Spring 2026 Season

[rowingunion]

Big10 - UW, Rutgers, Ohio
ACC - Stanford, Virginia, Cal, Syracuse
Ivy - Princeton, Yale, Brown
SEC - Tennessee, Texas
Big12 - UCF

…

That leaves three, right?

Alabama, Columbia, Duke, Miami, Michigan, or ????

I don’t think Ohio State was as obvious as the others at the top list, but I agree they will get in. Of the others, I think it will be Alabama, Miami, Columbia. Alabama as a reward for their growth this season and support for solid performance; Miami because they genuinely separated themselves from Duke at ACCs; Columbia because despite a very limited racing schedule, the 1V and 2V were solid (and outpaced Dartmouth).

[crewu]

I do hope "reward for growth" is not a criteria for NCAA selection.

[fullmetal]

Srsly, the only consideration of that type should go to the midwest schools who had bad early season results because of their extra long unrowable winter.

Both Harvard and Dartmouth put all three boats in the A Final -- I feel like the selectors generally favor that over Columbia's two eights but no four in the A Finals.

[lt.wolf]

This weeks poll

[SQUAREdown]

What I didn’t consider, which the committees will, is regional rankings.

https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/rowing/d1 ... l-rankings

After ensuring all conferences are represented and that the teams capable of winning are in, regional representation will be a consideration. I’m not sure if the selection committee has ever taken an at large from outside the top 6 within a given region. Which implies that selection is not about making sure all 22 teams are the top 22 teams. Otherwise, you would take conference winners as suggestions. Seems like there is a fair amount of weight given to broader geographic representation after the top teams are locked in.

[lt.wolf]

Michigan and Columbia in

Alabama out.

[rowing]

What I didn’t consider, which the committees will, is regional rankings.

https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/rowing/d1 ... l-rankings

After ensuring all conferences are represented and that the teams capable of winning are in, regional representation will be a consideration. I’m not sure if the selection committee has ever taken an at large from outside the top 6 within a given region. Which implies that selection is not about making sure all 22 teams are the top 22 teams. Otherwise, you would take conference winners as suggestions. Seems like there is a fair amount of weight given to broader geographic representation after the top teams are locked in.

I laughed as I looked through the "regions"

Loose use of that term....

[SQUAREdown]

Can’t say I entirely understand it either. Clearly.

[yeahbuddy]

Tourneymandering

[Slim]

Interesting choices, but clearly conference based. Makes little sense in this brave new world.

[fullmetal]

I don't think it's that deep. Keeping track of the top six in a conference doesn't mean that the committee is blind to everyone else. I'd also say you need to prove that at-large selections from the top six within each region are *not* the fastest crews.

[Faster-n-faster]

Michigan and Columbia in

Alabama out.

Heaven forbid we have an NCAA without Michigan. That's just not something that can happen.

[rowing]

I love how the conference hail mary matters when some people need it, but not when they don't.

[Norm]

If not Michigan, then whom?

[asdad123]

I believe Dartmouth is underrated, also can’t wait to see how much speed UCF will pick up

seems like Graves has done pretty well. moved up a spot in the ivy championship each year with him at the helm