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NCAA’s final regional ranking

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Here’s the final NCAA Division III men’s basketball regional ranking, the one used to select NCAA Tournament teams.

In-region record is first, followed by overall record.

Atlantic
1 SUNY-Purchase 23-4 23-4
2 Ramapo 19-4 20-6
3 St. Joseph’s (L.I.) 20-6 22-6
3 Kean 17-6 18-8
5 New Jersey City 17-8 19-9

East
1 Oswego State 23-4 23-4
2 Ithaca 19-6 20-6
3 Rochester 19-4 20-5
4 Buffalo State 18-6 21-6
5 Stevens 19-7 19-7
6 Skidmore 18-8 18-9

Great Lakes
1 Wooster 23-2 26-2
2 Marietta 22-3 25-3
3 Hope 18-2 22-6
4 Penn State-Behrend 23-3 23-4
5 Wittenberg 16-6 19-8
6 Wabash 19-6 20-6

Mid-Atlantic
1 La Roche 24-2 25-2
2 St. Mary’s (Md.) 20-3 22-5
3 Cabrini 22-5 22-5
4 Gwynedd-Mercy 20-5 21-6
5 Franklin and Marshall 20-5 22-5
6 Lebanon Valley 18-7 20-7
7 Keystone 21-6 21-6
8 Alvernia 17-6 18-6
9 Scranton 19-5 20-5

Midwest
1 Augustana 23-3 24-3
2 Concordia (Wis.) 21-3 23-4
3 Manchester 20-5 21-6
4 Hanover 19-7 19-7
5 Illinois Wesleyan 18-8 19-8
6 Benedictine 20-6 21-7
7 St. Norbert 20-5 20-5
8 Edgewood 18-8 18-10

Northeast
1 Middlebury 22-1 25-1
2 Williams 23-2 25-2
3 WPI 22-4 22-5
4 Becker 23-4 23-4
5 Amherst 21-3 22-3
6 Western Connecticut State 20-5 21-5
7 Rhode Island College 19-7 19-7
8 Elms 18-6 20-7
9 Eastern Connecticut State 17-8 19-9
10 Bridgewater State 18-8 19-9
11 MIT 19-7 19-8

South
1 Virginia Wesleyan 23-4 21-4
2 Randolph-Macon 24-4 23-4
3 McMurry 20-6 21-7
4 Mary Hardin-Baylor 21-7 21-7
5 Texas-Dallas 20-5 21-6
6 Ferrum 20-5 23-5
7 Eastern Mennonite 16-5 22-5
8 North Carolina Wesleyan 16-4 21-6

West
1 Whitworth 26-1 26-1
2 St. Thomas 23-3 24-3
3 UW-Stevens Point 23-3 24-3
4 Chapman 16-1 24-3
5 UW-River Falls 18-6 20-7
6 Carleton 18-6 18-8
7 Whitman 14-6 19-8
8 Lewis and Clark 12-6 18-8
9 UW-Whitewater 16-9 17-9

For a PDF of the regional score reporting form click on the links below: 

Atlantic  |  East  |  Great Lakes  |  Middle Atlantic  |  Midwest  |  Northeast  |  South  |  West

Women’s rankings

Atlantic
1. Kean 19-2 22-4
2. Mount Saint Mary 25-2 25-2
3. William Paterson 22-3 23-3
4. Baruch 22-4 23-5
5. Gallaudet 22-3 24-3
6. Richard Stockton 16-9 17-9

Central
1. UW-Stevens Point 25-2 25-2
2. Illinois Wesleyan 20-3 23-4
3. UW-Whitewater 18-6 21-6
4. UW-La Crosse 19-7 20-7
5. Chicago 22-3 22-3
6. Washington U. 17-4 20-5

East
1. Geneseo State 23-2 25-3
2. Rochester 18-5 20-5
3. Medaille 22-4 22-4
4. Keuka 23-2 24-2
5. Ithaca 19-5 20-7
6. Oneonta State 20-6 21-7

Great Lakes
1. Thomas More 27-0 28-0
2. Calvin 20-1 24-4
3. Hope 24-2 26-2
4. Denison 26-0 28-0
5. Hanover 24-1 25-1
6. DePauw 22-2 25-3

Mid-Atlantic
1. Lebanon Valley 25-2 25-2
2. Juniata 21-3 21-6
3. Johns Hopkins 21-5 21-5
4. Muhlenberg 21-5 21-5
5. Messiah 19-6 19-7
6. DeSales 19-8 19-8

Northeast
1. Amherst 26-1 26-1
2. Bowdoin 22-4 22-5
3. Colby 19-5 21-5
4. Williams 19-5 21-5
5. Babson 25-0 27-0
6. Western Connecticut State 23-3 23-3
7. Eastern Connecticut State 20-6 20-8
8. Bates 15-7 17-8
9. Tufts 17-6 18-6
10. Salve Regina 23-3 25-3

South
1. Christopher Newport 23-3 25-3
2. Greensboro 25-2 26-2
3. Louisiana College 23-3 25-3
4. Randolph-Macon 22-4 22-6
5. Howard Payne 20-7 21-7
6. Roanoke 19-7 19-8

West
1. Coe 23-3 24-3
2. George Fox 17-3 22-5
3. Chapman 16-3 22-5
4. Lewis & Clark 17-4 21-6
5. Simpson 19-5 21-6
6. Concordia-Moorhead 21-6 21-6

Women’s tournament bracketology

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This is going to be a pretty quick description for now, with more in-depth explainer to come.

As a reminder, we take the automatic bids, and we take the NCAA’s selection criteria, and we project the at-large bids, then create a bracket out of it.

The one Pool B bid went to Chapman and the 20 Pool C bids went as selected, in the following order:
Kean
Bowdoin
UW-Whitewater
Greensboro
Rochester
Johns Hopkins
Louisiana College
UW-La Crosse
Colby
Williams
Eastern Connecticut
Messiah
Hope
St. Vincent
Lewis and Clark
Washington U.
Gallaudet
Medaille
Ithaca
Simpson

The teams left on the board: Mary Washington, Wheaton (Ill.), Oneonta State, Baldwin-Wallace, Gettysburg, Bates and Maryville. Wartburg was next in the West when Simpson was taken with the last spot.

I talked to one former committee member tonight who said that when they were on the committee, if you weren’t ranked, you didn’t get in. In men’s basketball we know that the regional committees rank extra teams so that there are more at-large candidates available in case they run out. In women’s, they said that didn’t happen — if a region ran out, they simply had an empty spot on the board.

I called that “ludicrous” — thankfully I don’t think that’s the case anymore. If it is, Thomas More doesn’t get in.

And from that, here’s our bracket: Projected 2011 women’s basketball bracket

The NCAA makes its announcement starting at 3 p.m. ET on Monday.

Men’s tournament bracketology

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Here’s the Matt Snyder bracketology. I’m copying and pasting it over with their permission, but here’s the link, so please visit them.

Following that, I’ll give my take and we’ll work from there.

Here’s the official D3hoops.com men’s basketball bracket projection.

The Matt Snyder Bracketology Pool C bids
Listed Alphabetically: Amherst, Becker, Carleton, Concordia (Wis.), Gwynedd-Mercy, Hanover, Ithaca, Keystone, Oswego State, Penn State-Behrend, Ramapo, Texas-Dallas, UW-River Falls, Virginia Wesleyan, Western Connecticut, Williams, Wittenberg, WPI

I italicized the spots where we differ. We think Mary Hardin-Baylor will hope Texas-Dallas in the South Region rankings. (And the South Region rankings are a mess after this weekend!) UMHB beat UTD two out of three. And we project Keystone out in favor of Kean. We think Kean remains ahead of St. Joseph’s (L.I.) in the Atlantic Region ranking.

I’m going to say the same sort of thing I said the last time around, in that I don’t think the third CSAC team gets in. Given the criteria, there are certainly cases you could make for several teams in the final spot, and it’s like that every year.

Who’s in the women’s tournament?

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Here are the teams that clinched the 43 automatic bids into the Division III women’s basketball tournament. The number in parentheses is the team’s seeding in their conference tournament. Coe, Daniel Webster, La Roche and Vassar are headed to the NCAA tournament for the first time in program history. The NCAA tournament bracket will be released on Monday afternoon. You can read more about the tournament’s structure here.

Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference: La Roche (1)
American Southwest Conference: Howard Payne (1-West)
Capital Athletic Conference: York (Pa.) (3)
Centennial Conference: Muhlenberg (2)
City University of New York Athletic Conference: Baruch (1)
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin: Illinois Wesleyan (1)
Colonial States Athletic Conference: Neumann (1)
Commonwealth Coast Conference: Salve Regina (1)
Empire 8: Stevens (2)
Great Northeast Athletic Conference: Emmanuel (1)
Great South Athletic Conference: Piedmont (3)
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference: Hanover (1)
Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Coe (1)
Landmark Conference: Juniata (1)
Liberty League: Vassar (4)
Little East Conference: Western Connecticut State (1)
Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference: Bridgewater State (2)
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association: Calvin (1)
Middle Atlantic Commonwealth: Lebanon Valley (1)
Middle Atlantic Freedom: DeSales (2)
Midwest Conference: St. Norbert (1)
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Concordia-Moorhead (2)
New England Collegiate Conference: Daniel Webster (3)
New England Small College Athletic Conference: Amherst (1)
New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference: Babson (1)
New Jersey Athletic Conference: William Paterson (1-North)
North Atlantic Conference: Husson (1)
North Coast Athletic Conference: Denison (1)
North Eastern Athletic Conference: Keuka (2)
Northern Athletics Conference: Wisconsin Lutheran (1)
Northwest Conference: George Fox (2)
Ohio Athletic Conference: Mount Union (1)
Old Dominion Athletic Conference: Randolph-Macon (1)
Presidents Athletic Conference: Thomas More (1)
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Webster (3)
Skyline Conference: Mount St. Mary (1)
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Occidental (1)
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference: DePauw (1-East)
State University of New York Athletic Conference: Geneseo State (1)
University Athletic Association: Chicago (No tournament)
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference: Minnesota-Morris (1)
USA South Athletic Conference: Christopher Newport (2)
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: UW-Stevens Point (1)

Who’s in the men’s tournament?

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Here are the teams that clinched the 42 automatic bids into the 2011 Division III men’s basketball tournament. The number in parentheses is the team’s seeding in their conference tournament. The NCAA bracket will be announced on Monday afternoon. You can read more about the tournament’s structure here.

Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference: La Roche (1)
American Southwest Conference: McMurry (1-West)
Capital Athletic Conference: St. Mary’s (Md.) (1)
Centennial Conference: Franklin and Marshall (1)
City University of New York Athletic Conference: Medgar Evers (2)
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin: Augustana (2)
Colonial States Athletic Conference: Cabrini (1)
Commonwealth Coast Conference: Salve Regina (5)
Empire 8: Hartwick (3)
Great Northeast Athletic Conference: Johnson and Wales (2)
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference: Manchester (1)
Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Luther (1)
Landmark Conference: Scranton (1)
Liberty League: Skidmore (3)
Little East Conference: Rhode Island College (1)
Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference: Bridgewater State (3)
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association: Hope (1)
Middle Atlantic Commonwealth: Alvernia (1)
Middle Atlantic Freedom: Delaware Valley (1)
Midwest Conference: St. Norbert (1)
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: St. Thomas (1)
New England Collegiate Conference: Elms (2)
New England Small College Athletic Conference: Middlebury (2)
New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference: MIT (2)
New Jersey Athletic Conference: New Jersey City (2-North)
North Atlantic Conference: Husson (1)
North Coast Athletic Conference: Wooster (1)
North Eastern Athletic Conference: Wells (2)
Northern Athletics Conference: Benedictine (2)
Northwest Conference: Whitworth (1)
Ohio Athletic Conference: Marietta (1)
Old Dominion Athletic Conference: Randolph-Macon (2)
Presidents Athletic Conference: Bethany (3)
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Webster (1)
Skyline Conference: SUNY-Purchase (1)
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Redlands (1)
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference: Centre (1-East)
State University of New York Athletic Conference: Buffalo State (2)
University Athletic Association: Rochester (No tournament)
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference: Northwestern (Minn.) (1)
USA South Athletic Conference: NC Wesleyan (1)
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: UW-Stevens Point (1)