Men DII College News
The Men's DII Collegiate semifinalists are set after Sunday's games.
Minnesota-Duluth capped off a snow-covered weekend with an impressive 46-3 defeat of #9 Lindenwood-Belleville. The #1-ranked Fighting Penguins held their two playoff opponents to just six points, and no tries, and looked every inch a defending national champion.
Men's DII College Round of 16
UM-Duluth 24, Grand Valley State 3
Lindenwood-Belleville 11, Colorado School of Mines 10
Rowan 52, UMass-Lowell 10
Towson 36, Coast Guard 12
UNC-Wilmington 32, Rensselaer Poly Tech 8
Salisbury 27, Virginia Military Institute 18
UW-Whitewater 85, Springfield 12
It's Men's DII College Round of 16 time.
This weekend, 16 teams play on Saturday to advance to the quarterfinals, and then on Sunday play for a place in the semis which will be held in two weeks.
Here are the matchups (GRR rankings in parentheses), links to previews, and the brackets:
Greenville, NC welcomes a weird men’s DII bracket because in many eye it’s three conference champions and the favorite - but we’ll see.
In a battle of teams that really don’t know each other, you never know what you’re going to get.
In the second of two Men’s DII College playoff brackets in Pittsburgh, SUNY Oswego plays Rhode Island, while Wisconsin-Whitewater takes on Springfield.