GRR: College Men
Virginia Tech takes on Clemson Saturday in a game that will likely crown the winner of the Atlantic Coast Rugby League (ACRL).
The ACRC Bowl Series looks set with a week to go.
Sixteen top DI men’s college teams face off in eight bowl games, seven of which will be held in the Rugby Athletic Center in Charlotte, NC. The eighth game will be the Ice Bucket Challenge Bowl between Iona and Delaware in New Rochelle, NY.
Nine of 16 Men's DII college Round of 16 teams are to be decided this weekend, as six play-in matches are on the docket, as well as one final conference league game, one more conference final, and one more conference playoff weekend.
It’s not common that you get a young athlete choosing a college in part because of rugby even though he hasn’t played rugby, but that’s kind of how Thomas McCrimmon ended up at UNC-Wilmington.
The fall, 2015 season started with Wisconsin-Whitewater Head Coach Matt Pederson saying his team was in the toughest conference in men’s DII college rugby, and that was before Northern Iowa and Lindenwood-Belleville had played their first games in the WIIL.