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Nov 21: Smith joining 700 club; Hixon hits No. 600
Nov 21: IWU gets past top- ranked Bears
Our projected Field of 63
As is traditional, we have attempted to project the field of 63 based on the same criteria the NCAA national committee will be using on Sunday night. They give us 40 gimmes in the automatic bids and we have to figure out the 3 Pool B and 20 Pool C bids. (Pool B and C explained)
Primary
criteria Secondary criteria |
The NCAA will tell us who is in the women's tournament tonight, and will give us pairings for those teams on Monday morning. Coincidentally, we believe it doesn't matter who wins on Sunday. In three of the conferences who play Sunday, we believe both teams are in. In the other three, only the champion will get in.
Our Pool B teams were Scranton, Moravian and Chapman.
Here are our Pool
C teams:
Rochester
Amherst
Tufts
NYU
UW-Eau Claire
Messiah
UW-Whitewater
Greensboro
York (Pa.)
DePauw
Brandeis
Eastern Connecticut
Washington and Jefferson
Western Connecticut
Kean
Marymount
Ithaca
Concordia-Moorhead
UT-Dallas
Baldwin-Wallace
This projects Howard Payne to win the ASC. Otherwise, we have Howard Payne in as the last Pool C pick, bumping Baldwin-Wallace. When we selected the last Pool C team, the seven teams remaining on the board were Montclair State, St. Norbert, Cortland State, Lebanon Valley, Keene State, Hardin-Simmons and La Verne.
This is during Sunday's games started.
| How to read this bracket: Unless otherwise noted, seeds 1 and 8, and 4 and 5 play at the No. 1 seed. Seeds 2 and 7, and 3 and 6, play at the No. 2 seed. | |
| BRACKET 1 1 Amherst 2 Bowdoin 3 Brandeis 4 Southern Maine 5 Emmanuel 6 Babson 7 Castleton State 8 Salve Regina Breaking up three NESCAC teams and three LEC teams wasn't completely possible. Here Amherst and Bowdoin wouldn't meet until the Sweet 16. |
BRACKET 2 1 Rochester 2 NYU 3 Tufts 4 Eastern Connecticut 5 Ithaca 6 Stevens 7 St. Lawrence 8 Westfield State The East was one of the hardest regions to rank, but not the hardest. You see a couple of Northeast teams spill over. |
| BRACKET 3 1 Scranton 2 Muhlenberg 3 Moravian 4 DeSales 5 Western Connecticut 6 Cabrini 7 Widener 8 Keuka The pecking order in this region didn't change much since last week's regional rankings. |
BRACKET 4 1 York (Pa.) 2 Mount St. Mary 3 TCNJ 4 Messiah 5 Mary Washington 6 Kean 7 Marymount 8 Baruch York remained the top seed despite the loss. Kean would play Messiah and Mary Wash would play TCNJ here. |
| BRACKET 5 1 Hope 2 Thomas More 3 DePauw 4 Washington and Jefferson 5 Capital 6 Baldwin-Wallace 7 Pitt-Greensburg 8 Brockport State Brockport can get to Hope within the 500-mile busing radius, yes. |
BRACKET 6 1 Illinois Wesleyan 2 Washington U. 3 UW-Eau Claire 4 UW-Whitewater 5 Concordia (Wis.) 6 Ohio Wesleyan 7 Maryville (Mo.) 8 Ripon We couldn't split the three WIAC teams over three brackets like we wanted. We also couldn't give IWU the bye we wanted. |
| BRACKET 7 1 Oglethorpe * 2 Greensboro * 3 Texas-Dallas 4 Howard Payne 5 Randolph-Macon 6 Christopher Newport 7 Transylvania * 8 Maryville (Tenn.) * The teams with asterisks play in the same regional, at Oglethorpe. All can drive. Two flights to UT-Dallas. |
BRACKET 8 1 George Fox * 2 UW-Stevens Point 3 St. Benedict 4 Simpson 5 Concordia-Moorhead 6 Occidental * 7 Chapman * BYE Bye goes here, mostly for geography, though it's not like George Fox isn't worthy. Concordia vs. UW-SP, Simpson vs. St. Ben's. |
Remember, this is before Sunday's games. Some seedings could change and teams could swap places based on those outcomes.
We did make a late change, to swap UW-Stevens Point and UW-Eau Claire in the bracket so that WIAC champ UW-SP hosts.
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