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    2026 NCAA TOURNAMENT MEGA-THREAD: THE ROAD TO UTICA

    TeamRecruitsNPI Rank Endicott222 St Norbert216 Utica173 Hobart151 Aurora127 Hamilton84 Stout85 Norwich411 This is a representation of the number of USHL, NAHL, and D1 xfers on each of the rosters with their current relative NPI rank. The Norbert/Hobart tilt should be a doozy...
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    2026 NCAA TOURNAMENT MEGA-THREAD: THE ROAD TO UTICA

    So what you're inferring is that the first round is "essentially" a given? That's the point I was attempting to make. With the current system of AQs, the first round won't serve for much other than throwing the weaker conferences a "bone". Some of the attendance at these games appeared to back...
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    2026 NCAA TOURNAMENT MEGA-THREAD: THE ROAD TO UTICA

    I was hoping that the auto-bids would eventually create a more even playing surface between the haves and have not conferences, but my hopes have not been realized. With one glaring exception, the first round games persist as a bit of a travesty, and frankly an embarrassment.
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    2026 D-III NCAA Tournament Pick'em Quarter Final Games

    St. Norbert at Hobart UW-Stout at Utica Aurora at Endicott Norwich at Hamilton
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    2026 D-III NCAA Tournament Pick'em First Round Games

    6:00 Neumann at Hamilton 7:00 Norwich at Salve Regina 7:00 Williams at Utica 8:00 Univ of New England at St. Norbert 8:00 Saint John's at Aurora 8:00 Anna Maria at UW-Stout
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    2026 Bracketology: The Road to the Aud

    Can someone with insight explain to me why, after decades of the NC$$ avoiding flights like leprosy, now have potentially 5 flights PRIOR to the finals!? Why the sudden seismic shift in the D3 budget?? And is this "generosity" evident across the board in other D3 sports as well?? Has sanity...
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    2026 Bracketology: The Road to the Aud

    All of this discussion is moot. Hobart is head & shoulders & torsos above any other team I've seen play. No one can compete with their skill, speed and quickness, plus they'll be sleeping in their own beds for the entire tourney.
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    2026 Bracketology: The Road to the Aud

    Bowdoin just shown the door by M'bury, Adrian inches ahead of Bowdoin in the NPI.
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    Manhattanville is Fine

    This decline is not unique to M'ville; it's an issue with nearly every small, private, liberal arts school. Fewer students = fewer colleges. Survival of the fittest is the theme for the next decade. Ironic that some schools are adding hockey to increase enrollment, certainly not to compete for...
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    D3 schools CHL rule change

    I'm not sure about the USHL & CHL, but the number of NAHL kids is likely to surge in D3. Is anyone familiar enough with the USPORTS schools, and how they compare academically to D3 schools?? I imagine that the quality of education and the proverbial weight of the degree will now become more...
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    Elmira College

    The four pods in the corners of the rink contained some serious lighting which was directed up at the ceiling, and the whole rink was brilliantly indirectly lighted without seeing a lighting fixture. Quite a contrast with today.
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    Elmira College

    Elmira had never won fewer than 8 games in a season, until this. (And I was witness to their very first game ever when the ceiling of the MAC was pristine white) Guess there's only one way to go.
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    SUNYAC 25-26 The start of a new era

    GBS -- "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach." (With all due deference to those Public School teachers out there)
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    2026 Bracketology: The Road to the Aud

    Huston's take on the exact same issue ... probably skewed by the fact that only one NCHA team reaches the tourney in this week's bracketology edition.
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    2026 Bracketology: The Road to the Aud

    My assumption was that the weighting percentages would be "tweaked" each year, but according to the NCAA Q&A document, the % could be tweaked after this (the initial) season, but then only after every 3rd season!?
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