It’s about that time again! A new bracketology is below, but this one wasn’t created by us. Big ups to Mr. Dante Quazzo, who has put together this bracket and nice little format for us to take apart and think about. Now, “The Quaz” has taken many things into consideration and he seems to be up for the challenge. In fact, I believe this bracketology is a straight up challenge to The Guru. Guru, wherever you are, we’re not sure if you could make a bracket of this caliber. This bracket takes into account all the normal factors – flights (3 of em), ITA ranking, fair regions, the 500 mile rule (whether the crow flies there or not), and some other pish posh that I don’t know about. We are even presenting you with this nice picture below in a new format, but don’t get used to it. Media is some crazy shit these days.
Quaz’s thoughts:
Good outcomes–It becomes a lot more challenging for any team (save Amherst) to make the Elite Eight. Everyone will have to go through at least one team ranked in the top 16. This means there are legitimate #2 and even #3 seeds that can challenge the #1s in any region. Hopkins, instead of hosting their own region, travels to Williams and arranges a date in the Sweet 16. No more “Wash U” gimme regions.
CCIW does get an automatic bid this year. Here’s the pre-championship manual to confirm: http://www.ncaa.org/sites/default/files/PreChamps_DIII_MW_Tennis_2014_Revised2.pdf
Doesn’t the CCIW receive an AQ out of the Central this year?
It does look like the CCIW has the minimum of 7 teams to get rewarded an AQ in men’s tennis. However, I believe you need to go through a two year waiting period before that comes into play. I may be wrong on this as I am not sure. My guess is they will not have the AQ this year and may have it next or the year following.
You are correct, they do. Looks like we have a conference in that no longer receives an auto bid. We’ll comb through the bracket next time and see what we come up with.
Seems to me that Amherst region is too weak. How about this:
Baruch from Amherst to Carnegie Mellon bracket
Ohio Northern from Carnegie Mellon bracket to Wash U bracket
Whitman from Wash U bracket to Amherst bracket
I don’t think this violates the 500 mile rule, and it get’s Amherst a much higher seeded #2
Now this is a suggestion I like! Great stuff. We’ll incorporate into our next one.