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Selection Day (- 2) News & Notes

Writer: goldenstateservicesj
goldenstateservicesj
Nov 3, 2017
2 min read

I’ve been adding some rambling notes into my Match Day posts but thought I would give an overall picture of where the DIII nations stands right now. If you remember, I posted a first look at the possible 20 at-large teams. I can’t begin to tell you how brave this was of me to be the first person in the world to take a stab at the at-large teams*.

* Maybe not brave. Stupid? And I have no clue if it was the first, but I’d like to think so.

Well things have changed so here’s a quick rundown of the conference tournaments and changes to the at-large teams.

  • Hunter won their tournament and will represent the New York region in the NCAA tournament.

  • Pacific Lutheran (West) won their conference and gets their automatic bid.

  • On the down side, Farmingdale State was the #1 seed in their tournament but have lost. They were not ranked so this will not impact the 20 at-large bids.

  • Carnegie Mellon lost in the UAA but the remaining teams (Emory and Wash-St. Louis) were expected to get an at-large. Now it means Carnegie Mellon will take their spot. Maybe this hurts fellow Mid-Atlantic schools like Muhlenberg or Swarthmore or Scranton but Carnegie Mellon shouldn’t have to wait to long for selection, which then gets us to those teams.

  • The back half of the Midwest is crazy and UW-Eau Claire may have lost their way out of the tournament by not making their finals. I had them as a bubble team getting in. Look for Carthage to get a Midwest spot now.

  • Vassar was a questionable #1 seed in the New York region and losing early in their tournament has to kill their chances. Clarkson might be the team in NY if they get an at-large at all.

  • UTT struggled in the ASC tournament and killed their chances of making the tournament. The #8 West RAC spot will now go to La Verne (also struggling) or maybe UTD if they win the ASC. Regardless, the best hope of 8 West teams is with UTD or Cal Lu winning their tournaments.

Obviously the main thing to watch for today/tomorrow are the tournaments where a ranked team is the #1 seed but gets bounced by non-ranked teams. The selection committee then has a huge decision on whether to give an at-large bid to that bounced team meaning the overall at-large list shrinks (in a sense).

 
 
 

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