Week 2 Match-Up Talk

Haverford gets Susquehanna, Springfield-MA and Cortland State in Week 2. This will be a very competitive meet All these teams are strong.

Johns Hopkins heads to Georgia for a meet with host Emory, and CMS. A Week 2 Top 25 D3 followers’ dream come true set of match-ups.

Tufts opens its’ ’22 season at the East/West Challenge, getting Cal Lutheran, UT-Dallas and Washington-St. Louis. This one’s only a tad or two below the Emory meet in terms of national interest.

Berry hosts a meet in Week 2, getting ONU, Averett and Covenant. While Berry/ONU on paper is the match to watch here, Averett and Covenant are not to be overlooked. Both squads pulled off several upsets in ’21.

American Rivers Conference power Coe hosts St. Olaf, UW-Platteville, Carroll-WI and Augustana-IL: Coe/St. Olaf is the on-paper marquee match-up here. A CCIW and or WIAC squad mild upset win wouldn’t be a total surprise.

NCAC/MIAA Crossover: Another Top 25 follower dream come true meet. Hope, Calvin, Denison and Albion are in it. Hope/Calvin has always been a very intense match-up. Denison last I checked had most of its’ squad returning. The gap between Hope/Calvin and the rest of the MIAA appears to be shrinking over the last couple of seasons.

Bethel-MN: Hosts a quad with St. Olaf, Cornell-IA and Wartburg. All of these teams are top-quality, though Wartburg lost several players to graduation, so this will be a good early season test for the Knights.

MIT: At home vs. Bowdoin, Endicott and Keene State. Bowdoin and Endicott made the ’21 NCAA tourney and Keene State made a deep run in the Little East Conference tournament last year before being knocked out by UMass-Boston. That LEC regular season in-conference race after Plymouth State was a real dogfight.