2019 NCAA Tournament

[Greek Tragedy]

The CCIW has now sent 4 different teams to the Final Four in the last 7 seasons - North Central (2013), Illinois Wesleyan (2014), Augustana (2015, 2017), Wheaton (2019).  Without digging around, I am not sure any other league can say that?

If you expand it to nine years, the NEWMAC, WIAC, and NESCAC have each sent three.

I'm too busy to actually look, but can someone figure out the records of said leagues at the Final Four, including championships etc? Thanks in advance!

[Gregory Sager]

Since I have the time, I'll allow myself to be Ypsi'ed:

league	FF programs	FF apps	W-L (.pct)	1-2-3-4	chips
WIAC	5 (UWEC, UWO 2, UWP 5, UWSP 4, UWW 5)	17	27-5 (.844)	12-2-1-1	UWP 4, UWSP 4, UWW 4
CCIW	6 (Augustana 6, Carthage, Illinois Wesleyan 6, North Central, North Park 5, Wheaton IL)	20	22-13 (.629)	6-4-9-0	North Park 5, Illinois Wesleyan
NESCAC	6 (Amherst 7, Connecticut C., Middlebury, Trinity CT, Williams 8)	18	13-18 (.419)	3-4-8-3	Amherst 2, Williams
NEWMAC	3 (Babson 2, MIT, Springfield)	4	2-3 (.400)	1-0-3-0	Babson

Note: This is D3 only. And it includes this season's Final Four.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

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[Greek Tragedy]

Since I have the time, I'll allow myself to be Ypsi'ed:

league	FF programs	FF apps	W-L (.pct)	1-2-3-4	chips
WIAC	5 (UWEC, UWO 2, UWP 5, UWSP 4, UWW 5)	17	27-5 (.844)	12-2-1-1	UWP 4, UWSP 4, UWW 4
CCIW	6 (Augustana 6, Carthage, Illinois Wesleyan 6, North Central, North Park 5, Wheaton IL)	20	22-13 (.629)	6-4-9-0	North Park 5, Illinois Wesleyan
NESCAC	6 (Amherst 7, Connecticut C., Middlebury, Trinity CT, Williams 8)	18	13-18 (.419)	3-4-8-3	Amherst 2, Williams
NEWMAC	3 (Babson 2, MIT, Springfield)	4	2-3 (.400)	1-0-3-0	Babson

Note: This is D3 only. And it includes this season's Final Four.

Thanks, I appreciate the work!

[Ralph Turner]

Since I have the time, I'll allow myself to be Ypsi'ed:

league	FF programs	FF apps	W-L (.pct)	1-2-3-4	chips
WIAC	5 (UWEC, UWO 2, UWP 5, UWSP 4, UWW 5)	17	27-5 (.844)	12-2-1-1	UWP 4, UWSP 4, UWW 4
CCIW	6 (Augustana 6, Carthage, Illinois Wesleyan 6, North Central, North Park 5, Wheaton IL)	20	22-13 (.629)	6-4-9-0	North Park 5, Illinois Wesleyan
NESCAC	6 (Amherst 7, Connecticut C., Middlebury, Trinity CT, Williams 8)	18	13-18 (.419)	3-4-8-3	Amherst 2, Williams
NEWMAC	3 (Babson 2, MIT, Springfield)	4	2-3 (.400)	1-0-3-0	Babson

Note: This is D3 only. And it includes this season's Final Four.

Yeah, yeah, yeah...

He volunteered to be Ypsi'ed.

It gave him another opportunity to mention the 5 North Park championships...

 

[kiko]

Since I have the time, I'll allow myself to be Ypsi'ed:

league	FF programs	FF apps	W-L (.pct)	1-2-3-4	chips
WIAC	5 (UWEC, UWO 2, UWP 5, UWSP 4, UWW 5)	17	27-5 (.844)	12-2-1-1	UWP 4, UWSP 4, UWW 4
CCIW	6 (Augustana 6, Carthage, Illinois Wesleyan 6, North Central, North Park 5, Wheaton IL)	20	22-13 (.629)	6-4-9-0	North Park 5, Illinois Wesleyan
NESCAC	6 (Amherst 7, Connecticut C., Middlebury, Trinity CT, Williams 8)	18	13-18 (.419)	3-4-8-3	Amherst 2, Williams
NEWMAC	3 (Babson 2, MIT, Springfield)	4	2-3 (.400)	1-0-3-0	Babson

Note: This is D3 only. And it includes this season's Final Four.

Yeah, yeah, yeah...

He volunteered to be Ypsi'ed.

It gave him another opportunity to mention the 5 North Park championships...

 

In fairness, if he wanted to play the reflected glory card, he'd have reminded us that North Park defeated Wheaton earlier this season.

https://d3hoops.com/seasons/men/2018-19/boxscores/20181201_dblj.xml

(You're welcome, Gregory...) 

[Greek Tragedy]

Any hotel/ticket info from any of the teams? I checked Wheaton and Oshkosh's and didn't see anything.

[CNU85]

If I hear something from CNU concerning tickets/hotels I will post. I am planning on just finding my own hotel and booking it. And I figured it wouldn't be sold out.

Hoping I can make it. Friday is deadline for Corporate tax returns. Just got off phone with tax guru trying to get me the info in time to file Thursday!

[sac]

The online fees for tickets in Ft. Wayne are a little more than disappointing.

[Greek Tragedy]

The online fees for tickets in Ft. Wayne are a little more than disappointing.

No kidding. 2 adult ($26 each) and a student (does a kid count) is nearly $100 after fees and taxes. I doubt it will be a sellout, so I'll risk just getting tickets at the stadium on Friday. The price of "big time," I guess.

If I hear something from CNU concerning tickets/hotels I will post. I am planning on just finding my own hotel and booking it. And I figured it wouldn't be sold out.

Hoping I can make it. Friday is deadline for Corporate tax returns. Just got off phone with tax guru trying to get me the info in time to file Thursday!

Sure, but sometimes through participating schools, there's group discounts on rooms.

[D3ball1845]

I'll be in attendance for the whole weekend. Flying in on Friday morning. Looking for opinions from those who have been to previous championship weekends, should I buy tickets in advance (I'm going with 4 other people)? I just don't want to travel all the way out there and it be sold out, especially when I am actually going to see someone specific play.

[Greek Tragedy]

 I've never bought tickets in advance. You want to get tix through the school if you want to sit with their fans. I've also walked up and said I want to sit with these fans and I've gotten general admission tix for that section. Fort Wayne may be completely different than Salem, but it's also much larger...get a room in advance, though

[D3ball1845]

Okay, thank you for your input. Going to see someone play in the all-star game so I don't really care about sitting with the fans of any of the teams for the Final 4 and Championship games. I have been looking at Ticketmaster and it seems that they have changed their general admission seats to the back corners of the stadium on one side with the mid-to-upper level center court seats now sectioned off, while all the mid-to-upper level seats on the other side are general admission.

[Smitty Oom]

I've only been once, but if you are going specifically for the All-Star game I would almost guarantee there to be tix available.

I have not looked at ticket prices and online fees for this game specifically but most online sites always have outrageous processing fees for all games/concerts/etc. Quite annoying.

[Gregory Sager]

Since I have the time, I'll allow myself to be Ypsi'ed:

league	FF programs	FF apps	W-L (.pct)	1-2-3-4	chips
WIAC	5 (UWEC, UWO 2, UWP 5, UWSP 4, UWW 5)	17	27-5 (.844)	12-2-1-1	UWP 4, UWSP 4, UWW 4
CCIW	6 (Augustana 6, Carthage, Illinois Wesleyan 6, North Central, North Park 5, Wheaton IL)	20	22-13 (.629)	6-4-9-0	North Park 5, Illinois Wesleyan
NESCAC	6 (Amherst 7, Connecticut C., Middlebury, Trinity CT, Williams 8)	18	13-18 (.419)	3-4-8-3	Amherst 2, Williams
NEWMAC	3 (Babson 2, MIT, Springfield)	4	2-3 (.400)	1-0-3-0	Babson

Note: This is D3 only. And it includes this season's Final Four.

Yeah, yeah, yeah...

He volunteered to be Ypsi'ed.

It gave him another opportunity to mention the 5 North Park championships...

 

In fairness, if he wanted to play the reflected glory card, he'd have reminded us that North Park defeated Wheaton earlier this season.

https://d3hoops.com/seasons/men/2018-19/boxscores/20181201_dblj.xml

(You're welcome, Gregory...) 

Thanks, kiko. But if I had mentioned NPU's win over Wheaton, someone would've undoubtedly responded with an acerbic comment about how my Vikings fared in Kolf Arena against UW-Oshkosh back in November.