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ATN Podcast: Looking at Pool C

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St. John FisherWe got a clear pecking order in a couple of conferences this past weekend: Northwest Conference, Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and Empire 8 in particular. That put Pacific Lutheran, Bethel and St. John Fisher out into the at-large playoff picture: Pool C.

But where in the picture? With strength of schedule numbers available, we can at least take a basic look at where teams settle in, and who, if they win out, would be considered the locks of the field.

Plus, after St. John Fisher’s loss, what is the likelihood of an East Region team getting a No. 1 seed?

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Game Day: Time to put up

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Bethel athletics photo by Andy Kenutis

Two Division III teams that were on the unbeaten-but-unranked list just a couple of weeks ago have their chances to make major statements in their conferences and set off reverberations around Division III today.

I’m thinking of No. 20 Bethel, which is at unbeaten and No. 4 St. Thomas, and No. 22 Pacific Lutheran, which is at No. 12 Linfield. Control of their conference races is at stake, and in the MIAC, the winner could all but wrap up the automatic bid today. Nobody else has fewer than two losses and the winner would hold head-to-head in a tie if it stumbled in one of its remaining games.

DePauw could clinch an automatic bid today, playing at Trinity (Texas). Never mind the history, right? And then there’s the MAC, where Lycoming is trying to surpass the third-place finish we predicted for the Warriors in the conference standings in Kickoff 2010. A win at No. 9 Delaware Valley would far outdo the narrow home win against Ithaca as the best showing on Lycoming’s schedule and erase some of the sting of the early-season loss at Rowan.

Many, many more games, obviously, many of which we covered in Triple Take yesterday.

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ATN podcast: Re-drawing the Top 25

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UW-Whitewater, Aaron Rusch and Jason FordRe-evaluating the Top 25, or, also known as, how did Central drop nine spots? Coe’s loss to Wartburg had an effect beyond those two teams, while losses by Cortland State, Randolph-Macon and Alfred certainly helped the reshuffling effort.

Why wasn’t Wartburg ranked to begin with? How did they end up at No. 13? Who else is underranked? That and more in this week’s Around the Nation podcast. Plus, Pat Coleman got to see UW-Whitewater play in person next week and gives his take on what he saw, plus gets coach Lance Leipold’s evaluation of his team at the midway point of the Whitewater season (that is, if the Warhawks are planning to play 15 games once again).

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