Re: D3 18-19 season
I was just reading over the 2019 NCAA Division 111 Women’s Ice Hockey Championship Manual and the way I read it Hamline, River Falls and Eau Claire are all Pool B teams, along with Elmira. If that is accurate then only one of those 4 teams would make the tournament. Here are a couple of excerpts from the manual:
Pool A - 6 Pool B - 1 Pool C - 3
Pool B will consist of independent institutions and institutions that are members of conferences that do not meet the requirements for automatic qualification.
Pool B (4)
Independents (4)
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire University of Wisconsin-River Falls
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point University of Wisconsin-Superior
Pool B (12)
United Collegiate Hockey Conference (11)
Chatham University Elmira College
King’s College Lebanon Valley College Manhattanville College Nazareth College
Neumann University Stevenson University Utica College
Wilkes University William Smith College
Independents (1)
Anna Maria College
Here is the link for the manual:
https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/ch...key/d3/women/2018-19D3WIH_PreChampsManual.pdf
If I am reading this wrong and someone can explain why that would be appreciated. If I am accurate the field will look significantly different.
If the season ended today and the teams leading their conference standings right now won the conference tournament....here is your field. (Pairwise ranking in parenthesis)
Colonial - Endicott (12)
MIAC - St. Thomas (2)
NCHA - Adrian (4)
NEHC - Norwich (10)
NESCAC - Middlebury (7)
NEWHL - Plattsburgh (1)
Pool B - Elmira (3)
Pool C - Hamline (5)
Pool C - River Falls (6)
Pool C - Eau Claire (8)
Have fun making a bracket with this while adhering to the limiting flights (500 miles or more) rule for first round and quarterfinal matchups. I haven't found a solution where a flight is avoidable yet.