2010 Regional Rankings, Week 3

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

Fact-check the NCAA

A little over a year ago at the NCAA convention, a proposal to make all of the NCAA’s data public was defeated. Enough peer pressure was put on and, in our opinion, misinformation spread, that the proposal was eventually withdrawn.

A compromise, it was said, would be to make public the data in a handful of sports, through posting PDF files, rather than issuing each school a login to a system that already exists for members of regional ranking committees to use.

We know full well the embarrassment of incorrect data and how D3sports.com people must now check every sport’s championship handbook on its release to make sure that the right number of Pool B and Pool C teams are being awarded. This year, in fact, the women’s basketball committee again had to revise their handbook, having promised twice as many Pool B bids as the numbers actually provided for.

So while they won’t open all of their data, they have opened women’s basketball up for us to look at. We always figure the more eyes on data, the better. That’s why our data has always been open and public, and corrections come in throughout the season. That’s because our system, like the NCAA’s, is reliant on schools entering schedules and results, and sometimes typos occur, or sometimes schools just don’t understand what defines a regional game.

At the bottom of this week’s women’s basketball release on the NCAA Web site there are links to PDF files for each of the eight regions which contain the numbers for each team. What we’re concerned with is the first number: the regional win-loss record. That’s the basis for every other number when calculating strength of schedule.

Compare those numbers to the regional record listed with our strength of schedule numbers. This file is currently through the same day, Sunday, Feb. 7. While we continually audit our own database to make sure no errors occur, we have not been able to audit theirs until now.

MBB Regional Rankings: Feb. 3

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

WBB Regional Rankings: Feb. 3

The first Regional Rankings from the NCAA have been released… the first record indicates the in-region record… followed by the overall record.

Atlantic Region
1. Kean 19-0 20-1
2. William Paterson 20-1 20-1
3. Mary Washington 12-2 14-3
4. Marymount 16-1 19-1
5. Farmingdale State 18-0 18-0
6. Mount Saint Mary 13-4 14-4

Central Region
1. Illinois Wesleyan 15-1 18-1
2. Carthage 13-2 16-3
3. Washington U. 13-2 16-2
4. UW-Stevens Point 15-3 17-3
5. UW-Whitewater 13-4 14-5
6. Chicago 13-5 13-5

East Region
1. Ithaca 15-2 15-4
2. Skidmore 13-2 14-3
3. Rochester 13-3 15-3
4. Medaille 17-1 18-2
5. Utica 14-3 15-3
6. Cortland State 14-3 15-3

Great Lakes Region
1. Hope 15-0 18-1
2. Washington and Jefferson 16-1 17-2
3. Thomas More 17-1 17-2
4. Calvin 13-1 18-2
5. DePauw 14-2 17-3
6. Baldwin-Wallace 13-3 15-4

Mid-Atlantic Region
1. Moravian 17-2 18-2
2. Lebanon Valley 18-0 18-1
3. Messiah 13-1 16-2
4. Scranton 15-3 17-3
5. Muhlenberg 14-3 14-3
6. Gettysburg 16-2 16-2

Northeast Region
1. Amherst 19-0 19-0
2. Tufts 15-1 18-2
3. Williams 16-3 16-4
4. Emmanuel 12-4 14-4
5. Bowdoin 12-4 15-4
6. Colby 12-3 15-3
7. Western Connecticut 16-3 17-3
8. Eastern Connecticut 13-5 13-5
9. Keene State 13-5 13-6
10. University of New England 14-4 15-4

South Region
1. Christopher Newport 17-0 18-0
2. Hendrix 12-3 14-3
3. Roanoke 14-2 16-2
4. Trinity (Texas) 12-4 14-5
5. Louisiana College 12-2 15-2
6. Randolph-Macon 13-4 13-4

West Region
1. George Fox 11-1 17-2
2. Puget Sound 11-2 16-3
3. Cal Lutheran 14-3 14-4
4. Gustavus Adolphus 15-2 15-3
5. Simpson 13-2 18-3
6. Concordia-Moorhead 13-4 13-5