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National Playoff Spots at Stake in Huge D2 Weekend

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National Playoff Spots at Stake in Huge D2 Weekend

Maine should get a national playoff spot in their first season in D2. Photo @nono1776.

Not a lot of Men's D2 college games this weekend, but a lot of meaningful ones.

A Closer Look at Men D2 College Playoffs

We find out conference champions in Allegheny, GMW, NEWCRC, MARC, and Liberty. Cardinals should wrap it up, too. As noted in the article linked above, there 3rd-4th games carry a lot of weight, too.

UNC Wilmington could lose to Appalachian State, leaving us with a three-way 3-1 tie, but as we outlined in the other article, UNC-W has almost the entirety of the tiebreakers in their favor. They just need a bonus point. (NCR has Wilmington as already being the South champion, but we think they have one more small hurdle to jump first.)

Meanwhile Grand Valley State isn't listed as the Great Lakes champions, but they are. Same with MSU Mankato.

So here's what we have playoff-wise:

In Play-ins—GVSU, MSU Mankato, Virginia.

In Quarterfinals—SLU, Montana State, Memphis

In Quarterfinals with a win Saturday—IUP or Miami; UNI or Whitewater; Marist or Albany; Villanova or Georgetown; Norwich or Maine.

Likely to earn a play-in—loser of UNI/Whitewater; winner of Northwestern/Loyola; loser of Villanova/Georgetown; loser of Norwich/Maine; winner of Scranton/UMBC; Appalachian State or Coastal Carolina and ... somebody else.

Check back for scores:

11/4 IUP 75-5 Miami Allegheny Final
11/4 Northern Iowa 93-5 UW-Whitewater Great Midwest Final
11/4 Northwestern 3-34 Loyola Great Midwest 3rd-4th
11/4 Marist 36-19 Albany Liberty Final
11/4 Villanova 37-48 Georgetown MARC Final
11/4 UMBC 15-25 Scranton MARC 3rd-4th
11/4 UNM at New Mexico State NCR Ind.
11/4 Norwich 15-17 Maine NEWCRC Final
11/4 Louisiana Tech 0-15 Tennessee Tech SCRC
11/4 Appalachian St 5-39 UNC Wilmington SoCon D2
11/4 East Carolina 91-0 Western Carolina SoCon D2
11/4 Western Colorado L-W Montana State High Peaks
11/4 Weber State W-L Idaho State High Peaks
11/4 VCU 0-42 UVA Cardinals
11/4 Oswego 7-45 RPI Liberty Challenge