Tournament Challenge

Raymond

Snaqwells wrote
I'm guessing that the list will have more of the "I had no idea they were D-1" than the "I had no idea they've never been to the dance" type of suprises.

Not if they've be D1 for the last 50 years.

Adam

BadNewsRef wrote
Not if they've be D1 for the last 50 years.

I'll have to find the list now.

bainsey

Snaqwells wrote
I'll have to find the list now.

I'll save you the time, Snaqs...

Link

Now that South Dakota State is in, that leaves Maine and Alaska as the only states that have never sent a team to the big dance.

Oh, and Alaska has no D-I schools.

Raymond

bainsey wrote
I'll save you the time, Snaqs...

Link

Now that South Dakota State is in, that leaves Maine and Alaska as the only states that have never sent a team to the big dance.

Oh, and Alaska has no D-I schools.

I knew there would be at least one Southern Conference school (Citadel) on the list. I should have known about William & Mary since I live 15 minutes from their campus.

Adam

bainsey wrote
I'll save you the time, Snaqs...

Link

Now that South Dakota State is in, that leaves Maine and Alaska as the only states that have never sent a team to the big dance.

Oh, and Alaska has no D-I schools.

😀 Too late, I was reading the list while you posted the link.

I'll say of the 8, it was 50/50 for me. With four, I was more surprised that they had been D1 for 50 years.

Interesting note, Denver would have been on the list had they not left D1 from '80-'99.

bainsey

BadNewsRef wrote
I knew there would be at least one Southern Conference school (Citadel) on the list.

It must be brutal trying to recruit top players to a military academy. I have two friends that went to The Cid (including our class clown), no chance in hell would I consider that.

I should have known about William & Mary since I live 15 minutes from their campus.

W&M and Maine are more about football, anyway. It's not easy being a CAA school up here, with most of the conference bunched up down your way, but Maine makes it work somehow.

rockyroad

bainsey wrote
Oh, and Alaska has no D-I schools.

Although both UAA and UAF do compete at the D-I level in a number of sports.

bainsey

rockyroad wrote
Although both UAA and UAF do compete at the D-I level in a number of sports.

Right, Maine has played both in hockey plenty of times. I recall a Great Alaska shootout in-season tournament. Maine opts for the one in south Florida now.

BillyMac

bainsey wrote
Maine are more about football, anyway.

What about baseball?

bainsey

BillyMac wrote
What about baseball?

Hockey primarily, of course (two national championships). Baseball has come back a bit (defending conference champions), but it will never be like it was in the '80s when they had five College World Series trips. The college baseball landscape has changed way too much, and a lot of northeastern schools have dropped baseball in favor of lacrosse. Maine baseball's nearest conference opponent is six hours away, but Maine has way too much history to consider axing the program.

BillyMac

bainsey wrote
Baseball five College ... World Series trips. Maine has way too much history.

Now that's the Maine program that I remember. Successful, even though the "warm season" is only two months long, and the black flies slow down a pitched, or a batted ball.

26 Year Gap

bainsey wrote
Right, Maine has played both in hockey plenty of times. I recall a Great Alaska shootout in-season tournament. Maine opts for the one in south Florida now.

And Maine has won the hockey title twice. I was there for the very first game at Alfond, the first win over a D-I school (RPI), they went to the CWS while I was attending and 3 times in the 80s before the big school managers took control.

26 Year Gap

BadNewsRef wrote
Can't join from work, firewall blocking the brackets again this year. Are the "First Four" part of this bracket challenge? I might be able to get home before the first game.

The play-in games are NOT part of the bracket.

bainsey

26 Year Gap wrote
And Maine has won the hockey title twice. I was there for the very first game at Alfond, the first win over a D-I school (RPI), they went to the CWS while I was attending and 3 times in the 80s before the big school managers took control.

UMaine has a pretty rich sports history. Alas, men's basketball has not yet been a part of it.

BktBallRef

Still a bunch of people who signed up that haven't bracketed yet. Don't wait!

Raymond

BktBallRef wrote
Still a bunch of people who signed up that haven't bracketed yet. Don't wait!

I'm just getting home. About to put mine in. The Air Force base I work at blocks entries to any bracket challenges.

26 Year Gap

BadNewsRef wrote
I'm just getting home. About to put mine in. The Air Force base I work at blocks entries to any bracket challenges.

Bet that isn't true on Air Force One.

dsqrddgd909

26 Year Gap wrote
Here is the link:
ESPN - Tournament Challenge - ESPN's NCAA Men's Bracket Game - Group

group name: Officials Forum
password: squirrel
Have fun everyone.

Thanks Gap. Had to quickly add an entry that has Syracuse out early.

I told Fab Melo to get that paper in on time! 😠 Geessshhh!

BktBallRef

dsqrddgd909 wrote
Thanks Gap. Had to quickly add an entry that has Syracuse out early.

You can edit entries until game time on Thursday.

bainsey

dsqrddgd909 wrote
Had to quickly add an entry that has Syracuse out early.

I had the Orange going to the Final Four. Time to re-evaluate.

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