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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2009430, member: 289"] NCAA DIVISION III FINALS At last a DIII final Mount Union and Wisconsin-Whitewater could both watch on TV! The small college playoffs used to be about seeing different teams each year as the scores in the Sunday Paper came to life. You could see what team’s uniforms looked like, how they played, hear some interviews with the coaches and maybe something about the schools and communities they represented. Then Mount Union came to dominate the division, to be joined a decade ago by Whitewater. Between them, they taken 20 of the last 22 spots in the final since 2005 and won all 11 national championships. Not this year. Neither MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR nor Wisconsin- Oshkosh had ever won a title, although MH-B had played in the last non-MU/WW final in 2004 and lost to Linfield. The “Cru” had been in the playoffs virtually every year since but always ran into one of the super powers and were sent home. This time they conquered Mount Union in the semi-finals. Oshkosh had competed regularly with Whitewater in the Wisconsin Conference but they were a perennial also-ran. But they beat St. Thomas, the only other team to make the finals in those 11 years and then John Carroll, who had completed the incredible double of beating both Mount Union in the regular season and the n Whitewater in the quarter-finals. There was a strange trend, possible helped by the weather, of incredibly low-scoring games in the last couple rounds of the tournament, scores that looked like they were from the 1950’s, when good teams just didn’t allow anybody to score on them so when they met, the results were often in the single digits or close to it. In the semis, Mary Hardin-Baylor met Mount Union, with both teams averaging a very modern 48 points a game. The result was a 14-12 scores. Oshkosh, (40ppg) beat John Carroll (35ppg) 10-3. And in the finals, The Crusaders beat the Titans 10-7 for their first ever title. [URL="http://www.ncaa.com/game/football/d3/2016/12/16/mary-hardin-baylor-wis-oshkosh"]M. Hardin-Baylor vs Wis.-Oshkosh - DIII Football[/URL] MH-B’s final line: MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR (Tx) 15-0 (652-209) ranked #1 / 32-14 (1) [/QUOTE]

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