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US Handball Union Executive Director, Michael King joins the podcast to discuss this weekend’s College National Championships. Here’s a summary with links to some of the items we discussed:
Current News Items
- The ongoing North American Beach Handball Championships:
- USA Sr Men Friendly vs France on May 11th: Link
College Nationals Preview
- The Men’s Tournament Divisions
- Pittsburgh will play in D1 if they North Carolina Friday night; they will drop to D2 if they lose
- San Jose St will play in D1 if they beat West Point (Black); they will drop to D2 if they lose
- Tournament Schedule: Link
- Men’s season record with college vs college matches in parentheses
- D1
- West Point (Black) 8-1 (5-0)
- West Point (Gold) 9-5 (4-1)
- Air Force 5-6 (0-1)
- North Carolina (Carolina) 7-5-1 (5-2)
- Ohio St (Scarlet) 19-0-1 (18-0)
- TBD (Will play in D1 or D2)
- Pittsburgh 13-7 (11-6)
- San Jose St 0-0 (0-0)
- D2
- James Madison 9-6 (12-9)
- Case Western Reserve 11-8 (10-7)
- Ohio St (Gray) 9-14 (9-11)
- North Carolina (Tar Heels) 3-10 (3-6)
- Miami (OH) 7-16 (7-15)
- Auburn 0-5 (0-3)
- Olin 0-0 (0-0)
- SUNY Cortland 0-0 (0-0)
- D1
- D2 Format
- Matches with 1 solid and 1 dashed line have both the winner and loser moving on in the bracket
- Matches with just 1 solid line are “elimination” matches; the winner advances, but the loser is either finished or will play consolation matches
- Women’s Teams
- West Point (Black)
- West Point (Gold)
- North Carolina (Carolina)
- Ohio St
- North Carolina (Tar Heels)