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| The watching and waiting and lip-biting is over for DeSales. Photo by Geanine Jamison, d3photography.com |
Remember having a bracket? We do! It's just nice to have one back. It's also nice to have one which has 19 of the 20 at-large teams which we projected. No, it was not Brandeis, who Ryan Scott was pushing for, but we don't see Utica either. Utica was our last pick out of 20, and the committee chose DeSales instead.
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DeSales gets new life despite a loss to Lycoming in the MAC Freedom conference final. Chapman, the last team to lose a conference tournament this season, gets a second chance and heads to UMHB. Heidelberg does indeed get in and gets sent to Illinois Wesleyan to play UW-La Crosse.
In fact, the 600-mile radius for first-round travel makes some nice things possible in this bracket that we might not have seen otherwise. That includes Wabash going to Emory, a pod which definitely needed a No. 2 seed, and Washington & Jefferson looking to extend the best season in program history by going to Chicagoland to face Elmhurst.
Also fun to watch will be that Johns Hopkins-Yeshiva matchup that we never got in the last tournament after JHU got upset -- that will be the first matchup of the tournament, at 1 p.m. ET on Friday. And we have greatly scattered tipoff times! Have you ever seen a game scheduled to tip at 4:20 p.m.? Well, we will. Get ready for Friday's wall-to-wall basketball!
The resume for the final team left out of each region:
| Team | Rank | Record vs. D3 | SOS |
| Middlebury | Region 1: 4 | 18-6 (.750) | .545 |
| 3-5 vs. RRO (Wins vs. R1-7, R1-5, R1-9; Losses to R1-1, R1-3, R1-3, R1-6, R2-6) | |||
| All ranked Region 2 teams were selected | |||
| Utica | Region 3: 5 | 23-4 (.852) | .504 |
| 3-3 vs. RRO (Wins vs. R3-1, R3-6, R3-6; Losses to R3-1, R3-1, R4-4) | |||
| Rutgers-Newark | Region 4: 4 | 17-9 (.654) | .544 |
| 3-7 vs. RRO (Wins vs. R4-2, R3-5, past R4-6; Losses to R4-1, R4-1, R4-2, R4-2, R4-5, R5-7, past R4-6) | |||
| Drew | Region 5: 7 | 18-9 (.667) | .547 |
| 3-4 vs. RRO (Wins vs. R4-3, R4-4, R5-5; Losses to R1-1, R5-4, R5-4, R5-4) | |||
| Guilford | Region 6: 4 | 18-7 (.720) | .531 |
| 3-4 vs. RRO (Wins vs. R6-5, R6-5, R6-8; Losses to R6-1, R6-1, R6-2, R6-8) | |||
| Otterbein | Region 7: 8 | 17-8 (.680) | .547 |
| 2-7 vs. RRO (Wins vs. R7-6, PastR7-10; Losses to R7-1, R7-1, R7-2, R7-2, R7-5, R7-6, PastR7-10) | |||
| Hanover | Region 8: 5 | 21-5 (.808) | .507 |
| 6-2 vs. RRO (Wins vs. R7-3, R8-6, R8-6, R8-8, R8-8, R8-9; Losses to R8-8, R8-9) | |||
| UW-Whitewater | Region 9: 5 | 15-10 (.600) | .591 |
| 5-8 vs. RRO (Wins vs. R9-1, R9-2, R9-6, R9-6, R9-8; Losses to R9-1, R9-1, R6-2, R10-2, R9-3, R9-3, R9-8, R9-8) | |||
| Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | Region 10: 5 | 16-8 (.667) | .551 |
| 5-5 vs. RRO (Wins vs. R10-1, R10-3, R10-6, R10-7, R10-8; Losses to R10-1, R10-2, R10-3, R10-3, R10-6) | |||