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North Region football / Re: Northern Athletics Conference
« on: June 06, 2013, 12:35:16 pm »
The Northern Athletic Conference will become the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference on July 1 (along with Rockford becoming a university): http://www.northernac.org/releases/2012-13/20130606nacc

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Midwest Region / Re: MBB: Northern Athletics Conference
« on: June 06, 2013, 12:33:23 pm »
The conference (along with Rockford) will have a slightly different name next year: http://www.northernac.org/releases/2012-13/20130606nacc

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What sport should we add boards for? / Re: Lacrosse
« on: May 01, 2013, 04:31:15 pm »
May be nothing but Lawrence is planning on renovating their football stadium. The drawings have line for lacrosse on the field.

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General football / Re: Pool B
« on: April 30, 2013, 11:54:45 pm »
Quote from: Pat Coleman on April 30, 2013, 03:21:51 pm
Quote from: Gray Fox on April 29, 2013, 05:48:37 pm
Will that help schools like Austin complete a schedule where they don't have to double up on teams?
The MIAC now needs games.

It doesn't really change MIAC schedules. Macalester has played two or three MIAC schools a year since they left the MIAC for football a decade ago and it looks like they could continue to play two (say, rival Carleton and area beatable opponent Hamline). That really only leaves one MIAC school with one game to fill.

And all the other MWC schools will now need an additional non-conference opponent.

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West Region football / Re: Midwest Conference
« on: April 25, 2013, 12:20:10 am »
Quote from: gbpuckfan on April 24, 2013, 09:10:28 pm
Seems like two teams could end up playing each other twice this way. Wonder how they will decide who is home for the last week? All north one year, all south the next?

That would be the easiest way to handle it. Then you would no before the season if you needs workers for a home game that week or need to budget for an away game.

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General football / Re: Shirts, and stickers and decals oh my!
« on: April 18, 2013, 12:21:39 pm »
Just saw an older woman in a Salem State sweatshirt in a Starbucks in eastern Wisconsin.

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Multi-Regional Topics / Re: Pool C
« on: February 25, 2013, 12:55:57 pm »
Quote from: SevenTen on February 25, 2013, 12:54:49 pm
Wow.  WashU, Whitewater, North Central, and Illinois Wesleyan all in the same 8 team grouping... yeesh.  Only the #2, #3, #6 and #12 teams in the nation per Massey's ratings:  http://masseyratings.com/rate.php?lg=cb&yr=2013&sub=11620

Basically what I was concerned about.  Not having the ability to create "central hosting sites" means compressing the tournament into 8 little geographic tournaments which doesn't spread the top teams across the nation all that well.

Who the heck hosts the second and third round games of that group if the first round is chalk?

Or if the first round is mass anarchy.

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Midwest Region / Re: MBB: Midwest Conference
« on: February 25, 2013, 12:45:56 am »
Fun fact about playing Grinnell in the MWC Tourney: No team has defeated Grinnell in the semis and taken the championship since Lawrence in 1997.

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Multi-Regional Topics / Re: Conference Tournaments
« on: February 17, 2013, 01:45:49 am »
Quote from: Mr. Ypsi on February 16, 2013, 10:45:19 pm
CCIW still has games to go on Tuesday.  Not sure, but I think the tourney is Friday and Saturday at the Shirk Center in Bloomington.

Friday 1st game: #2,3 Wheaton vs. #2,3 NCC (not sure it is yet settled who is #2 and who is #3, but on a neutral court, does it really matter?! :P)
          2nd game: #4 Augustana* @ #1 IWU

Title game: Saturday (I haven't located times for any of the games yet).

*I'm not positive that Carthage has been eliminated as #4, but Augie is pretty certain

It is important on deciding who gets to wear their home colors.

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Multi-Regional Topics / Re: Conference Tournaments
« on: February 14, 2013, 10:49:17 am »
Quote from: Hugenerd on February 14, 2013, 09:02:26 am
Quote from: Hugenerd on February 13, 2013, 08:12:21 pm
NEWMAC Tournament February 20, 23-24 at #1 seed (MIT/WPI)

Wednesday, February 20
#5 Babson at #4 Clark

Saturday, February 23
Semifinals
#4/#5 at #1 MIT/WPI
#3 Springfield/WPI vs. #2 MIT/WPI

Sunday, February 24
Championship

If WPI loses to Clark next Saturday, MIT is the #1 seed (MIT has already completed the conference slate at 10-2, WPI is currently 9-2).  If WPI beats Clark, then MIT and WPI would be tied and I believe all tiebreakers would be tied (MIT and WPI split, and each lost at Springfield).  Therefore, a coin toss would decide the host, unless the conference has recently come up with new tiebreaker criteria that I am unaware of.  I also believe that Springfield would hold the tiebreaker against WPI, if WPI loses on Saturday and Springfield wins (as a result of sweeping Clark, and WPI splitting). So WPI could go from 1st to 3rd in just 2 games.

Apparently the NEWMAC has a tiebreaker criteria I was unaware of.  I thought all tiebreakers had to do with conference games, but apparently non-conference common opponents is a tiebreaker, according to boston.com:

http://www.boston.com/sports/colleges/extras/colleges_blog/2013/02/mit_men_topple.html

"WPI (21-2, 9-2) can still secure home court in next week's NEWMAC tourney, however, with a win against Clark Saturday, with its sweep of nonleague foes Salem State and Rhode Island College serving as the tiebreaker (MIT lost to both teams)."

I don't know how I feel about that as a tiebreaker. I think conference tiebreakers should only consider conference results and/or stats. However, it is using common opponents which is better than the MIAA tiebreaker in football which goes to the better non-conference record.

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General Division III issues / Re: Future of Division III
« on: February 14, 2013, 10:45:40 am »
I think a question that needs to be asked is what is the purpose of the national tournament.

Is it to give deserving teams a postseason experience? If so then I would agree that the number of Pool C teams should be expanded because there are deserving teams left out.

Is the point of the national tournament is to determine the national champion? If so then at-large teams are absolutely unnecessary except in the case of giving the ECAC West teams (or other Pool B teams) a spot to fight for. If you can't win your league (season or tournament) I have pretty strong evidence that suggests you do not deserve to be the national champion ("You can't even come in 1st place in your league and you want to be considered 1st in the nation? That's a ridiculous idea.").

The current tournament is probably the best mix of both. The only safe way is to win your league (whether for your league it is the season or the tournament). If you can't do that you should be grateful they are even considering letting you play for a national championship. Except for Pool B there is a very clear route to the national tournament. If you can't do it you don't have much to complain about when you are preparing to play golf at the start of March.

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Multi-Regional Topics / Re: Conference Tournaments
« on: February 13, 2013, 12:53:46 pm »
Midwest Conference February 22-23 at #1 seed (Grinnell/St. Norbert)

Friday, February 22
#3 Carroll vs. #2 St. Norbert/Grinnell
#4 Ripon at #1 Grinnell/St. Norbert

Saturday, February 23
Championship


If Grinnell wins at Lawrence on Saturday OR St. Norbert loses at Illinois College on Saturday, Grinnell will be the #1 and host. If St. Norbert wins at Illinois College AND Grinnell loses at Lawrence, St. Norbert will be the #1 and host.

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Midwest Region / Re: MBB: Midwest Conference
« on: February 12, 2013, 12:21:33 am »
Quote from: Pat Coleman on February 11, 2013, 11:33:17 pm
Quote from: ExBBaller40 on February 11, 2013, 11:27:00 pm
Thanks OBC and yes that game against Lawrence is a scary one as Lawrence could still be playing for that fourth playoff spot. And even if their not they will be plenty mad enough to play the spoiler for one of the tournament teams looking to host.

Conference tournament weekend in Iowa? Hmm ... that sounds intriguing.

In 2007 the tournament was at Grinnell. There was an ice storm Saturday while Carroll and Lake Forest were warming up for the championship game. The power was knocked out so the game was moved to Sunday at Monmouth. The power was out there as well so it was moved to Knox.

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Multi-Regional Topics / Re: D3 Championship Belt
« on: February 07, 2013, 05:58:10 pm »
Perhaps The BeltTM will choose to sit this postseason out by landing in the hands of a non-conference tournament qualifying team so it does not tempt Division I and Division II schools to try to make heinous yet ultimately futile attempts to steal The BeltTM for themselves.

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West Region football / Re: Midwest Conference
« on: February 02, 2013, 12:08:15 pm »
You can have an eleventh game for a conference championship if it decides who gets the Pool A bid. The New England Football Conference currently does this.

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