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2026 Bracketology: The Road to the Aud

Pioneer247 said:
The best day will be when we get to 16 teams and can do a D1-esque tournament. I wish we had a way to make the conferences a little bigger and lessen the amount of auto-bids, but that's probably a pipe dream.

If you had 16 teams this year, you add Adrian and St. Norbert to the at-large list and that bracket is so good.

We're 5 teams away from hitting that number with the D3 6:1 ratio, if my info is correct at least
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Jesus Q. Murphy, did Moses carry the 6:1 ratio down from The Mount, along with the 10 Commandments?

D-3 can change that stupid rule whenever the fuck they want to. It will not require a Constitutional Convention.

Yet, D-3 clings to its rigid "by-laws" as though college sports can't do whatever they care to now. (They can!)

The absurdity of it all boggles the mind, especially when one considers how very very very little attention D-3 sports garner by any yardstick in the first GD place.

Make it make sense, already!!!
 
Fishman'81 said:
Jesus Q. Murphy, did Moses carry the 6:1 ratio down from The Mount, along with the 10 Commandments?

D-3 can change that stupid rule whenever the fuck they want to. It will not require a Constitutional Convention.

Yet, D-3 clings to its rigid "by-laws" as though college sports can't do whatever they care to now. (They can!)

The absurdity of it all boggles the mind, especially when one considers how very very very little attention D-3 sports garner by any yardstick in the first GD place.

Make it make sense, already!!!
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Quit the cussin'.
 
Adrian would get an at large bid in a 16 team field. They have the Salve advantage of being idle.

St Norbert would drop at least a spot or two in the NPI after a loss tomorrow and would still be on the outside looking in.
 
Tom Coughlin said:
Adrian would get an at large bid in a 16 team field. They have the Salve advantage of being idle.

St Norbert would drop at least a spot or two in the NPI after a loss tomorrow and would still be on the outside looking in.
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As long as every favorite wins the conference championship !
 
To change the topic a bit from teams being in to bracket integrity...

Reading up on the D3 men's basketball bracket, two good things happened there.
1) They added a flight in order to prevent first round rematches (I assume that was conference playoff rematches). So, the question on whether the committee will stick to that rule appears to be yes.
2) They added a flight in the second round for proper seeding (i.e., bracket integrity).

I don't think last year's bracket integrity was a flash in the pan. For the second year in a row, the football bracket was adjusted, even meaning adding flights, for bracket integrity. It wasn't great -- flying a football team is very expensive, so they still kept that to a minimum -- but they did their best to avoid first round conference games and seeding integrity.

And now, the BB bracket maintained some of that newfound philosophy.

The one question I have is, since they know the site, will they gamble on a bracket, no matter the integrity of it, that could produce four western teams in the semifinals?
 
Russell Jaslow said:
To change the topic a bit from teams being in to bracket integrity...

Reading up on the D3 men's basketball bracket, two good things happened there.
1) They added a flight in order to prevent first round rematches (I assume that was conference playoff rematches). So, the question on whether the committee will stick to that rule appears to be yes.
2) They added a flight in the second round for proper seeding (i.e., bracket integrity).

I don't think last year's bracket integrity was a flash in the pan. For the second year in a row, the football bracket was adjusted, even meaning adding flights, for bracket integrity. It wasn't great -- flying a football team is very expensive, so they still kept that to a minimum -- but they did their best to avoid first round conference games and seeding integrity.

And now, the BB bracket maintained some of that newfound philosophy.

The one question I have is, since they know the site, will they gamble on a bracket, no matter the integrity of it, that could produce four western teams in the semifinals?
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Russ, you tangentially made my point.

How about this: let the NCAA offer some concrete dollar amount for flights to wherever to any team outside the moronic 600 mile range, and require the teams that are 601 miles away to pay for the few more pennies involved? This isn't like solving the riddle of cold fusion, for the love of God.

Fuck me running, D-3 hockey could screw up a two car parade. An astonishingly stupid organization.
 
Tom Coughlin said:
Adrian dropped like 5 or 6 spots after losing last week. It helps that it's a road game for Aurora, but it seems like they would see a similar drop.
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It's impossible to say how the NPI reacts at this point. Hypothetically Aurora should be ahead of Utica if both teams were to lose tonight, but who knows. Do Utica and Aurora fall below Adrian with losses? If that's the case and there are no surprises in the NESCAC or SUNY, Adrian would get the last bid over Utica and Aurora.
 
Tom Coughlin said:
This is a crazy suggestion that I don't really like, but it almost seems like the only fair way to split at large bids is to give 1 at large bid to the best team in the West, and give the other 3 to the three best teams in the East. This is almost perfectly proportional in terms of the number of teams in each region. There are years where a strong West team would get screwed out of an at large bid and vice versa. But if there is no way to fairly compare teams across region, this almost seems like the only fair approach.
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I proposed this exact same thing to a someone a couple weeks ago as well as perhaps the “fairest” way to do it given the lack of crossover.

It would never fly because they won’t create a special rule for hockey. But it would be the best way to do it that currently exists so far. NPI/Pairwise but only within your region and then the east gets 3 at-large due to having 3/4ths of the teams and the west gets 1 at-large.

That way no matter what, even if a western team didn’t win their way in, the best remaining team that didn’t win between the 3 leagues still gets in.
 
UPSET IN THE NESCAC!

Williams takes down Hamilton 5-4 in OT

Bowdoin moves into the AQ spot in the NESCAC, Hamilton will move into an at-large, but for now, that's the only change
 
Pioneer247 said:
UPSET IN THE NESCAC!

Williams takes down Hamilton 5-4 in OT

Bowdoin moves into the AQ spot in the NESCAC, Hamilton will move into an at-large, but for now, that's the only change
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Bowdoin just shown the door by M'bury, Adrian inches ahead of Bowdoin in the NPI.
 
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Curious how much b*tching will be coming from D3HN with the NCHA in line for 3 bids right now if SNC holds on. (Not saying the league doesn’t deserve them).

More an indictment of the people complaining the NPI/PWR “doesn’t work for the west”.
 
WHAT A DAY. Lots of movement, NESCAC madness, Adrian was out and then in and now looking like they're out again, Utica jumps into the Top 4 to seemingly have a path to play all NCAA games at the Aud, and Salve Regina somehow is a big winner today...

Two scenarios below for the two NESCAC outcomes, and we'll have one final update tomorrow before the 9:30 PM selection show

CNE: Endicott (2)
Little East: Norwich (14)
MAC: Neumann (27)
MASCAC: Anna Maria (20)
MIAC: Saint John’s (17)
NCHA: St. Norbert (6)
NESCAC: Middlebury (16)/Williams (30)
SUNYAC: Hobart (1)
UCHC: Utica (4)
WIAC: UW-Stout (5)

At-Large:
Hamilton (3)
Salve Regina (7)
Aurora (8)
UNE (9)

First Four Out:
Adrian (10)
Bowdoin (11)
Geneseo (12)
Babson (13)

IF MIDDLEBURY WINS:

Round 1:

Neumann @ Hamilton
Anna Maria @ Utica
Saint John’s @ St. Norbert
Middlebury @ Salve Regina
Aurora @ UW-Stout
Norwich @ UNE

Quarterfinals:

Norwich/UNE @ Hobart
Middlebury/Salve Regina @ Endicott
Saint John’s/St. Norbert @ Neumann/Hamilton
Aurora/UW-Stout @ Anna Maria/Utica

IF WILLIAMS WINS:

Round 1:

Neumann @ Hamilton
Williams @ Utica
Aurora @ UW-Stout
Saint John’s @ St. Norbert
Anna Maria @ Salve Regina
Norwich @ UNE

Quarterfinals:

Norwich/UNE @ Hobart
Anna Maria/Salve Regina @ Endicott
Saint John’s/St. Norbert @ Neumann/Hamilton
Aurora/UW-Stout @ Williams/Utica
 
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