Quote from: kansas hokie on October 02, 2025, 09:10:47 AMOK clearly VASoccerDad and I won't get along after I read all of his post....Go Hokies! 

Emory is my team. This may be a lightly used forum, but I can confirm that many eyes scan it. Fun to carry on the conversation. I am thinking about making the trip next weekend for the Emory @ Brandeis match, should be a great one.

It's taken me a while to respond to this...I'm having a really hard time getting past your screen name! This year's football game should be a good one (hopefully anyway, for once). VT looked better last week, but the Hoos won the game of the week.

We are up in Cleveland right now to watch CWRU vs Rochester. Big weekend for the UAA!

Quote from: Flying Dutch Fan on October 02, 2025, 12:13:29 PMQuick question - is it at all typical fro D3 schools to play D1 in soccer (and not as an exhibition game)?   Was surprised to see Hope played at #23 Notre Dame on Tuesday, losing 3-2 on an ND goal at the 82:36 mark. 

Don't know if it's common, but UMW has played at UVA the last couple of years. UMW entered last years game at 15-0-1, went up 2-0 early but lost 4-2.

Quote from: NEsoccerfan on October 01, 2025, 12:06:38 PM@Kansas Hokie and VA soccer dad - nice to spruce up the threads with some more UAA fans! Brandeis alum and UAA supporter here. Who are your team(s)?

Yeah, I recently joined because my son will be playing at a UAA school next fall (2026). Would rather not say exactly where since he hasn't officially been admitted yet. He applied ED so hopefully we'll find out for sure in early December.

I will say there were several schools looking at him for soccer, and a couple of offers. Schools he was considering were Carnegie Mellon, Case Western, Chicago, Rochester and WashU. We visited a few, but not all, of them. I was pulling for a couple but he decided elsewhere, which I am totally fine with. We did make a trip up to Boston over spring break (I love that area and was hoping he would go somewhere up there), but didn't hit Brandeis. He was talking to Tufts and some other NESCAC's at the time, so we went there, Harvard, MIT, etc. Tufts was the only one that offered what he wanted to study so the NESCAC's were out for the most part.

Saw the UAA board was not the most heavily trafficked so thought I would help try to get it going some more. I don't have the most extensive UAA (or D3) soccer knowledge so I am relatively new to the conference and level. I work at UVA so we see a lot of good soccer, but was unfamiliar for the most part with D3. Good to see others on here...

Well that didn't take long...

Latest rankings, Case was a one and done  as they  are out, not even receiving any votes.

Emory #2
Washu #11
Brandeis #12

CMU also drops out...5 teams down to 3.

Quote from: kansas hokie on September 29, 2025, 02:32:45 PMVASoccerDad,

Last year, the NCAA moved entirely to using NPI so it's the only tool to use for NCAA projections. Much mor e transparent and less subjective. It has made the regional rankings and national rankings simply that, rankings from coaches. No weight at all on the NCAA bids.

What becomes subjective is when the NCAA makes the pods up, but who makes the field? entirely NPI.

Great, thanks so much!

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but is NPI a more valuable tool for tournament projections than the United Soccer Coaches rankings? Or are both used together?

Quote from: kansas hokie on September 28, 2025, 12:27:31 PM3 non-conference matchups mid-week as final tune-ups before we start the first round of conference matchups:

Rochester @ CWRU - Case has to be the favorite here.
Brandeis @ Wash U - great early matchup with two teams playing well.
NYU @ Chicago - Chicago favorite
Emory @ CMU - Emory is flying, but it's never easy to win away, fun matchup.

UAA did much better in non-conference this fall vs. last year, time to start shaking out the standings. Should be some high-level matches the rest of the way.

Agree with most of your comments, but not sure about Case/Rochester. CWRU has not played well the last couple of games vs John Carroll and Otterbein, while Rochester seems to have turned around from an early season struggle. As a newly minted Case fan, I hope I am wrong, but I feel like Rochester may take this one.

Case has a stout defense and GK, but offensively they are struggling.

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Quote from: jumpshot on September 27, 2025, 04:43:32 PMYes, Bates shocks amherst 3-0 today after 19 consecutive losses to the lord jeffs. Bobcats not intimidated at all by the usual bullying, rough play by the jeffs. A joyous ride by the Maine .... 

Popping in to give some props to Noah Riskind for Bates' resurgence.  The current coaching staff obviously deserves credit for setting the team up to win, but his fingerprints are all over the current players and some of the top contributors. He was a hard worker on the recruiting trail while at Bates.

that's a great call out and can attest to how much he was working the circuit.....

Noah Riskind gave my son his first offer a couple of years ago, he seemed like a great, albeit young coach. Son was a sophomore at the time, now a senior. Coach Brewster and Houghton offered him as well but he ended up committing elsewhere because Bates didn't have what he wanted to study. But all of our experiences with Bates, Riskind and the new coaches were great, it was tough turning them down.

Living in VA, I've often wondered why UMW and CNU don't join a better conference than the C2C. They are both very good programs, I'm sure there would be offers. Anybody have insights on this?

Last big weekend of games before conference play begins...a couple of upcoming mid-week games, but for the most part, this is it before league games start.

All games on Saturday:
#24 CMU hosts Salisbury
Rochester at York (PA)
#18 Brandeis hosts John Carroll
UChicago hosts Kalamazoo
NYU hosts Stevens
#2 Emory hosts Sewanee
#17 CWRU at Otterbein
#12 WashU at Webster

CMU, WashU and UChicago have Tuesday games as well.

Ok, not great, midweek results for the UAA...

Rochester, Chicago, #2 Emory, #24 CMU all win going away
#18 Brandeis and #17 CWRU both tie
NYU lost to #14 Montclair St.
#12 WashU's game at Principia was cancelled

4-1-2

Case struggling to get anything going vs crosstown rival John Carroll, tied 0-0 with 14 to go. JCU in control most of game.

Quote from: Freddyfud on September 23, 2025, 10:17:41 PMAnd the tiger in the cage is now poked.

Congrats to the UAA.

Haha, cross conference trash talk, love it!

5 out of the 8 UAA teams are ranked in this weeks top 25. As a comparison, the NESCAC only have 4 ranked. Obviously still early, but hopefully they can keep it going.

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Quote from: Mr_November on September 23, 2025, 08:09:30 AMMuhlenberg quietly humming along at 4-0-3 (undefeated) and with wins over LVC, F&M, DeSales, & Moravian. Will be interesting to see how they fare through the rest of conference play with Swarthmore & Gettysburg looming in the near future.

Their points leader is Freshman Daniel Ariza, who has accumulated 4 goals + 2 assists.

Yeah, been getting results against not very good competition. Beat F&M on a 2nd half pk which was its only shot that half. A win, but was not impressive. Ties against Alvernia, Neumann and Misericordia. Obviously we will see.

Thank you for this insight. I haven't caught any home games for the Muhles. Who do you slate to finish on top of the pack in the Centennial?

I'll go with Dickinson this year, with Hopkins following- slow start for them but I think they'll get it together.