The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference voted yesterday to split into two divisions following the addition of Colorado College and Birmingham-Southern.

In basketball, Birmingham-Southern, Centre, DePauw, Oglethorpe, Rhodes and Sewanee are in the East. Austin, Colorado College, Hendrix, Millsaps, Southwestern and Trinity (Texas) are in the West.

That’s for basketball and baseball. If you’re following volleyball and softball, Millsaps is in the East and Rhodes is in the West. (No idea why, sorry.)

For football, the nine football teams will play a full round-robin, with each team meeting the other eight. Believe it or not, this was not a given — there was some discussion about splitting into divisions or playing a partial round-robin like the NCAC does. But can you imagine a year in which DePauw and Trinity tied for first and did not play each other?

Wait, never mind, already happened last year. 🙂

This alignment takes effect in 2007-08.

After nearly 16 years in the Washington, D.C., metro area, I’m moving to Connecticut.

This move has been a long time coming. I’ve worked at USA Today for a dozen years now, mostly with Baseball Weekly/Sports Weekly, but starting later this month I’ll be taking a job at NBCSports.com.

Although I don’t fully yet know what days and nights of the week I’ll be working, you can assume that I’ll be showing up at games in and around the area.

What else does this mean for D3hoops.com? The site is not going away — shoot, D3hoops.com/D3football.com experience helped me get this job. But we’ll be relying on other people within the organization to do a little more on game nights, when I’m at work, in terms of doing the first updates on the front page, stuff like that. Our recently announced partnership with D3Scoreboard.com will help out as well, since it will improve our collection of scores as well as server performance.

The transition period might be a little rough, and there will be entire days where I am away from the computer, most likely. The job search also has contributed to the somewhat quiet nature of the blog this summer. We ask your patience. But yes, I do have a full-time job, and D3sports.com is not it. We have to pay the bills and feed the three kids, after all.