GRR: Colorado School of Mines
The roots of NCR are in the small colleges, and it’s there that the entity-previously-known-as-NSCRO set out its shingle.
And while we at GRR end up talking a lot more about the D1, D1AA, and D2 brackets, for NCR really it’s D3 (what used to be Small Colleges) that made the organization.
No one really knows what to make of the western bracket of the NCR Men's Small College playoffs, because every team is really strong.
Cal Poly Humboldt out of California, 2021 runners-up New Mexico Tech, Colorado School of Mines (who beat NMT this year), and a surging Western Oregon all come in with plenty to recommend them.
Colorado School of Mines logged something of a statement win, beating key Small College contenders New Mexico Tech 24-13 over the weekend.
The victory, achieved, astonishingly, with only 15 players,
It’s Round 2 of the Men’s DII College playoffs, and we’re down to the final 16 playing in three venues, and all eyes are on three-time defending champs Minnesota-Duluth.
We know almost all of the teams that will play in the Men's National DII College quarterfinals, after results this weekend; here's the rundown: