NCAA regional rankings, Week 1

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Pat Coleman

The first regional rankings might well be the latest ever, at least in the post-fax machine era. But after 9 p.m. on Wednesday night, they finally got them out.

The committee used to send them out in email form, and they would generally get posted right away by people who care about Division III. Now they send them exclusively to Turner Sports, which runs NCAA.com … and they get posted whenever someone gets around to it there.

Need to know more about the regional rankings process and what they mean? Need to know more about the NCAA Tournament? Check out our NCAA Tournament FAQ.

Through games of Sunday, Feb. 3.

The first record is in-region record, followed by overall.

NCAA Division III men’s basketball championships handbook

Men’s rankings
Atlantic Region
1 Ramapo 18-1 20-2
2 SUNY-Old Westbury 18-1 19-3
3 Purchase 16-4 16-4
4 Richard Stockton 16-5 16-5
5 Rutgers-Newark 15-6 16-6

East Region
1 Rochester 18-1 19-1
2 Cortland State 17-2 17-3
3 Stevens 15-3 17-3
4 New York University 13-7 13-7
5 Hobart 12-6 13-6
6 Geneseo State 14-6 14-7

Great Lakes
1 Wooster 17-3 17-3
2 Ohio Wesleyan 16-3 16-4
3 Thomas More 17-2 18-3
4 Calvin 15-0 19-2
5 St. Vincent 14-3 16-5
6 Marietta 16-5 16-5

Mid-Atlantic
1 Catholic 16-2 19-2
2 Albright 18-3 18-3
3 St. Mary’s (Md.) 14-2 19-2
4 Alvernia 16-4 16-4
5 Wesley 14-2 17-5
6 Scranton 15-6 15-6
7 Arcadia 13-6 13-8
8 Cabrini 14-4 16-5
9 Franklin & Marshall 13-4 16-5

Midwest
1 Illinois Wesleyan 15-3 18-3
2 Transylvania 15-4 16-5
3 Wheaton (Ill.) 13-5 16-5
4 Washington U. 15-4 16-4
5 North Central (Ill.) 16-3 18-3
6 Rose-Hulman 18-2 19-2
7 Augustana 15-5 16-5
8 St. Norbert 15-4 15-4

Northeast
1 WPI 21-0 21-0
2 Amherst 20-2 20-2
3 Williams 18-2 20-2
4 Middlebury 16-1 19-1
5 Rhode Island College 18-3 18-3
6 Brandeis 15-5 15-5
7 MIT 15-4 16-4
8 Curry 15-6 15-6
9 Westfield State 15-4 17-4
10 Springfield 15-7 15-7
11 Eastern Connecticut 14-4 14-7
12 Albertus Magnus 20-2 20-3

South
1 Hampden-Sydney 15-2 19-2
2 Mary Hardin-Baylor 18-3 18-3
3 Christopher Newport 14-3 15-3
4 Concordia (Texas) 14-4 16-5
5 Emory 14-5 14-5
6 Virginia Wesleyan 11-5 14-6
7 Lynchburg 12-5 16-5
8 Guilford 13-5 16-5

West
1 St. Thomas 20-1 20-1
2 Whitworth 19-1 20-1
3 UW-Stevens Point 18-4 18-4
4 UW-Whitewater 16-4 17-4
5 UW-Stout 16-4 17-4
6 Buena Vista 15-5 16-5
7 Augsburg 15-5 15-5
8 Luther 14-4 15-6
9 Concordia-Moorhead 15-6 15-7

Women’s

The first record is in-region record, followed by overall record.

NCAA Division III women’s basketball championships handbook

Atlantic
1 Montclair State 22-0 22-0
2 Catholic 17-1 20-1
3 Baruch 19-1 20-1
4 Marymount 16-4 18-4
5 William Paterson 15-6 16-6
6 Mary Washington 13-6 15-6
7 York (Pa.) 13-5 17-5
8 TCNJ 14-7 15-7

Central
1 Cornell 18-1 18-1
2 Washington U. 16-2 17-3
3 Carthage 16-3 18-3
4 UW-Superior 17-3 18-4
5 Monmouth (Ill.) 16-3 17-3
6 UW-Whitewater 14-4 16-5
7 UW-Stevens Point 17-4 18-4
8 Wisconsin Lutheran 18-0 19-2

East
1 New Paltz State 18-2 18-2
2 Ithaca 17-2 18-2
3 Rochester 15-5 15-5
4 Oswego State 14-5 14-6
5 Geneseo State 14-5 15-5
6 St. Lawrence 14-5 15-5
7 Vassar 14-4 16-4
8 Hartwick 13-3 16-4

Great Lakes
1 DePauw 16-0 22-0
2 Ohio Northern 19-0 20-1
3 Calvin 14-0 18-1
4 Thomas More 20-1 20-1
5 Hope 18-1 20-1
6 La Roche 17-2 18-2
7 Mount Union 16-4 17-4
8 Otterbein 15-5 16-5

Mid-Atlantic
1 Messiah 17-1 19-2
2 FDU-Florham 18-2 19-2
3 Moravian 18-3 19-3
4 Swarthmore 15-3 16-4
5 Gettysburg 15-5 15-6
6 Juniata 15-6 15-6
7 Scranton 14-5 15-6
8 Lebanon Valley 18-3 18-3

Northeast
1 Amherst 21-0 22-0
2 Tufts 21-1 22-1
3 Southern Maine 18-1 20-1
4 Bridgewater State 17-3 17-3
5 Babson 18-1 19-2
6 Emmanuel 16-3 16-5
7 Smith 19-2 19-2
8 Williams 17-4 18-4
9 Western Connecticut 16-5 16-5
10 University of New England 17-4 17-4

South
1 Ferrum 18-2 18-2
2 Maryville (Tenn.) 18-2 18-2
3 Louisiana College 18-1 19-1
4 Christopher Newport 17-2 18-2
5 Emory 18-2 18-2
6 Howard Payne 18-3 18-3
7 Eastern Mennonite 13-3 15-5
8 Guilford 17-2 18-3

West
1 Simpson 16-0 20-1
2 Lewis and Clark 15-2 19-2
3 George Fox 13-4 16-4
4 Cal Lutheran 16-3 19-3
5 Minnesota-Morris 12-0 13-7
6 Concordia-Moorhead 17-3 17-4
7 Chapman 13-4 15-5
8 St. Thomas (Minn.) 15-4 15-5

Our 2012 men’s projections

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Pat Coleman

Illinois Wesleyan is playing the waiting game, but we think they are safer than the conventional wisdom might suggest.
IWU photo by Jeff Findley

It’s a late night, as always, but our full projection is up, with the bracket.

Having a third Texas team make the tournament, as Trinity (Texas) did by winning the SCAC on Sunday afternoon, actually helped part of the bracketing process. That made it possible to bring Claremont-Mudd-Scripps into Texas to be the fourth team (well, really, the second team) of a four-team pod. Whitworth then gets a first-round bye, based mostly on geography, and awaits the winner of two other West Region teams.

In our projection, Amherst gets the other bye, based on their high seeding. Remember, with 62 teams in the tournament this season, there are only two first-round byes instead of three. Hope was also a candidate. If the NCAA is looking to spend a lot on gas, it could send Westminster to Hope and Rose-Hulman to Wash U., but we think our bracket works out just fine for seeding purposes without sending Westminster an extra 350 miles.

Here are the Pool C teams. (Pool B is Maryville.) In order of selection:

Middlebury
UW-Whitewater
Rhode Island College
Wheaton (Ill.)
Western Connecticut
UW-Stevens Point
Mary Hardin-Baylor
Wittenberg
Gustavus Adolphus
Transylvania
Hobart
Hartwick
WPI
Ohio Wesleyan
Illinois Wesleyan
Keene State
Randolph-Macon
St. Mary’s (Md.)
Birmingham-Southern

Transylvania dropping into the at-large pool actually helps Gustavus Adolphus. It’s a non-regional result, but Gustavus defeated Transylvania at the D3hoops.com Classic, and by the time we get this deep into the selection process, we have to consider the NCAA’s secondary criteria.

When doing so, Illinois Wesleyan scored better, picking up wins against regionally ranked opponents Bethany and Staten Island. I took the committee’s penchant for SOS this year to mean that when push comes to shove, they would take the teams with the better SOS, so I ranked Illinois Wesleyan ahead of Lake Forest and Randolph-Macon ahead of Birmingham-Southern.

Left on the table: St. Joseph’s (L.I.) 21-3, .470 SOS, 1-0 vs. regionally ranked opponents; Nazareth (18-7, .552, 0-4); John Carroll (15-7, .491); Keystone (21-6, .505, 0-3); Lake Forest (19-4, .516, 0-1); Wesleyan (20-5, .513, 3-3); Puget Sound (15-7, .513, 4-3). Emory was next in the South.

Take a look at the full bracket.

Our projected women’s bracket

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Pat Coleman

Johns Hopkins is hosting games in our bracket. Why?

Well, here we are, another Selection Monday.

Hoping that Matt Snyder’s projected men’s field would whet appetites for a while, we started with the projected women’s bracket this year. And this year, it turned out nothing was particularly easy to figure out.

As a reminder, this is equal parts what we think the committee WILL do and what they SHOULD do. It’s meant to give readers some idea what might happen on Monday at 2:30 p.m. ET, when the selection show is scheduled to start. (Show will be linked from the front page of D3hoops.com.)

We talked extensively on Hoopsville about a glut of teams with very similar resumes, and that was the most difficult group to parse out. But after selecting St. Joseph’s (Bklyn.) as the only Pool B team, here was how Pool C broke down, in the order selected:

Kean
Washington U.
Juniata
UW-River Falls
UW-Whitewater
Tufts
Rochester
Southern Maine
U. New England
Hartwick
Johns Hopkins
Louisiana College
St. Vincent
Bowdoin
York (Pa.)
St. Lawrence
Colby
Carthage
Simpson
Lewis and Clark

Left on the table were Rutgers-Newark, Buffalo State, UW-Eau Claire, Hope, King’s, Williams, Virginia Wesleyan and Gustavus Adolphus was next up in the West. It was once thought King’s was in, but the Monarchs played just one game against a regionally ranked opponent, and lost that one at that. Messiah was trapped behind King’s because King’s had a better record against common opponents (8-0 to Messiah’s 7-1) and Virginia Wesleyan lost to Messiah.

St. Vincent moved itself out of the glut of teams with a win against Messiah and another against Misericordia. Colby edged in over Rutgers-Newark with two wins against Williams, while Rutgers-Newark was 0-1 against the Ephs. Carthage edged out Simpson with a 2-2 record against common opponents, although both eventually got in, and Lewis and Clark was lucky to find a spot still there when they came up. They have a pretty good strength of schedule (.539) but were 0-3 against regionally ranked opponents.

Bracketing was even more fun, trying to spread out New England teams that had played each other quite frequently. In fact, Rhode Island College’s first-round opponent changed twice just while copying names into the bracket.

Take a look at the full bracket.

Bear in mind that William Paterson and Amherst wouldn’t be able to host the opening weekend in women’s basketball this year because their men’s teams are expected to host games.

NCAA regional rankings, Week 3

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Pat Coleman

The third NCAA regional rankings of the 2011-12 season have been released. For women’s rankings, scroll down.

Need to know more about the regional rankings process and what they mean? Check our blog post — updated for 2012. Need to know more about the NCAA Tournament? Check out our NCAA Tournament FAQ.

Through games of Sunday, Feb. 19.

The first record is in-region record, followed by overall.

Men’s rankings
Atlantic Region
1 Staten Island 20-2 22-4
2 William Paterson 22-3 22-3
3 St. Joseph’s (L.I.) 21-2 21-3
4 Richard Stockton 17-6 18-7
5 New Jersey City 15-6 17-7

East Region
1 Hartwick 22-2 23-2
2 Oswego State 22-2 22-3
3 Hobart 20-4 21-4
4 New York U. 19-5 19-5
5 Medaille 22-2 23-2
6 Nazareth 17-6 17-8

Great Lakes
1 Hope 16-0 24-1
2 Wittenberg 18-4 20-5
3 Wooster 19-4 21-4
4 Ohio Wesleyan 18-6 19-6
5 Bethany 21-2 22-3
6 John Carroll 15-6 18-6

Mid-Atlantic
1 Cabrini 24-0 24-1
2 Franklin & Marshall 23-2 23-2
3 St. Mary’s (Md.) 17-5 19-6
4 Keystone 20-5 20-5
5 Messiah 17-6 18-6
6 Misericordia 19-6 19-6
7 Widener 14-7 18-7
8 Mary Washington 16-6 17-8
9 Albright 13-7 17-8

Midwest
1 Washington U. 18-5 18-6
2 Wheaton (Ill.) 17-5 19-5
3 Transylvania 21-2 22-3
4 Lake Forest 19-3 20-3
5 Illinois Wesleyan 17-6 19-6
6 Concordia (Wis.) 19-4 20-4
7 North Central (Ill.) 17-5 18-7
8 Augustana 18-5 19-5

Northeast
1 Amherst 21-2 23-2
2 Middlebury 21-2 23-2
3 MIT 23-1 23-1
4 Rhode Island College 20-5 20-5
5 Western Connecticut 20-5 20-5
6 Eastern Connecticut 20-5 20-5
7 WPI 18-6 18-6
8 Wesleyan 20-4 20-5
9 Albertus Magnus 24-1 24-1
10 Keene State 15-6 18-7
11 Becker 21-4 21-4
12 Salem State 17-7 18-7

South
1 Mary Hardin-Baylor 23-1 24-1
2 Virginia Wesleyan 21-3 22-3
3 Birmingham-Southern 21-1 24-1
4 Randolph-Macon 17-4 20-5
5 Christopher Newport 18-4 21-4
6 Emory 19-5 19-5
7 Hardin-Simmons 17-6 19-6
8 Texas-Dallas 19-4 21-4

West
1 UW-Whitewater 22-3 22-3
2 Whitworth 21-2 22-3
3 UW-River Falls 18-5 18-7
4 UW-Stevens Point 17-6 19-6
5 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 17-1 23-1
6 St. Thomas 18-6 19-6
7 Gustavus Adolphus 18-6 19-6
8 Puget Sound 14-6 19-6
9 Whitman 16-7 18-7

Women’s

The first record is in-region record, followed by overall record.
Atlantic
1 Mary Washington 23-0 25-0
2 William Paterson 21-2 23-2
3 Kean 19-3 22-4
4 Mount St. Mary 21-3 22-3
5 Rutgers-Newark 17-7 17-7
6 York (Pa.) 22-4 22-4

Central
1 Chicago 24-0 24-0
2 UW-Stevens Point 20-3 21-4
3 Washington U. 19-3 20-4
4 UW-River Falls 19-5 20-5
5 UW-Whitewater 20-5 20-5
6 Illinois Wesleyan 16-5 20-5

East
1 Rochester 18-5 19-5
2 Ithaca 20-2 21-4
3 Hartwick 20-4 21-5
4 St. Lawrence 20-3 20-4
5 Buffalo State 21-2 23-2
6 Oneonta State 16-6 16-8

Great Lakes
1 Mount Union 22-1 24-1
2 DePauw 22-1 23-1
3 Calvin 17-1 23-1
4 Franklin 21-2 23-2
5 Thomas More 20-2 21-4
6 St. Vincent 20-4 20-5

Mid-Atlantic
1 Juniata 23-0 24-1
2 Lebanon Valley 21-3 22-3
3 King’s 20-3 21-4
4 Johns Hopkins 20-3 22-3
5 Messiah 21-3 22-4
6 Franklin & Marshall 18-7 19-7

Northeast
1 Amherst 23-0 25-0
2 University of New England 21-4 21-4
3 Rhode Island College 22-3 22-3
4 Tufts 20-4 20-5
5 Southern Maine 19-5 20-5
6 Bowdoin 18-5 19-6
7 Babson 22-2 23-2
8 Colby 19-6 19-6
9 Williams 17-6 19-6
10 Emmanuel 18-5 19-6

South
1 Louisiana College 20-2 22-3
2 Centre 20-3 21-3
3 Virginia Wesleyan 19-4 20-5
4 Concordia (Texas) 19-4 20-4
5 Maryville (Tenn.) 16-4 17-6
6 Eastern Mennonite 20-3 21-3

West
1 George Fox 20-0 25-0
2 St. Thomas 24-1 24-1
3 Simpson 17-5 20-5
4 Lewis & Clark 16-2 23-2
5 Gustavus Adolphus 19-6 19-6
6 Occidental 20-2 22-3

2012 NCAA regional rankings, Week 2

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Pat Coleman

The second NCAA regional rankings of the 2011-12 season have been released. For women’s rankings, scroll down.

Need to know more about the regional rankings process and what they mean? Check our blog post — updated for 2012. Need to know more about the NCAA Tournament? Check out our NCAA Tournament FAQ.

Through Sunday’s games.

The first record is in-region record, followed by overall.

Men’s rankings
Atlantic Region
1 William Paterson 21-3 21-3
2 Staten Island 18-2 19-4
3 St. Joseph’s (L.I.) 19-2 19-3
4 Richard Stockton 16-6 17-7
5 New Jersey City 15-5 17-6

East
1 Hartwick 21-2 22-2
2 Oswego State 19-2 19-3
3 Hobart 18-4 19-4
4 New York U. 18-4 18-4
5 Medaille 20-2 21-2
6 Nazareth 16-6 16-8

Great Lakes
1 Hope 14-0 22-1
2 Wittenberg 16-4 18-5
3 Wooster 17-4 19-4
4 Ohio Wesleyan 16-6 17-6
5 Wabash 15-6 17-6
6 Bethany (W. Va.) 19-2 20-3

Mid-Atlantic
1 Cabrini 23-0 23-1
2 Keystone 20-4 20-4
3 Franklin & Marshall 21-2 21-2
4 Mary Washington 15-5 16-7
5 St. Mary’s (Md.) 16-5 18-6
6 Messiah 15-6 16-6
7 Misericordia 17-6 17-6
8 Widener 13-6 17-6
9 Lycoming 15-6 17-7

Midwest
1 Washington U. 17-4 17-5
2 Lake Forest 18-2 19-2
3 Transylvania 20-1 21-2
4 Wheaton (Ill.) 16-5 18-5
5 North Central (Ill.) 15-5 16-7
6 Illinois Wesleyan 15-6 17-6
7 Hanover 16-5 16-6
8 Edgewood 16-5 18-5

Northeast
1 Amherst 20-2 22-2
2 Middlebury 20-2 22-2
3 Western Connecticut 19-4 19-4
4 MIT 22-1 22-1
5 Keene State 15-4 18-5
6 Rhode Island College 18-5 18-5
7 WPI 17-5 17-5
8 Wesleyan (Conn.) 19-4 19-5
9 Eastern Connecticut 18-5 18-5
10 Albertus Magnus 22-1 22-1
11 Becker 19-4 19-4
12 Tufts 16-7 16-7

South
1 Mary Hardin-Baylor 21-1 22-1
2 Virginia Wesleyan 18-3 19-3
3 Randolph-Macon 16-3 19-4
4 Birmingham-Southern 19-1 22-1
5 Emory 18-4 18-4
6 Christopher Newport 16-4 19-4
7 Guilford 15-6 16-7
8 Hardin-Simmons 15-6 17-6

West
1 UW-River Falls 18-3 18-5
2 UW-Stevens Point 17-4 19-4
3 UW-Whitewater 20-3 20-3
4 Whitworth 19-2 20-3
5 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 15-1 21-1
6 Gustavus Adolphus 17-5 18-5
7 St. Thomas 15-6 16-6
8 Whitman 15-6 17-6
9 Puget Sound 13-5 18-5

Women’s

The first record is in-region record, followed by overall record.
Atlantic
1 Mary Washington 21-0 23-0
2 William Paterson 21-1 23-1
3 Kean 17-3 20-4
4 Mount St. Mary (N.Y.) 19-3 20-3
5 Rutgers-Newark 16-7 16-7
6 York (Pa.) 19-4 19-4

Central
1 Chicago 22-0 22-0
2 UW-Stevens Point 19-2 20-3
3 UW-River Falls 18-4 19-4
4 Washington U. 17-3 18-4
5 Illinois Wesleyan 14-5 18-5
6 UW-Eau Claire 18-4 18-5

East
1 Rochester 18-3 19-3
2 Ithaca 19-2 20-4
3 Hartwick 20-2 21-3
4 St. Lawrence 19-3 19-4
5 Oneonta State 16-4 16-6
6 Buffalo State 18-2 20-2

Great Lakes
1 Mount Union 20-1 22-1
2 DePauw 20-1 21-1
3 Calvin 16-1 22-1
4 Franklin 19-2 21-2
5 Thomas More 18-2 19-4
6 St. Vincent 19-3 19-4

Mid-Atlantic
1 Juniata 22-0 23-1
2 Lebanon Valley 21-2 21-2
3 King’s 19-2 20-3
4 Johns Hopkins 18-3 20-3
5 Messiah 17-3 18-4
6 Franklin & Marshall 16-6 17-6

Northeast
1 Amherst 22-0 24-0
2 University of New England 19-4 19-4
3 Rhode Island College 20-3 20-3
4 Tufts 19-4 19-5
5 Southern Maine 17-5 18-5
6 Colby 18-5 18-5
7 Williams 17-5 19-5
8 Bowdoin 17-5 18-6
9 Babson 19-2 20-2
10 Emmanuel (Mass.) 16-5 17-6

South
1 Louisiana College 18-2 19-3
2 Centre 19-2 20-2
3 Howard Payne 19-3 20-3
4 Virginia Wesleyan 17-3 18-4
5 Ferrum 17-4 19-4
6 Greensboro 15-4 18-4

West
1 George Fox 18-0 23-0
2 St. Thomas 22-1 22-1
3 Simpson 15-5 18-5
4 Lewis & Clark 14-2 21-2
5 Wartburg 17-6 17-6
6 Gustavus Adolphus 18-5 18-5

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