Olivier Rioux has entered the portal.  Im pretty sure he'd get some playing time at a D3 school. 

The only good thing about having so many AQ teams among the 64 is that many kids, including bench warmers on top seed teams, will be able to tell their grandchildren that they played in an NCAA Tournament game or two.

It's hard to understand how Susquehanna can be rated at #4 in the current Poll when they lost to North Central College    66-0    in the semi-finals last year.  Did they bring in a bunch of big time transfers, or are the pollsters just not in touch?  It just seems curious.

Tough night for the home teams. 

It has been mentioned that the league was "down" this year.  Indeed, apparently the players were down this year as well. No player was selected to an All American team for the first time in over 25 years.  Not even the Region 8 Most Outstanding Player was selected.  I guess we can conclude that the whole Region was "down".
Elmhurst did beat the National Champion back in December albeit with Trines big center not playing that game.

Thoughts?

Congrats to HS on their win.  The guys announcing the game called them Hamden, totally ignoring the letter P.  Is that how it is really pronounced , or were they just not enunciating?

I have no idea how to look this up, but it sure seems like a long time since the CCIW got only one team into the NCAA Tournament.  If they had a "play in" game like D1, perhaps IWU might have been selected to play.

Looking at all of the quarter final games, I wonder why every teams offense is way ahead of every teams defense. 

So happy for  Tyson Cruickshank and the Wheaton program for their success and his awards.  I remember watching him 5 or 6 years ago when he was a babyfaced freshman thinking this kid is going to be good.  He'll be missed. 

The quad that Wheaton is in appears to be the toughest.  It has teams ranked #2,4,9,14,15,17,20,21, and 25.
Wheaton has a hard road ahead in its quest to get back to Fort Wayne; especially without Eli Considine.

Put Williams on the 2nd team and make Lewis the Sixth Man...he has started only 1 game.

Quote from: Greek Tragedy on February 12, 2023, 01:10:53 AM
Any videos of Ocean breaking the backboard or the game tying 3 for NCC?

I saw a clip of the backboard dunk on channel 5 NBC 10 o'clock news...so there's a video somewhere.  The commentator thought he had a great name, too.

Congratulations to Tyson Cruickshank for being named to D3Hoops Team of the Week.

Elmhurst was a 3 seed in the CCIW tourney last year...and ended up in the National Championship game.  Ya just never know.

Quote from: Stertorous Thunder on January 26, 2023, 07:11:26 PM

Quote from: kiko on January 26, 2023, 04:25:49 PM
Forcing your opponents into essentially twice as many turnovers as they average against all other teams is a pretty good defensive strategy.

When you put it like this, it's so obvious.  I wonder why more teams don't implement this strategy. 

In seriousness, this is great analysis.  Thanks for sharing.

My question is why, if everyone knows NP is a pressing team, and Wheaton already played them earlier this year...why didn't Coach Schauer have a better game plan to deal with it. They tried quite unsuccessfully to dribble through double and on occasion triple teams all night long. Where was the passing?