Trying to find it on championships pass, and only see the semis there?

Love these back stories, keep them coming! Thanks for all the time you put in here!

Quote from: stlawus on November 09, 2025, 08:41:27 PMIt's NCAA Power Index, not NESCAC Protection Index.  If you're going to get a whole bunch of teams as a result of NPI then you probably shouldn't be complaining when you have to play each other early on. 

I was actually thinking of the problem of UAA and Minnesota schools!

But don't all the conference opponents get separated in the first round?

Would love to hear some speculations on who the regional pod hosts will be and how they mix up the conferences! Especially how the travel/flights will be handled for us out in the midwest or the western/southern spread out schools, this is quite a puzzle!

Vassar with two men down loses to Hobart 1-2, is that the last game of the day?

Agreed, for such a "dominant" team, am surprised they conceded two goals to Middlebury and then barely got out of the championship game against Conn alive!

Good luck in NCAAs, everyone!

Thank you for the list and your patient reply! Totally missed the AQ designations.

Do we have a list of the nine that are already in? Thank you for all the stat work, love it!

Also big day in the NEWMAC: Worcester Polytech (WPI) vs NEWMAC #1 Wheaton (Mass), and Coast Guard vs Babson today in conference semis.

Wow, so Montclair is prob not going to make the cut for the tournament, eh?

Quote from: Kuiper on November 05, 2025, 08:50:17 PMTCNJ up 3-0 on Montclair State in the 70th minute.  That would be a pretty big upset and could leave Montclair State out of the NCAA tournament given that its NPI rank of 35 before this game was already close to the cut line.

UPDATE:  TCNJ 3 - Montclair St 1 in the 73rd minute

UPDATE:  TCNJ 4 - Montclair State 1

This game is nuts.  TCNJ answers 38 seconds with another goal of its own

FINAL:  TCNJ 4 - Montclair State 1

This may have ended Montclair's season.

Holy smokes what a game!

Is there any mathematical way that Tufts can fall out of the top four at this point? Even if they lost in the NESCAC semis?


 I am hearing that Tufts is likely to host both sides both weekends as long as they stay in the top 4.
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I was also wondering who might host: there are likely a lot of UAA, a lot of NESCAC and several Minnesota schools, so it is going to be complex to get everyone sorted for the first weekend of play. Bowdoin got the ticket to Texas last time, wonder who gets that honor this time!

I can't swear to it, but I think Hamilton was the only NESCAC not to have a game on Hot Tues.

Quote from: kansas hokie on October 28, 2025, 11:01:57 PM

Quote from: phinnyindia on October 28, 2025, 07:36:49 PMWhat are the chances Hamilton sneaks into the National tournament Kansas Hokie?

Hamilton is going to be a sort of interesting team. They have only one more game now and I have that as a win. That will give them a final NPI of 55.784 which is going to be very very close to the cut line. Hamilton fans will want to cheer for no "bid stealers" (unexpected conference tourney champions). Cheer hard for Bowdoin to win NESCAC as that's Hamilton's only team they beat that it's in the conference tourney. After that, Wesleyan and Middlebury would be good. Ithaca winning their conference also would help. Any small bump up could be the difference. There will be wiggles up and down as the games come in. Should be interesting.