Quote from: flyingdutchman on November 19, 2025, 01:32:05 PMWhich quadrant is the group of death?

Top Left. You have the three best NESCAC teams and the 11-time national champ Messiah

Quote from: ChickenHoops on November 18, 2025, 01:24:30 PMWill Tufts win a game in the NESCAC this year?   

They will do what they have done each of the last couple years. Win 8-9 games and then get blown out by Trinity

Quote from: CentPA on November 16, 2025, 08:03:47 PMThe only two teams to beat Messiah this year played each other tonight and Penn State Harrisburg (NPI #71) upsets Rowan (NPI #21) 1-0 scoring the lone goal with less than two minutes left in the game.

What's crazy is that Harrisburg is probably going to be the host of that sectional. Tufts has the men hosting, and neither Mary Washington nor Middlebury can get teams there without 2 flights, while PSU can do it without any.

Good news for the 8 teams who will be going to Minnesota for sectionals. It's actually going to be relatively nice weather up there next weekend. Should be in the 50s in Boston and getting up to 60 in Lynchburg next weekend. I have a feeling Salem's gonna feel cold for the four teams that get there.

Quote from: kansas hokie on November 10, 2025, 12:04:16 PMsome thoughts on the bracket...


Tufts and Chicago did not get to host both women and men, think only Trinity was allowed to do so.

 

I heard this morning that Tufts didn't want to host both this weekend, but are likely to do so if both the men and women make the sweet 16.

Trinity
Tufts
Mary Washington
CNU
Emory
NYU
UChicago
Randolph-Macon
Redlands
Carthage
Endicott*
Bowdoin*
LaCrosse
CWRU
WPI
Catholic
Keene St.
Brandeis*
Hope*
Nebraska Wesleyan*

I'm in

Quote from: mngopher on November 09, 2025, 07:52:24 PMNo improvements from me. Appreciate seeing what this bracket could look like It's a very complex puzzle. I think you hit the nail on the head with all the northern/upper Midwest hosts — that makes it very difficult to avoid flights, and I'm curious how that will be handled.

I think these 1st weekend combinations are pretty much perfect. As for the overall, I don't think they will have the four seeded NESCAC teams all in the same quadrant. I'm guessing two NESCAC schools will be with Tufts and the other two will be in the Lynchburg quadrant(with Amherst getting shipped to Tx)

Quote from: LibbyMoore on November 09, 2025, 06:10:52 PMWould 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!

I would imagine the southern schools get primarily sent to Emory and Trinity(Tx). As for the western schools, I think a good number of them are flying to NESCAC schools with the goal to have midwest schools not fly and send them all to MIAC schools that are hosting

Quote from: deiscanton on November 09, 2025, 05:09:37 AMWe are now in the final day of the regular season.  This is the daily NPI run going into the NESCAC finals. 

This most recent daily NPI run covers games through Saturday, November 8, 2025.

The report is available at http://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/46672

NESCAC teams nationally ranked by NPI as of this report

1.) Tufts (#1 in NPI)-- 62.030
2.) Connecticut College (#5 in NPI)-- 59.690
3.) Bowdoin (#11 in NPI)-- 58.708
4.) Wesleyan (#13 in NPI)-- 58.533
5.) Middlebury (#15 in NPI)-- 58.033
6.) Williams (#17 in NPI)-- 57.810
7.) Amherst (#28 in NPI)-- 56.822
8.) Hamilton (#38 in NPI)-- 56.115
9.) Colby (#52 in NPI)-- 55.266
10.) Bates (#57 in NPI)-- 55.087

10 of the 11 NESCAC men's soccer teams currently carry quality win bonuses, as their NPIs are above 54.

11.)  Trinity (CT)  (#144 in NPI)-- 51.754

Tufts is locked into the #1 overall. If Conn wins today, they will also clinch home-field advantage for the NCAA tourney

Quote from: deiscanton on November 05, 2025, 10:32:10 AMWe are now in the final two weeks of the regular season.  From now on, the NCAA DIII Men's Soccer Committee is planning to do daily runs of the NPI numbers and release daily NPI summary reports until the end of conference tournament play on Sunday, November 9.  The final report released will then indicate that it is the selections report and the at-large teams will be picked from that report. 

This most recent daily NPI run covers games through Tuesday, November 4, 2025.

The report is available at http://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/46616

NESCAC teams nationally ranked by NPI as of this report

1.) Tufts (#1 in NPI)-- 61.210
2.) Connecticut College (#6 in NPI)-- 59.084
3.) Wesleyan (#8 in NPI)-- 58.885
4.) Bowdoin (#10 in NPI)-- 58.614
5.) Middlebury (#12 in NPI)-- 58.226
6.) Williams (#18 in NPI)-- 57.727
7.) Amherst (#30 in NPI)-- 56.689
8.) Hamilton (#39 in NPI)-- 55.961
9.) Colby (#51 in NPI)-- 55.176
10.) Bates (#62 in NPI)-- 54.951

10 of the 11 NESCAC men's soccer teams currently carry quality win bonuses, as their NPIs are above 54.

11.)  Trinity (CT)  (#148 in NPI)-- 51.684

Hamilton currently is the 1st team out. They could definitely get in with some chalk tournaments that knock out the 3rd+4th at-large bids from conferences like the ODAC

Quote from: maineman on November 03, 2025, 12:33:28 PMAre there going to be any mid week play-in games before the first weekend and could any NESCAC team be destined for one of them?

No. Soccer is 64

Quote from: kansas hokie on November 02, 2025, 07:00:24 PMTufts and Williams likely can't host the 1st two rounds as their women's teams are in line to host and women have priority this year to host 1st two rounds per NCAA standard. It alternates each year. Men get priority this year for conflicts in second weekend.

Thus, likely NESCAC hosts are Conn, Bowdoin (for sure); middlebury (likely); even Amherst (possible as experienced host and that there are 6 current men team with this conflict).

I am hearing that Tufts is likely to host both sides both weekends as long as they stay in the top 4.

Quote from: maineman on November 02, 2025, 01:36:23 PMHow many NESCAC teams do you think will have a chance to host the first weekend?

At least 4, Midd will make it 5 if they make the final

It has become very clear that the top 7 in the NESCAC will play in the NCAA tournament. The only questions are Bates(who needs to at the very minimum get to PKs in Medford Saturday) and Hamilton(who needs the most chalk conference tournament year of all time).