Familiar Four

This weekend four outstanding Division III programs will compete for the 2007 national championship in Salem, Virginia. Illinois Wesleyan has faced 3 of the teams in the last 12 months (Wash U, Amherst, and Virginia Wesleyan) and the other within the last 3 years (Wooster)...

http://www.iwu.edu/~iwunews/sports/mbb2007/iwumbb8.htm

http://www.iwu.edu/~iwunews/sports/mbb2006/ncaa6.htm

http://www.iwu.edu/~iwunews/sports/mbb2006/ncaa5.htm

http://www.iwu.edu/~iwunews/sports/mbb2004/Miwu28.htm


Current Wooster star Tom Port was a freshman starter on that 2003-04 Scots team that defeated the sophomore-dominated Titans in the 2004 Wooster sectional. Virginia Wesleyan has all of their key players back from the team that nipped IWU in the national semifinal last year and Amherst has several key contributors back from the team the Titans beat in the 3rd place game. And of course, we just saw the Wash U. Bears this December.

My pick: Wooster over Virginia Wesleyan.

My pick for 2010 Final Four: Illinois Wesleyan over Wittenberg