2021 NCAA Tournament

[Gotberg]

Great goal for NPU. It was coming. I think it was the 49 who weighted a perfect pass. Good player.

Correct, great pass from Isak Flo.

[Mr.Right]

Absolute Strikers Goal but a great weighted ball....1-0 NPU Final....They just had a little more quality in attack and showed no panic. St.Olaf really well done as well as they will all be back with only 3 Seniors....

[SimpleCoach]

Absolute Strikers Goal but a great weighted ball....1-0 NPU Final....They just had a little more quality in attack and showed no panic. St.Olaf really well done as well as they will all be back with only 3 Seniors....

The pass was just a thing of beauty.  Perfect weight, in stride, between three defenders... wow.

[Mr.Right]

Calvin at Chicago 0-0 Halftime....Good competitive game. Love the Announcers...Color dude doing some serious tactical breakdown.

[mr_b]

Absolute Strikers Goal but a great weighted ball....1-0 NPU Final....They just had a little more quality in attack and showed no panic. St.Olaf really well done as well as they will all be back with only 3 Seniors....

I'll have to look for a video clip of the goal. I watched the first 60 minutes and then had to teach an afternoon class, so I missed the exciting finish.  Both very evenly matched teams in a great game.  Congrats to the Vikings for advancing, and congrats to St. Olaf for great season.

[Mr.Right]

Chicago defeats Calvin 1-0 on another fantastic clinical finish. UC #14 Yetishefsky is some striker. Can really strike a ball with both feet. UC two 6'4 Central Defenders are beasts...Good good team.

[Saint of Old]

Feel real badly for Calvin man, always a bridesmaid it seems.
The one thing is that they keep playing quality football year in year out and always make noise in the Dance. One of the truly elite programs out there for sure.

[mr_b]

Calvin at Chicago 0-0 Halftime....Good competitive game. Love the Announcers...Color dude doing some serious tactical breakdown.

The announcers are first-rate -- very knowledgeable.

[SlideTackle]

SlideTackle, I think saying NESCAC got no respect is a bit of distortion.  They did get 4, which is pretty good and about what they usually get.  Yes, they deserved five this year. And yes, they should have gotten one of the Centennial bids and Rochester should not have received a bid.

The geographic concentration of the NESCAC in a singular area doesn't help their case. 
The UAA is spread out and each of the teams could be theoretically be considered top team in their region and have the entire conference get in. 
And the Centennial teams have a lot more wiggle room geographically as well. 

And this has probably been discussed before, but why isn't Tufts in the UAA?  Their academic profile as a research university with endless graduate programs certainly matches the UAA teams more than the NESCAC.

Not sure what geographics has to do with this. If you put NESCAC teams that finished 5-10 this year in several other region I or even region II conferences they'd win far more games and likely finish in the top 2 in many if not all of those conferences.  Hamilton, who finished 10th in the NESCAC this year and is quite talented, beat Oneonta in October.  Oneonta gave Mid a good game but finishes the year having lost to 2 NESCSAC teams. I don't think Cortland will be very competitive against Amherst, but we shall see.

Don't recall all of this year's games, but I believe in UAA v. NESCAC this year NESCAC teams won their games and I don't believe gave up a goal.  The two I recall are Tufts 4-0 over Brandeis and Conn 3-0 over NYU.  Both those NESCAC teams lost to or tied NESCAC teams that didn't get bids to the tournament.  I guess every year is different, but the last tournament had 2 NESCACs in the national finals, they have been ranked in the top 10 most of the year and yet the committee gave only 4 slots to NESCAC and 5 to UAA. I wouldn't chalk that up to geographics.  Probavbly more a misjudgment of conference strength.

Amherst 2
Cortland 0

17th minute of first half.  Giammattei with goals 30 seconds apart. So far Cortland not vey competitive.

[Hopkins92]

Not saying Amherst aren't, obviously, the better team, but that ref sure bought a (well-crafted) dive on that PK.

[SlideTackle]

Not saying Amherst aren't, obviously, the better team, but that ref sure bought a (well-crafted) dive on that PK.

Agreed.  Gave Amherst good momentum and I'm sure was deflating.

Watched yesterday's games and boy were they fun to watch and really comeptitive. A lot of parity there and all 4 teams deserved a W.  Can't say that about this game so far.

[PaulNewman]

NSN guy acting like his payday depends on keeping viewers around for 2nd half.

[Buck O.]

I missed the beginning of the Amherst-Cortland game.  I was about to watch, but I checked the score first.  3-0 at the half.  Looks like Cortland missed the start of the game, too.

[Hopkins92]

I missed the beginning of the Amherst-Cortland game.  I was about to watch, but I checked the score first.  3-0 at the half.  Looks like Cortland missed the start of the game, too.

No offense, completely neutral observer... Two completely different level of teams. Amherst with an extremely difficult combo of gritty, hard-nosed defense and fluid and very direct (in a good way) approach to the attack. Cortland couldn't possess or string more then 2 passes together.

[Hopkins92]

Question for the group: Is it better to get bounced in the first weekend, or make it to the second weekend and get run off the field?