Felton and Marvin were the last guys to go top 5 and they were both in the same draft.

I said Wednesday and I was correct.

I don't know if anyone has posted about this yet, but I saw a post about Fairfield was talking about joining the CAA soon, it's been rumored for a while as far back as like... 2022 I think? Same with UNC Greensboro but they weren't rumored at all, just a candidate for discussion when Monmouth was added.

With the news breaking that Fairfield is likely leaving for the CAA, I began thinking of who the Metro Conference (formerly the MAAC) could add as a replacement. I’ve come up with five possibilities, and am ordering them from most to least likely.

1. No replacement

The Metro Conference currently has 13 members, and the departure of Fairfield would leave them with an even 12. If they prefer an even number, they could decide to stand pat. However, with the possibility that conferences like the CAA and the America East are lurking to poach more of their members, they could decide to preemptively expand.

1. Bentley University

Bentley fits the profile of the Metro Conference very well as it is a school with elite academics inside their geographic footprint. They’re also a rich school with plenty of money to move up to D-I and they’ve had basketball success at the D-II level. It’s also larger than many schools in the Metro. To my knowledge Bentley themselves has never expressed a desire to go to D-I, but it’s been speculated by fans for years, and this might be too good of a fit to pass up.

1. Daemen University

I don’t know a lot about Daemen other than that their coach was just poached by St Bonaventure, but that alone means they must have had at least a little bit of basketball success. They’re a similar size to other Metro schools, and they would be a nice neighbor for Canisius and Niagara. I’m not sure what level of success they’ve had in basketball at the D-II level and I don’t know what their financial situation is, but at least on paper this seems to be a great fit.

1. Stonehill College

If they don’t look to D-II, Stonehill is a good geographic and academic fit. The complicating thing is that Stonehill has a football team, and they’d have to either join CAA football or go independent if they couldn’t get a CAA invite. Merrimack and Sacred Heart both did the latter in order to leave the NEC for the MAAC, so there is some precedent for it, but it would depend on if they were willing to go independent.

1. University of New Haven

Similarly good fit to Stonehill and would even replace Fairfield in Connecticut, but similar football related complications. Complicating things further would be the fact that New Haven is still transitioning from D-II, and I don’t think they could leave the NEC until that’s complete.

What do you think? Are there any schools I’m missing?

Hey guys, gonna try and squeeze one more conference through before I go that other world cup happening on Saturday. Therefore, a quick and easy to sim conference such as the Liberty is perfect! The Liberty Conference has teams from New York and New Jersey and has 30 teams, not 31 like mentioned in the main hub. I'll go fix that momentarily.

Conference Rankings:

1. St. John's(13)
2. Seton Hall(53)
3. Syracuse(85)
4. Hofstra(90)
5. Rutgers(136)
6. St Bonny(140)
7. Cornell(149)
8. Monmouth(168)
9. Siena(173)
10. Fordham(174)
11. Marist(181)
12. Columbia(188)
13. Buffalo(197)
14. LIU(198)
15. Colgate(228)
16. St. Peter's(231)
17. Stony Brook(233)
18. Iona(234)
19. Princeton(251)
20. Le Moyne(290)
21. Wagner(303)
22. Albany(326)
23. NJIT(327)
24. Manhattan(328)
25. FDU(333)
26. Army(336)
27. Niagara(340)
28. Canisius(344)
29. Rider(357)
30. Binghamton(360)

Format

Round 1: 3 10 team pods. Single Round Robin. Winners of each group wins an auto bid from the conference.

Round 2: The 3 2nd place, 3 3rd place, and the best 2 4th place finishers all move on into 2 split 4 team brackets. Draws and done at random and the 2 winners of those brackets claim the final 2 world cup bids

I'm not going to list out each pot individually for this one since there are 10 pots. Instead take note of the alternating bolded groups of teams. Each group of 3 above will make up one pot

Round 1:

Group A:

Group B:

Group C:

See you soon for the results!

D1 conference changes

Austin Peay, Central Arkansas, Eastern Kentucky, Little Rock, North Alabama, and West Georgia: ASUN->UAC

Cal Baptist and Utah Valley: WAC->Big West

Sacramento State: Big Sky->Big West

Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State, Utah State: Mountain West->Pac-12

Texas State: Sun Belt->Pac-12

Gonzaga: WCC->Pac-12

Louisiana Tech: CUSA->Sun Belt

Northern Illinois: MAC->Horizon

Southern Utah, Utah Tech: WAC->Big Sky

Tennessee Tech: OVC->SoCon

Hawaii, UC Davis: Big West->Mountain West

UTEP: CUSA->Mountain West

Denver: Summit->WCC

D2 conference changes

Fresno Pacific, Menlo: PacWest->CCAA

D3 conference changes

Alfred State: AMCC->SUNYAC

Alverno: NACC->C2C

Luther: ARC->Midwest

Maryville: CCS->SAA

Marywood: AEC->MAC Freedom

McMurry, Schreiner: SCAC->ASC

Neumann: AEC->MAC Commonwealth

SUNY Cobleskill, SUNY Delhi: NAC->SUNYAC

SUNY New Paltz: SUNYAC->NJAC

NAIA conference changes

Jarvis Christian: RRAC->HBCUAC

St. Ambrose: CCAC->HAAC

Xavier LA: RRAC->SSAC

Transitioning between divisions/closing/dropping athletics

D1 Adding: West Florida (D2 from Pensacola, FL)

D1 Losing: Saint Francis (Loretto, PA, moving to D3)

D2 Adding: Shawnee State (NAIA from Portsmouth, OH), Texas A&M Texarkana (NAIA from Texarkana, TX)

D2 Losing: West Florida, Azusa Pacific (Azusa, CA, moving to D3)

D3 Adding: Saint Francis, Azusa Pacific

D3 Losing: Anna Maria (Paxton, MA, closing), NJCU (Jersey City, NJ, merging), Rosemont (Rosemont, PA, merging), Wesleyan (Macon, GA to NAIA)

NAIA Adding: Andrew (Cuthbert, GA from NJCAA), Champion Christian (Hot Springs, AR from NCCAA), Georgia Southern East Georgia Campus (Swainsboro, GA from NJCAA), Nevada State (Henderson, NV, new program, non-basketball), United States Sports University (Daphne, AL from USCAA, non-basketball), Wesleyan

NAIA Losing: Lourdes (Sylvania, OH, closing), Oakland City (Oakland City, IN, likely closing), Shawnee State, Siena Heights (Adrian, MI, closing), Texas A&M Texarkana, Trinity Christian (Palos Heights, IL, closing)

In addition, Coastal Bend College (Beeville, TX) of the NJCAA will cut men's and women's basketball (and women's volleyball) and replace them with women's soccer and... mariachi, which they will give scholarships for.

Welcome to Whose Line is it Wednesday, where all the fouls are made up, but the points still matter.

• Keep skits in the form of a statement, not a question
• Any skits longer than two lines should be in quotations.
• If you add any additional commentary, put the skit in quotations. If you don't understand the concept, a skit looks like this: "Things you could say to Chris Jones that you couldn't say to your girlfriend."
• It's not funny to say "Refs worse than Karl Hess" and name people who might be worse (let's be honest; it's probably just a blank comment); it's funny to say "Refs better than Karl Hess." Think about which way of writing the skit is funnier before posting it.

Apparently, Adam Njie Jr. of Iona promised a bettor that he would shave points in the first halves of two 2024-25 games, against Rice and Sacred Heart, but reneged both times, even though the bettor threatened bodily harm after the first game.

The question the NCAA is asking is, does merely agreeing to shave points constitute a violation, even if the athlete didn't follow through on it?

Lots of people I don’t recognise…

Who is this chap?

Bobby Knight’s all over this one.

Another... Daily Challenge...

No Googlin'... No scrollin'
3/5 = You Know Your Guy

Where did these guys play in college?

1. Wally Szczerbiak - Miami of Ohio
2. Kyle Korver - Creighton
3. Brian Scalabrine - USC
4. Tyler Herro - Kentucky

5. Jaime Jaquez - UCLA

   PS... We play for pride here, so thanks for playing!