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First 2007 regional rankings

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The NCAA Division III men’s and women’s basketball committees released their first regional rankings of the 2006-07 season Wednesday afternoon.

The number of teams ranked in the men’s and women’s poll is relative to the number of teams in each region.

Men’s Basketball
The first record listed is the overall record, followed by record in regional games, through Sunday, Feb. 4.
Atlantic
1 Ramapo 16-5 15-3
2 Stevens 17-4 17-4
3 Manhattanville 16-5 15-5
4 Richard Stockton 15-7 12-5
5 New Jersey City 14-7 13-6

East Region
1 St. Lawrence 18-3 17-3
2 Brockport State 16-4 15-4
3 Utica 17-3 16-3
4 New York U. 16-4 14-4
5 Rochester 15-5 15-4

Great Lakes Region
1 Lake Erie 20-1 16-0
2 Wooster 18-3 13-2
3 Wittenberg 18-3 13-3
4 Hope 17-2 10-2
5 John Carroll 14-7 13-5
6 Ohio Northern 16-5 11-5

Middle Atlantic Region
1 Johns Hopkins 19-2 18-1
2 Catholic 16-4 15-4
3 Hood 16-5 15-4
4 Messiah 15-5 12-3
5 Alvernia 16-4 15-2
6 Scranton 16-5 14-5
7 Lincoln 13-7 9-3
8 King’s 14-7 13-6

Midwest Region
1 Augustana 17-4 17-3
2 Washington U. 16-4 14-3
3 Chicago 16-4 15-4
4 Aurora 19-2 18-2
5 Wheaton (Ill.) 14-6 10-5
6 Elmhurst 16-4 12-4
7 Carthage 14-6 11-5
8 Bluffton 16-5 11-5

Northeast Region
1 Amherst 23-0 22-0
2 WPI 17-2 15-2
3 Salem State 17-2 17-2
4 Rhode Island 17-3 17-3
5 Trinity (Conn.) 18-3 14-3
6 Bates 17-4 16-4
7 Keene State 17-4 14-4
8 Brandeis 14-6 14-6
9 Babson 13-8 12-8
10 Tufts 13-8 13-8

South Region
1 Mississippi College 18-2 16-1
2 Virginia Wesleyan 19-3 18-3
3 Guilford 16-3 15-3
4 Maryville (Tenn.) 15-5 15-3
5 DePauw 17-4 14-3
6 Mary Hardin-Baylor 17-3 17-3
7 Averett 14-6 12-4
8 Centre 16-4 10-4

West Region
1 UW-Stevens Point 18-2 17-1
2 St. Thomas 18-2 18-2
3 St. John’s 16-5 16-2
4 Whitworth 18-2 15-2
5 Occidental 14-4 9-2
6 UW-Oshkosh 18-4 15-4
7 Loras 15-5 13-3
8 Puget Sound 16-4 13-3

Women’s Basketball
The first record listed is the regional record, followed by overall record, through Sunday, Feb. 4.

Atlantic
1 Mary Washington 17-2 18-2
2 Mount St. Mary 17-3 17-3
3 William Paterson 17-3 18-4
4 Kean 17-3 18-3
5 Stevens 17-4 17-4
6 Rutgers-Newark 15-4 15-6

Central
1 Illinois Wesleyan 17-0 19-1
2 UW-Stout 17-3 18-4
3 Lake Forest 15-1 17-2
4 Carroll 17-3 17-3
5 Chicago 14-4 16-4
6 Washington U. 12-4 15-5

East
1 Rochester 18-2 18-2
2 St. Lawrence 18-0 20-1
3 Cortland State 17-1 18-1
4 New York University 18-2 18-2
5 Medaille 15-2 17-4
6 Brockport State 13-5 15-5

Great Lakes
1 Calvin 12-0 18-1
2 DePauw 12-2 19-2
3 Denison 17-2 19-3
4 Wilmington 16-3 18-3
5 Hope 13-2 18-2
6 Baldwin-Wallace 16-4 17-4

Mid-Atlantic
1 Messiah 20-0 20-1
2 Scranton 17-2 19-2
3 Gwynedd-Mercy 18-2 18-2
4 McDaniel 18-2 18-2
5 Muhlenberg 17-3 18-3
6 Dickinson 16-4 17-4

Northeast
1 Bowdoin 19-1 21-1
2 Fitchburg State 18-1 18-1
3 Emmanuel 16-1 18-1
4 Southern Maine 19-1 19-1
5 Maine Maritime 17-1 19-1
6 Norwich 17-2 18-2
7 Williams 14-4 17-5
8 Brandeis 14-4 15-4

South
1 Howard Payne 19-1 20-1
2 Oglethorpe 15-3 16-5
3 McMurry 17-3 18-3
4 Randolph-Macon 15-2 16-3
5 Hendrix 15-2 20-3
6 Maryville (Tenn.) 13-2 15-3

West
1 Luther 11-2 15-4
2 Gustavus Adolphus 18-2 18-2
3 Puget Sound 13-2 17-4
4 St. Benedict 16-2 16-4
5 Simpson 13-4 17-5
6 George Fox 9-4 13-6

Unrivaled rivalry

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… or as Jim Nantz might put it, a tradition unlike any other. While he’d be referring to the Masters, in Division III it’s the Hope/Calvin rivalry, the best rivalry in Division III.

(Note: Every time I say that, someone wants to challenge it, so I’ll respond now. Put 11,000 fans in the seats at your game, like this game did in the mid-’90s, and we’ll talk.)

I’ve seen Hope/Calvin once in person, once at one of the rivalry’s many satellite viewing parties and once on CSTV. In 1999 I saw the game at a sports bar in Arlington, Va., and wrote about it on the site. I saw it in person in February 2005 in the final Rivalry game played in the Holland Civic Center, Hope’s longtime home floor. And the CSTV broadcast was really just the local TV retransmitted, which was a shame, because the local broadcasters did nothing to educate the national audience about what this rivalry is about or why the game was even on. What a waste.

Hope won the last meeting, which is why we currently name it the Hope/Calvin rivalry. (When Calvin wins, we officially reverse the order.)

The teams meet tonight, and Josh Centor, who writes a blog for the NCAA, will be in the house and experiencing this for the first time. Follow his blog.