We know how that goes. His take follows:

In bracket order, beginning with men’s bracket.

SUNYIT Wildcats at Williams Ephs – SUNYIT soccer team more well known, the Wildcat Strikers

Rhode Island College Anchormen vs. Brandeis Judges – prefer the band to the Supreme Court

Wooster Scots at Guilford Quakers – good, the Woos crush Earlham Quakers all year long

Eastern Mennonite Royals vs. Whitworth Pirates – Whitworth higher-seed than cross-town Gonzaga

Texas-Dallas Comets at UW-Stevens Point Pointers – a little creativity problem in dairy country?

Illinois Wesleyan Titans vs. Carthage Red Men – ironic that D-III has the least politically correct nicknames, I thought these were all Liberal Artsy Fartsy colleges

Franklin & Marshall Diplomats at St. Mary’s Seahawks – F&M only team named for a cigar

Randolph-Macon Yellow Jackets vs. DeSales Bulldogs – no NCAA bubble anxiety for these Yellow Jackets

Charging on to the Women’s bracket.

Williams Ephs at Amherst Lord Jeffs – if men and women both win, Williams expands to become Eph U. Rhymes with reef, not with ref? What is it, short for Ephesians?

Gettysburg Bullets vs. Babson Beavers – Gettysburg Bullets basketball teams known informally as the Bay O Nets

Mount Union Purple Raiders at Washington Bears – MU trying to make up for pathetic 2nd place football finish

George Fox Bruins vs. Carthage Lady Reds – why not the Ladies in Red (Are Dancing With Me)

Bowdoin Polar Bears at Kean Cougars – the ultimate who’s the predator, who’s the prey matchup

Christopher Newport Captains vs. Rochester Yellowjackets – always confusing pregame coin-flips with Captains’ captains

UW Stevens Point Pointers at Illinois Wesleyan Titans – women’s teams also known as the Pointer Sisters

Marymount Saints vs. Hope Flying Dutchmen – office colleague and her husband making the 760-mile trek to cheer on the Saints, and why Flying Dutchmen? The Hope Eternal Springs is so much more marketable

OK, I’m worn out. Go Polar Bears! Go Scots! Go Saints!

I will never forget my introduction to college basketball. In 2006 Cabrini opened up its season against the No. 2 in Division III hoops of that year, Wooster College. From the start, Wooster dominated the game; in fact to this day I have still never seen a better shooting performance by a team. They made an unbelievable 25 three pointers in 45 attempts, crushing their school record and sending our team home with the first of 20 losses for the season.

After the game the team went back to the hotel and while watching a prerecorded broadcast of our game on television the Fighting Scots’ announcer jeeringly remarked “I don’t know what the weather is like in Radnor, but it’s raining tonight in Wooster.” I knew then and there that no matter what level of college basketball you play when things are going good they’re going good and when they’re bad, they’re real bad.

​From the start I understood that Division III basketball was extremely competitive and only with hard work and team unity would a program find success. My first season at Cabrini was a roller coaster with more ups and downs than any team should ever go through. For me I was just excited to be a part of the Cabrini program. I didn’t know if I would ever have the opportunity to play at the college level and just being a member of the team was a great feeling. However, by the end of the season the excitement and passion I had for the game was slipping away.

Losing games is never easy, but what was most upsetting was the entire operation. The entire program needed a change. After the last day of the season the coach who had recruited me from California was let go and I seriously doubted myself and whether I wanted to play basketball in the future.

​Cabrini basketball has a great legacy and has produced many championship teams. But when I walked around campus and told people I was on the basketball team they looked at me and said, “Oh well you guys aren’t any good are you?”

This was hard to handle.

When a new coach was hired I hoped for the best, I hoped our team could improve. Not that wins were everything but that we could at least come together and find a team bond. We did just that and our win count improved to 12.

​I was on my way to study abroad in Spain. Awaiting the airline attendant to check my bags in JFK, my phone buzzed, I had a message. I listened to the message, and I could not believe it. Our coach whom had helped us improve was leaving for another college. I walked on the plane and forgot about everything. Basketball was over for me then and there.

​October 15, 2008 came, the first day of practice my junior year. I ran up and down the court for about ten minutes before I had to stop and throw up. The new coaching staff was highly unimpressed. They knew I hadn’t given anything to my conditioning in the offseason, for someone who was now an upperclassman, this way no way of showing an example for the others on the team.

​However, I stuck with it and to my delight our team was turning everything around. We were winning games, coming together and starting to put the Cabrini program back on the map. The season came to an end and although we failed to win a championship, losing to Gwynedd-Mercy College in the championship game, we all knew that if we came together the next year we would be team to beat.

​The past season at Cabrini has been one I will never forget. One thing you learn in playing a sport in college is that not one season is ever the same. You can never forecast how a new group of individuals will come together and play.

I knew in the offseason that our team had improved with many new faces, but I did not know how much the additions would influence our team in a positive way. Although my playing time dropped, as long as I was contributing on a winning team is all I could ever ask for. We had our best year at Cabrini during my four year tenure and the light at the end of the tunnel finally shown through when I climbed the top of the ladder to cut down a piece of the championship net. All was worthwhile. My mind was at peace. We had reached our goal.

​I decided to write this not to inform others about my playing days at Cabrini, but to send a message that it’s worth committing yourself to something, even though there are many times we doubt ourselves and we feel like quitting, if you hold on with all you’ve got and work hard, I believe all of us can accomplish their goals. I would have never been able to stick with basketball if I did not have the support of my family, friends and teammates. Without the encouragement of my coaches, fans, and the entire community, my dreams would have vanquished a long time ago.

​In a few hours my team will depart for the NCAA Tournament. This is a feat I never dreamed possible. No matter what happens in the tournament, I’m very proud of my team. I feel very honored and humbled to have ever worn the Cabrini jersey on my back.

​At the end of the day, it is not about the wins and losses or who scores the most points. What I will remember for the rest of my life are the bus rides to and from games, the feeling I had in my stomach the moment I woke up on a big game day, and the high fives my teammates and I gave one another in warm up lines. I am so fortunate to have been a Cabrini Cavalier. I will support this program for the rest of my life.

Thanks again to all of those who made this possible for me. Without you I would have never had the courage to be here in the first place.

I have always looked forward to the month of March. My birthday is on the 10th and what kid wouldn’t anticipate the one day a year when it’s all about them and they get showered with gifts? Now that I am older and a little more mature March holds my anticipation for a number of other reasons. Our spring break always falls the week of St. Patrick’s Day (another reason to be a fan of March) and I find myself counting down the days to it after the final week of February was filled with tests and papers. These days I also owe my love for this month to college basketball.

I log some of my longest hours of watching TV in March because I try and catch as much of the Division I NCAA tournaments as possible. It’s convenient that the opening days of the tournaments fall during spring break so I do not have to worry about whether or not I’d be able to drag myself away from the TV to go to class. Since I have been at Illinois Wesleyan the highlight of my March has been the Division III NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament.

All three of my years we have gotten the automatic bid from the CCIW. We are excited to begin our journey in the NCAA Tournament at our Shirk Center as we are a host for the first two rounds. We have Franklin College in our first game and if we are successful we will face either Simpson College or the University of Chicago. We are familiar with Chicago as we faced them at their place in December and won by 7. Just as we are starting our NCAA journey at Shirk we are hoping to end it there.

We have known for a while now that we are hosting the Final Four. It has been pretty hard to not look forward to those games and see ourselves playing for a national championship on our home court. When we find ourselves daydreaming about being in the Final Four we snap out of it and realize the games leading up to it will not just be handed to us because we are hosting. Every team we might face made the tournament for a reason and will challenge us to perform at our best.

We’ve been working hard all season for these important challenges that are about to come our way. I am confident that we are ready and have the potential to do some amazing things in the tournament. We are just going to take it one game at a time and not look past any of our opponents. Hopefully everything works out for us and March 2010 will be one of the most memorable months of my life.

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

Through games of Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010.

Men’s rankings

Atlantic Region
1. William Paterson 24-2 25-2
2. Merchant Marine 22-4 23-4
3. Richard Stockton 19-6 20-7
4. Rutgers-Newark 16-6 20-7
5. SUNY-Old Westbury 20-7 20-7

East Region
1. St. John Fisher 21-5 22-5
2. Plattsburgh State 20-6 21-7
3. Medaille 22-4 23-4
4. Oneonta State 21-6 22-6
5. Nazareth 17-8 18-9
6. Ithaca 15-7 18-8

Great Lakes Region
1. Wooster 23-4 23-5
2. Hope 16-3 21-7
3. Wilmington (Ohio) 20-6 21-7
4. John Carroll 18-6 20-6
5. Calvin 15-4 19-9
6. Wittenberg 17-7 21-7

Middle Atlantic Region
1. St. Mary’s (Md.) 22-3 24-3
2. Albright 20-5 21-5
3. Cabrini 25-2 25-2
4. Franklin and Marshall 23-4 23-4
5. DeSales 21-4 22-5
6. Lycoming 17-6 21-6
7. Wesley 16-6 19-8
8. Messiah 15-6 16-9
9. York (Pa.) 17-7 19-7

Midwest Region
1. Washington U. 20-2 23-2
2. Carthage 18-3 22-5
3. St. Norbert 21-3 22-3
4. Illinois Wesleyan 19-7 20-7
5. Defiance 21-5 23-5
6. Wheaton (Ill.) 17-8 18-8
7. Anderson 20-5 22-5
8. Augustana 16-9 16-10

Northeast Region
1. Williams 24-0 26-1
2. Middlebury 20-3 24-3
3. Rhode Island College 20-7 20-7
4. Brandeis 19-6 19-6
5. MIT 21-3 22-4
6. Colby 17-5 19-6
7. Bridgewater State 18-5 19-7
8. Gordon 23-4 24-4
9. Western Connecticut State 18-7 19-7
10. WPI 19-7 20-7
11. Albertus Magnus 22-5 22-6

South Region
1. Guilford 26-2 26-2
2. Eastern Mennonite 18-3 22-4
3. Texas-Dallas 22-4 23-5
4. Randolph-Macon 16-6 22-6
5. Virginia Wesleyan 20-5 22-5
6. Maryville (Tenn.) 16-3 23-4
7. Austin 20-7 20-7
8. Mary Hardin-Baylor 22-5 22-6

West Region
1. Whitworth 23-2 25-2
2. UW-Stevens Point 22-4 23-4
3. UW-Whitewater 22-5 22-5
4. St. Thomas 20-4 23-3
5. Central 21-2 23-4
6. Chapman 17-1 23-2
7. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 17-5 21-6
8. Carleton 19-9 19-9
9. UW-La Crosse 16-8 17-9

Women’s Rankings
Atlantic Region Record Overall Record
1. Kean 25-0 26-1
2. Marymount 23-1 26-1
3. William Paterson 25-2 25-2
4. Farmingdale State 25-1 25-1
5. Mount Saint Mary 21-5 22-5
6. Mary Washington 20-4 21-5

Central Region Record Overall Record
1. Illinois Wesleyan 23-1 26-1
2. Washington U. 20-2 23-2
3. Carthage 19-3 22-4
4. UW-Stevens Point 19-6 21-6
5. Chicago 19-6 19-6
6. UW-Whitewater 19-6 20-7

East Region Record Overall Record
1. Ithaca 22-3 22-5
2. Rochester 17-6 19-6
3. Medaille 24-1 25-2
4. Cortland State 24-3 25-3
5. RPI 14-9 17-10
6. Utica 20-6 21-6

Great Lakes Region Record Overall Record
1. Hope 24-0 27-1
2. Thomas More 25-2 25-3
3. DePauw 22-2 25-3
4. Mount Union 21-4 24-4
5. Washington and Jefferson 23-3 23-4
6. Calvin 19-3 24-4

Mid-Atlantic Region Record Overall Record
1. Moravian 25-2 25-2
2. Messiah 21-3 23-4
3. Lebanon Valley 23-3 23-4
4. McDaniel 20-6 20-6
5. Muhlenberg 21-5 21-5
6. Scranton 20-5 22-5

Northeast Region Record Overall Record
1. Amherst 27-0 27-0
2. Colby 20-4 23-4
3. Bowdoin 17-6 20-6
4. Tufts 17-4 20-5
5. Williams 18-6 18-7
6. Emmanuel 20-5 22-5
7. Western Connecticut 21-5 22-5
8. University of New England 22-5 23-5
9. Southern Maine 20-8 20-8
10. Babson 25-3 25-3

South Region Record Overall Record
1. Christopher Newport 27-0 28-0
2. Louisiana College 21-2 24-2
3. Roanoke 21-3 23-3
4. Howard Payne 21-7 21-7
5. Ferrum 19-6 21-7
6. Mary Hardin-Baylor 20-6 21-6

West Region Record Overall Record
1. George Fox 19-1 25-2
2. Puget Sound 18-3 23-4
3. Redlands 21-4 22-5
4. Simpson 18-4 22-5
5. Gustavus Adolphus 20-5 20-6
6. St. Thomas 21-7 21-7

AMCC: Medaille (No. 1)
ASC: Mary Hardin-Baylor (No. 1-West)
CAC: St. Mary’s (Md.) (No. 1)
CCC: Gordon (No. 1)
Centennial: Franklin & Marshall (No. 1)
CCIW: Carthage (No. 1)
CSAC: Cabrini (No. 1)
CUNYAC: Brooklyn (No. 2)
Empire 8: Nazareth (No. 3)
GNAC: Albertus Magnus (No. 1)
HCAC: Defiance (No. 3)
IIAC: Central (No. 1)
Landmark: Merchant Marine (No. 1)
Little East: Rhode Island College (No. 1)
Liberty League: St. Lawrence (No. 1)
MAC Commonwealth: Albright (No. 2)
MAC Freedom: DeSales (No. 1)
MASCAC: Bridgewater State (No. 1)
MIAA: Hope (No. 2)
MIAC: Carleton (No. 4)
MWC: St. Norbert (No. 1)
NAC: Maine-Farmington (No. 1)
NATHCon: Aurora (No. 2)
NCAC: Wooster (No. 1)
NEAC: SUNYIT (No. 1)
NEWMAC: Clark (No. 5)
NESCAC: Williams (No. 1)
NJAC: William Paterson (No. 1)
NWC: Whitworth (No. 1)
OAC: Wilmington (No. 2)
ODAC: Guilford (No. 2)
PAC: Grove City (No. 1)
SCAC: Centre (No. 1-East)
SCIAC: Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (No. 1)
Skyline: Purchase (No. 3)
SLIAC: Westminster (Mo.) (No. 1)
SUNYAC: Plattsburgh State (No. 1)
UAA: Washington U. (No playoff)
USA South: Christopher Newport (No. 3)
WIAC: UW-Stevens Point (No. 2)

AMCC: Medaille (No. 1)
ASC: Louisiana College (No. 1-East)
CAC: Marymount (No. 2)
CCC: University of New England (No. 1)
Centennial: McDaniel (No. 3)
CCIW: Illinois Wesleyan (No. 1)
CSAC: Neumann (No. 1)
CUNYAC: Baruch (No. 1)
Empire 8: Utica (No. 3)
GNAC: Emmanuel (No. 1)
GSAC: No. 1 Maryville (Tenn.) (No. 1)
HCAC: Franklin (No. 1)
IIAC: Simpson (No. 2)
Landmark: Moravian (No. 1)
Liberty League: RPI (No. 3)
Little East: Western Connecticut State (No. 1)
MAC Commonwealth: Messiah (No. 2)
MAC Freedom: DeSales (No. 2)
MASCAC: Massachusetts College (No. 4)
MIAA: Hope (No. 1)
MIAC: St. Thomas (No. 5)
MWC: St. Norbert (No. 1)
NAC: Husson (No. 1)
NATHCon: Lakeland (No. 3)
NCAC: Denison (No. 3)
NEAC: Penn State-Berks (No. 3)
NEWMAC: Babson (No. 1)
NESCAC: Amherst (No. 1)
NJAC: Kean (No. 1)
NWC: George Fox (No. 1)
OAC: Mount Union (No. 2)
ODAC: Washington and Lee (No. 3)
PAC: Thomas More (No. 1)
SCAC: DePauw (1-East)
SCIAC: Redlands (No. 2)
Skyline: Farmingdale State (No. 1)
SLIAC: Fontbonne (No. 1)
SUNYAC: Cortland State (No. 1)
UAA: Washington U.
USA South: Christopher Newport (No. 1)
WIAC: UW-Stevens Point (No. 2)

But I got far enough through it to generate something useful, and that was my Pool C rankings. Here’s were I saw the teams shaking out if the season ended Wednesday night:

Pool C
1 UW-Stevens Point
2 Middlebury
3 Guilford
4 Virginia Wesleyan
5 Wheaton (Ill.)
6 Lycoming
7 Richard Stockton
8 Illinois Wesleyan
9 Colby
10 Brandeis
11 Randolph-Macon
12 Rutgers-Newark
13 Messiah
14 Oneonta State
15 Mary Hardin-Baylor
16 Ithaca
17 Augsburg
18 York (Pa.)
19 Defiance

After that, the teams on the board were Ramapo, NYU, Calvin, Wesley, Western Connecticut, DePauw, UW-La Crosse. Augustana was next behind Defiance.

To do this, of course, I had to pick champions in a bunch of conferences, to determine who the Pool C teams would be. Mostly these are top seeds, or top teams in the regional rankings from each conference.

Pool A Projected winner
AMCC Medaille
ASC Texas-Dallas
CAC St. Mary’s (Md.)
CC Franklin and Marshall
CSAC Cabrini
CUNYAC York (N.Y.)
CCIW Carthage
CCC Gordon
E8 St. John Fisher
GNAC Albertus Magnus
HCAC Anderson
IIAC Central
LAND Merchant Marine
LL St. Lawrence
LEC Rhode Island College
MASCAC Bridgewater State
MIAA Hope
MAC-C Albright
MAC-F DeSales
MWC St. Norbert
MIAC St. Thomas
NESCAC Williams
NEWMAC MIT
NJAC William Paterson
NAC Maine-Farmington
NATHC Aurora
NCAC Wooster
NEAC SUNYIT
NWC Whitworth
OAC John Carroll
ODAC Eastern Mennonite
PAC Thomas More
SLIAC Westminster (Mo.)
SKY SUNY-Old Westbury
SCIAC Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
SCAC Austin
SUNYAC Plattsburgh State
UAA Washington U.
USAC North Carolina Wesleyan
WIAC UW-Whitewater

It’s a rough first draft, and nothing ever accounts for conference tournament upsets. But the further down you are on the Pool C list, the less safe you are is someone on the Pool A list gets upset.

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

Men’s rankings

Atlantic Region In-Region Record Overall Record
1.William Paterson 22-2 23-2
2.Merchant Marine 20-4 21-4
3.Rutgers-Newark 16-5 20-6
4.Richard Stockton 19-5 19-6
5.Ramapo 17-7 18-8

East Region In-Region Record Overall Record
1.St. John Fisher 20-4 21-4
2.Plattsburgh State 17-6 18-7
3.Oneonta State 19-5 20-5
4.Ithaca 15-6 18-7
5.Medaille 20-4 21-4
6.New York University 15-8 16-8

Great Lakes Region In-Region Record Overall Record
1.John Carroll 17-5 19-5
2.Wooster 20-4 20-5
3.Hope 13-3 18-7
4.Calvin 13-3 17-8
5.Thomas More 19-6 19-6
6.Wilmington 17-6 18-7

Middle Atlantic Region In-Region Record Overall Record
1.St. Mary’s (Md.) 20-3 22-3
2.Albright 18-5 19-5
3.Franklin and Marshall 21-4 21-4
4.Cabrini 23-2 23-2
5.Lycoming 16-5 20-5
6.DeSales 19-4 20-5
7.Messiah 15-5 16-8
8.York (Pa.) 18-6 19-6
9.Wesley 14-5 17-7

Midwest Region In-Region Record Overall Record
1.Washington U. 19-2 22-2
2.Carthage 16-3 20-5
3.Wheaton (Ill.) 17-7 18-7
4.Illinois Wesleyan 18-6 19-6
5.St. Norbert 19-3 20-3
6.Anderson 19-4 21-4
7.Defiance 18-5 20-5
8.Augustana 16-8 16-9

Northeast Region In-Region Record Overall Record
1.Williams 22-0 24-1
2.Middlebury 19-2 23-2
3.MIT 21-2 22-3
4.Colby 17-4 19-5
5.Brandeis 18-6 18-6
6.Rhode Island College 18-7 18-7
7.Bridgewater State 16-5 17-7
8.Gordon 20-4 21-4
9.Western Connecticut 17-6 18-6
10.WPI 17-6 18-6
11.Eastern Connecticut 17-8 17-8

South Region In-Region Record Overall Record
1.Eastern Mennonite 17-2 21-3
2.Guilford 23-2 23-2
3.Texas-Dallas 20-3 21-4
4.Virginia Wesleyan 19-4 21-4
5.Randolph-Macon 14-5 20-5
6.Maryville (Tenn.) 14-3 21-4
7.Austin 19-6 19-6
8.Mary Hardin-Baylor 19-5 19-6

West Region In-Region Record Overall Record
1.UW-Whitewater 21-4 21-4
2.St. Thomas 20-2 23-2
3.Whitworth 21-2 23-2
4.UW-Stevens Point 20-4 21-4
5.Central 19-2 21-4
6.Chapman 17-1 23-2
7.UW-La Crosse 16-7 17-8
8.Claremont–Mudd-Scripps 15-4 19-5
9.Augsburg 17-7 18-7

Women’s rankings

Through games of Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010.

Atlantic Region Record Overall Record
1. Kean 23-0 24-1
2. William Paterson 24-1 24-1
3. Marymount 21-1 24-1
4. Mary Washington 19-3 20-4
5. Farmingdale State 23-1 23-1
6. Mount Saint Mary 20-4 21-4

Central Region Record Overall Record
1. Illinois Wesleyan 21-1 24-1
2. Carthage 19-2 22-3
3. Washington U. 19-2 22-2
4. Chicago 19-5 19-5
5. UW-Whitewater 18-5 19-6
6. St. Norbert 20-3 20-3

East Region Record Overall Record
1. Ithaca 21-2 21-4
2. Rochester 16-6 18-6
3. Medaille 22-1 23-2
4. Cortland State 21-3 22-3
5. St. Lawrence 18-6 18-6
6. Skidmore 19-3 20-4

Great Lakes Region Record Overall Record
1. Hope 21-0 24-1
2. Thomas More 22-2 22-3
3. Washington and Jefferson 22-2 22-3
4. DePauw 19-2 22-3
5. Calvin 17-2 22-3
6. Capital 17-6 18-7

Mid-Atlantic Region Record Overall Record
1. Moravian 23-2 23-2
2. Muhlenberg 20-4 20-4
3. Lebanon Valley 22-2 22-3
4. Messiah 19-3 21-4
5. Scranton 19-4 21-4
6. McDaniel 18-6 18-6

Northeast Region Record Overall Record
1. Amherst 25-0 25-0
2. Colby 19-3 22-3
3. Bowdoin 17-5 20-5
4. Tufts 17-4 20-5
5. Williams 18-6 18-7
6. Emmanuel 17-5 19-5
7. Western Connecticut 19-5 20-5
8. Eastern Connecticut 17-8 17-8
9. Southern Maine 18-7 18-7
10. Babson 22-3 22-3

South Region Record Overall Record
1. Christopher Newport 24-0 25-0
2. Roanoke 20-2 22-2
3. Louisiana College 18-2 21-2
4. Mary Hardin-Baylor 19-5 20-5
5. Howard Payne 20-5 20-5
6. Texas-Dallas 18-6 19-6

West Region Record Overall Record
1. George Fox 17-1 23-2
2. Puget Sound 17-2 22-3
3. Redlands 19-4 20-5
4. Gustavus Adolphus 20-4 20-5
5. Coe 17-7 18-7
6. St. Benedict 20-5 20-5

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

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.