclusion of the match.

It was best to wait though.  The storm that just passed through Connecticut, RI, and MA over the past few hours triggered at least four tornado warnings in Rhode Island and SE Massachusetts, including Martha's Vineyard and Cape Cod.  There was also a lot of damage from this system on Long Island, NY.

[camosfan]

thought that game was over ? St Joes 2-1.

[PaulNewman]

Amidst all the excitement, Hanover knocks out Lynchburg in OT (unless the scoreboard is wrong).

[LetteroftheLaw]

PaulNewman likely has his Xanax out, and with good reason — Catholic has a goal waved off with a few minutes left before the interval. Cardinal player does his best Trent Alexander-Arnold impression in playing the ball quickly from a restart but the ref wasn't having it. Kenyon started bright and Martinez looks wily and energetic on the ball, but Catholic has grown into it. Well-poised and 0-0 at half.

I echo this description of the first half, which I attended. It was damp and cold, with the best seats fully in the shade, so I didn't stay for the second half—when Kenyon wiped them out, judging from the 4-1 final score. What happened, that the Catholic keeper got a straight red?

Kenyon was clearly the better team in the first half, so the result isn't surprising. I would say, the Messiah-Kenyon match tomorrow is the toughest early game in the tournament for anyone, even tougher than Calvin-OWU.

Kenyon scored twice quickly in the second half to go up 2-0. Catholics keeper recklessly came out of his box and challenged with a slide tackle where he completely took out the Lord on a breakaway, deserving a red. That was basically the nail in Catholics coffin, although cheers to them for scoring a man down and fighting to the end and credit to the backup keeper who made a lot of good saves or else the score line could have gotten really ugly. Kenyon vs Messiah is a very interesting second round matchup.

[deiscanton]

thought that game was over ? St Joes 2-1.

I got confused as well, looking at the NCAA soccer rules, and looking at the NCAA DIII Soccer Tournament Pre-Championship Handbook, it did not have explicit info about weather-related issues delaying games that was separate from the NCAA Soccer Rules book.  However, the rules book did state that the match had to be resumed today if it was going to be resumed at all, and the game will resume on a separate turf field on the Conn College campus with lights at 7:30 PM Eastern with the score being St. Joe's leading over NYU 2-1 in the 74th minute.  NSN will stream the conclusion of the game.  Apparently, this was cleared by the NCAA DIII Men's Soccer Committee in advance.