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Round Three (1:30 - 3:30)

This is the first year the women's division is being played under the fast paced X-Rules and if nothing else it means goodbye to coaches filibustering out on the line between each point - something every ultimate fan can be grateful for.

Round three is the beginning of crunch time and for each division one team will be off to the consolation rounds, while two others will find themselves trying to dig out of the deep trench of being in tomorrow morning's pre-quarter round.

Maybe no true five star games this round, but (***) UBC vs. Tufts could be good - if Johanna is healthy and Tufts is able to quickly win its first two games. Ultimate may be unique in having teams play three championship caliber games right in a row (8:30am, 11:00am and 1:30pm) and by the beginning of the third game fatigue becomes the major factor. UBC (#1) is a clear favorite to be the first Canadian team to ever win a UPA Championship, and they sport a talented team. Senior captains Lara Mussell (#77) and Wiljo Captein (#10), lead UBC and Lara is a genuine super-star. Her play, combined with UBC's larger rotation (12 or more women play regularly) should wear Tufts down. Both teams have excellent coaches in Jonathan Wooldridge (UBC) and Paul Sackley (Tufts) and it'll be Paul's job to figure out a way to utilize Johanna and offset UBC's superior depth.

The Colorado (#5) women's team joins Georgia and Carleton in Pool D ("D" as in "death") and it's not impossible that all three teams could end up in the Final Four. In round three (****) Colorado takes on Carleton and Colorado brings an experienced squad featuring senior Chelsea Boyle, (#27 -- 5'3") on offence and Lori Moore (#24) on defense. Colorado made the semi-finals of College Easterns and played a tough regular season schedule. It's very possible that three teams in Pool D could finish 2-1 with the pool winner being determined by a tie-breaker of point differentials - so every point counts.

The men's game between (**) UCSB and Brown is likely to determine the winner of Pool A. Both teams have squads of around 18 players, but UCSB should be coming off the easier game (Harvard) so give the advantage to UCSB.

Pool C could very well be decided by the outcome of the (***) Cornell (#6) vs. Duke game while the (***) Wisconsin vs. UNC-W game will set the stage for pool D. Wisconsin has a huge squad and by the middle of the second half several of the key UNC-W players are going to start checking the old fuel tank.