College Men
For the eighth time in nine tournaments, the Cal Golden Bears have won the PAC Rugby 7s tournament, beating UCLA in the final 10-0.
It was a competitive tournament, and UCLA certainly produced a strong defensive performance in the championship match. Cal needed that shutout to get out of there.
Thomas More's 45-14 defeat of Marian in the MCRC final was a result very few saw coming.
Well the rankings took a bit of a hit in playoff time.
This isn't the first time that's happened, and the reason is even more pronounced—we don't see a lot of teams cross over from one conference to another, or even from one division within a conference to the other side, and in this post-COVID-shutdown time that lack of crossover data has been even tougher to make up for.
NCR's DI men's postseason is a little bit confusing, but them what isn't in men's DI college rugby these days?
With two conferences fielding a combination of teams that are tracking to a CRAA- or USA Rugby-supported postseason and teams going to the NCR postseason, sometimes you're looking at splitting a conference.
After Sunday's results in D2, here's what the national bracket looks like.
Georgetown won the MARC over Bucknell. Marist took the Tri-State over RPI. IUP shut out Kent State and Virginia shut out (by a lot) VCU.