Quote from: SimpleCoach on November 22, 2025, 02:10:58 PMCortland can thank the Augsburg keeper for the PK.  Dumbest thing Keepers do.... leads to a dumb decision...

I missed it, but decided to go back and watch after your post.

That was seriously dumb.

Is that something that others keepers do, because I have never seen that before?

Quote from: Kuiper on November 22, 2025, 01:06:28 PMHALF:  Augsburg 0 - Cortland 0

Augsburg is pressuring and out-shooting Cortland 7-1, but Cortland is not breaking yet.  Ott, Cortland's GK, has three saves in the first half.

UPDATE:  Cortland 1 - Augsburg 0

Cortland scores on a breakaway down the left wing that is crossed in on the ground and shut one time with the left foot by Josh Carroll for the goal about 4 minutes into the second half.

Augsburg scored and then scored again to take the lead. 2-1 in St. Louis thanks to to Carver Tierney goals.

In a perfect world, we would have Shay Daly vs. Jadyn Hsieh-Bailey, but it was not meant to be.

Hey @kuiper, great work all season.  If you get bored in the postseason, an interesting epilogue could be how in the heck did the Upper Midwest in general and the MIAC in particular become so good at Division III soccer.

Quote from: flyingdutchman on November 19, 2025, 01:32:05 PMWhich quadrant is the group of death?

The Sweet 16 match-ups by NPI rankings

Tufts
1-107
7-9

St. Olaf
3-17
6-21

WashU
2-18
10-12

Lynchburg
4-22
5-32

Quote from: DagarmanSpartan on November 18, 2025, 09:47:42 AMSwarthmore deserved to make the Sweet 16.  I hope that they go on to win it all!

You rather have Swarthmore win the championship than Chicago, Emory or Washington University?

I kinda get it...

I would bet a lot of money on UChicago advancing to the Final 4 though.

Quote from: Kuiper on November 19, 2025, 10:10:04 AMAs for the strength-of-schedule, I thought about trying to dig into that, but I decided that since the NPI rankings already reflect that and the teams are pretty close, I wouldn't try to reinvent the wheel.  Massey's SoS is different enough from NPI's (which is based on the NPI ranking of your opponents), that it's another exercise entirely to discuss which is more "accurate." 

Agreed, yeah, lot's of ways to think about the match-up and to imagine who is favored, I was just adding one more to the mix.

Quote from: Kuiper on November 18, 2025, 03:05:09 PMWash U. statesthat it has an 0-3 all-time record against Trinity, losing twice in San Antonio and once at home, scoring 1 goal in the three games and conceding 4

Trinity, on the other hand, states it it has a 7-1-1 all-time record against Wash U., and is on a 6 game winning streak against the Bears.

Unfortunately, the Washington University athletics website lost a lot of history when they transitioned to Sidearm 3-5 years ago, but they have a record book that does profile every season and series record.

The two teams have met twice in the NCAA tournament.  Bears won the 1997 match 4-3 in overtime while Trinity won the 2007 quarterfinal match 2-1.  Both games were played at Francis Field.

Washington University has played a somewhat significantly better strength of schedule (Massey No. 40) vs. Trinity (Massey No. 108)

Trinity games against Massey Top 50-60 or so: 2-1 win over Southwestern, 3-1 win over UMHB, 2-1 win over UC-Santa Cruz, 2-3 loss to Christopher Newport.  Wins over Sewanee and Texas Lutheran.

Washington games against Massey Top 50-60 or so: 2-1 win over North Park, 4-2 win over Wheaton, 4-0 win over Brandeis, 2-3 loss against Rochester, 1-0 win over Emory, 1-0 win over Chicago, 0-0 tie against Whitewater, 1-0 win over Chicago. Loss to NYU of course.

Quote from: Gregory Sager on November 18, 2025, 01:45:50 PMAll I knew about Sen. John Danforth was that he is also an Episcopal priest as well as an heir to the Ralston Purina fortune. I'm guessing that Wash U was to at least some degree erected upon a foundation of pet food.

Built first on a foundation of wood utensils through the Cupples and Brookings families and then pet food through the Danforth family.

Quote from: Gregory Sager on November 18, 2025, 11:29:09 AMTo give you an idea of where Wash U stands in the universe of American higher education, that school has hosted four presidential debates (1992, 2000, 2004, and 2016) and a vice-presidential debate (2008).

Bears got lucky a few times there.

It all started when Senator Danforth was the chair of the commission to change the way debates were held.  He called his brother and said hey you have a space right?  They had a good enough space and the staff to handle things free of charge.

A number of schools were offered the VP debate but nobody wanted it.  Biden vs. Palin ended up being the first VP debate that anyone cared about to that point.

The CCIW is a seriously great league though and I am thankful that the Bears were part of things for 7 seasons.  But it is time for everyone to move on.

Quote from: jekelish on November 17, 2025, 05:40:23 PMI personally disagree, based on comments I've seen with people complaining about ESPN+ broadcasts over the years. Lots and lots of people have no idea that colleges are responsible for those, not ESPN. That's not really debatable, it's absolutely what happens. The ESPN+ broadcasts are only as good as what the colleges have, just like Flo is only as good as what the colleges have. (And that's not up for debate, that's a hard fact.)

Everyone here understands how ESPN+ works...that is the only way to read my comment in context.  That is not up for debate.

Broadcasts that used Hudl before look worse with Flo.  Clearly this is related to the Flo Sports infrastructure and not up for debate. 

WashUBears.com shows the Men hosting Trinity and the Women traveling to Messiah.

Quote from: Kuiper on November 16, 2025, 11:15:40 PM

Quote from: mngopher on November 16, 2025, 11:10:21 PMJust FYI Augsburg is not hosting the next 2 rounds. Believe there is a large wrestling tournament on campus next weekend, and they don't have the space to do that plus host the regional. Likely Wash U hosting

Do Wash U's women have priority? They also advanced to the Sweet 16 (and they are ranked #1 in the country)

Men have priority in the second weekend in odd years.

Quote from: mngopher on November 16, 2025, 11:10:21 PMJust FYI Augsburg is not hosting the next 2 rounds. Believe there is a large wrestling tournament on campus next weekend, and they don't have the space to do that plus host the regional. Likely Wash U hosting

What?

Quote from: jekelish on November 16, 2025, 05:08:38 PMI don't think people understand that ESPN+ streaming stuff isn't done by ESPN. It's handled by the schools, just like how Flo works. So it'll still be fully reliant on what the schools have at their disposal.

People understand how ESPN+ works.

I feel certain that ESPN would be upgrade for no other reason than the software.