2025 Playoffs

Ralph Turner · May 20, 2025, 05:17:39 PM

Regional Winners

Here are the 2 teams that went 3-1, W, W, L, W. The legend is NPI ranking of the opponent in the opening win, and win #2, for loss #1, then win #3; Team; Pool bid; Team NPI Ranking; Conference

#93, #39, #39, #39 Trinity A #9 SCAC
#35, #14, #39, #39 UW Oshkosh C #24 WIAC

Here is the 1 team that went 4-1, W, L, W, W, W. The legend is NPI ranking of the opponent in the opening win, for loss #1, then wins #2, #3 and #4; Team; Pool bid; Team NPI Ranking; Conference

#20, #16, #20, #16, #16 CMS C #26 SCIAC

Here are the 13 teams that went 3-0, W, W, W. The legend is NPI ranking of the opponent in the opening win, and for win #2, for win #3. Team; Pool bid; Team NPI Ranking; Conference

#126, #28, #63 JHU A #1 Centennial
#84, #31, #31 Denison A #2 NCAC
#74, #30, #74 UWW A #3 WIAC
#10, #27, #27 Endicott A #4 CNE
#131, #21, #21 Lynchburg A #5 ODAC

#69, #32, #32 Salisbury C #7 C2C
#174, #45, #18 Kean C #8 NJAC
#107, #36, #38 Salve Regina A #10 NEWMAC
#64, #47, #47 Rowan C #12 NJAC
#117, #60, #17 CWRU A #13 UAA

#40, #15, #88 Belhaven C #19 CSS
#33, #6, #33 McMurry C #42 SCAC
#22, #72, #72 Messiah A #48 MACC

Ralph Turner · May 20, 2025, 07:54:40 PM

I looked at the Pool C teams from bids #19 -23 and then the next 5 "on the table". The record versus D-3 includes regular season and conference tourney games.

Legend: Record against D-3 with percentage, NPI ranking; Team; NPI; Losses to teams with losing records in parentheses

33-11-1 (.744) #36 PSU-Harrisburg 57.020 PSU-Abingdon (17-20)
27-14 (.659) #37 Ramapo 56.968 Centenary NJ (19-22-1)
26-17-1 (.602) #38 TCNJ 56.923 Dickinson (16-19)
32-11 (.744) #41 McMurry 56.842 UDallas (8-27) Hendrix (19-23) St Thomas (19-23)
27-13 (.680) #42 Oswego 56.827 Wash Coll (19-21) Fredonia (11-23)
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27-15 (.642) #43 Redlands 56.749 Whittier (17-23) Cal Tech (6-30)
29-12 (.707) #44 Wittenberg 56.604 Bethany (12-24-1)
28-12 (.700) #46 Wilkes 56.487 Drew (19-21) Susquehanna (18-22) Susquehanna (18-22)
28-13 (.682) #49 Coe 56.399 Dubuque 19-20
27-15 (.642) #50 Piedmont 56.337 Hanover 15-27; LaGrange 19-23; Asbury 7-28

Ralph Turner · May 20, 2025, 08:17:27 PM

TCNJ played 17 games (6-11) against tourney teams! What a boost to the NPI.

They beat MSOE, Rutgers-Camden, Arcadia, Ramapo, Rowan and Kean.
They lost to Salisbury, JHU, Endicott, Denison, Rutgers Camden; Rowan x3, Kean x3, Ramapo.
That is 12 games against teams with the Top 12 NPI's.

In that Mid-Atlantic corridor, you can get 15 games against high quality opponents to boost the NPI.

For those on the islands of Regions 6, 8, 9, and 10.I think that one needs at least a .700 winning percentage and no losses to sub .500 teams to be above the bubble. The McMurry loss to 8-27 U Dallas may have been too much.

I hope someone can run the computer numbers of the Cal Tech loss by Redlands and flip that result.

cubs · May 23, 2025, 01:39:08 PM

Whitewater with an early 5-1 lead over UWO after just two innings of play... Cootway with a "bat flip warning" after hitting a two out 3-run HR in the second inning.

cubs · May 23, 2025, 02:43:23 PM

Quote from: cubs on May 23, 2025, 01:39:08 PMWhitewater with an early 5-1 lead over UWO after just two innings of play... Cootway with a "bat flip warning" after hitting a two out 3-run HR in the second inning.

Whitewater chases Brinkman two batters into the 5th inning and has opened up an 11-1 lead...

UWO on their way to falling to 1-6 on the season against Whitewater.

cubs · May 23, 2025, 03:14:23 PM

Quote from: cubs on May 23, 2025, 02:43:23 PM
Quote from: cubs on May 23, 2025, 01:39:08 PMWhitewater with an early 5-1 lead over UWO after just two innings of play... Cootway with a "bat flip warning" after hitting a two out 3-run HR in the second inning.
Whitewater chases Brinkman two batters into the 5th inning and has opened up an 11-1 lead...

UWO on their way to falling to 1-6 on the season against Whitewater.

Whitewater takes Game #1 14-1...

Hansen with a 103 Pitch CG, retiring each of the last 12 UWO hitters.

cubs · May 24, 2025, 01:48:46 PM

UWO three outs away from forcing the "if necessary" game as they lead Whitewater 4-2 in the Bottom of the 8th inning.

cubs · May 24, 2025, 02:09:23 PM

Quote from: cubs on May 24, 2025, 01:48:46 PMUWO three outs away from forcing the "if necessary" game as they lead Whitewater 4-2 in the Bottom of the 8th inning.

UWO tacks on another run in the 8th inning and defeats Whitewater 5-2.

One game, "winner take all," for a trip to the World Series.

cubs · May 24, 2025, 04:05:58 PM

Whitewater starting to run away from UWO just like they did yesterday in Game #1... Warhawks with a 7-0 lead after five innings of play.

cubs · May 24, 2025, 05:00:43 PM

Quote from: cubs on May 24, 2025, 04:05:58 PMWhitewater starting to run away from UWO just like they did yesterday in Game #1... Warhawks with a 7-0 lead after five innings of play.

Whitewater three outs away from a shutout victory and a World Series berth as they lead UWO 9-0 after 8 innings.

cubs · May 24, 2025, 05:22:07 PM

Quote from: cubs on May 24, 2025, 05:00:43 PM
Quote from: cubs on May 24, 2025, 04:05:58 PMWhitewater starting to run away from UWO just like they did yesterday in Game #1... Warhawks with a 7-0 lead after five innings of play.
Whitewater three outs away from a shutout victory and a World Series berth as they lead UWO 9-0 after 8 innings.

Eisenbarth and Hagen combine to give up just four hits and Whitewater wins in a laugher, 10-0, to advance to the World Series.

Whitewater went 7-2 against UWO this season as they squared off four times in WIAC Play, twice in the WIAC Tournament, and now three times in Super Regionals.

cubs · May 24, 2025, 07:47:54 PM

Appears that six out of the eight Super Regionals will be decided after just two games. Whitewater vs UWO and Kean vs Salve Regina are the only two Super Regionals to go the full three games.

cubs · May 25, 2025, 10:14:42 PM

Seeding/Pools for the World Series have been announced:

Pool #1
#1-Johns Hopkins
#4-Endicott
#5-Kean
#8-Messiah

Pool #2
#2-Dennison
#3-Whitewater
#6-Trinity
#7-Rowan

Ralph Turner · May 27, 2025, 09:51:51 AM

Quote from: cubs on May 25, 2025, 10:14:42 PMSeeding/Pools for the World Series have been announced:

Pool #1
#1-Johns Hopkins #1
#4-Endicott #4
#5-Kean #8
#8-Messiah #48

Pool #2
#2-Denison #2
#3-Whitewater #3
#6-Trinity #9
#7-Rowan #12

NPI at the end of the season is in italics.

Rowan defeated #5 Lynchburg.
#6 La Verne went 0-2 in the Regionals, losing to #41 McMurry (who lost to Trinity) and #33 Pomona-Pitzer
Messiah knocked off #7 Salisbury.

The NPI was very instructive over a 40-game season.