{"id":26306,"date":"2004-03-07T09:36:50","date_gmt":"2004-03-07T15:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2004\/03\/07\/bracketology-diii-women\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:55:38","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:55:38","slug":"bracketology-diii-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2004\/03\/07\/bracketology-diii-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Bracketology: D-III Women"},"content":{"rendered":"
It’s all said and done in Women’s Division III action. All that’s left is the NCAA Touranament. It’s time to take a look at who I believe will be in the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n
Let’s remind everyone that there are seven teams in the Division III Women’s Tournament. <\/p>\n
\u2022 There are four automatic bids — the winners of the conference tournaments for the ECAC East, ECAC West, MIAC and NESCAC. This is Pool A.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Then there is one bid for Pool B teams, those teams that are in conferences which do not get an automatic bid. In this case, it’s just the teams in the NCHA. <\/p>\n
\u2022 And then there are two bids for Pool C teams. These are teams in the conferences which have automatic bids, but did not get the automatic bid.<\/p>\n
With seven bids, we know that there are four teams already in the tournament. Those four teams are the Pool A teams. These four teams are:<\/p>\n
MIAC Champion — Gustavus Adolphus
\nECAC East Champion — Manhattanville
\nECAC West Champion — Elmira
\nNESCAC Champion — Bowdoin<\/p>\n
The next step is to award the Pool B bid to the tournament.<\/p>\n
For this we take a look at the eligible teams. That is all the NCHA teams. Wisconsin-Stevens Point won the NCHA Championship, so that would lead us to believe that the Pointers should be awarded the Pool B bid. But that is not based on the criteria, so we have to look at the criteria.<\/p>\n
Per the NCAA, the criteria for selection are:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Win Percentage<\/p>\n
\u2022 Strength of Schedule per the NCAA’s table<\/p>\n
\u2022 Head-to-Head Results<\/p>\n
\u2022 Record Against Common Opponents Within Region<\/p>\n
\u2022 Record Against Ranked Teams Within Region<\/p>\n
You can take those five criteria and create a PairWise Comparison table with them.<\/p>\n
Ties are not broken by RPI as in the Division I PairWise, but rather by looking at all the criteria and then deciding — it’s subjective here.<\/p>\n
Let’s take a look at the PairWise Rankings for the West Region, since that is where the NCHA is. Most notably. Let’s look at the NCHA teams which are tournament eligible.<\/p>\n
Those three teams are the Pointers, Wisconsin-Superior and Wisconsin-River Falls. Per the rankings they are:<\/p>\n
2 Wisconsin-Stevens Point
\n4 Wisconsin-Superior
\n5 Wisconsin-River Falls<\/p>\n
Looking at the comparisons head-to-head between the three teams we see:<\/p>\n
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WIN<\/p>\n | 0.6481 0<\/p>\n | 0.7391 1<\/p>\n | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SOS<\/p>\n | 9.4074 0<\/p>\n | 9.9565 1<\/p>\n | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
H2H<\/p>\n | 0- 4- 1 0<\/p>\n | 4- 0- 1 1<\/p>\n | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
COP<\/p>\n | 15- 5- 0 1<\/p>\n | 12- 5-1 0<\/p>\n | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
RNK<\/p>\n | 4- 8- 1 0<\/p>\n | 7- 4- 2 1 <\/p>\n | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PTS<\/p>\n | 1<\/p>\n | 4 \n<\/table>\n
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