D-III Nationals 2009

Well, I don't think I've ever posted twice in a day, but I guess there's a first time for everything... First times like these are meant for 5-day weekends when the gf's off visiting siblings in Lake Tahoe...

Anyway, I just saw this thread on R.S.D. about D-III Nationals and I'd thought I'd paste their rankings here.. Check it out:

D-III Nationals - Top 25
1) 1443 Las Positas
2) 1421 North Park
3) 1384 Truman State
4) 1289 Missouri S&T
5) 1188 Xavier
6) 1184 Reed
7) 1180 Rice
8) 1134 Rhode Island
9) 1130 Pacific Luthern
10) 1117 Dickinson (Lost to these guys by 2)
11) 1109 Chicago
12) 1089 Vassar
13) 1082 Colgate
14) 1074 St. John’s
15) 1003 Amherst
16) 987 Air Force
17) 978 Hope College
18) 972 Stonehill
19) 930 Grinnell
20) 902 Rose-Hulman
21) 900 Ohio Northern
22) 900 Bowdoin
23) 894 Salisbury (Lost to these guys by 4 and then by 1)
24) 891 Hanover
25) 872 Catholic
26) 865 Union
27) 851 RIT
28) 832 Lewis
29) 796 Kalamazoo
30) 794 Worchester Polytech
31) 745 Ohio Wesleyan
32) 726 Denison
33) 694 Swarthmore
34) 681 North Greenville
35) 617 Calvin
36) 572 Merchant Marine Academy
37) 559 Bryant
38) 369 Wilkes
39) 350 Earlham
40) 325 Cedarville
41) 289 Roger Williams
42) 181 SUNY-Potsdam
43) 0 Milwaukee School of Enginnering
44) 0 SUNY-New Paltz

The tournament offers bids to teams in two different ways... The first is for all D-III teams who make Regionals (not us). Those guys get automatic bids to the tourney. Teams who can't get out of the Section (definitely us) have to wait and see if there are wild card spots left for the tournament. Word is that it's going to be a 32 team tourney this year in Versailles. That would mean that we're in a prime position for a wild card bid if only 7 teams below us advance to Regionals.

I guess that's good news. Only problem is that we'll be a completely different team at D-III Nationals than we were at Sectionals. We're still working out who will and who won't be able to attend, but it looks like we'd be missing at least 4 players from our Sectionals roster. To be honest, I don't think I'd like to play this tournament down that many starters (yes, they are starters...), but we'll worry about that if we get the bid.