Oh my.
What a day for the men’s side of Division III basketball with five battles between Top 25 teams and a couple more between tournament hopefuls. If you cannot get to any of them, here are the webcast links I was able to find.
Please feel free to post corrections or added links.
8:30 PM EST: No. 1 Illinois Wesleyan vs. No. 5 Puget Sound
Broadcast on WJBC (IWU)
7:30 PM: No. 2 Wooster vs. No. 17 Baldwin-Wallace
Broadcast on Quicktime (Wooster)
8 PM: No. 6 Albion vs. No. 16 Elmhurst
Broadcast on Albion Sports
8 PM: No. 7 Hope vs. John Carroll
Broadcast on Yahoo! Sports (Hope)
You’ll notice there is no webcast listed for No. 11 UW-Stout vs. No. 13 Augustana. UW-Stout is not listing a broadcast link for today’s game, though they usually do. Augustana student radio doesn’t list their basketball broadcast schedule. Maryville (Tenn.) also plays Transylvania, but I’m not sure the Scots’ station will travel to Tampa to cover it. So we may have to just get these the “old fashioned” way – waiting by the internet for someone to post the score. In any event there are plenty of other games to keep us busy.
It’s possible they’ll have a broadcast anyway. It may have been in doubt pending the game time being finalized with last night’s contest results.
We should have a photo gallery of that game as well.
To comment on last night’s games a little bit, too — there was a time in the second half of the CMU/Princeton game where I was sure it was going to turn against D-III. The Tartans had back-to-back calls go against them, lead was cut to two. It had the makings of a spot I’ve seen before — where it almost seems like the officials are thinking, ‘whoa, look at this, a Division III team can’t hang with a Division I team’.
Call me a pessimist, I guess.
At any rate, extra kudos to CMU for overcoming that. And color me amused by Mike Rossman’s call of the end of the game, the one we linked on the front page. I can only assume “Great Andy’s Ghost” refers to Andrew Carnegie. Great line. Don’t overuse it. 🙂
#12 Randolph-Macon vs. Fisk, broadcast begins approximately 7:30 p.m. EST, game about 8 p.m.
http://www.sportsjuice.com/broadcaster2.aspx?bid=NTg%3d-Zz%2bY%2b1HkwNU%3d
The UW-Stout/Augustana game will be broadcast online by the Stout student station: Click here. The feed requires Windows Media Player.