Hopefully RIC can make a good run in this tournament, make a run back to the final 4 and go a step forward and potentially win the whole thing.  Jenna Cosgrove has done a fantastic job with this program.  She won only 9 games her first season in charge, went up to 18 wins her second year, and not counting the shortened Covid year haven't finished with fewer than 22 wins.  Only Transylvania has a longer winning streak in the sport (they are tied with Webster at 27 wins in a row [NYU is only only on 25 since no UAA conference tournament] and since starting last year 1-2 they have reeled off 54 wins in their last 56 games.

Not sure if anyone is doing this again this year:

Round 1: NYU, DeSales, MHB, H-S, Scranton, Marymount, Johns Hopkins (JH), Christopher Newport (CN), Whitewater, Milikin, Hope, DePauw, Carroll, Stout, Ohio Wesleyan (OW), Transy, Rhode Island College (RIC), Gettysburg, Catholic, Washington & Lee, Wartburg, Illinois Wesleyan (IW), Springfield, Bates, Smith, Messiah, Trine, Oshkosh, New Paltz, Baldwin Wallace (BW), Dartmouth, Bowdoin
Round 2: Bowdoin, BW, Oshkosh, Smith, Bates, Wartburg, Catholic, RIC, Transy, Stout, Hope, Whitewater, CN, Marymount, MHB, DeSales
Round 3: MHB, CN, Hope, Transy, RIC, Wartburg, Smith, Bowdoin
Quarterfinals: Bowdoin, RIC, Hope, CN
semifinals: Hope, Bowdoin
finals: Hope over Bowdoin 55-51; 106 total points

Round 1: Hampden-Sydney (hereby known as H-S), Stevens, Rowan, Catholic, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (C-M-S), Cal Lutheran, Nebraska Wesleyan (NW), Trinity-TX, Widener, Chris Newport (CN), DeSales, Oswego, Eastern, Keene, Hood, Guilford, NYU, Tufts, Trinity-CT, Swathmore, John Carroll (JC), Calvin, St. Joes, Randolph-Macon (R-M), Wash U, Illinois College, Trine, Wabash, PLatteville, Loras, Hope, Case Western (CWR)
Round 2: CWR, Platteville, Trine, Wash U, R-M, JC, Trinity-CT, NYU, Guilford, Keene, Oswego, CN, NW, C-M-S, Catholic, H-S
Round 3: H-S, NW, CN, Keene, Trinity-CT, R-M, Wash U, CWR
Quarterfinals: Wash U, R-M, CN, H-S
Semifinals: CN, R-M
Final: Mr. Randolph-Macon over sir Christopher Newport 72-65; 137 total points.

Calvin -4
Hope -3
Trine -2
Adrian -1

Kalamazoo- 4
Calvin- 3
Olivet -2
Hope -1

Whoops! 

4: Trine
3: Kalamazoo
2: Adrian
1: Hope

Quote from: FCGrizzliesGrad on March 16, 2022, 06:45:58 PM

Name	R1	R2	R3	QF	SF	Finals	Total	Max
NCF	26	18	16	14			74	86
ronk	26	22	12	14			74	86
True To The Cru	24	18	16	14			72	104
Ryan	22	16	20	14			72	84
7express	26	14	16	14			70	102
nescac1	25	18	12	14			69	101
HOPEful	27	14	12	14			67	79
FCGG	26	14	12	14			66	98
Baldini	25	12	12	14			63	75
Greek Tragedy	22	18	16	7			63	75

Everyone had Randolph-Macon and almost everyone had Marietta... but no one had either Wabash or Elmhurst in the Final Four.
If Marietta beats RMC then Ryan will be the champ. If RMC beats Marietta and loses in the final it will be a tie between NCF and ronk who both picked 123 for the tiebreaker. If RMC wins the title then Cru takes the crown.

What's the scenario where I can finish 2nd??

Too bad there's no bracket challenge this year I might have actually won the thing as I had Amherst, Whitewater, Hope & Trine in the final 4.  I took a lot of losses in the early rounds, but hopefully my four for four semifinal predictions bump my total up somewhat.  Probably not a lot (if any) had all 3 of Whitewater, Trine & Amherst advancing.

Quote from: FCGrizzliesGrad on March 05, 2022, 11:56:19 PM

Quote from: 7express on March 05, 2022, 11:25:01 PM

Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on March 05, 2022, 10:22:22 PM

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!

Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on March 05, 2022, 10:22:22 PM

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.   

I have an Amherst/Whitewater projected semifinal matchup on that side of the bracket.  I guess that could be surprising, maybe??

I somehow missed this before yesterday.  I filled out my bracket, and I would've just coped everything I have on here to the bracket challenge anyways.  I would have had 9 misses in the first round: Johns Hopkins, Hardin-Simmons, Cortland, RI College, Emmanuel, Salisbury, Roger Williams, Wartburg and Wittenberg.

I had: Hope, Wartburg, NYU, Scranton, Ithaca, Trine, MHB, Transy, Simpson, Gettysburg, Whitewater, Smith, Amherst, Tufts, Hardin-Simmoms and Newport in round 2

I had: Newport, Amherst, Whitewater, Gettysburg, Transy, Trine, Scranton & Hope in round 3.

I had: Hope, Trine, Whitewater & Amherst in the quarterfinals.

I had: Whitewater & Hope in the semifinals

I had Whitewater over Hope in the final

Round 1:
Oshkosh, Dubque, MHB, Whitworth, PLatteville, Calvin, Elmhurst, Pomona-Pitzer
Emory, Wabash, Mt. Union, Williams, Illinois Wesleyan, La Crosse, Washington University, Wheaton
St. Jooes (CT), WPI, Wesleyan, Dartmouth, Rennselaer, Nazareth, Babson, Randolph-Macon
Johns Hopkins, Stockton, Newport, Oswego, Swathmore, Rochester, Marietta

Round 2:
Marietta, Swathmore, Chris Newport, Johns Hopkins, Randy Macon, UMass-Dartmouth, Wesleyan, WPI
Wash U, Ill Wesleyan, Mt. Union, Emory, Elmhurst, Platteville, Whitworth, Oshkosh

round of 16:
Oshkosh, Elmhurst, MUU, Wash U, Wesleyan, Randolph-Macon, Christopher Newport, Marietta

Quarterfinals:
Marietta, Mr. Randolph Macon, Wash U, UW-Oshkosh

Semifinals:
Wash U, Senor Randolph Macon

Finals:
Randolph-Macon 74 Wash U 59; 133 combined points

Friday are the first games??  I'll make some selections Thursday night or Friday afternoon.

Quote from: BaboNation on February 24, 2022, 09:41:34 PM
Emerson wins @ Babson for the first time in 12 years in OT 85-77.

Not to be a broken record, but it's never easy to win 3 conference games against the same team in a season, even when you have a 16 point lead with 15 minutes left;  or even when you have a 5 point lead with 20 seconds left while shooting FTs in the double-bonus and inexplicably foul on an offensive rebound stopping the clock and awarding FTs at the other end;  or even when you have a 3 point lead and throw away an inbound pass with 13 seconds left;  and when seldom used Trevor Arico hits a game-tying 3-pointer at the end of regulation the point is never clearer.

For the longest time in this game it was only Houston and Waterhouse for Emerson (36 of their first 40 points).  But once others started heating up, especially Arico (14 points - all after halftime), whose previous NEWMAC high was 4, the momentum shifted.

It looked like Babson was running on fumes at the end.  Maybe the 8 days between games (and Covid issues) was a factor, but the mental mistakes down the stretch were uncharacteristic.  I will also note some absences of key players:  Amado for Babson;  McLean and Davis for Emerson.  While Amado would have helped out with his length as a wing defender and is the top Babson rebounder, Emerson was losing a lot more production.  Davis is the guy I feared most off the bench as the 6th man who scores on drives and with his quick release from the arc. 

Waterhouse (28) and Houston (25/10) were the full-game stars for Emerson, playing 89 of 90 minutes combined, but they needed everything Arico provided to get the W.

Dorney (17/16) was gutsy in 42 minutes, but he needed help after Bradanese fouled out late and it wasn't forthcoming.

I've seen mocks that say Babson would still be on the bubble with a loss.  I'm dubious about that.  Even if it's the case they would now be firmly seeded 4th in a pod against the host team in the first round.
I've also seen that the winner of this game is probably getting invited.  I think that's likely.

Good luck to Emerson & WPI.

I can one up you here!  Down here in Connecticut I think it was 4 or 5 years ago either in 2017 or 2018 I believe it was a state quarterfinal game; a team is up 4 points with 7 seconds to play and they lost!  How??  The opponent took and made a 3 and got fouled.  Now in Connecticut, the clock continues to run on a made basket in the 4th quarter, so the ball went through the net at about 5 and change, so really the opponent can hold the ball for 4.5 seconds until theres about 1.5 left and chuck one down court or up in the air and hopefully the clock runs out.  The kid made the free throw to tie the game to force OT and they ended up winning in OT.  Sad thing is, the team that was winning at that 8 second point had been leading the entire way, and outside of 0-0 I don't even think the game had even been tied again, so in actually it would have been more beneficial to them if they put all 5 defenders out of bounds and not even played defense.