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Subject: Men's predictions Author: Murray [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 18:17:11 03/15/05 Tue No one else seems brave (or foolhardy) enough to do this, but here are my picks for the NAIA tournament. Up front, I'll admit I might have gone with my heart over my head on a couple of them, but I don't think they're too unrealistic. First round: Mountain State over Columbia Trevecca Nazarene over Lewis-Clark State Houston Baptist over Azusa Pacific OC over Brescia Georgetown over Georgia Southwestern OBU over Westminster Lubbock Christian over California Baptist Robert Morris over Xavier Lindsey Wilson over Faulkner Langston over St. Xavier Concordia over Carroll Mobile over OCU John Brown over Union LSU-Shreveport over Cumberland KY Biola over Missouri Baptist Southern Poly over Voorhees Second Round Mountain State over Trevecca Nazarene OC over Houston Baptist Georgetown over OBU Lubbock Christian over Robert Morris Langston over Lindsey Wilson Mobile over Concordia LSU-Shreveport over John Brown Southern Poly over Biola Quarterfinals OC over Mountain State Georgetown over Lubbock Christian Mobile over Langston Southern Poly over LSU-Shreveport Semifinals OC over Georgetown Southern Poly over Mobile Final Southern Poly over OC Comments: OC got a good draw until the quarters, and getting the day off Thursday is a break for the Eagles. Mountain State is vulnerable -- the loss to Union proved that -- and OC is capable of winning that game. I think Merrill poses matchup problems for Georgetown should they meet, but Southern Poly just seems too good. OBU should beat (rather easily) a Frontier Conference team in the first round before running into G-town. (The loser has to take the final national ranking banners down from their gym.) LCU-Cal Baptist should be an entertaining first-round game, and since Illinois teams typically don't fare well in KC, I like the Chaps to knock off Robert Morris as well before running into the G-town juggernaut. John Brown should be overrated Union but LSU-Shreveport is pretty good, as OBU already has learned. Don't see how OCU has much of a chance against Mobile. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Men's predictions Author: SOJ [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 07:08:00 03/16/05 Wed OK, since this is pretty much impossible to do for obvious reason, I decided to do a bracket using rankings based on wins against ranked teams who are in the tournament. Most of it works out pretty well except for the fact that OBU's 3 wins against Tourney teams skews the rankings. I personally think they'll have a rough time of it with Georgetown. I'd be surprised to see them win that game. It would probably be more accurate if I gave more points for road wins and less for home wins, but I've already wasted enough time on this deal. Some of these schools have horrible websites...and Southern Poly took their season stats of their website...bush league. First round: Mountain State over Columbia Trevecca Nazarene over Lewis-Clark State Azusa Pacific over Houston Baptist OC over Brescia Georgetown over Georgia Southwestern OBU over Westminster Lubbock Christian over California Baptist Robert Morris over Xavier Lindsey Wilson over Faulkner Langston over St. Xavier Concordia over Carroll OCU over Mobile Union over John Brown LSU-Shreveport over Cumberland KY Missour Baptist over Viola Southern Poly over Voorhees Second Round Trevecca Nazarene over Mountain State Azusa Pacific over Oklahoma Christian OBU over Georgetown Lubbock Christian over Robert Morris Lindsey Wilson over Langston Concordia over OCU Union over LSU Shreveport Southern Poly over Missouri Baptist Quarterfinals Mountain State over Azusa Pacific OBU over Lubbock Christian Concordia over Lindsey Wilson Union over Southern Poly Semifinals Oklahoma Baptist over Mountain State Concordia over Union Final Concordia over Oklahoma Baptist [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Men's predictions Author: SOJ [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 22:39:36 03/16/05 Wed The predictions based on wins against top 25 teams is doing pretty well after the first day. Looks like it's going to go 6-2. I'd take that to Vegas. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Men's predictions Author: SOJ [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 07:50:21 03/16/05 Wed Sorry. That should be Trevecca over Azusa in the Quarter-finals then Trevecca instead of MSU in the Semis. Here are the rankings from wins against ramled teams if you're interested. It's weighted so that wins against top 10 teams count for a little more than wins against those outside of the top 10. The rankings were based on the final polls, not what the teams were ranked when they won the game. 1. Concordia 2. Oklahoma Baptist 3. Trevecca 4. Mountain State 5. Georgetown 6. Lindsey Wilson 7. Oklahoma City 8. Lubbock 9. Mobile 10. Union 11. Azusa Pacific 12. Southern Poly 13. Oklahoma Christian 14. Westminster 15. California Baptist 16. Robert Morris 17. Faulkner 18. LSU Shreveport 19. Missouri Baptist 20. Biola 21. Columbia 22. Lewis Clark 23. Brescia 24. Langston 25. St. Xavier 26. Cumberland 27. Houston Baptist 28. Carroll 29. Georgia Southwestern 30. Xavier 31. John Brown 32. Voorhees [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: I'll say it first Murr Author: SOD [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 08:31:44 03/16/05 Wed You OBU people don't give up do you. You will do anything possible to put OBU to the top. SOD, your spending all this time coming up with these ridiculous numbers to somehow prove that OBU still should win. Just get over yourselves and the fact that OBU had a bad year win the SAC was quality. They only are still playing because they hosted the tourney and now you have them winning it all. Come on. Is that about right Murr? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Paranoia Author: Murray [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 08:38:30 03/16/05 Wed Actually, SOJ at least had the guts to try to predict the tournament. I might not agree with his projections, but I didn't see anyone else (like yourself, SOD) make the effort like he did. I know. You're probably having to spend too much time in that remedial English writing/reading class with Nathan to worry about it. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Men's predictions Author: TKB [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 10:35:24 03/16/05 Wed SOJ, aren't you going to law school? How do you find time to research all this? Insomia hits again???...Jack says find your power animal [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Men's predictions Author: SOJ [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 10:38:46 03/16/05 Wed This is how I spend my spring break. I am Jack's sleepless eyeball. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]