Looking Ahead To Selection Monday - Things Looking Good For The MIAC!!!

Was watching the D3Hoops.com mock selection show last night and their wonks have both CSB and GAC safely in the Big Dance which is definitely good to hear.  What was interesting to me was that they had GAC leapfrogging both Claremont-Mudd-Scripps out of the SCIAC and Whitman out of the NWC which, I think given the Gusties' last few games plus the win over CSB in the MIAC semifinals, makes sense.  Whitman, as you may recall, lost to Willamette in the NWC semifinals at home in Walla Walla (in fact, had lost to them at home in the next-to-last regular season game as well).  And Claremont-Mudd-Scripps lost to Chapman at home in the SCIAC Championship Game on Saturday night.  The latter really worried me I must admit as the Athenas had leapfrogged GAC in the Regional Rankings from last week Wednesday.  The wonks at D3Hoops.com, however, felt that GAC had a stronger SOS (strength of schedule) than did Claremont-Mudd-Scripps and thus shoved the Gusties ahead in the selection process.  Again, we'll see what the NCAA Selection Committee does here after lunch.  With Whitman, it may have been a case of what have you done for me lately wrt the mock selection show last night and it wouldn't surprise me if the Blues are on the outside looking in come this afternoon.  Right now, George Fox appears to be the only entrant coming out of the NWC which had both the Bruins and Whitman in last year.  Elsewhere, the IIAC appears to be a one-bid league with unbeaten and number-two Wartburg and UW-Superior won the UMAC Championship Game on Saturday night so CSB and GAC shouldn't have to worry about any other teams from either the IIAC or the UMAC. 

Assuming that the MIAC gets three teams in (which I definitely think they will now), where do CSB and GAC wind up getting sent?  The D3Hoops.com wonks have the Blazers getting sent over to the UW-Whitewater pod to face Wheaton of the CCIW while the Gusties would get sent down to my home state of Iowa in Waverly where they would face Rose-Hulman out of the HCAC.  Closer to home, UST, according to the projections anyway, would face off with Cornell out of the MWC.  While I don't think these projections are that far off base, I wonder if it's possible if they might decide to slide one of the two MIAC teams into the UST pod.  I don't know.  I think if I were either CSB or GAC, I would just as soon prefer to get sent down to either Waverly or Whitewater and roll the dice there as opposed to possibly facing UST again. 

You can view the D3Hoops.com projections.  http://www.d3hoops.com/playoffs/women/2018/projected-womens-bracket


Don't forget that the Women's Selection Show will begin at 1:30 P.M. (Central time) this afternoon and you can watch it live on D3Hoops.com so we'll find out how everything shakes out here in just a few hours.  Till then, hang on tight!