NCAA Tournament 2025

[WUPHF]

WashUBears.com shows the Men hosting Trinity and the Women traveling to Messiah.

[CentPA]

WashUBears.com shows the Men hosting Trinity and the Women traveling to Messiah.

Messiah's website (Women's schedule) showing the same thing.

[Kuiper]

Sweet 16 NPI recap.  Top 7 NPI seeds all make it, but it breaks down after that.  Only actual outliers, though, are Rowan and Messiah, neither of which would have made it if conference AQs did not exist.

Tufts (#1) v. Messiah (#107)
Conn College (#7) v. Bowdoin (#9)

Augsburg (#2) v. Cortland (#18)
Wash U (#10) v. Trinity (#12)

St. Olaf (#3) v. Williams (#17)
Macalester (#6) v. Wheaton (MA) (#21)

Lynchburg (#4) v. Dickinson (#22)
Emory (#5) v. Rowan (#32)

[Kuiper]

WashUBears.com shows the Men hosting Trinity and the Women traveling to Messiah.

That's a pretty big difference compared to 2024, when Trinity traveled to Middlebury, or 2023, when Occidental traveled to Amherst.  There's no time difference, the flight is shorter, and the weather is milder.

Somewhat rougher for Cortland, though, which would be the team in the pod that would be traveling the farthest and have the time difference (the milder weather presumably wouldn't hurt it).

[SKUD]

Let's go MESSIAH!

[BlueJay95]

Sweet 16 NPI recap.  Top 7 NPI seeds all make it, but it breaks down after that.  Only actual outliers, though, are Rowan and Messiah, neither of which would have made it if conference AQs did not exist.

Tufts (#1) v. Messiah (#107)
Conn College (#7) v. Bowdoin (#9)

Augsburg (#2) v. Cortland (#18)
Wash U (#10) v. Trinity (#12)

St. Olaf (#3) v. Williams (#17)
Macalester (#6) v. Wheaton (MA) (#21)

Lynchburg (#4) v. Dickinson (#22)
Emory (#5) v. Rowan (#32)

Not really the case as if AQs didn't exist Profs still would have been most likely a two seed in a region similar to what played out as the #32 of 64 teams. Great effort by the Profs yesterday in difficult conditions.

[Ejay]

Pretty pleased with my bracket thus far.

Tufts (#1) v. Messiah (#107)
Conn College (#7) v. Bowdoin (#9)

Augsburg (#2) v. Cortland (#18)
Wash U (#10) v. Trinity (#12)

St. Olaf (#3) v. Williams (#17)
Macalester (#6) v. Wheaton (MA) (#21)

Lynchburg (#4) v. Dickinson (#22)
Emory (#5) v. Rowan (#32)

[Mr_November]

Pretty pleased with my bracket thus far.

Tufts (#1) v. Messiah (#107)
Conn College (#7) v. Bowdoin (#9)

Augsburg (#2) v. Cortland (#18)
Wash U (#10) v. Trinity (#12)

St. Olaf (#3) v. Williams (#17)
Macalester (#6) v. Wheaton (MA) (#21)

Lynchburg (#4) v. Dickinson (#22)
Emory (#5) v. Rowan (#32)

This is impressive.

[Ron Boerger]

St. Louis weather this weekend - highs in the mid-50s to near 60, lows in the low-mid 40s.  Right now, rain earlier in the week is forecast to clear up by Saturday.  WashU has turf so should not have to worry about field conditions.

[Newenglander]

Quick question - can you rewatch any of these games? pay on demand? don't see much info (or I'm missing it) on the NCAA site....

[kansas hokie]

11 a.m. | Tufts vs. Messiah
12 p.m. | St. Olaf vs. Williams
12 p.m. | Augsburg vs. Cortland
1 p.m. | Lynchburg vs. Dickinson
1:30 p.m. | Connecticut Col. vs. Bowdoin
2:30 p.m. | Macalester vs. Wheaton (MA)
2:30 p.m. | WashU vs. Trinity (TX)
3:30 p.m. | Emory vs. Rowan

Host sites - Olaf, Tufts, Wash U, Lynchburg.

Two flights into Olaf - Williams and Wheaton
3 flights (all teams) into Wash U - Trinity, Augsburg, Cortland
No flights to Tufts or Lynchburg.

Welcome to the second weekend!

[Ron Boerger]

Quick question - can you rewatch any of these games? pay on demand? don't see much info (or I'm missing it) on the NCAA site....

I copied the URL for one of the games and immediately after the game ended not only did it disappear from the open page but upon reloading there was no video to be seen.  Don't think it can be re-viewed (and would be happy to be proven wrong). 

[Sandon Mibut]

Here's some interesting background on the Messiah team this year as they travel to Tufts for the Sweet 16:

• Lost their first 5 games (gave up 17 goals in this stretch!)
• Then went 3-2-2 mid-season (11 GF, 8 GA in this stretch but 5 GA in a single game against Lynchburg)
• Since the 10/8/25 loss to Lynchburg, they're 10-0-0 with 23 GF and 1 GA!

However it must also be noted that, prior to the NCAA tournament, Messiah's best win was over #138 Stevenson. Messiah lost every game it played against top-100 opponents before the NCAA tourney:

• Sept Loss #24 Scranton 0-2
• Sept Loss #240 Claremont Mudd Scrip 3-4
• Sept Loss #32 Rowan 3-4
• Sept Loss #22 Dickinson 0-3
• Sept Loss #65 Salisbury
• Sept Loss #61 Univ Mary Washington 0-2
• Oct Loss #4 Lynchburg 1-5

Just looking at the stats from Messiah's Round of 64 and 32:
Fairly even stats vs Hobart for the 1-0 win early in 1st OT.
Outshot Calvin 21:9 in a 3-0 win however Calvin did manage 8 corners vs Messiah's 0.

Google Maps says it's nearly 7 hours to drive from Messiah to Tufts.

[Kuiper]

Here's some interesting background on the Messiah team this year as they travel to Tufts for the Sweet 16:

• Lost their first 5 games (gave up 17 goals in this stretch!)
• Then went 3-2-2 mid-season (11 GF, 8 GA in this stretch but 5 GA in a single game against Lynchburg)
• Since the 10/8/25 loss to Lynchburg, they're 10-0-0 with 23 GF and 1 GA!

However it must also be noted that, prior to the NCAA tournament, Messiah's best win was over #138 Stevenson. Messiah lost every game it played against top-100 opponents before the NCAA tourney:

• Sept Loss #24 Scranton 0-2
• Sept Loss #240 Claremont Mudd Scrip 3-4
• Sept Loss #32 Rowan 3-4
• Sept Loss #22 Dickinson 0-3
• Sept Loss #65 Salisbury
• Sept Loss #61 Univ Mary Washington 0-2
• Oct Loss #4 Lynchburg 1-5

Just looking at the stats from Messiah's Round of 64 and 32:
Fairly even stats vs Hobart for the 1-0 win early in 1st OT.
Outshot Calvin 21:9 in a 3-0 win however Calvin did manage 8 corners vs Messiah's 0.

Google Maps says it's nearly 7 hours to drive from Messiah to Tufts.

With respect to the bolded part, it's 409 miles.  Under the NCAA <500 mile rule, that means it's a drive (or at least the NCAA won't pay for a flight).

[SKUD]

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