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Division III Women's Lacrosse should seed a little better for the tournament or maybe take less AQ's. Maybe they should have power rankings for conferences to automatically qualify. Most of the games this weekend were not even competitive. Wesleyan is theoretically the overall 2 seed in the tourname...

The Sunday games in the Wesleyan bracket highlitef hiw
it is the toughest quad in the bracket.

Roanoke is a tough matchup for teams and Tufts being put in the bracket makes it stronger. Middlebury is weakest by fa far. Wes bracket has toughest 2nd round matchups and then Wes, GB and W&S. York is a lot better than their record and always tough. Should be a good weekend of games.

It is the second year in the row that F & M is in an easier bracket. Until they meet Tufts there is not much competition. Last year the W & L regional was a beast and York, and Gettysburg were in that one I guess it is luck of the draw. It does not make sense for two NCAA semi final teams me...

Take a look at the Massey Power Rankings by Conference. They have NESCAC and Centennial as 1 & 2 followed by the Liberty League, New Jersey AC and then at 5th the North Coast Athletic Conference. Maybe that is why Ohio Wesleyan and Kenyon were left out? Also did the decide the regional hosts yet...

Bracket Quadrants: Middlebury (1): has Ithaca (8) & Pomona Pritzer(11) (2 ranked teams) F & M (3): Tufts (4) is only real threat. Salisbury: (5) W & L (7) only real threat in bracket Weslyan (2): TCNJ (10), William Smith (9), and Gettysburg (6) ( I guess somewhat better balanced than las...

It will be interesting to see how they do the brackets. How will geographic regions play into it. F & M and Gettysburg same record. Ithaca could get the region that W & S hosted last year. Middlbury will host. Where will the other two be??? Weslyan, Salisbury, F and M an outside shot for GB?...

Last year Kenyon only had 1 loss when there was the midwest bracket. This year there is not a similar midwest team with only 1 loss. Pomona Pritzker is similar but they are out west so it would not be reasonable to have them host a bracket. (in 2018,2019, & 2022 there was not a midwest host) If ...

Well --- Gettysburg 6 on IWCLA despite beating F and M and having a better record with more wins against Ranked teams. USA Lacrosse gave them 5th. I like looking at laxnumbers and massey ratings because it takes opinion out of the process. For sure Middlebury, Tufts and Wesleyan are top 3. NESCAC is...

Home Stretch will be exciting. There seems to be quite a few very strong teams in the top 10. Gettysburg has been dropped from 6th to 8th in coaches poll despite not losing a game since their loss to Salisbury on March 13th. After their win against F & M on 4/17 we will see if they have some upw...