Including records through October 24.

The NCAA has released their second of three regional rankings that begin to form the basis for at-large invitations to the post-season. As conference tourneys appear on the horizon, the NCAA regional rankings list will be the guide for those early eliminations.

Central Region
Region Record Overall Record
1. Wheaton (Ill.) 13-2-0 15-2-0
2. Illinois Wesleyan 15-0-1 15-0-1
3. Augustana 12-1-3 12-1-3
4. Washington U. in St. Louis 9-4-2 9-5-2
5. Calvin 9-2-2 12-2-2
6. Chicago 7-4-2 9-4-2

East Region
Region Record Overall Record
1. Rochester 9-2-2 10-3-2
2. William Smith 9-1-2 12-2-2
3. Oneonta State 11-4-2 12-4-2
4. Ithaca 10-1-1 11-2-1
5. Plattsburgh State 13-2-1 13-2-1
6. Hamilton 8-2-3 8-2-3
7. Stevens Institute of Technology 14-2-1 14-2-1

Great Lakes Region
Region Record Overall Record
1. Wittenberg 12-2-1 13-3-1
2. Allegheny 10-1-3 12-1-3
3. Centre 11-2-0 14-2-0
4. Denison 9-3-2 10-5-2
5. Otterbein 12-0-1 14-0-1
6. Earlham 11-3-1 11-4-1
7. Transylvania 10-3-1 12-3-1
8. Wooster 10-4-1 10-6-1

Mid-Atlantic Region
Region Record Overall Record
1. Messiah 11-0-0 15-0-0
2. Johns Hopkins 10-3-0 13-3-0
3. Dickinson 12-2-1 12-2-1
4. Scranton 12-4-1 12-4-1
5. Eastern 12-3-1 12-3-1
6. Haverford 10-5-0 10-5-0
7. Arcadia 13-3-1 13-3-1
8. Widener 11-3-2 11-3-2

New England Region
Region Record Overall Record
1. Eastern Connecticut State 13-0-3 13-0-3
2. Williams 8-2-1 8-3-1
3. Brandeis 11-3-1 11-3-1
4. Wheaton (Massachusetts) 13-3-2 13-3-2
5. Tufts 7-2-3 7-2-3
6. Middlebury 7-3-3 7-3-3
7. Roger Williams 13-3-0 13-3-0
8. Springfield 12-4-0 12-4-0
9. Western Connecticut State 12-3-1 12-4-1
10. Keene State 11-4-1 11-5-2
11. Amherst 6-5-2 6-5-2
12. Bowdoin 6-5-2 6-5-2

North Region
Region Record Overall Record
1. Loras 15-1-0 16-1-0
2. Concordia-Moorhead 10-3-3 10-3-3
3. Carleton 11-2-1 11-2-1
4. Macalester 10-5-1 10-5-1
5. Wisconsin-Eau Claire 11-4-1 11-5-1
6. St. Olaf 12-4-0 12-4-0
7. Wisconsin-Stevens Point 12-1-1 14-1-1

South Atlantic Region
Region Record Overall Record
1. Emory 10-1-2 12-1-2
2. William Paterson 11-1-4 11-2-4
3. The College of New Jersey 12-2-1 13-2-1
4. Rowan 14-1-1 14-1-1
5. Lynchburg 14-1-1 14-2-1
6. Roanoke 12-3-2 12-3-3
7. Christopher Newport 12-2-1 12-4-1
8. Meredith 10-4-0 12-4-0

West Region
Region Record Overall Record
1. Hardin-Simmons 14-0-0 15-0-0
2. Trinity (Texas) 13-1-0 13-1-0
3. Cal Lutheran 14-1-1 16-1-1
4. Puget Sound 13-1-2 13-1-2
5. Occidental 9-1-2 10-2-2
6. Texas-Dallas 10-5-1 11-5-1

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NCAA Division III Men’s Regional Rankings

Released on October 20, 2010

Including records through October 17.

Now starts the most important time of the season, at least from a rankings point of view. The NCAA has released their first of three regional rankings that begin to form the basis for at-large invitations to the post-season. As conference tourneys appear on the horizon, the NCAA regional rankings list will be a constant companion!

Central
Region Record Overall Record
1. Washington U. 9-1-2 10-1-3
2. Calvin 9-1-3 10-1-3
3. Illinois Wesleyan 6-2-2 6-5-2
4. North Park 7-3-1 7-4-1
5. Kalamazoo 7-3-0 8-4-0
6. Chicago 6-5-1 7-5-1
7. Aurora 9-5-1 9-6-1

East
Region Record Overall Record
1. Stevens 8-0-3 9-0-3
2. New York University 8-2-3 8-2-3
3. Hamilton 8-1-2 8-1-2
4. Rochester (New York) 6-1-5 7-1-5
5. Brockport State 10-1-2 10-1-2
6. Plattsburgh State 10-3-1 11-3-1
7. St. Lawrence 8-2-2 10-2-2
8. Oneonta State 9-3-3 9-3-3
9. RPI 7-3-2 7-3-2

Great Lakes
Region Record Overall Record
1. Ohio Wesleyan 7-0-2 10-1-2
2. Carnegie Mellon 7-2-1 9-2-1
3. Kenyon 10-1-0 11-1-1
4. DePauw 13-1-1 13-1-1
5. Ohio Northern 12-3-1 12-3-1
6. Case Western Reserve 7-4-3 7-4-3
7. Heidelberg 10-3-1 10-3-1
8. Grove City 9-3-2 10-3-2

Mid-Atlantic
Region Record Overall Record
1. Messiah 11-1-0 12-1-0
2. Johns Hopkins 9-2-3 10-2-3
3. Muhlenberg 8-0-5 8-0-5
4. Drew 10-1-2 11-1-2
5. Merchant Marine 8-1-4 8-1-4
6. Manhattanville 7-4-1 7-4-1
7. Dickinson 7-3-1 9-3-2
8. Franklin and Marshall 6-3-3 6-3-3

New England
Region Record Overall Record
1. Middlebury 10-1-0 10-1-0
2. Bowdoin 7-1-2 7-1-2
3. Williams 8-1-2 8-1-2
4. Amherst 6-1-3 7-1-3
5. Eastern Connecticut State 9-3-2 9-3-2
6. Babson 9-3-2 9-3-2
7. MIT 9-2-1 9-2-1
8. Westfield State 10-3-0 10-3-0
9. Wheaton (Mass.) 8-3-2 9-3-2
10. Keene State 9-4-2 9-4-2
11. Bridgewater State 9-3-0 9-3-0
12. Brandeis 7-4-1 7-4-1

North
Region Record Overall Record
1. Wisconsin-Whitewater 9-0-1 10-0-2
2. Wisconsin-Oshkosh 12-0-2 14-0-2
3. Augsburg 9-4-1 10-4-1
4. Macalester 11-3-1 11-3-1
5. Concordia-Moorhead 10-3-1 11-3-1
6. St. Scholastica 12-3-1 12-3-1
7. Carleton 8-4-1 8-4-1

South Atlantic
Region Record Overall Record
1. Emory 9-1-2 11-1-2
2. York (Pa.) 12-4-0 12-4-0
3. Salisbury 11-1-3 12-1-3
4. Christopher Newport 9-1-1 13-1-1
5. Montclair State 10-2-2 11-2-2
6. North Carolina Wesleyan 9-2-1 10-3-1
7. Lynchburg 9-3-1 10-3-1
8. William Paterson 9-3-2 9-3-2

West
Region Record Overall Record
1. Trinity (Texas) 11-1-0 12-2-0
2. Texas-Tyler 8-2-1 8-2-1
3. Pacific 8-1-2 11-1-2
4. Southwestern 8-3-0 9-4-0
4. UC Santa Cruz 5-1-2 8-2-3
6. Texas-Dallas 8-4-2 9-4-2

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NCAA Division III Women’s Regional Rankings

Released on October 20, 2010

Including records through October 17.

Now starts the most important time of the season, at least from a rankings point of view. The NCAA has released their first of three regional rankings that begin to form the basis for at-large invitations to the post-season. As conference tourneys appear on the horizon, the NCAA regional rankings list will be a constant companion!

Central Region
Region Record Overall Record
1. Illinois Wesleyan 15-0-0 15-0-0
2. Wheaton (Illinois) 11-2-0 13-2-0
3. Augustana (Illinois) 12-0-2 12-0-2
4. Washington U. in St. Louis 7-4-2 7-5-2
5. Calvin 7-2-2 10-2-2
6. Chicago 6-4-1 8-4-1

East Region
Region Record Overall Record
1. William Smith 7-1-2 10-2-2
2. Rochester (New York) 8-2-2 9-3-2
3. Hamilton 7-1-2 7-1-2
4. Oneonta State 9-4-1 10-4-1
5. Ithaca 9-1-0 10-2-0
6. Plattsburgh State 11-2-1 11-2-1
7. Stevens Institute of Technology 12-2-1 12-2-1

Great Lakes Region
Region Record Overall Record
1. Otterbein 10-0-1 12-0-1
2. Allegheny 10-0-2 12-0-2
3. Centre 11-1-0 14-1-0
4. Denison 7-3-2 8-5-2
5. Wittenberg 10-2-1 11-3-1
6. Earlham 9-3-1 9-4-1
7. Wooster 10-3-0 10-5-0
8. Penn State-Altoona 12-1-3 12-1-3

Mid-Atlantic Region
Region Record Overall Record
1. Messiah 9-0-0 13-0-0
2. Johns Hopkins 8-3-0 11-3-0
3. Arcadia 11-3-1 11-3-1
4. Scranton 10-4-1 10-4-1
5. Eastern 10-3-1 10-3-1
6. Swarthmore 7-4-2 7-4-2
7. Dickinson 10-2-1 10-2-1
8. Haverford 9-4-0 9-4-0

New England Region
Region Record Overall Record
1. Eastern Connecticut State 13-0-1 13-0-1
2. Williams 8-2-1 8-3-1
3. Brandeis 10-3-1 10-3-1
4. Wheaton (Massachusetts) 11-3-2 11-3-2
5. Tufts 6-2-2 6-2-2
6. Middlebury 6-2-2 6-2-2
7. Roger Williams 11-3-0 11-3-0
8. Springfield 10-4-0 10-4-0
9. Keene State 10-3-1 10-4-2
10. Amherst 5-4-2 5-4-2
11. Western Connecticut State 9-3-1 9-4-1
12. Trinity (Connecticut) 5-2-3 5-2-3

North Region
Region Record Overall Record
1. Loras 13-1-0 14-1-0
2. Carleton 10-2-1 10-2-1
2. Wisconsin-Eau Claire 11-2-1 11-3-1
4. Concordia-Moorhead 9-2-3 9-2-3
5. Macalester 9-5-0 9-5-0
6. St. Olaf 10-4-0 10-4-0
7. Wartburg 9-4-1 9-4-1

South Atlantic Region
Region Record Overall Record
1. Emory 10-1-2 11-1-2
2. William Patterson 9-1-4 9-2-4
3. The College of New Jersey 11-1-1 12-1-1
4. Rowan 12-1-1 12-1-1
5. Lynchburg 12-1-1 12-2-1
6. Roanoke 10-3-2 10-3-3
7. Virginia Wesleyan 9-1-3 9-3-3
8. Christopher Newport 10-2-1 10-4-1

West Region
Region Record Overall Record
1. Hardin-Simmons 12-0-0 13-0-0
2. Trinity (Texas) 12-1-0 12-1-0
3. Cal Lutheran 11-1-1 13-1-1
4. Puget Sound 12-1-1 12-1-1
5. Texas-Tyler 9-3-0 10-3-0
6. Austin 9-3-0 10-3-0

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Back on Saturday, September 11, there was a match between the Washington University women and Alma College.  No big rivalry here as Wash U plays in the UAA, and Alma in the MIAA.  But certainly Alma wanted to come in and grab a win against a ranked opponent.  The Scots were visiting as part of the Washington University Classic in St. Louis.

After 80 minutes of  scoreless play, sophomore goalkeeper Clara Jaques lined up a free kick from midfield (that’s 50 yards or more to the opposing goal) in 81st minute.  Maybe she was tired and wanted somebody to step up and win this thing, or maybe she figured that since she had four nice saves, she might as well score the winning goal.  Whatever the motivation, her “shot” landed in the box and then bounced over the surprised Alma goalkeeper.  So in the 81st minute, Jaques put up the potential game winner and just needed to do her part and keep the hungry Scots out of the net.  She did, and gave herself the game winner.

With that win, Jaques recorded her third-consecutive home shutout.  Said the surprised (that’s two surprised goalkeepers in one match) Jaques “I have never scored from the goalie position, and really did not know how to react.  All I was trying to do is make it difficult for the goalie. I was shocked when it actually went in.”

Jaques has a 0.25 goals against average in the 360 minutes she has played, and she has three shutouts on the young season.

The Alma goalkeeper Monica Witt  didn’t do too poorly as she made 11 saves on the 25 shots aimed in her direction.  She just didn’t expect the 26th to come from the other end of the field.

And now for the pitcher who just hit the three run homer to win the game…

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Boiling down Division III into a few bullet points isn’t easy, and it hasn’t gotten easier as the division has grown. But Division III has been attempting to define itself in a way that can be easily communicated to those on the outside. After a Division II identity statement process ended up with the fairly meaningless “I chose Division II” mantra and D-II wrapped itself in a lot of the things Division III holds dear, it became important to take control of the message.

To us here at D3sports.com, Division III is the highest form of purely amateur athletics in the U.S. It’s where students — note, not “student-athletes” — play for love of the game. Division III competitors get no special treatment, no scholarships, no special privileges, no separate dining halls, no dorms to themselves. They don’t get preferred treatment from their professors; in fact, it’s far more likely they get treated more harshly from teachers who believe they don’t belong in the school.

But distilling that opinion, plus the opinions of hundreds of other Division III true believers, down into a form that can be easily shared and understood, isn’t easy. Here’s how Division III is positioning itself:

“Follow your passions and discover your potential.

“The college experience is a time of learning and growth – a chance to follow passions and develop potential. For student-athletes in Division III, all of this happens most importantly in the classroom and through earning an academic degree. The Division III experience provides for passionate participation in a competitive athletic environment, where student-athletes push themselves to excellence and build upon their academic success with new challenges and life skills. And student-athletes are encouraged to pursue the full spectrum of opportunities available during their time in college. In this way, Division III provides an integrated environment for student-athletes to take responsibility for their own paths, follow their passions and find their potential through a comprehensive learning experience.”

What’s your take?

For more, here’s the NCAA News article on the unveiling.

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INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Men’s Soccer Committee has released its third regional poll with records through Nov. 1. The top teams in each of the eight regions are listed below. The committee ranks 15 percent of the eligible teams in each region.

The first record is in-region record, followed by overall record.

Central
1. Wheaton (Ill.) 12-2-2 13-3-2
2. Dominican 13-1-3 13-1-3
3. Chicago 10-3-2 11-3-3
4. Elmhurst 10-2-3 12-3-3
5. Hope 11-3-2 12-3-2
6. Calvin 12-4-1 13-4-1

East
1. RPI 13-1-2 13-1-2
2. Rochester 11-1-2 12-1-2
3. Hobart 12-3-2 12-3-2
4. Stevens 13-3-1 13-3-1
5. Plattsburgh State 12-2-3 12-2-4
6. Oneonta State 11-4-2 12-4-2
7. Nazareth 10-4-2 10-4-2
8. Hamilton 9-4-1 9-4-1

Great Lakes
1. Ohio Wesleyan 17-0-2 17-0-2
2. Carnegie Mellon 12-2-0 14-2-0
3. Ohio Northern 14-2-2 14-3-2
4. Capital 13-2-1 15-4-1
5. Baldwin-Wallace 12-4-1 12-6-1
6. Denison 9-3-2 10-4-3
7. Kenyon 13-4-1 13-4-1

Mid-Atlantic
1. Messiah 13-1-0 17-1-0
2. Swarthmore 13-1-2 14-1-2
3. Merchant Marine 15-2-0 15-2-0
4. Johns Hopkins 11-2-2 13-3-2
5. Muhlenberg 11-3-2 11-3-2
6. Dickinson 11-3-2 12-3-2
7. Catholic 14-3-1 14-3-1

New England
1. Wesleyan (Conn.) 11-0-4 11-0-4
2. Williams 12-2-1 12-2-1
3. Bowdoin 11-3-1 11-3-1
4. Amherst 11-3-1 11-3-1
5. Middlebury 9-3-2 9-4-2
6. Wheaton (Mass.) 16-3-1 16-3-1
7. Trinity (Conn.) 10-4-1 10-4-1
8. Babson 12-5-1 13-5-1
9. Keene State 13-4-0 13-6-0
10. Eastern Connecticut 14-4-1 14-4-1
11. Western New England 14-5-2 14-5-2

North
1. Loras 15-1-1 15-1-1
2. St. Olaf 13-3-2 13-3-2
3. UW-Whitewater 8-4-2 10-5-3
4. Carleton 14-4-0 14-4-0
5. Carroll 14-1-3 14-1-3
6. UW-Oshkosh 12-3-2 13-3-2
7. Dubuque 14-3-1 14-3-2

South Atlantic
1. Montclair State 14-1-1 15-1-2
2. Christopher Newport 16-1-0 16-2-0
3. Salisbury 13-2-1 14-2-1
4. York (Pa.) 13-1-4 13-1-4
5. Virginia Wesleyan 14-2-2 14-3-2
6. Hampden-Sydney 16-3-0 16-3-0
7. Lynchburg 13-2-2 14-2-2

West
1. Trinity (Texas) 12-1-1 13-1-2
2. Whitworth 11-1-3 12-2-3
3. Mary Hardin-Baylor 13-3-0 13-3-0
4. UC Santa Cruz 10-2-2 13-3-2
5. Pacific Lutheran 12-4-0 13-5-0
6. Pomona-Pitzer 12-2-2 13-3-2

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INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Men’s Soccer Committee has released its first regional poll with records through October 26. The top teams in each of the eight regions are listed below. The committee ranks 15 percent of the eligible teams in each region.

The first record is in-region record, followed by overall record.

Central Region

1.   Wheaton (Illinois)   11-2-1  (12-3-1)  
2.   Dominican   12-1-3  (12-1-3)  
3.   Chicago   9-3-1  (10-3-2)  
4.   Calvin   12-2-1  (13-2-1)  
5.   Elmhurst   9-2-3   (11-3-3)  
6.   Principia   11-1-0  (13-1-0)

East

1.   RPI 11-1-2  (11-1-2)  
2.   Rochester   9-1-2  (10-1-2)  
3.   Plattsburg State   12-2-2  (12-2-3)  
4.   Hobart   11-3-2  (11-3-2)  
5.   Stevens   12-3-1  (12-3-1)  
6.   Oneonta State   10-4-1  (11-4-1)  
7.   Nazareth   9-4-2  (9-4-2)  
8.   Hamilton   9-3-1  (9-3-1)  

Great Lakes

1.   Ohio Wesleyan   15-0-2  (15-0-2)  
2.   Carnegie Mellon   11-1-0  (13-1-0)  
3.   Ohio Northern   12-2-2  (12-3-2)  
4.   Capital   11-2-1  (13-4-1)  
5.   Denison   8-3-1  (9-4-2)  
6.   Baldwin-Wallace   10-4-1  (10-6-1)  
7.   Kenyon   11-4-1  (11-4-1)
  
Mid-Atlantic

1.   Messiah   11-1-0  (15-1-0)  
2.   Swarthmore   12-1-1  (13-1-1)  
3.   Johns Hopkins   10-1-3  (12-2-3)  
4.   Muhlenberg   10-3-1  (10-3-1)  
5.   Merchant Marine   15-2-0  (15-2-0)  
6.   Dickinson   10-3-1  (11-3-1)  
7.   Catholic   12-3-1  (12-3-1)
  
New England
 
1.   Williams   11-1-1  (11-1-1)  
2.   Wesleyan 9-0-4  (9-0-4)  
3.   Trinity (Conn.) 10-2-1  (10-2-1)  
4.   Amherst   10-2-1  (10-2-1)  
5.   Bowdoin   9-3-1  (9-3-1)  
6.   Connecticut College   8-3-1  (8-3-1)  
7.   Wheaton (Mass.)   15-3-1  (15-3-1)  
8.   Babson   11-5-1  (12-5-1)  
9.   Keene State   11-4-0  (11-6-0)  
10.  Middlebury   8-3-2  (8-4-2)  
11.  Eastern Conn. State   11-4-1  (11-4-1)
  
North

1.   Loras   14-1-1  (14-1-1)  
2.   UW-Whitewater   8-4-2  (9-5-3)  
3.   Carleton   14-3-0   (14-3-0)  
4.   St. Olaf   11-3-2  (11-3-2)  
5.   Carroll   14-1-2  (14-1-2)  
6.   UW-Oshkosh   11-3-1  (12-3-1)  
7.   Wartburg   9-4-1  (11-4-1)
  
South Atlantic
 
1.   Montclair State   14-0-0  (15-0-1)  
2.   Christopher Newport   13-1-0  (13-2-0)  
3.   Salisbury   13-2-1  (14-2-1)  
4.   York (Pa.)   12-1-4   (12-1-4)  
5.   Emory   9-2-1  (10-3-1)  
6.   Roanoke   10-3-3  (11-4-3)  
7.   Lynchburg   12-1-2  (13-1-2)  
7.   Virginia Wesleyan   12-2-2  (12-3-2)
  
West

1.   Trinity (Tex.)   10-1-1  (11-1-2)  
2.   Mary Hardin-Baylor   13-2-0  (13-2-0)  
3.   Whitworth   9-1-3  (10-2-3)  
4.   UC-Santa Cruz   9-1-2  (12-2-2)  
5.   Pacific (Oregon)   9-2-2  (12-2-2)  
6.   Pacific Lutheran   10-4-0  (11-5-0)

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INDIANAPOLIS &emdash; The NCAA Division III Men’s Soccer Committee has released its first regional poll with records through October 19. The top teams in each of the eight regions are listed below. The next poll will be released October 28. The committee ranks 15 percent of the eligible teams in each region.

The first record is in-region record, followed by overall record.

Central
School Region record (Overall)

1. Wheaton (Ill.) 10-2-0 (11-3-0)
2. Dominican 9-1-3 (9-1-3)
3. Chicago 9-2-1 (9-2-2)
4. Elmhurst 8-2-2 (10-3-2)
5. Calvin 10-2-1 (11-2-1)
6. Hope 8-3-2 (9-3-2)

East

1. RPI 10-1-1 (10-1-1)
2. Hobart 10-2-2 (10-2-2)
3. Rochester 9-1-2 (9-1-2)
4. Plattsburgh State 11-2-1 (11-2-2)
5. Oneonta State 9-3-1 (10-3-1)
6. Stevens 10-3-1 (10-3-1)
7. Union 8-3-1 (9-3-1)
8. Hamilton 7-3-1 (7-3-1)

Great Lakes

1. Ohio Wesleyan 14-0-2 (14-0-2)
2. Carnegie Mellon 11-1-0 (13-1-0)
3. Kenyon 11-3-0 (11-3-0)
4. Ohio Northern 10-2-2 (10-3-2)
5. Capital 10-2-0 (12-4-0)
6. Denison 7-3-0 (8-4-1)
7. Baldwin-Wallace 9-4-0 (9-6-0)

Mid-Atlantic

1. Merchant Marine 14-1-0 (14-1-0)
2. Messiah 8-1-0 (12-1-0)
3. Swarthmore 12-1-0 (13-1-0)
4. Johns Hopkins 10-1-0 (12-2-0)
5. Muhlenberg 8-3-1 (8-3-1)
6. Dickinson 8-3-1 (9-3-1)
7. Drew 7-2-5 (7-3-5)

New England

1. Wesleyan 9-0-3 (9-0-3)
2. Williams 10-1-1 (10-1-1)
3. Trinity (Conn.) 10-1-1 (10-1-1)
4. Amherst 8-2-0 (8-2-0)
5. Bowdoin 8-3-1 (8-3-1)
6. Wheaton (Mass.) 13-3-1 (13-3-1)
7. Connecticut College 6-3-1 (6-3-1)
8. Keene State 9-4-0 (9-6-0)
9. Eastern Connecticut 9-4-1 (9-4-1)
10. Babson 9-5-1 (10-5-1)
11. Western New England 10-5-2 (10-5-2)

North

1. Loras 12-1-1 (13-1-1)
2. UW-Oshkosh 10-2-1 (11-2-1)
3. Carleton 11-3-0 (11-3-0)
4. St. Olaf 11-3-1 (11-3-1)
5. UW-Whitewater 7-3-2 (8-4-2)
6. St. Scholastica 12-1-2 (12-1-2)
7. Carroll 12-1-2 (12-1-2)

South Atlantic

1. Montclair State 12-0-0 (13-0-1)
2. Christopher Newport 12-0-0 (12-1-0)
3. York (Pa.) 11-1-3 (11-1-3)
4. Emory 8-2-1 (9-3-1)
5. Roanoke 9-2-3 (10-3-3)
6. Virginia Wesleyan 10-2-2 (10-3-2)
7. Mary Washington 10-4-1 (10-4-1)

West

1. Trinity (Texas) 9-1-1 (10-1-2)
2. UC-Santa Cruz 6-0-2 (11-1-2)
3. Mary Hardin-Baylor 11-2-0 (11-2-0)
4. Whitworth 8-1-2 (9-2-2)
5. Hardin-Simmons 7-1-2 (7-1-4)
6. Pacific 8-2-1 (11-2-1)

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This email is heading off to all Division III Sports Information Directors. If you’re an SID, you should get it through Moravian SID Mark Fleming’s D-III email list. You will want to be on his list to get important notices, research questions and other emails of interest to all D-III schools, so if you’re new, make sure he has your address.

It should be distributed shortly. I’ve included it here without the particulars about logging in.

Dear SID:

Hoping this email finds you well. This will contain notes for all sports we cover: football, men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s basketball and baseball. It is primarily a football note, however. There’s a lot here, so I broke it down as follows:

Covered in this email:
Team of the Week changes
Football game day info
Audio/video/live stats links, football and basketball
Basketball schedules
Twitter and Facebook
D3soccer.com Top 25
Links to our site and yours
What We’re Reading
All-Region deadlines, mark your calendar
Contact info

-> Team of the Week changes — We have a trade-out sponsor lined up for the D3football.com and D3hoops.com Team of the Week, something we’re not getting any money for but at least getting some exposure and use of some software that will make distributing info easier. We’re also moving the Team of the Week nomination form behind a login screen — we were getting too many spam or fan/parent nominations, plus, our new system will streamline the creation of the Team of the Week. Last year we lost the guy who had been doing the TOW for three or four years and I went back to choosing the team and assembling the pages myself. If you don’t have your D3sports login (what you use to nominate for our All-Americans and All-Region teams) contact me sooner rather than later. Those of you who have let coaches do the nominating will need to let me know if you want them to get usernames and passwords to access that function.

-> Football game day info — We would love to have all sorts of information on game day. Before the game, you can post a link to your game notes or preview through Presto, or post them in their entirety on our site with your D3sports login. The PrestoSports system is capable of handling in-progress scores, which will be updated automatically if you use Presto’s live stats software. Otherwise, you or someone on your game day crew can update scores as often as you like. Even if it’s just after every quarter, it’s of tremendous use to fans, who flock to our Scoreboard page all day long. After the game, we would love to have the final score and your game story, both of which can be posted through Presto’s space.

-> Audio/video/live stats links, football and basketball — if you have live video, live audio or live stats. We will publish your video links even if they are pay per view, so if you want to increase your audience, make sure you get the links on our scoreboard. That will require your PrestoSports login. You could email me your links and ask us to post them; however, we’ll do that on an as-time-permits basis. It’s going to be faster for you to post them yourself.

-> Basketball schedules — we have about two-thirds of the schedule on the site already. If you’re a Presto school or conference, remember we will get your schedule automatically when you post it for your conference. Please use “Site Notes” instead of “Notes” for notes about your games, whether they are homecoming, alumni day, senior day, whatever. That way those notes appear solely on your site and not on your opponents’ site (or ours).

-> Are you on Twitter? Are you following @d3hoops, @d3football, @d3baseball and are we following you? We follow every D-III athletics feed we can find and some of the general school feeds if they’re interesting. Please drop me a line if we aren’t following you. We’ll continue to retweet out interesting SID tweets, which will push people to your site instead of ours. Same with Facebook — D3football.com and D3hoops.com will become fans of your pages as we learn of them and hopefully yours will do the same.

-> D3soccer.com Top 25 — Some of you were approached about voting in our first soccer Top 25 poll. Jim Matson has been following up with SIDs on that list as well as coaches to make up the voter list. The poll should be released on Tuesdays during the regular season and we thank those of you who will be voting. Soccer game releases can be posted directly on D3soccer.com with your D3sports login.

-> Links to our site and yours — We already link to your site and we would love a link in return. (Men’s soccer links will be going on the site this month, with women’s to follow.) As more schools go with outside companies, we’ve lost a lot of the links we used to have from schools. Please consider linking to D3baseball.com, D3football.com, D3hoops.com and D3soccer.com from your appropriate sports’ main pages (and please note that the b, f, h and s are all lower-case). I can provide a logo 125 px wide to fit on most templates, but have not included it with this email to keep the size down.

-> What We’re Reading — We started linking to outside news sources’ stories last season with the What We’re Reading boxes. They appear on the front page of D3football and D3hoops and on the blogs for D3football, D3hoops and D3baseball. If you have an interesting feature story in your area, drop me a line with the link.

-> All-Region nomination deadlines, mark your calendar — Just an early heads-up: Football nomination deadline is Wednesday, Nov. 25. Basketball nomination deadline is Tuesday, March 9. We will absolutely send out more info closer to the end of the season.

-> Contact info
Football and basketball (and hopefully 2010 baseball) game day info:
Log in at Presto with Presto username and password.

All D3sports.com weekly, regional and national nominations, all soccer game stories, other non-game releases for all sports:
Log in at the respective D3sports.com data entry site with D3sports username and password:

Also, thanks to everyone who helped us with Kickoff 2009 on D3football.com, whether with a photo or helping us talk to your coach, some of them at the last minute. See you in Salem, or Bloomington, or Appleton, or Greensboro.

D3football.com, D3hoops.com: Pat Coleman
info@d3sports.com for general inquiries, news@d3sports.com for releases

D3soccer.com: Jim Matson
info@d3soccer.com for general inquiries, news@d3soccer.com for releases

D3baseball.com: Jim Dixon
info@d3baseball.com for general inquiries, news@d3baseball.com for releases

Pat Coleman
D3sports.com

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Here are the recently released women’s regional rankings from the NCAA:

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