It’s the morning after. Or, if you’re working on my schedule right now it’s the overnight after. 5am and I’m sitting in the terminal in San Antonio awaiting my return to Minneapolis and the (slightly more so) frigid temperatures that await me there.

About 15 minutes ago a Messiah duffel bag went past me. Not soccer, though, but track and field. But a reminder of how small the Division III world is in reality. I wouldn’t be surprised to see more signs of Division III schools in the terminal over the course of the next hour. And that doesn’t include the photos and video that I have been processing on my computer for the last three days for our websites. In fact, I think I just saw a member of the men’s committee walk by.

Did you know that we have the press conferences from 11 of the 12 game and team combinations online? They are over on our YouTube channel d3sportsdotcom. And we have photos from each of the games over on Pictureprints.net. Photos from the four semifinal games are available for sale if you want to take home a momento from the Final Four – but act quickly as the NCAA only gives us a limited time to sell these photos before they are vaulted for good. You must make your purchase before January 3, 2010, if you wish to receive a print or digital copy.

What did you like about the games this weekend, what did you not like? Personally I was unhappy that we weren’t able to enjoy the best of the climate that Texas has to offer. I packed a couple pairs of shorts and ended up in a sweatshirt and jeans the entire weekend.

A special thanks to San Antonio Sports and Trinity University, Justin Parker and everyone else involved for making it a successful championship weekend! And to Wash U’s Chris Mitchell and Coach Conlin for their generous hospitality both Thursday afternoon and tonight after the championships.

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We’re live in San Antonio, two games are in the books in exciting fashion and we’ve begun the first of the men’s semifinals. Are you watching the game at home? Listening on the internet or the radio? Following just the live stats? Let us know! We’ll post the links up as soon as the photo galleries are available and other things (including video from the press conferences).

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Congrats to all of the Final Four participants, but a real strong thumbs up to the three newcomers, Dominican, Calvin, and Lynchburg.

Dominican has been to the Elite Eight twice before and is riding an eight year post-season streak streak, while Calvin has been to the post-season nine times. This is Calvin’s first year in the Elite Eight and the Final Four. They started their NCAA tournament experience way back in 1980. And the Lynchburg women have been to three Elite Eight levels, and are running a three year Sweet Sixteen streak.

Dominican is from the Chicago area and won the NathCon Tourney to grab the conference AQ. Calvin, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was the MIAA winner, and Lynchburg, an ODAC member from Lynchburg, Virginia was an at-large team after losing to Washington & Lee in the conference semi-finals.

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