Resurrecting yesterday’s news

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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.

    4 thoughts on “Resurrecting yesterday’s news”

    1. Thanks for this old article on the Pools. This was before I had discovered this website in the next school year.

      I have an historical question…you have Mississippi College (correctly) as getting the ASC bid, because they beat Austin College in the ASC tourney.

      Shouldn’t McMurry have been a Pool C team, having lost to Austin College in the semis of the ASC conference (4-team) tourney?

      Nevertheless that 1999 McMurry team came back in 2000 and lost in the Elite 8 of the “killer bracket”… 2000 Champion Calvin, Hampden-Sydney, Wooster and McMurry, the 1999-2000 season Week 13 Top 25, #1-4 respectively.

      What these articles definitely demonstrate is that 10 years of dedicated coverage have made available an “institutional memory” among the fans and coaches outside the “NCAA Inner Circles” that would not have likely happened anywhere else.

      Thanks.

    2. What, no mention of the good ol’ days of “interesting” posts in the MAC Freedom room? Or how many times a poster named Jags was warned and then banned? 🙂

    4. In the same vein, we just learned that John Sadak, who did play by play for Rowan radio (WGLS) as a student in that time frame, got the men’s basketball PBP job for Princeton.

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