June 2007 – D3hoops.com Daily Dose

We started running D3hoops.com in 1997, in a much simpler time on the Internet. Stories were placed onto pages by hand-coding them in HTML or using some form of web design software. We did things that way until 2004, so as you can imagine, that’s a lot of news.

Those old stories are accessible but not easy to find. I’ve been adding them piecemeal to the newer Notables system so they are linked by date, but it takes a while to accomplish, as I have to go story by story, copying the story and the headline into the database.

So I’m going through the stories from the 1999 and 2000 seasons, and it strikes me how much things have changed.

Remember when we didn’t know who was better, Devean George or Andy Panko?

Remember when St. Thomas was great … in women’s basketball?

Remember when the Pools system was so new, we didn’t call it that?

Remember when Bo Ryan left, and what a surprise it was when Platteville lost?

Remember when Wilkes used to schedule like a top 10 team? Yeah, us either. That was kind of a rare event.

Remember when Christopher Newport was seen as a Final Four threat every year?

Remember when Nebraska Wesleyan was a ranked team?

Remember when we still expected preseason magazines to cover Division III?

Times have changed. Glad we’ve been along for the ride.