How many teams are going and what are the brackets
How many teams are going and what are the brackets
We will be following the same format as the ECRHA for their DII event. Each team will be placed in a pool for a 3-game round robin. The top 8 teams will then advance to the quarterfinals, which will be played Saturday night. The two semi-final games and championship will be played Sunday morning.
The top 3 seeds will be based on the division leaders. The rest of the seedings will be based on overall points (Same format as the NHL). The pools will as followed:
Pool 1:
#1, #6, #7, #12
Pool 2:
#2, #5, #8, #11
Pool 3:
#3, #4, #9, #10
Games will start at 9 am on Saturday.
Final seedings will be posted on Monday after our final event.
Final standings depend on how Tampa fairs in there out of conference event..... on a side not, congrats to the DII Southern conference, all 5 teams clinched a spot to regionals
NOTE: ALL INFORMATION IS PERSON ASSUMPTION BASED ON PAST EVENTS, NOTHING IS LEAGUE OFFICIAL!!!
was typing this as NYR posted, but I will just leave it anyways....
For D1 it will be all 6 teams...
1. UCF
2. UF
3. FIU
4. NC State
5. Middle TN
6. ECU
Brackets will most likely be 1,4,6 and 2,3,6
Re-seed, 1 and 2 get a bye to semis 3 v 6 4 v 5 winners move on to semis
For D2, not exactly sure on how the actual seeds will be because of conferences and standings. Also this clearly is not the actual rankings of quality just standing based on pts.
1. FAU
2. Elon
3. Kennesaw
4. West Carolina
5. Charleston
6. Tampa (playing in MO next weekend, may move up)
7. James Madison
8. South Carolina
9. Emory
10. Miami
11. Florida State
12. South Florida
will prob be 3 brackets of 4 teams
1,6,7,12
2,8,5,11
3,4,9,10
From there re-seed top 8, single elimination until the finals.
1v8
2v7
3v6
4v5
Yea, you posted as I was writing it up, I figured I would just leave it anyways.
Im going to get flamed for this, but IMO there is no way James Madison, South Carolina and Emory should be higher seeds above any team from the Southern Conference. Yea I know they have more "points" but there is NO doubt as to which teams are better, or had better seasons.
Here are some scores for South Carolina
Tampa 21-1
USF 10-2
Here are some scores for Emory
Miami 17-4
FSU 8-3
FAU 8-3
Charleston 6-6 and 5-4 Emory
These are very valid points, but NC State beat UCF opening game, should they be first seed? The problem is the region is so large, and the power is mainly in the south. To prevent this from happening the league has always said "TRAVEL NORTH" Realistically this inst possible with the poor budgets handed to us by the school.
Either way when it all unfolds there will probably be 2 maybe 3, if a miracle unfolds possibly 4 bids from this region for nationals in D2. This ultimately means you will have to beat almost everyone anyways to get to the top. UCF had a poor regular season last year giving them a poor seed entering the event, but they came around to win the tournament. This was the ONLY reason they got a bid to nationals!! If you deserve a spot at nationals, it shouldn't matter where you start the regional tournament, just how to prove yourself when you get there!! Win the Regional and it wont matter if you were seeded first or last.
So the difference would be playing the top seeds in the pool, quarters, semis, either way if you don't make Top 4 your not going to nationals. You will encounter a tough team either way on the road there. Top 3 seeds are based upon conference winner, so only one team from the south can be top 3. IMO the way the standings are right now isn't so bad, if you match the teams up with the pools only one pool has more than 2 south teams in it. Hopefully UT will win this weekend and not have to play FAU in the opening pool. If you break it down now each pool has one very good team, and one very weak team with two good middle teams that could very easily show a few upsets.
POOL 1
Strong=FAU
Weak= JMU
Middle=USF
Middle= UT(might move out)
POOL 2
Strong=Elon
Weak=USC
Middle=FSU
Middle=COC
POOL 3
Strong=West Carolina
Weak= Emory
Middle=Miami
Middle=Kenn State
(If Tampa jumps will still be the same, swapping with a different middle team, no matter what)
I know the league has said for the southern teams to travel north, but this isnt possible when no northern teams travel south thus filling all the northern events before a southern team can get in
I know most of our programs arent well funded, but you should make each school participate in at least one event in snellville or north or south of snellville depending where your school is located.
JMU, USC, and USF are not attending.
1. FAU (30 pts [Conference winner])
2. Elon (25 pts [Conference winner])
3. KSU (24 pts [Conference winner])
4. WCU (25 pts)
5. CofC (21 pts)
6. UT (20 pts)
7. EM (17 pts)
8. UM (16 pts)
9. FSU (15 pts)
10. VT (10 pts)
11. UNC (9 pts)
12. GT (4 pts)
Pool 1: FAU, CofC/UT, EM, GT
Pool 2: Elon, WCU/UT, UM, UNC
Pool 3: KSU, WCU/UT, FSU, VT
any reason those 3 teams are not attending?
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