Many already know this, but there will be live video coverage from both Salem and Springfield. We are honored to have been asked to provide the play-by-play and analysis for the NCAA’s official video broadcast of the national semifinals and third-place game.

We recommend visiting CSTV’s Web site, which will be streaming those games, and registering and testing your system now — don’t wait until game time.

CSTV’s streaming requires, unfortunately, a Windows PC. They are not Mac friendly. They also require Internet Explorer (no Firefox, Opera, etc.).

You need to be running Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or 7.0 on the following systems in order to enjoy All-Access:

Microsoft Windows XP Home / Professional SP2, Windows XP Media Center 2005, Windows 2000 SP4; Windows Media Player 9 or 10.

We will provide our traditional audio stream of each national championship game, as always. That is accessible to Macs and PCs.

All links will also be available on our Live Audio page.

Hoopsville will be airing Thursday night from Roanoke, Va., in a live show from the Wyndham Hotel starting at 8 p.m. ET. We’ll talk about the tournament so far, the Final Four games, and talk with each team as they return from the championship banquet. Come sit and listen, ask questions, point and laugh at Dave, etc.

The Wyndham is just off Exit 3 on I-581 and is the teams’ official hotel. Meet fans of other teams and just celebrate Division III basketball in general. We’ll go from 8 until at least 10, if not later, to get all four teams in.

And on Friday, whether you’re at the games or not, check out our scouting reports, which will be on the Web site during the day. We’ll also have live audio pregame coverage from Salem starting at 4 p.m. ET Friday, and Saturday’s broadcasts will start with the coaches’ roundtable in Salem and take you all the way through the postgame news conferences at both sites, including our annual audio highlight reel of the NCAA Tournament.

So fire up your browsers! It’s a long weekend of Division III on the air! And I love exclamation points, apparently!

We’ve played all year for this. Or more importantly, the thousands of student-athletes in Division III basketball have played all year for this.

I’m just excited to be heading to a Final Four in Salem where I’m familiar with all four teams. Usually I’m not lucky enough to see two teams at the Final Four that I have watched play four times each, but that’s what we have in Amherst and Wooster. I saw Wash U play at NYU back in February (though I have to throw that game out because what I saw does not suggest a Final Four team). We saw a Virginia Wesleyan team very similar to this one last year in Salem, and I saw them in last year’s sectionals.

On the women’s side, I’ve only seen Wash U and NYU play this year, but that’s still pretty good. Haven’t seen Mary Washington since last season and DePauw is on the to-do list, with about 600 other programs of the 800 I haven’t seen play.

We’ll have more coverage through the week but wanted to send our official congratulations to the eight teams advancing to Salem and Springfield!

And don’t forget to spring your clocks forward if you haven’t already. 🙁

It’s finally time to play again, after five days off. Been a long week and I am definitely ready to get some games on again.

I just walked in at St. John Fisher and am getting logged on. It’s not as small as I anticipated, though it’s definitely a little cozy. Four rows of seating on the floor, about 10 rows in an upper level of seating on each side. Room for people to stand in the upper level in the corners.

Definitely good to not cram four teams’ worth of fans in here at once.

As I can, I will try to update from my perspective. I also hope you fans will comment along as to what you are hearing, or those of you live at games with blackberry or smartphone access can talk about what you’re seeing.

Let’s play!