It's a great day to be a Knight. Wartburg athletics photo by Julie Drewes

As with our men's projections, our women's projections came down to one last pick, where the committee zigged, and we zagged. 

So when we take Randolph-Macon at the end, but the committee takes Wartburg, that's par for the course, and a good indicator of how difficult it is. Projecting 18 out of 19 correctly is a major victory for the whole process -- it means to us that the women's committee is on the right track, and where in years past, at-large bids were selected with a heavy weight to winning percentage, now the whole resume is being taken into consideration.

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So for Wartburg, which finished the season at 21-6, but had a pretty strong SOS at .584, but was just 1-6 against regionally ranked opponents, that was enough to edge out Randolph-Macon, which went 19-7, had a .565 SOS and had a win against UW-Oshkosh which impressed our committee.

Meanwhile, keep an eye on long-distance matchups such as Gustavus Adolphus vs. Ohio Wesleyan, Emory vs. Millikin, UW-Oshkosh vs. Washington & Lee, Marietta vs. Eastern Connecticut and Greensboro vs. NYU.

The resume for the final team left out of each region. If Wartburg was the last team in the field, then UW-Stout never actually got to the table to be considered.