2019 NCAA Tournament

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Titan Q

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For Hoopsville tonight, it will help to have final projected regional rankings correct.  Anyone who has time to zero in on final regional rankings for a region or two (or three, or all) we'd love to see your thoughts.  A couple sources for the data you need:

https://tomaroonandgold.blogspot.com/p/division-iii-mens-regional-rankings.html

http://www.fantastic50.net/d3h_men.html

And here are the last regional rankings - https://www.d3hoops.com/notables/2019/02/men-regional-rankings-third.

Those regional orders are very important obviously.  Thanks.

Dave 'd-mac' McHugh



This is it! The regular season is over. The conference titles have been handed out and 86 teams know they will be playing next week in the NCAA Division III men's and women's Championship Tournaments!

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Smitty Oom

Quote from: Titan Q on February 24, 2019, 04:03:27 PM
Quote from: KnightSlappy on February 24, 2019, 03:41:41 PM
I don't think we can pull enough teams west to support the number of "deserving" West/Central hosts. North Central and Loras are probably on the road. (I'm personally slotting St. John's ahead of Loras but could be convinced otherwise).

I think between St. John's, North Central, and Loras two will host and one will get shut out.  Seems like St. John's will pass Loras in the final West ranking...so my money would be on Loras to be the odd team out.

I agree on this, but it would probably be easier to construct a competitvely balanced bracket and pods with Loras hosting over SJU due to its more centralized location to other tournament qualifiers.

This is just speculation, I haven't researched which teams can reach Loras in Dubuque, IA that cannot reach St. John's in Collegeville, MN.

Titan Q

#123
For example.  Central region...

Last Central Ranking (through games of Sunday 2/17)
1. Augustana: .920/.534/7-2
2. UW-Oshkosh: .920/.541/3-2
3. Wheaton: .720/.567/4-4
4. North Central: .800/.520/3-3
5. UW-La Crosse: .680/.575/3-2
6. UW-Stevens Point: .667/.586/1-6
7. Illinois Wesleyan: .680/.560/2-7
8. Chicago: .625/.563/4-2

Projected Central Final Ranking (through games of Sunday 2/24)
1. Augustana: .889/.547/8-3
2. UW-Oshkosh: .885/.542/3-3
3. North Central: .815/.543/5-3
4. Wheaton: .704/.576/4-5
5. UW-Platteville: .630/.593/6-5
6. UW-Stevens Point: .667/.590/2-6
7. Illinois Wesleyan: .667/.569/2-8
8. UW-La Crosse: .654/.574/4-2
(Washington U: .680/.565/3-6)

KnightSlappy

Oshkosh can't host due to women. Does the NCAA tend to just move that pod and keep Oshkosh as the "1", or would they move Oshkosh to another site (say North Central) and make the Titans serve as the "2"?

Dave 'd-mac' McHugh

Quote from: KnightSlappy on February 24, 2019, 04:25:05 PM
Oshkosh can't host due to women. Does the NCAA tend to just move that pod and keep Oshkosh as the "1", or would they move Oshkosh to another site (say North Central) and make the Titans serve as the "2"?

Top ranked teams tend to be moved to another team in the pod they were bracketed with ... not to another team that is similarly ranked. They still get treated like the top team.
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FCGrizzliesGrad

Shouldn't be an issue in the AMCC as the power is back on at La Roche, but what would happen if a conference couldn't complete it's tournament by selection time?
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Quote from: FCGrizzliesGrad on February 24, 2019, 05:11:40 PM
Shouldn't be an issue in the AMCC as the power is back on at La Roche, but what would happen if a conference couldn't complete it's tournament by selection time?

It has already become an issue - they needed the selections in by 6pm ET. They had to request an extension. They have until 8pm ET.

If they can't make it, I suspect they will revert back to the regular season title winner.
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Smitty Oom

So what you are saying is that La Roche wanted to ensure their own spot int he NCAA tourney and have the "power go off" during the championship game?  Seems like a smart play to me. ;D :D


ronk

Quote from: Smitty Oom on February 24, 2019, 06:38:37 PM
So what you are saying is that La Roche wanted to ensure their own spot int he NCAA tourney and have the "power go off" during the championship game?  Seems like a smart play to me. ;D :D

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ronk

Well done for spur-of-the moment. Is their mascot a bobcat?

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Alas, they're the Redhawks.
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iwumichigander

The RedHawk is there --- inside the cat  ;D

Pat Coleman

Quote from: Dave 'd-mac' McHugh on February 24, 2019, 04:36:19 PM
Quote from: KnightSlappy on February 24, 2019, 04:25:05 PM
Oshkosh can't host due to women. Does the NCAA tend to just move that pod and keep Oshkosh as the "1", or would they move Oshkosh to another site (say North Central) and make the Titans serve as the "2"?

Top ranked teams tend to be moved to another team in the pod they were bracketed with ... not to another team that is similarly ranked. They still get treated like the top team.

How this went down in our bracketing process is we started with UW-Oshkosh in a pod which was hosted by the 3-seed, Hanover. As the process progressed, we needed to move Hanover elsewhere and we ended up with UWO's pod being at the 4 seed, Lake Forest.
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