College Men
Wayne State returns to the NCR D3 (previously Small College) final after a close loss to Babson in 2023.
The Wildcats unleashed their pace and intent early to score eight tries, running out to a 22-0 lead over Colorado School of Mines and cruised to a 46-15 win.
It will be Northern Iowa and IUP in the final of NCR Men's D2 championship after both won semifinals Friday night in Houston, but it wasn't an easy run, especially for the defending champs.
Earlier in the evening, UNI held off Cinderalla team Towson 41-26.
Saturday's NCR Finals action gives us Kentucky looking for a repeat and Bowling Green trying to get back to the heights they hit in 2018.
Kentucky has been the #1 team in the SCRC all season and there didn't seem to be much doubt about that ... until the conference final.
NCR D1's final is a rematch of the 2022 final, and while we hope some things don't repeat this time around, we do want and expect the same intensity.
Of course the 2022 final wasn't ... shall we say ... "entertaining" per sé, what with 11 cards issued ... but the atmosphere and grit is something fans might want to see again.
The two top NCR D1AA teams from this fall are in this weekend's final, but spare a thought for two teams that were just inches away.
Louisville didn't even make the NCR playoffs, as the MAC only received one sed to the NCR knockouts. So it was all or nothing in the final. Louisville played Bowling Green twice, losing in the regular season 28-27 and 34-33 in the MAC final.
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