DIAA College Rugby News
One of the intriguing matchups in the CRAA Fall Classic this weekend in Spartanburg, SC is the D1AA All-Star Bowl.
Just as the NCR D1AA playoffs heat up the temperature chills out.
This coming weekend in Reading, Pa. is expected to be cold … very cold … but the four teams remaining in the playoffs will have to shake that off to make the final what everyone hopes will be a warmer final a week later in Houston.
The Lonestar D1AA competition should be an interesting one to watch in the New Year.
NCR Men D1 and D1AA Scores and Notes:
NCR D1Brown 23 Walsh 15
Wheeling 58 Notre Dame 24
Queens 37 AIC 19
St. Bonaventure 30- Thomas More 24
This sets up the semifinals in two weeks:
Wheeling vs Queens
St. Bonaventure vs Brown
The GRR NCR D1 Rankings have Queens at #1, Wheeling at #3, St. Bonaventure at #4, and Brown at #2.
A number of the games that decided playoff spots or seeds in NCR’s D1AA playoffs were very close, indicating, perhaps, that we might see much the same this weekend.
Consider Bowling Green’s comeback, one-point win over Louisville that put BGSU in the final eight and left the 2023 NCR runners-up watching from home.