A lot of d3 schools have their transfer application deadline this week or next. Entering the portal without an already planned destination could be tricky. I don't know of schools make exceptions with athletic transfers as far as extensions though.

The dials in soccer are different.  You had a team that was 7-6-3 and lost in the NESCAC quarterfinal make the tournament.  The rest of the country was better at soccer. 

Quote from: D3BBALL on March 02, 2026, 05:37:22 PM

Quote from: stlawus on March 02, 2026, 05:16:47 PMNPI is not the NESCAC Protection Index. This is part of the deal if you're getting a lot of teams in under the current system.

That's funny, like that.

When you say current system are you talking the new NPI sytems?

Either way as I said in another post, if it was the top 3 UAA teams all in the same bracket, I would say the same thing. I not complaining because it is NESCAC, it just a bad way to feature all the best teams in the country. UAA could have 4 teams in the final 4, all top 25 teams. NESCAC with 3 top 10 teams in NPI can only get 1 of those 3 to the final 4.

New system, yes.  I get the argument, but the UAA is so geographically spread out as is. I don't really have an issue with the new system, at least for basketball.  It is way worse in soccer, no conference should be getting 8 teams in hence the NESCAC Protection Index.  I just think that this kind of bracket is a bit of an equalizer.  If you're going to benefit from NPI in getting at large selections I don't think you can quibble about where you get placed in the bracket.

NPI is not the NESCAC Protection Index. This is part of the deal if you're getting a lot of teams in under the current system.

Thought if Vassar could score 60 they'd win.  They got 57 but it was still enough as 14 offensive rebounds to RPI's 4 was the difference maker.  Vassar's rebounding was elite all year and played no small part in winning the league tournament.

That's now two consecutive seasons RPI goes 21-6 but loses the Liberty League tournament final on their home court. NPI was in the 70s so no at large for them again.  Probably should start challenging themselves in non-conference.

Quote from: bk5 on February 27, 2026, 10:09:03 PM

Quote from: stlawus on February 27, 2026, 09:36:05 PMI guess you could say it's an upset, but major win for Vassar on Union's home court to advance to the championship. The shooting just wasn't there for Union with Garside going 1 for 7 from 3. In his last 4 games he shot 4 for 26 from the arc. Union did extremely well despite all their injuries this year, might have just run out of gas in the end.  Good news for them they bring just about everyone back.

Not sure why we are calling Vassar beating Union an "upset" when they have beaten them 2 times earlier this year. People are acting like Vassar isn't injured aswell, there missing Avery Lee (who was averaging 20 in his 8 games played) aswell as senior leader Sacha Greenberg. A healthy Vassar is easily scarier then any other team at full capacity in the league.

If you read what I wrote, I said "I guess you could say it's an upset", which obviously implies that it is not really an upset.  And nobody in here has said Vassar isn't injured, in fact you can find several comments from me talking about Lee being a key missing piece for them, as well as other comments saying the same thing. So I don't know who these "people" are that are acting like you said they are.

I guess you could say it's an upset, but major win for Vassar on Union's home court to advance to the championship. The shooting just wasn't there for Union with Garside going 1 for 7 from 3. In his last 4 games he shot 4 for 26 from the arc. Union did extremely well despite all their injuries this year, might have just run out of gas in the end.  Good news for them they bring just about everyone back.

Call it sour grapes I don't care, most home cooked officiating performance I saw all year just now.  Absolutely ridiculous that this is the standard for officiating. Would not surprise me at all if Downs makes a complaint to the officials board, it was that poor. I've made maybe one or 2 comments like this about officials in recent years, and that was generally about officials being bad for both teams, but not tonight.  Beyond absurd for any game, let alone a playoff game.

Ultimately SLU just could not win on the road this year.  Could not consistently defend or shoot. Rebounding took a major hit with Downs Jr's season ending injury. Dan Anderson gave a great effort showing why he was a division 1 athlete, but rest of the team just couldn't make a shot or get stops. He'll join the lax team hopefully immediately.

The RPI broadcast was absolutely atrocious. Just horrible constant commentary on Adam Dudzinski throughout the entire game about his "attitude" and saying how it looked like he "didn't care". That's a player that scored well over 1000 points in his 3 years at SLU and will have 2 first team all league awards to his name. He'd probably be 2nd all time on SLU's scoring list if he played all 4 of his years at SLU. Better off having no one commentate the game if you're going to make ignorant and idiotic comments like that. I've never had anything bad to say about RPI, but that was appalling and a terrible representation of the university.

I have a very bad taste in my mouth after this game, mostly due to feeling terrible for the SLU seniors having to end their season like this.  Feel free to judge me that is fine, but you can see that I've never reacted like this before.

Quote from: stlawus on February 12, 2026, 01:46:12 PM

Quote from: saratoga on February 12, 2026, 01:02:53 PMAll I can say to that is:

The NCAA better revert back to the eye test. 
Either mens basketball as a whole is horrible this year (which I don't think is true) or...
Scranton is way, way over-rated (which I think is true).
I mean my God, they're barely beating teams with 2 conference wins right now. 

If you look at their rating on Massey their actual rating is 50 spots higher than their power rating. So far it hasn't happened yet but a disparity that big usually means regression to the mean. Just something to keep an eye on.

I noted this a couple weeks ago.  I think it was just unfortunate timing with regression to the mean. After the last game there is still a 44 point delta between the actual rating and power rating. If it's like a ~20 spot difference between ratings there's not much difference, but a disparity that big can bite you without coaching adjustments.  I have tuned into Scranton games when I can since I appreciate the large and involved fanbase engagement on here, and I have to agree with some that the coaching is suspect at times.

All chalk tonight.  Skidmore put up a good fight but Vassar had just enough at the end.

Great crowd at Burkman tonight. SLU lost 2 games by 3 points each in the regular season against Ithaca and turned it into a wire to wire win.  Ithaca got it to within 4 at halftime and that was as close as they'd get the rest of the way.  Dudzinski was unguardable and 3 freshmen got valuable playoff experience while chipping in a combined 31 points. 

Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on February 22, 2026, 08:13:43 AMYou can google "Liberty League MBB tiebreakers" and get a link to the minutes where tournament expansion was approved in 2012, along with the approved tiebreakers.  It does show, cumulative record against all teams above you is No. 2.

I saw that, but tournament expansion didn't happen until 2017-2018, which according to those minutes should have been effective in 2012-2013 if I read it correctly so was not sure about the tie breakers being applicable.

This board doesn't get any attention these days, but 3 of the top 4 seeds in the E8 were upset in the first round of the E8 tournament today.  Sage, Naz and Poly all go down. Geneseo beating Utica is not an upset according to records but Geneseo getting one by Utica in the tournament is a big step for them as Utica are defending champs. They hadn't won a playoff game in 12 years. Keuka beating Naz on their home court is bonkers.

I've always believed that the 2nd tie breaker was common results against opponents starting from the top down.  If these seedings are locked in that means the second tie breaker is cumulative record against all opponents above in the standings.

Quote from: stlawus on December 29, 2025, 07:21:36 PMOutside a couple seasons under Glenn Miller Conn has never historically been an upper tier team. I wonder if Sweeney is thinking about whether or not the grass has been greener at Conn than it was at Hobart. I'm pretty sure he took the Conn job because he was frustrated about not getting at large selections, but all things considered he had a pretty good thing going at Hobart. His first full recruiting cycle made the sweet 16 (and could have gone further if not for covid) the season after he left for Conn, and it's been fairly mid at Conn outside of 1 season where they still didn't make the tournament.  Now Hixon's protege just took Conn down and seems to be building something at Hartford.  I don't know how much priority the Conn administration places on men's hoops, but one has to wonder about that situation if it doesn't end up great this season.

3 straight losses to end the season, misses the tournament yet again.  Good win against Wesleyan, there is no doubt about job security, but another season of underperformance and no NCAA tournament.

* I edited my previous comment to reflect the final standings according to the website, but I'm pretty sure it's wrong. They have Ithaca as the 5 seed but Skidmore should have the tiebreaker by virtue of a win against RPI.

**All teams on their writeups and schedules are showing Skidmore at Vassar and Ithaca at SLU.  This can't be right.  Ithaca and Skidmore split, and the tie breaker is comparing results from the top down.  Skidmore has a win against RPI, Ithaca lost both to RPI.