What are your games to watch?

kansas hokie · October 22, 2025, 12:06:51 AM

15-0 is still quite impressive, congrats to Lake Forest. They have four games left, the next two regular season games won't help their NPI and the best two opponents in conference tourney will get them ending between 9-12 in NPI. Still hosting a pod which is a great achievement and 19-1 would be an historic season no matter what happens in NCAA. Good luck to them.

Kuiper · October 22, 2025, 11:07:15 AM

Game to watch out WEST on Wednesday 10/22 at 5:30 pm Pacific

Whitworth (NPI #171) @ Whitman (NPI #58)

The Battle of the Whits is always a good matchup, but this year Whitman is in first place and Whitworth is in third place in the Northwest Conference. In the first matchup between the teams at Whitworth, Whitman won 3-1, but that was almost a month ago and Whitman, while still undefeated at 9-0-5 (8-0-2 in the NWC), had some shaky results the last two games, tying Willamette 1-1 on an 86th minute goal and beating Pacific 3-2 on an 83rd minute goal. Whitman has been living dangerously for awhile and is only two points clear of second place Pacific Lutheran, which is also undefeated in the NWC at 7-0-3. I doubt this game affects anything other than the NWC AQ, but it could have implications for Colorado College and Mary Hardin-Baylor, both of whom have tied Whitman and are relying on those half-wins for NPI points.

Ron Boerger · October 22, 2025, 07:56:18 PM

Quote from: kansas hokie on October 22, 2025, 12:06:51 AM15-0 is still quite impressive, congrats to Lake Forest. They have four games left, the next two regular season games won't help their NPI and the best two opponents in conference tourney will get them ending between 9-12 in NPI. Still hosting a pod which is a great achievement and 19-1 would be an historic season no matter what happens in NCAA. Good luck to them.

15-0 is impressive, but the average NPI for the teams Lake Forest faced (before UW-W) was 201. They faced and defeated two top 100 teams during the run; Calvin (42) 3-0 and IWU (61), 1-0. They slipped by #380 Lawrence 2-1.

kansas hokie · October 22, 2025, 11:36:38 PM

Whitman would be up to around 45 with the win tonight. Need to win out though to get close to at-large bid area. No conference tourney in NWC, last regular season game is against Pacific Lutheran and that could be a de-facto conference title game with only one getting a bid.

Benny · October 23, 2025, 01:04:40 PM

Long time listener, first time caller.

MIAC / North region D3 soccer fan located in Minnesota.

This Saturday #4 St. Olaf travels to #7 Augsburg. The Oles clinched their 3rd straight regular season MIAC crown on Tuesday and look to become the 5th team in MIAC history to go unblemished across the conference season (10-0). Standing in their way are the Auggies who are unbeaten at home this year (7-0-1). St. Olaf sports an away record of 7-1 with their only loss of the season coming at the hands of UW-Superior (who took them down in the round of 32 last season via penalties).

A benchmark game for both squads as the calendar flips to November. Should be a entertaining match with immense quality on both sides of the ball. Can't wait to tune in!

BigSoccerFan · October 23, 2025, 01:15:51 PM

Stockton v Montclair top two NJAC teams play Saturday night. Senior Night for Montclair.

Ejay · October 23, 2025, 02:07:01 PM

don't forget to enter this week's pool. Lots of good games...

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NEPAFAN · October 23, 2025, 07:46:00 PM

Scranton/Catholic in the Electric City Saturday at 3.

Battle of undefeateds and 1 seed in Landmark up for grabs...

Behind the FLO paywall however...

SKUD · October 27, 2025, 09:44:51 AM

Hot Tuesday!

Mid-Williams 3:00
Wheaton-Babson 3:00
Buff-Hobart 4:00
UW Plat-St Olaf 4:30
Tufts-Bowdoin 6:00
Conn-Wesleyan 8:00

Kuiper · October 28, 2025, 04:41:57 PM

Wednesday, 10/29 at 6 pm Central

Mary Hardin-Baylor (NPI #36) @ Trinity (TX) (NPI #14)

This game could be of huge importance for Mary Hardin-Baylor. Although the ASC is down to 4 teams this season, they are still holding a conference tournament. So, the fact that UMHB has wrapped up the ASC regular season championship doesn't guarantee that they will get the ASC automatic bid. Mary Hardin Baylor is currently #36 in the NPI, which doesn't give them a lot of wiggle room if they don't win the AQ. If they can beat Trinity or even tie them, that might be enough to make the AQ not critical.

Trinity, on the other hand, probably doesn't need this game considering that they are also getting the SoS bump of playing Southwestern on Saturday and maybe again in the SAA tournament, but if they lost this game and then also were upset in the SAA tournament, they might be at risk of tumbling. On the flip side, if Trinity could beat UMHB and beat Southwestern (perhaps twice if they meet in the SAA tourney), that might insure that they would get hosting rights, possibly beyond the first two rounds. That would be huge for their chances of advancing in the NCAA tourney.

kansas hokie · Reply #40 - Re: What are your games to watch?

Wednesday fun!!!

MHB / Trinity (#36 and #14)
Bridgewater / W&L (bubble teams)
Kenyon / Wooster (bubble team)
Mary Wash / CNU (best chance for MWU to get into bubble conversation...has to win this one)
North Central / Wheaton (IL) (top of conference, Wheaton on bubble)

BigSoccerFan · Reply #41 - Re: What are your games to watch?

NJAC Conference Seeding day.

eaglesoccerdad · Reply #42 - Re: What are your games to watch?

Quote from: kansas hokie on Yesterday at 02:48:05 PMWednesday fun!!!

MHB / Trinity (#36 and #14)
Bridgewater / W&L (bubble teams)
Kenyon / Wooster (bubble team)
Mary Wash / CNU (best chance for MWU to get into bubble conversation...has to win this one)
North Central / Wheaton (IL) (top of conference, Wheaton on bubble)

UMW beat CNU 1-0 with a header off a corner in the 81st minute

Kuiper · Reply #43 - Re: What are your games to watch?

Quote from: kansas hokie on Yesterday at 02:48:05 PMWednesday fun!!!

MHB / Trinity (#36 and #14)
Bridgewater / W&L (bubble teams)
Kenyon / Wooster (bubble team)
Mary Wash / CNU (best chance for MWU to get into bubble conversation...has to win this one)
North Central / Wheaton (IL) (top of conference, Wheaton on bubble)

Trinity (TX) 3 - UMHB 1

Ron Boerger · Reply #44 - Re: What are your games to watch?

W&L 2 - Bridgewater 0
Kenyon 4 - Wooster 0 (Wooster outshot Kenyon 17-7, SOG 7-5, 10 corners to 4).
Wheaton 2 - NCC 2 (all goals scored in first 37'; Wheaton went up 2-0 in 18' only to see NCC come back with goals at 32' and 37')