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2010 Regional Rankings, Week 3

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The third men’s and women’s regional rankings of the 2009-10 season have been released.

Remember there are three ways a game can be classified as in region.

Through games of Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010.

Men’s rankings

Atlantic Region In-Region Record Overall Record
1. William Paterson 21-1 22-1
2. Merchant Marine 18-4 20-4
3. Rutgers-Newark 13-5 17-6
4. Ramapo 16-6 17-7
5. Richard Stockton 17-5 17-6

East Region In-Region Record Overall Record
1. St. John Fisher 18-4 19-4
2. Medaille 20-2 21-2
3. Oneonta State 17-5 18-5
4. Stevens 17-5 17-5
5. New York University 14-7 15-7
6. Plattsburgh State 13-6 15-7

Great Lakes Region In-Region Record Overall Record
1. Hope 12-2 17-6
2. John Carroll 15-5 17-5
3. Wooster 18-4 18-5
4. Calvin 11-3 15-8
5. Wittenberg 14-5 18-5
6. Thomas More 17-6 17-6

Middle Atlantic Region In-Region Record Overall Record
1. Albright 17-4 18-4
2. Franklin & Marshall 20-3 20-3
3. Lycoming 14-4 18-4
4. St. Mary’s (Md.) 16-3 18-3
5. Cabrini 20-2 20-2
6. DeSales 17-4 18-5
7. York (Pa.) 16-5 17-5
8. Messiah 13-4 14-7
9. Catholic 14-5 16-6

Midwest Region In-Region Record Overall Record
1. Washington U. 17-2 20-2
2. Carthage 14-3 18-5
3. St. Norbert 19-2 20-2
4. Wheaton (Ill.) 15-7 16-7
5. Illinois Wesleyan 17-5 18-5
6. Anderson 18-3 20-3
7. Defiance 16-5 18-5
8. Augustana 15-7 15-8

Northeast Region In-Region Record Overall Record
1. Williams 21-0 23-1
2. MIT 20-1 21-2
3. Middlebury 17-2 21-2
4. Brandeis 17-5 17-5
5. Colby 16-4 18-5
6. Bridgewater State 15-4 16-6
7. Rhode Island College 16-7 16-7
8. Eastern Connecticut 16-7 16-7
9. Gordon 18-4 19-4
10. WPI 16-5 17-5
11. Western Connecticut 15-6 16-6

South Region In-Region Record Overall Record
1. Eastern Mennonite 14-2 18-3
2. Guilford 20-2 20-2
3. Texas-Dallas 17-3 18-4
4. Virginia Wesleyan 18-3 20-3
5. Austin 18-5 18-5
6. Randolph-Macon 13-4 19-4
7. Maryville (Tenn.) 13-3 19-4
8. Mary Hardin-Baylor 17-5 17-6

West Region In-Region Record Overall Record
1. UW-Whitewater 19-4 19-4
2. UW-Stevens Point 19-3 20-3
3. St. Thomas 18-2 21-2
4. Whitworth 19-2 21-2
5. Central 17-2 19-4
6. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 14-3 18-4
7. Chapman 17-1 22-2
8. Augsburg 15-7 16-7
9. UW-La Crosse 14-7 15-8

Women’s rankings

These women’s rankings should include corrections we supplied to the NCAA this past week.

Atlantic Region Record Overall Record
1. Kean 22-0 23-1
2. William Paterson 22-1 22-1
3. Farmingdale State 22-0 22-0
4. Mary Washington 17-2 18-3
5. Marymount 18-1 21-1
6. Mount Saint Mary 18-4 19-4

Central Region Record Overall Record
1. Illinois Wesleyan 19-1 22-1
2. Carthage 17-2 20-3
3. Washington U. 17-2 20-2
4. Chicago 17-5 17-5
5. UW-Whitewater 16-5 17-6
6. UW-Stevens Point 16-5 18-5

East Region Record Overall Record
1. Ithaca 20-2 20-4
2. Skidmore 18-2 19-3
3. Rochester 15-5 17-5
4. Medaille 20-1 21-2
5. Cortland State 18-3 19-3
6. Utica 16-5 17-5

Great Lakes Region Record Overall Record
1. Hope 19-0 22-1
2. Thomas More 21-1 21-2
3. Washington and Jefferson 20-2 20-3
4. DePauw 17-2 20-3
5. Calvin 15-2 20-3
6. Mount Union 17-3 20-3

Mid-Atlantic Region Record Overall Record
1. Lebanon Valley 21-1 21-2
2. Moravian 20-2 20-2
3. Messiah 17-2 19-3
4. Muhlenberg 17-4 17-4
5. Scranton 18-3 20-3
6. Gettysburg 21-2 21-2

Northeast Region Record Overall Record
1. Amherst 24-0 24-0
2. Tufts 16-3 19-4
3. Colby 18-3 21-3
4. Williams 18-5 18-6
5. Emmanuel 14-5 16-5
6. Bowdoin 16-5 19-5
7. Western Connecticut 18-4 19-4
8. Eastern Connecticut 16-7 16-7
9. Babson 20-3 20-3
10. Southern Maine 16-7 16-7

South Region Record Overall Record
1. Christopher Newport 22-0 23-0
2. Roanoke 18-2 20-2
3. Mary Hardin-Baylor 18-4 19-4
4. Louisiana College 16-2 19-2
5. Mississippi College 18-5 18-5
6. Howard Payne 18-5 18-5

West Region Record Overall Record
1. George Fox 15-1 21-2
2. Puget Sound 15-2 20-3
3. Occidental 18-3 19-4
4. Gustavus Adolphus 19-3 19-4
5. Cal Lutheran 18-4 18-5
6. Coe 15-7 16-7

MBB Regional Rankings: Feb. 3

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The first Regional Rankings for men’s basketball have been released, through games of Sunday, Jan. 31. The first record indicates the in-region record, followed by the overall record.

Atlantic Region
1. William Paterson 19-1 20-1
2. Merchant Marine 15-4 16-4
3. Ramapo 14-4 15-5
4. York (N.Y.) 13-5 16-5
5. Richard Stockton 14-5 14-6

East Region
1. St. John Fisher 15-4 16-4
2. Stevens 15-4 15-4
3. New York University 12-5 13-5
4. Medaille 18-1 19-1
5. Rochester 9-5 13-5
6. Nazareth 12-6 13-7

Great Lakes Region
1. Wooster 15-3 15-4
2. Wilmington (Ohio) 13-4 14-5
3. Hope 8-2 13-6
4. Calvin 8-2 12-7
5. Penn State-Behrend 13-3 13-4
6. Thomas More 14-5 14-5

Middle Atlantic Region
1. Albright 14-1 16-2
2. Lycoming 12-3 16-3
3. Cabrini 16-2 16-2
4. Franklin and Marshall 16-3 16-3
5. St. Mary’s (Md.) 13-3 16-3
6. Elizabethtown 13-5 13-5
7. York (Pa.) 14-4 15-4
8. Alvernia 11-4 13-6
9. Catholic 13-4 15-5

Midwest Region
1. Washington U. 13-2 16-2
2. Carthage 11-2 15-4
3. St. Norbert 15-1 16-1
4. Illinois Wesleyan 14-4 15-4
5. Anderson 15-2 17-2
6. Wheaton (Ill.) 12-6 13-6
7. Augustana 12-6 12-7
8. Westminster (Mo.) 12-1 15-4

Northeast Region
1. Williams 17-0 19-1
2. MIT 17-1 18-2
3. Colby 13-1 15-2
4. Middlebury 13-2 17-2
5. Brandeis 14-3 14-3
6. Bridgewater State 12-3 13-5
7. Gordon 14-3 15-3
8. Western Connecticut 12-4 13-4
9. Mass-Dartmouth 13-6 13-6
10. Rhode Island College 13-6 13-6
11. Eastern Connecticut 13-6 13-6

South Region
1. Guilford 18-1 18-1
2. Virginia Wesleyan 15-2 17-2
3. Texas-Dallas 15-2 16-3
4. Eastern Mennonite 11-2 15-3
5. Maryville (Tenn.) 11-3 16-4
6. Austin 14-5 14-5
7. Mary Hardin-Baylor 14-4 14-5
8. Mississippi College 11-3 15-3

West Region
1. UW-Whitewater 16-3 16-3
2. UW-Stevens Point 17-2 18-2
3. St. Thomas 14-2 17-2
4. Whitworth 15-2 17-2
5. UW-La Crosse 13-5 14-6
6. Gustavus Adolphus 12-4 12-6
7. Chapman 15-1 18-2
8. Central 14-2 16-4
9. Augsburg 12-5 13-5

D-III unveils identity statement

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Boiling down Division III into a few bullet points isn’t easy, and it hasn’t gotten easier as the division has grown. But Division III has been attempting to define itself in a way that can be easily communicated to those on the outside. After a Division II identity statement process ended up with the fairly meaningless “I chose Division II” mantra and D-II wrapped itself in a lot of the things Division III holds dear, it became important to take control of the message.

To us here at D3sports.com, Division III is the highest form of purely amateur athletics in the U.S. It’s where students — note, not “student-athletes” — play for love of the game. Division III competitors get no special treatment, no scholarships, no special privileges, no separate dining halls, no dorms to themselves. They don’t get preferred treatment from their professors; in fact, it’s far more likely they get treated more harshly from teachers who believe they don’t belong in the school.

But distilling that opinion, plus the opinions of hundreds of other Division III true believers, down into a form that can be easily shared and understood, isn’t easy. Here’s how Division III is positioning itself:

“Follow your passions and discover your potential.

“The college experience is a time of learning and growth – a chance to follow passions and develop potential. For student-athletes in Division III, all of this happens most importantly in the classroom and through earning an academic degree. The Division III experience provides for passionate participation in a competitive athletic environment, where student-athletes push themselves to excellence and build upon their academic success with new challenges and life skills. And student-athletes are encouraged to pursue the full spectrum of opportunities available during their time in college. In this way, Division III provides an integrated environment for student-athletes to take responsibility for their own paths, follow their passions and find their potential through a comprehensive learning experience.”

What’s your take?

For more, here’s the NCAA News article on the unveiling.

NCAA on D-III identity movement

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On a pretty busy day (day job, Randolph-Macon hiring, Sean Wallis announces he’s returning) a tweet caught my eye:

Published a new blog post: Mondays with Myles and Friends: DIII Identity

This from the NCAA’s official blog, the Double-A Zone. So I was hoping this would be some serious discussion of the issues facing Division III and its struggles to gain attention in a noisy collegiate athletics landscape.

In five minutes of interview, admittedly, that would be tough to do.

Unfortunately, even in the NCAA’s attempt to promote this concept, it drops the ball. It’s hard to take a program seriously when it mispronounces the name of the guest right out of the gate. And maybe I’m nitpicking, but the NCAA’s Twitter message promoting the interview had a broken link — at least, it didn’t fit in Twitter’s 140-character limit.

But it’s hard to expect more when the national office has so many people who don’t care about Division III.

Anyway, here’s the interview with NCAA vice president for Division III Dan Dutcher. (That’s in case the embed below doesn’t work for you.)

RIP, Patrick Abegg

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Patrick Abegg was a Division III guy, through and through. From his days as a student manager at Wash U to his last basketball season, when he was our featured bracketologist, the Division III equivalent of Joe Lunardi, Patrick loved Division III.

Patrick Abegg and familyThat’s why it’s so disappointing to have to tell you that Patrick died this past week of a staph infection. He was just 44.

I don’t know more details than that. Patrick’s brother sings in our church choir and he was not there this morning. When our director told us why he was absent, my heart sank.

I know Patrick left a lasting impression at Wash U. Mark Edwards, the men’s basketball coach, has talked more than once about Patrick as his student manager in the 1980s. Patrick was in Salem last year when the Bears brought home their first Division III men’s basketball national title.

But his lasting legacy to Division III basketball fans was his data, and his analysis over the past decade. Years before D3hoops.com was doing the same, Patrick was collecting schedules and results for every Division III basketball team, and calculating his own ranking out of this. Over the past year or so, it became clear his projections were pretty darn good, and worthy of whatever credence and prominence we could give them. His 2002-03 data got us started with publishing schedules and results for all team, a jump-start without which we might not have gotten started for several more years.

I still have his 2001-02 data on my hard drive, and one of my long list of items for this summer was to incorporate that into the site, then try to get more data from him for previous years.

Here’s some of the last data he analyzed for Division III fans:

Final regular-season Pool C rankings for men
Final regular-season Pool C rankings for women

And here’s an interesting post, in which Patrick discusses the effect one game can have on a team’s playoff chances.

We’ll miss you, Patrick, and Division III will miss you.