Men DII College News
Here is the updated men's DII college nationa playoff bracket following the results from this weekend.
Rugby Northeast and Upstate NY finish their playoffs next weekend, and the NECRC finishes their regular season next week, and that will fill out the final three spots.
The venues for the brackets are Pittsburgh (2 brackets), Des Moines, Iowa, and Greenville, SC.
It was a busy Sunday in Men’s DII college rugby, as all but three national playoff positions were decided.
It will be Rowan University against IUP in the MARC Conference final Sunday after both won semifinals Saturday.
IUP defeated York in one semi, while Rowan beat Drexel by a surprisingly close score of 25-11.
“I think we started slowly,” said Rowan co-captain JC Carr. “We tried to do a little too much; we weren’t patient.”
Sunday sees the two teams everyone expect to be there playing for the Cardinals Conference final, but it almost didn’t happen that way.
While Goff Rugby Report #3 Virginia Military Institute won comfortably, 58-0 over Virginia Commonwealth, #24 Old Dominion had all sorts of problems with #32 Mary Washington, coming back to win 29-25.
Two second-half tries put Grand Valley State past Xavier University of Cincinnati to give GVSU the Great Lakes Conference championship and a place in the 2015 Men’s DII College playoffs.