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by jonriv » Sun May 22, 2016 6:10 pm

http://mitathletics.com/landing/index

MIT defeats fellow NEWMAC team WPI ( engineers vs engineers) proving you can be a a serious student and an athlete too. No basket-weaving majors here. Congrats to MIT softball. Program has come a long way!
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by hit4power » Mon May 23, 2016 2:30 pm

Yep, I wish them well, too. They nipped us (Williams) in the Regional and the part of me that isn't ready to let go says we shoulda beat them. But shoulda, coulda, woulda...at the end they won and glad to see them earn the trip all the way.

When the two teams squared off last weekend it was dubbed Smart Girl Sunday. Probably set some kind of NCAA record for combined SAT scores of the players....
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by jonriv » Tue May 24, 2016 3:47 pm

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by PDad » Wed May 25, 2016 2:15 pm

FTR, WCWS is exclusive to D-I. It's the Finals for D-II and D-III.
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by as the world turns » Wed May 25, 2016 2:56 pm

PDad wrote:FTR, WCWS is exclusive to D-I. It's the Finals for D-II and D-III.

I was just going to post something on that, you beat me to it.

The correct titles
Dl Women’s College World Series
DII National Championship
DIIl National Championship

Funny how the D3 fellas pound their chests about how they are superior over Dl, yet they want to be like Dls when it is beneficial to them.

NAIA uses the term world series, but come on........ :roll: :shock: :lol: I'll leave it at that.
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by jonriv » Wed May 25, 2016 3:03 pm

PDad wrote:FTR, WCWS is exclusive to D-I. It's the Finals for D-II and D-III.



Officially you are right, colloquially it is referred to as "World Series" as the Newspaper link that the post title was from shows. It's also common enough to make wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Divi ... ampionship

Sorry if I hit a nerve- was just trying to ceibrate a program that has come a long way in a short time
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by as the world turns » Wed May 25, 2016 3:11 pm

If I cite a wikipedia source in college, like in a research paper, it's automatic failure. Even a non-Dlll guy like me knows that!
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by PDad » Wed May 25, 2016 4:13 pm

jonriv wrote:
PDad wrote:FTR, WCWS is exclusive to D-I. It's the Finals for D-II and D-III.

Officially you are right, colloquially it is referred to as "World Series" as the Newspaper link that the post title was from shows. It's also common enough to make wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Divi ... ampionship

Sorry if I hit a nerve- was just trying to ceibrate a program that has come a long way in a short time

Actually, the MIT article was way off by referring to it as the College World Series, which is the finals of the D-I Baseball championship held in Omaha. They probably also think there is a mound on a softball diamond...

As ATWT posted, Wiki by itself is not an authoritative reference - it's fine for informal explanations and may cite useful authoritative reference(s), BTW, the Wiki piece on WCWS says it's for D-I - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_College_World_Series.

Bottom line is the NCAA only uses WCWS for D-I.

It is a fairly common error beyond the MIT article, the Wiki D-III reference and the recent article about NCAA banning props (referred to D-II WCWS). Some people also make the mistake of claiming the Regionals and Supers are part of the WCWS, It's just another case of people (e.g. wannabe's) trying to inflate their achievement by likening it to a higher level (e.g. Little Ivies)...
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by jonriv » Wed May 25, 2016 4:23 pm

Agreed that di only has the distinction of wcws. Was just pointing out that the term is also commonly used elsewhere.

The point of the post was to show the achievement on the softball field at one of the world's most academically challenging universities
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by PDad » Wed May 25, 2016 5:27 pm

as the world turns wrote:The correct titles
Dl Women’s College World Series
DII National Championship
DIIl National Championship

National Championship appears on brackets as final 2-of-3 series between last 2 teams.

DII Softball holds their final 8-team competition as part of the National Championships Festival along with finals for golf, lax and tennis (see http://www.ncaa.com/news/ncaa/article/2016-02-09/2016-dii-festival-denver-colorado).

DIII refers to theirs as Finals - http://www.ncaa.com/2016-diii-softball-regionals.

Funny how the D3 fellas pound their chests about how they are superior over Dl, yet they want to be like Dls when it is beneficial to them. LOL

NAIA uses the term world series, but come on........ :roll: :shock: :lol: I'll leave it at that.

Lots of orgs from LL to MLB use the term World Series in the name of their championship. Co-opting a specific variation (i.e. WCWS) within the same org is quite different.
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