Yes

Both Yeshiva and Farmingdale State have extremely strong non-conference schedules this upcoming season.

Yeshiva: Mount Union, Wooster, Springfield, Oglethorpe, Trinity CT, NYU, USJ CT, Wesleyan CT, Tufts

Farmingdale State: Drew, Ramapo, Baruch, NJCU, NYU, Wesleyan CT, Swarthmore, USJ CT Tournament

Name   R1   R2   R3   QF   SF   Finals   Total
Ryan    24    22    16     21   12      0          95
HOPE   26   18   16   14    12      0          86
Poppers   26   16   16   21    0      0          79
Ronk     25     16     12     14  12      0        79
7xprss   26   24     16       7     0     0          73
FCGG   22   20     12      7     12        0       73
Golf      24     18     8     7    12      0            69
NCF        26   12   12   7   12       0         69
Sparty   23   18   8      7       0        0           56

Ryan will win. Congrats Ryan!

It is down to Ryan and myself. If Guilford beats HSC or Trinity wins the National Championship, I win; otherwise, Ryan wins.

Name   R1   R2   R3   QF   SF   Finals   Total   Max
Ryan    24    22    16    21                             83      127
Poppers26  16   16     21                            79       123
HOPE   26   18   16   14                             74        86
7xprss   26   24   16   7                                 73     73
Ronk   25   16   12    14                               67    99
FCGG   22   20   12   7                                 61   73
Golf       24   18   8     7                                     57   69
NCF     26   12   12   7                                  57   89
Sparty   23   18   8   7                                      56   68

Hopefully I did not make any math errors. Correct me if I did!

Name    R1    R2      Total   Max
7xprss   26   24      50   154
Ryan__   24   22      46   142
HOPE__   26   18      44   101
Poppers   26   16      42   127
FCGG__   22   20      42   138
Golf___   24   18      42   88
Sparty_   23   18      41   93
Ronk___   25   16      41   133
NCF____   26   12      38   107

Round of 64:
HSC, FSC, Rowan, Catholic, UST TX, CalLu, NE Wesleyan, Trinity TX. Widener, CNU, Williams, Oswego, TCNJ, Keene State, PSU-Harrisburg, Guilford. CWRU, Hope, Loras, UW-P, Coe, Trine, Dubuque, WashU. RMC, USJ CT, Elmhurst, JCU, Swat, Trinity CT, Tufts, NYU.

Round of 32: HSC, Catholic, CalLu, NE Wes. Widener, Oswego, Keene State, Guilford. Hope, Loras, Trine, WashU. RMC, JCU, Trinity CT, NYU.

Sweet 16: Catholic, NE Wes. Oswego, Guilford. Hope, Trine. RMC, Trinity CT.

Elite 8: Catholic, Guilford, Trine, Trinity CT.

Final 4: Trinity CT over Guilford, 121 points.

Fill out your bracket and see how well you did. Just post your picks for every round or a picture of a filled out bracket or whatever way is easy for you to post and me to read. Get your bracket in by tipoff of the opening game.

1st round win = 1 point
2nd round win = 2 points
3rd round win = 4 points
Quarterfinals win = 7 points
Semifinals win = 12 points
Finals win = 20 points

https://www.d3hoops.com/playoffs/men/2024/bracket

1st round winners (32 teams):
2nd round winners (16):
3rd round winners (8):
Quarterfinal winners (4):
Semifinal winners (2):
Champions (1):

Tiebreaker: Total points scored in the championship game:

Ken Thomas (Albion) to North Central per NCC Twitter https://x.com/nccmbb/status/1700242013981962599?s=46&t=4DvIlXwALDxaGF4YLhO6NQ

I have it on good source that Cole Frilling is not coming back to CWRU.

Round 1

RMC/NCWC/JCU/Oswego/Montclair St/JHU/UWW/CWRU/Rowan/Utica/Hope/UWO/NPU/WashU/NYU/Mount U/Swat/Whit/Tufts/Keene St/Rochester/Middlebury/UMW/La Roche/CNU/HSC/ETBU/UMHB/Carleton/Wheaton/Williams/USJ CT

Round 2

RMC/Oswego/Montclair St/CWRU/Rowan/UWO/NPU/NYU/Swat/Keene St/Middlebury/UMW/CNU/UMHB/Wheaton/Williams

Sweet Sixteen

Oswego/CWRU/UWO/NYU/Keene St/Middlebury/CNU/Williams

Elite Eight

CWRU/UWO/Middlebury/CNU

Final Four

UWO/CNU

Champ

CNU

Tie Break 137

That's what we call Addition by Subtraction.

Quote from: stlawus on February 25, 2023, 06:10:34 PM
Ewing Theory in effect for St. John Fisher?  2 of their best players got dismissed from the team halfway through the season and the team goes on a tear winning the AQ.

We are planning to broadcast on MacsLive, although we have not officially announced as such as we work through some logistics. We will announce on MacsLive social media platforms when (if) it becomes official.

Skyline update with one game to go:

Yeshiva and Farmingdale are tied at the top of the South at 12-3 and play on Saturday night @ Farmingdale State. Winner is the 1 seed; loser gets the 3 seed.

If Manhattanville wins on Saturday, they will be the 2 seed. If they lose and Maritime wins, Maritime will be the 2 and MVille the 4.

As things stand, Maritime is the 4 and Merchant Marine the 5, as the Mariners have struggled with Bryce Bristow hurt. They are tied at 10-5 and Maritime has the tiebreaker.

SJULI is locked into the 6 and CMSV is locked into the 7.

MSMC is 1 game up on Sarah Lawrence and SLC has the tiebreaker. If SLC wins and MSMC loses, SLC will be the 8; otherwise, MSMC will be the 8.

The Skyline Conference is shaping up to feature one of the best battles in the country for an NCAA Tournament AQ.

3 teams (Merchant Marine, St. Joseph's-Long Island, and Yeshiva) have control of their own destiny for the 1 seed, and 2 more teams (Farmingdale State and Manhattanville) have control of their own destiny for their respective divisions and therefore at least a 2 seed. All 5 of these teams sit at 6-2 and these 5 have beaten up on each other.

Yeshiva has lost to FSC and SJULI and beaten MVille. FSC has lost to USMMA and MVille and beaten Yeshiva and SJULI. SJULI has lost to FSC and beaten Yeshiva. MVille has beaten FSC and lost to Yeshiva and USMMA. USMMA has beaten FSC and MVille. In out-of-division play--1 game which also provides a tiebreaker--the remaining contests between these 5 are as follows: USMMA and SJULI play on 1/25; USMMA and Yeshiva play on 1/29; MVille and SJULI play on 1/31.

Maritime sits at 5-3 and is in strong shape for a playoff birth. Their next 5 games are brutal though: @ Yeshiva, @ SJULI, vs. CMSV, vs. MVille, @ USMMA.

CMSV, at 4-4, is in good shape for a Wild Card (7 or 8 seed) birth.

St. Joseph's-Brooklyn and Old Westbury are both at 1-7 and in the seemingly stronger South Division, and are in major trouble. It appears that the final playoff spot will come down to one of Sarah Lawrence (3-5), Purchase (2-6), and MSMC (2-6).