Men DII College News
Back in August Goff Rugby Report stopped by the first day of practice for the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute rugby team; it was, in fact, not even a practice, but rather a way to get new payers acquainted with the game.
What a great weekend of DII playoffs and conference finales.
Despite being put in a very tough position in the Northern Lights playoffs, Winona State Coach Jeff Noe is philosophical about his teams 64-0 loss to Minnesota-Duluth in the final.
The playoffs in the conference were supposed to provide a two-game weekend for all four teams involved. Duluth was supposed to play MUS-Mankato, while Winona took on the very tough North Dakota State.
The Coast Guard Academy defeated Boston University 48-10 Saturday to improve to 7-2.
CGA was supposed to play a midweek game against Norwich on Wednesday to finish off the two teams' regular season, however, the NECRC conference was informed by USA Rugby that the #2 seed needed to be confirmed by the end of this weekend.
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.