2022 D3 tourney

[ADL70]

Incidentally, CWRU is the only UAA survivor tonight; the three other members of that conference in this tournament -- Emory, WashU, and Rochester -- all bowed out here in the second round.

CWRU could be a top 10 team if only they could play two halves of basketball, or even the last two minutes of the first half.

Spartans were down at the half to Dubuque 46-38 and to UWO 41-27. Also down to Carnegie-Mellon 35-25 at the half in the last regular season game.

I think that I'm going to get to see the Spartans in Belton, Friday night. If, as I suspect UMHB hosts the Sweet 16.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Incidentally, CWRU is the only UAA survivor tonight; the three other members of that conference in this tournament -- Emory, WashU, and Rochester -- all bowed out here in the second round.

CWRU could be a top 10 team if only they could play two halves of basketball, or even the last two minutes of the first half.

Spartans were down at the half to Dubuque 46-38 and to UWO 41-27. Also down to Carnegie-Mellon 35-25 at the half in the last regular season game.

I think that I'm going to get to see the Spartans in Belton, Friday night. If, as I suspect UMHB hosts the Sweet 16.

Elmhurst is 1) still alive, 2) seeded higher than UMHB, and 3) drive-able for two of the three teams who'd have to go there.

Elmhurst will host unless they simply don't want to do it.

[SpringSt7]

Expanding from 500 miles to 600 miles is such a joke. Credit to them for making a more national bracket but it just feels like such a consistent slap in the face to penny pinch for this tournament.

[Baldini]

Men's hosts are likely: Elmhurst, IWU, RMC, and Marietta.

Women's host are likely: Amherst, Baldwin-Wallace, Transylvania, and Hope.

If I worked the mileage chart right, it equals 5 flights on the women's side and is the best case the NCAA has. 

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Men's hosts are likely: Elmhurst, IWU, RMC, and Marietta.

Women's host are likely: Amherst, Baldwin-Wallace, Transylvania, and Hope.

If I worked the mileage chart right, it equals 5 flights on the women's side and is the best case the NCAA has.

Yep.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Expanding from 500 miles to 600 miles is such a joke. Credit to them for making a more national bracket but it just feels like such a consistent slap in the face to penny pinch for this tournament.

They did it because teams traveling between 500 and 600 miles weren't actually flying anyway; they almost always choose to bus.

[7express]

Men's hosts are likely: Elmhurst, IWU, RMC, and Marietta.

Women's host are likely: Amherst, Baldwin-Wallace, Transylvania, and Hope.

You don't think Newport will host that upper left pod??  They'd have to fly Trinity anyways, so I don't see why Newport wouldn't host it otherwise unless they'd have to fly Tufts in too.  Newport has the better record, and probably the higher seed in that half of the bracket.   

[DagarmanSpartan]

Unranked CWRU over #3 ranked and defending national champ Wisc-Oshkosh has got to be the D3 upset of the season.

GO SPARTANS!!!

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Men's hosts are likely: Elmhurst, IWU, RMC, and Marietta.

Women's host are likely: Amherst, Baldwin-Wallace, Transylvania, and Hope.

You don't think Newport will host that upper left pod??  They'd have to fly Trinity anyways, so I don't see why Newport wouldn't host it otherwise unless they'd have to fly Tufts in too.  Newport has the better record, and probably the higher seed in that half of the bracket.

That's the reason. Amherst to Newport is 565 but Tufts to Newport is 619. Amherst hosting is 1 flight, CNU hosting is 2 flights

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

I know they're typos, but the bottom right portion of the bracket is quite interesting...
PS-Harrisburg advanced to round 2 after a 53-53 tie over St Joseph (they won 63-53)
RPI will face themselves in the Sweet 16 (should be RPI vs WPI)

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Unranked CWRU over #3 ranked and defending national champ Wisc-Oshkosh has got to be the D3 upset of the season.

GO SPARTANS!!!

Plus, according to the updated bracket on the NCAA site, Case gets to host Sectionals next weekend.

[7express]

Men's hosts are likely: Elmhurst, IWU, RMC, and Marietta.

Women's host are likely: Amherst, Baldwin-Wallace, Transylvania, and Hope.

You don't think Newport will host that upper left pod??  They'd have to fly Trinity anyways, so I don't see why Newport wouldn't host it otherwise unless they'd have to fly Tufts in too.  Newport has the better record, and probably the higher seed in that half of the bracket.

That's the reason. Amherst to Newport is 565 but Tufts to Newport is 619. Amherst hosting is 1 flight, CNU hosting is 2 flights

Woof!  Talk about getting screwed!  The #1 team in the country can't host either the first weekend, because the men's team gets hosting priority and can't host the second weekend either because of the bean counters at corporate.  And not only that, they are probably playing at the 2nd best team to boot.  Johns Hopkins was definitely the 2nd seed in that mini pod, and Amherst is probably the 2nd best team out of those 4.  NCAA needs to do something.  If you are a top 4 overall seed (which Newport definitely is), you should be able to host at least one of the two weekends, either flights be damned, or a school like Whitewater or Newport that could host both men's and women's games at the same time either do that, but Newport should DEFINITELY be hosting at least 1 weekend!

[GoPerry]

Unranked CWRU over #3 ranked and defending national champ Wisc-Oshkosh has got to be the D3 upset of the season.

GO SPARTANS!!!

Plus, according to the updated bracket on the NCAA site, Case gets to host Sectionals next weekend.

That strikes me as pretty surprising.  Would the committee really have had CWRU (#5RR, region 7) seeded higher than Elmhurst (#3RR, region 8) in that bracket?  EC higher win pct.  CWRU slightly higher SOS.  UMHB is flying no matter what.

Or perhaps there's an event at EC where they're not able to host the 2nd weekend?

[Greek Tragedy]

Unranked CWRU over #3 ranked and defending national champ Wisc-Oshkosh has got to be the D3 upset of the season.

GO SPARTANS!!!

Stevens over Mount Union in the 1st round is a huge upset as well, I would think.

[thebear]

Looking at the tea leaves, If seeds are honored:

Upper Left
Elmhurst Hosts, Mary Hardin Baylor flies

Lower Left
IWU Hosts, Williams flies

Upper Right
Marietta hosts, others can bus [all 400-500 mile bus rides]

Lower Right
Randolph Macon Hosts, others can bus [all ~500 mile bus rides]

Be interesting to see the end result