What's new
By:
USCHO Fan Forum

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

  • The USCHO Fan Forum has migrated to a new plaform, xenForo. Most of the function of the forum should work in familiar ways. Please note that you can switch between light and dark modes by clicking on the gear icon in the upper right of the main menu bar. We are hoping that this new platform will prove to be faster and more reliable. Please feel free to explore its features.

DIII NCAA pairing speculation

Re: DIII NCAA pairing speculation

twowayplay said:
Ok, that pretty much seals it being East this year. Unless they decide to mess with us some more.
Click to expand...

Adrian being the third western team is what really threw the wrench into things. Any other western team as the third and it would have made this much simpler. River Falls with the bye, FF in River Falls. I don't see them voluntarily flying three teams again until they absolutely have to.
 
gojackets said:
Adrian being the third western team is what really threw the wrench into things. Any other western team as the third and it would have made this much simpler. River Falls with the bye, FF in River Falls. I don't see them voluntarily flying three teams again until they absolutely have to.
Click to expand...

I think you might be right. Adrian or Manville do not win, Platt is practicing today.
 
Re: DIII NCAA pairing speculation

obserbear said:
The NC$$ has declared the DIII women's quarter-finals a "no fly zone."
Click to expand...
Thanks to the enforcement of Vermont's own -- 86th Fighter Wing of the Green Mountain Boys -- Norwich (their land grunts) enjoys complete protection and gains immunity to the final council. Middlebury, having proved itself a bit more patrician and profit-minded, must endure another challenge but doesn't have to duck the chants of a New York hometown crowd.
 
Re: DIII NCAA pairing speculation

obserbear said:
Wisconsin-River Falls@Gustavus Adolphus

Adrian@RIT

Manhattanville@Plattsburgh

Middlebury-bye
Click to expand...

Obserbear -- as right as you sounded at 11pm last night, a recent British study indicated that driving at night for over 3 hours leads to the equivalent loss of reaction/judgment time as a .08 level of blood alcohol, so even though your sweet inducements looked appealing at "last call"... those "bus legs" had conspired to become "beer goggles" and cloud a truer reality. Maybe this study will prove itself the rule with Adrian's travels next weekend -- see, there really are "bus legs" effects.
 
Last edited:
Re: DIII NCAA pairing speculation

Phil D. Stands said:
Obserbear -- as right as you sounded at 11pm last night, a recent British study indicated that driving at night for over 3 hours leads to the equivalent loss of reaction/judgment time as a .08 level of blood alcohol, so even though your sweet inducements looked appealing at "last call"... those "bus legs" had conspired to become "beer goggles" and cloud a truer reality. Maybe this study will prove itself the rule with Adrian's travels next weekend -- see, there really are "bus legs" effects.
Click to expand...

Actually, obserbear was pretty much spot on, other than the tricky Plattsburgh - Norwich selection, which lots of folks didn't see coming.

(And the venue for the GAC @ RF/RF @ GAC game, which I also thought was going to be at the conference champ, not the at large bid ... even after I saw the selection "show.")
 
Re: DIII NCAA pairing speculation

Well like we all said the accountants rule the day. But the field is set and dollars only matter in the where question not the who question from here on out. Only problem with the way it is set up now is if Adrian wins two teams fly no matter what. Right now I picture the NCAA wonks sitting at a table with Adrian VOO DOO dolls putting a curse on them.
 
Re: DIII NCAA pairing speculation

dogwatcher said:
Well like we all said the accountants rule the day. But the field is set and dollars only matter in the where question not the who question from here on out. Only problem with the way it is set up now is if Adrian wins two teams fly no matter what. Right now I picture the NCAA wonks sitting at a table with Adrian VOO DOO dolls putting a curse on them.
Click to expand...

And as others have noted, those who won, controlled their own destiny.

Everyone else picks up what crumbs might be left ...

Interesting hockey to be played before this is settled.
 
Re: DIII NCAA pairing speculation

dontyelldad said:
And as others have noted, those who won, controlled their own destiny.

Everyone else picks up what crumbs might be left ...

Interesting hockey to be played before this is settled.
Click to expand...
your right RIT got what they earned
and Norwich certainly earned their reward
I'm sure the ncaa is working on a plan to take away the autobids so they can have one school play intersquad (no flights no buses and best of all no hotels) to determine the champion.
 
Re: DIII NCAA pairing speculation

frosty2114 said:
WOW that in the ECAC West game yesterday, once again RIT was given not one, but two power play opportunities with very little time left in the game-coincidence?
Click to expand...

What do you mean "again"?


Powers &8^]
 
Re: DIII NCAA pairing speculation

UCBadger said:
Well, they weren't out; they just weren't in. Plattsburgh's first appearance in the D-III Women's NCAA tourney was 2004.
Click to expand...

Sorry, but I don't understand the distinction you're drawing.


Powers &8^]
 
Re: DIII NCAA pairing speculation

LLL said:
http://www.ncaa.com/news/icehockey-women/2011-03-07/diii-womens-hockey-field-announced
Click to expand...

In 2010, Amherst defeated Norwich in St. Peter, Minn., to win its second consecutive Division III Women’s Ice Hockey Championship title. Only four institutions (Amherst, Elmira College, Middlebury and Plattsburgh State) have won the NCAA Division III Women’s Ice Hockey Championship.
Click to expand...
Looking at the list of the 4 institutions that have won it all so far, only Middlebury is playing this year. Do I sense an opportunity for a new member of the winner's club?
 
Re: DIII NCAA pairing speculation

notfromaroundhere said:
Looking at the list of the 4 institutions that have won it all so far, only Middlebury is playing this year. Do I sense an opportunity for a new member of the winner's club?
Click to expand...

One thing is for sure...whoever wins it this year if it's not Middlebury had better win it again in 2012 or they will break tradition!
 
Re: DIII NCAA pairing speculation

LtPowers said:
Sorry, but I don't understand the distinction you're drawing.


Powers &8^]
Click to expand...
Plattsburgh did not become a "regular" until 2004 as they were not invited in 2002, Plattsburgh's first year, and 2003. (If course, nobody was invited until 2002 as that was the first year of the NCAA Women's D-III Tournament.) This is, however, the first NCAA D-III Women's Tournament without either Elmira or Plattsburgh.
 
Re: DIII NCAA pairing speculation

spike said:
I'm guessing that some people in Plattsburgh are thinking about the disallowed goal in the Midd/Norwich game right about now?
Click to expand...

I was thinking the same thing all Sunday night and Monday morning about how big that goal turned out to be....It's not only one of the biggest reasons Norwich is in over Plattsburgh, it's also part of the reason they got the bye.
 
Re: DIII NCAA pairing speculation

PrezdeJohnson09 said:
I was thinking the same thing all Sunday night and Monday morning about how big that goal turned out to be....It's not only one of the biggest reasons Norwich is in over Plattsburgh, it's also part of the reason they got the bye.
Click to expand...

One thing we rarely hear about is how the structure of DIII women's hockey puts such tremendous pressure on these girls to win every game. Imagine how different Amherst's season could have been if they had gotten a split up at RIT after playing well enough to win. How different Plattsburgh's year could have been if the ref's hadn't given Amherst a 5 on 3 late in the third period with Platty leading 1-0. The list could go on, but the fact is that with only two at-large bids the pressure starts in November and never lets up.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top