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The Liberty Rugby Conference (LRC) is a collegiate men’s rugby union league that brings together universities primarily from the northeastern United States, including schools in Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Jersey. 

Operating under the umbrella of National Collegiate Rugby (NCR), the conference fields teams across multiple divisions — chiefly Division I, Division I-AA, and Division II — offering a structured competitive pathway toward national championship tournaments such as the Collegiate Rugby Championship (CRC) 7s.

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College Men

Who Makes the NCR D1 Playoffs?

NCR's D1 playoff picture ...

Ten teams will be in the playoff, with four teams participating in play-in games on November 11, and six teams going directly to the quarterfinals on November 18.

2022 NCR D1 Quarterfinals
Thomas More 70-21 Fairfield
St. Bonaventure 29-24 Indiana
Brown 27-7 Wheeling
Queens 33-14 AIC

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College Men

Fairfield, Brown Take Wins in Liberty

Brown and Fairfield won two key games in the Liberty Conference Saturday.

Brown took a big step toward being top dog in the Liberty NCR D1 with a 31-23 defeat of Iona Saturday.

Both teams entered the game undefeated in the conference.

Brown’s defense did well to frustrate Iona, especially in the first half where they took a 24-9 lead. 

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College Men

RPI Plans to Shake Up D2 ... Again

RPI laid down ... maybe not a marker, but a warning this past weekend in a close loss to Marist.

The Engineers fell short 12-10 to the Red Foxes, leaving Marist undefeated, but with the conference playoffs looming, RPI could shake things up.

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College Men

Liberty Update as Playoffs Loom in D1, D1AA

It's already time to think about the playoff scenarios in some conferences, and since the Liberty has multiple levels, let's look at them. (We'll talk about DII in a separate article. Why? Because we said so.)
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College Men

Brown Does Just Enough to Beat Fairfield

Brown managed to hold off Fairfield 24-11 Friday night in a tense game that was perhaps closer than the defending NCR D1 champions desired.

For Brown Head Coach David LaFlamme, this could have been a bit of a statement win, but it wasn’t.

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