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Post by noreaster on Nov 14, 2015 21:53:06 GMT -5
This tournament is chaotic.
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Post by jcvball22 on Nov 14, 2015 22:46:59 GMT -5
Carthage takes down Calvin 3-1 at Calvin. This is going to be an interesting Final Eight this year. Definitely going to be some new faces!
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Post by jcvball22 on Nov 14, 2015 23:00:44 GMT -5
Emory also loses 3-2 to Hendrix. Woah.
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Post by joc on Nov 14, 2015 23:30:17 GMT -5
Sunday: Cal Lu and WashU in the Regional Final. Juniata versus Wittenberg. MIT versus Bowdoin. Springfield versus Clarkson. Stockton versus Randolph-Macon. Bethel advances. So glad I didn't run the bracket challenge this year. We'd all be pulling our hair out.
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Post by diiifan on Nov 15, 2015 12:44:21 GMT -5
Has there ever been a year when a team didn't get in that could realistically win the championship? No. Even if LaVerne got in, I can't imagine them getting to the championship. Wanted to revisit this comment. On the surface, I agree. When we talk about bubble teams then we are really not talking about teams that can win the title or even win a regional. This has certainly been true in the past. Then a team like Bethel gets into the tournament with a late push in their season and takes down the defending champion and finds them winning the regional that had Whitewater. Now they are matched against Hendrix for a final 4 bid. We really don't have that one dominate team in D3 this year outside of Emory (whoops) and Calvin (whoops) and...well, you get the point. As we get more parity among the top 20 or 30 teams (and this year may just be a one-off season), it does become more important to get the most qualified teams in the tournament and spread the ranked teams around within the regionals.
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Post by d3coach on Nov 15, 2015 13:44:41 GMT -5
The D3 mission isn't to get the best teams in the NCAA tournament because there is an emphasis on regionalization. The problem is that it's wishy washy. D2 makes it strictly regionalized. D1 has minimal regionalization. D3 is stuck in between.
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Post by courtmama on Nov 15, 2015 18:57:40 GMT -5
AVCA #9 CLU earns the last spot in the Elite Eight winning over #1 Washington - St. Louis in 4.
Coming out of the eight Regionals are 1 first seed (Clarkson); 4 second seeds (Wittenberg, Hendrix, Carthage, Bowdoin); a fourth seed (Randolph-Macon); and 2 sixth seeds (Cal Lu, Bethel).
Good luck in Grand Rapids next week to all of the National Quarterfinalists!!!
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Post by courtmama on Nov 15, 2015 19:04:01 GMT -5
Comparing the Elite Eight against the Nov 10 AVCA Poll, we have #6, 9, 13, 18, and RV (26, 28, 40, and 43 by # of votes received). That West Regional really was the bracket from Hades...
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Post by bigfan on Nov 15, 2015 19:08:15 GMT -5
Emory also loses 3-2 to Hendrix. Woah. WONDERFUL NEWS! This is a very early Christmas present.
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Post by joc on Nov 15, 2015 19:22:20 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2015 21:04:37 GMT -5
6 Wittenberg 9 Cal Lu 13 Carthage 18 Clarkson RV Hendrix RV Bowdoin RV Randolph-Macon RV Bethel
Is the best team this year winning the National Championship? I've been on a tournament-bashing tirade the last week, but this is silly. The selection committee managed to knockout several title contenders by putting them at the same region.
That being said, I'm pulling for Cal Lu. One of the few teams in my career I've played more than once, but never beaten.
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Post by joc on Nov 16, 2015 0:10:25 GMT -5
The Committee did a lot of Region splitting this year. For example, they sent the top teams from the following regions to different regionals: New York: #1 Clarkson (Clarkson), #2 Stockton (Stockton) Mid-Atlantic: #1 Juniata (Juniata), #2 Christopher Newport (Stockton) Great Lakes: #1 Calvin (Calvin), #2 Wittenberg (Juniata) Midwest: #1 Whitewater (Whitewater, #2 Carthage (Calvin) Central: #1 WashU (Cal Lu), #2 Gustavus (Whitewater) New England: #1 MIT (MIT), #2 Springfield (Clarkson)
It's almost as if there is a philosophy out there to crossover regions to see if one is stronger than another. Geography played a role in why the South and West stayed together though. And with no Central host, that's why everyone but WashU migrated East. Hendrix could reach Berry by bus, and the West needed a team, so almost by default, that seems why WashU was the logical choice. Why Witt ended up at Juniata I imagine. Regional crossover x geography = weird matchups.
Just a season with some cool parody this year. Hendrix and Randolph-Macon knocking off top teams makes the quarters look watered down. But those teams proved it on the court, so hard to argue those results. Even Carthage proved it on the court. Would WashU/Cal Lu and Juniata/Witt have been better as quarters, sure. But hard to orchestrate that with the field that was selected. That's what is hard to design together.
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Post by jcvball22 on Nov 16, 2015 1:39:07 GMT -5
Pablo Rankings for Regional Finalists (Pablo Rankings for all teams in the Regional):
Mid Atlantic: #1 Juniata vs #3 Wittenberg (#1, #3, #37, #42, #46, #62, #132, #208) West: #2 WashU vs #5 Cal Lutheran (#2, #5, #7, #14, #17, #44, #137, #144) Central: #4 Calvin vs #8 Carthage (#4, #8, #11, #14, #21, #33, #38, #117) South: #5 Emory vs #35 Hendrix (#5, #13, #35, #45, #56, #60, #139, #168) North Central: #29 Bethel vs #53 Northwestern (#10, #16, #20, #22, #27, #29, #30, #53) Eastern: #32 Randolph Macon vs #67 Stockton (#9, #24, #32, #67, #71, #106, #190, #265) New York: #48 Clarkson vs #53 Springfield (#48, #53, #59, #63, #83, #213, #313, #316) New England: #49 MIT vs #65 Bowdoin (#23, #49, #65, #99, #124, #150, #229, #320)
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Post by d3follower on Nov 16, 2015 3:10:06 GMT -5
... It's almost as if there is a philosophy out there to crossover regions to see if one is stronger than another. Geography played a role in why the South and West stayed together though. And with no Central host, that's why everyone but WashU migrated East. Hendrix could reach Berry by bus, and the West needed a team, so almost by default, that seems why WashU was the logical choice. Why Witt ended up at Juniata I imagine. Regional crossover x geography = weird matchups. ... A nerdy detail, but Hendrix is 517 miles from Berry. Oddly, Greenville is within 500 miles of Berry, but Hendrix is not.
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Post by d3follower on Nov 16, 2015 3:13:40 GMT -5
The first pass of the 2015 Nationals Guide is ready for perusal. Updates will be made this week to the schedule, All-America players and team stat ranks.
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