by Wombat » Mon Feb 13, 2006 3:21 pm
Mayville has split in the season series with Minot state.
I believe that Mayville has two remaining home games before the season, one of which is Black Hills. If Mayville wins the two homegames they will have home court advantage for the tournament!
Last year when Mayville made it to the national tournament despite winning the conference tournament it was because the conference had 10 teams, meaning 2 automatic berths to the National Tourny. One for the tournament champion (Minot) and one for the regular season champ (also Minot) since Minot won both the regular season and the tournament the Dac 10 was able to send the next highest placing team to Nationals from the Conference tournament (Mayville).
This year with Mary going d2 and Si Tanka closing its doors the DAC is down to 8 teams so they can only send one team to the tournament. That team will be the tournament champion of the conference. However there are also At Large bids for a few teams to the tournament. These go to some of the top 16 ranked teams in the country who don't get an automatic bid. Mayville has been consistently in the top 10 all season long. they, if ever, were only out of the top 10 for one poll. They have been at 9 for most of the season and as high as 7 in the poll.
Mitch Greenwood
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