Quote from: CentPA on October 12, 2025, 05:45:38 AMIf anybody watched any of the UAA games on Flo$port$, how was the streaming/video quality? 

I have had problems with several broadcast, but they are minimal and could be related a problem with the college or university or my laptop.  If you want to watch the games, subscribe!

Case Western Reserve played well throughout the final 20 minutes and got one back, with two other dangerous opportunities.

There are 4-5 teams that have an argument for the No. 1 ranking.

The easy thing for the coaches would be to stick with the status quo.

Quote from: CentPA on October 10, 2025, 05:12:19 PMI think Emory is the only team where taking over #1 in the next USC poll is entirely under their control.  If they win tomorrow, they should be #1 no matter what any other team does.  However, if they don't win, then the scenarios of who becomes #1 becomes much more complicated depending on the results of the other (UAA) games, and the potential for ties really makes it interesting!

Respectfully disagree.

Before the game, I would have said this about Washington University, but in the first half, Bears are taking it to No. 3 Case Western Reserve.  How can a 1-0-1 team bypass that?  Maybe if the Spartans catch fire and turn the tables.

If the Spartans are the No. 3 team in the nation, the Bears may seriously be in a class all by themselves.  Lot's of soccer to be played though.

Quote from: CentPA on October 08, 2025, 07:16:59 AMI don't think I will bother getting a one month membership despite my interest in the Wash U at Case Western game this Saturday and all the other tough UAA games the rest of this month.

If the game lives up to it's billing, the stream will be free of charge 24 hours later.  I am not sure if you have to wait that long to be honest.

Quote from: deiscanton on October 08, 2025, 05:11:41 AMI am going to attend the Emory vs Brandeis soccer doubleheader in person on Saturday, because it is Brandeis Homecoming,

Thanks and you should definitely attend!

Quote from: CentPA on October 07, 2025, 08:01:51 PMEmory does remain at #2 in the USC poll #5. https://unitedsoccercoaches.org/rankings/college-rankings/ncaa-diii-women/

Case Western and Wash U move up to #3 and #4.

You're right.

I expected the Bears to move ahead of Emory after dominating the No. 10 team with Emory looking good, not great in New York.

6-1-3 Brandeis moved up to No. 8 while Rochester dropped 9 spots to No. 22.

The rankings can be hard to project.

Quote from: deiscanton on October 06, 2025, 09:32:47 AMEmory already has the minimum 8 wins that they need to carry on the women's side for NPI purposes, and therefore, can now drop extra wins/partial wins that hurt their NPI   Emory has already dropped their win vs William Peace (#364 in NPI currently) from their NPI calculations, and the tie yesterday vs Carnegie Mellon allowed Emory to drop 1/2 of their win vs Covenant (#230 in NPI currently) from their NPI calculations as well.  This allows Emory to keep their current #1 NPI ranking as of right now.

Do you mind elaborating on the logistics of the drop process?

Emory has dropped a win while Washington University appears to have all games counted, though maybe they need to wait in case they lose or draw against Greenville?

Quote from: Ron Boerger on October 06, 2025, 01:12:24 PMNone other than Bill Simmons (formerly of ESPN fame) called out Flo$port$ for their inferior (and infuriating) product after his experience this weekend - see the excerpt from his "BS Podcast":  https://x.com/BQuillmanQcast/status/1975192844592886041

I used this as an excuse to review the Flo Sports websites and social media to check for more exclusive content and as expected, it is very limited, with more Division I and Division II content than Division III as a percentage of the number of conferences signed.

Quote from: CentPA on October 06, 2025, 08:34:46 AMThe first NPI ranking for this year just posted: https://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/45909

Even with their tie yesterday, Emory is showing as #1 with Messiah #2!

Not surprising as the NPI has no recency bias.

Quote from: CentPA on October 05, 2025, 03:39:39 PMEmory / Carnegie Mellon game just ended in a tie 0-0.  Stats looked fairly even with Emory having a slight advantage in shots and SOG: 5-3 and 4-2 respectively. I am not sure this tie would be enough to bump Emory out of #2.  So if I had to guess, on Tuesday the top 25 will start out: Messiah (#1), Emory (#2), Case Western (#3), and Wash U (#4).??  There is a chance Emory gets bumped but that would be tough with tying #16 on the road.

I would expect Case Western Reserve and Washington University to move ahead of Emory this week. 

Emory was the only one on the road, but the other two had such lopsided wins at home (and are weeks past their only blemish), I'll be surprised if the committee does not see that.  The latter two play in Cleveland next week.

Quote from: deiscanton on October 05, 2025, 02:16:08 PMWe had 4 UAA co-champions for men's soccer in the 2012 season, which was the last time men's soccer had UAA co-champions.   In that season, Brandeis, Carnegie Mellon, Emory, and WashU shared the UAA conference title with each co-champion finishing with 13 points with a 4-2-1 record in UAA play.

I am not surprised given the dominance of those Chicago teams and some Emory teams too.  By the way, are you watching the women's game?  After 45 minutes of play, two of the top teams in the nation have combined for two shots and one corner according to the live stats. 

Quote from: deiscanton on October 05, 2025, 01:59:25 PMThanks for the clarification.   I just forgot to mention the co-champions part of it for conference title purposes.  Sorry about that. 

You're good, no need to apologize.

I cannot remember the last time we had co-champions in soccer, probably have to go back aways.

Also, where did Carnegie Mellon find that Idan Garten kid, wow!

Quote from: deiscanton on October 05, 2025, 01:14:17 PMThe co-leaders in the UAA after 1 match round are WashU and UChicago, each at 3 points in the standings, and each with a +3 conference goal differential for tiebreaking purposes.  (UAA tiebreaker rules only allow teams to count only 3 goals of a victory margin per UAA soccer match, so while both UChicago and WashU each won their matches by 4-0 scorelines, in effect only 3 of those goals in the 4 goal victory margins will count toward the conference goal differential.)

I appreciate the tiebreaker scenarios, but once or twice a season, I'll remind others that the UAA does award co-champions.

Every co-champion is entitled to brag about being the UAA champion.  The winner of the tiebreaker does get the auto-bid, but not bragging rights.

Quote from: CarollFan on October 04, 2025, 09:54:56 PMIn the other game tonight:

WashU 42 IWU 40

WashU rushed for 421 yards
IWU gave them a fight scoring 3 TD's in 4rth Q

Game Stats

Have to move the Bears defense back to questionable.

The Titans twice missed the extra point.

Dermot Smyth is a stud.