Category Archives: General

Recruiting: Updated big list

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Here’s a roundup of who’s going where, school by school. We will update this page when we post more recruiting recaps.

Special thanks to “Coach Sullivan” from MySpace, who collected a bunch of the New England region men’s entries.

There are 103 men’s programs represented, 64 women’s programs. Are you a school looking to release your recruiting class and have them included here? Log in and post the release on the site, or e-mail news@d3hoops.com. (Hint, if you’re a fan, or a parent, you must provide published confirmation of the player’s commitment.)

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A department of 60 student-athletes?

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Josh Centor’s NCAA blog (Double-A Zone) had an interesting discussion with the head coach at Wesleyan (Ga.) about the struggles that their student-athletes go through. With just 60 student-athletes, and 10 or so playing more than one sport, the challenges are great, said Sara Wilson:

“In addition to our lack of a pool of athletes, the athletes that we do have at Wesleyan tend to be pulled in many different directions, because everyone on campus seems to want a piece of their time. Many of our athletes are members of any number of campus organizations that meet on a regular basis and all participate in campus traditions that demand a lot of their time.”

The full piece is available at Double-A Zone.

Wesleyan hasn’t won since Feb. 18, 2004, 49-48 at Agnes Scott. The Pioneers have lost 48 games since.

The next phase of conference shuffling

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We’re told to expect some more conference shuffling today, as the SCAC made the foregone-conclusion addition of Birmingham-Southern official on Thursday afternoon.

Today, we’re expecting to see Centenary and Notre Dame (Md.) added to the increasingly misnomered Pennsylvania Athletic Conference. Notre Dame is effectively an independent with the breakup of the Atlantic Women’s Colleges Conference. But Centenary becomes the fourth team to leave the Skyline in nine months, joining Stevens (which left two conferences in that time), Kings Point and Manhattanville.

Oh, sorry, Kings Point has finally decided between its two interchangeable names and wants to be known as the United States Merchant Marine Academy. We’ll settle for Merchant Marine.

Remember, Manhattanville joined the MAC Freedom, Stevens the Interstate 8, then the Empire 8, and Kings Point the Interstate 8.

We’re expecting a name for the Interstate 8 … which is currently 7 … but not an eighth school. That’s yet to come. The only word we’ve heard around namewise for this league contains “Chesapeake.” That would be interesting for Drew and Merchant Marine, since I am reminded every time I drive north on 95 (the Interstate, remember?) that the Chesapeake Bay watershed terminates significantly south of Northern Jersey.

I still like my name better.

But the question remains over the future of the Skyline. They’d be down to seven teams in men’s. Having Russell Sage on board (still no word) would help the women’s side, though with SUNY-Maritime struggling to field a women’s basketball team there isn’t much of a buffer. And the league wouldn’t have too many automatic bids outside of basketball. What’s next? Raid the NEAC? They’re at 10 teams and falling for 2007-08 after losing Villa Julie (CAC) and Chestnut Hill (moving down to Division II). Polytechnic and Bard are in the Skyline’s footprint. Perhaps the Skyline could be absorbed by the NEAC (or vice versa) and form a “super” conference.

I use the term loosely.

The dominoes are still falling.

Nothing lax about it

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PHILADELPHIA — Gordon Mann and I are at Lincoln Financial Field at the Division III men’s lacrosse championships. Salisbury leads Cortland State 7-6 at the half.

It’s a nice, hot, sunny, hot day here at the home of the Philadelphia Eagles, where the lower bowl is about three-quarters full. It’s been a back-and-forth game, but the Sea Gulls, winners of 69 consecutive games, took the lead late in the second quarter. Mike Felice has two goals and two assists for Cortland, while Jimmy Creighton and Matt Dasinger each have two goals for the Sea Gulls.

The game is broadcast on CSTV for those watching at home. Back down to the field.