Conference shake-ups continue

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With more conferences changes in the Mid-Atlantic and Atlantic regions, this seems like a good time to summarize where everyone stands…at least for now. Below is a listing of who will be where in 2007-2008 (new members in bold).

I hypothesized on Hoopsville that, when all the moves are finished, the little conferences will hurt the most. The Interstate 8 (now 7) pulled members from the CAC, MAC Commonwealth and Freedom and Skyline. As those conferences scramble to fill spots and protect their AQs, they are pulling members from the PAC, NEAC and Skyline.

The PAC lost Wesley to the CAC and Arcadia to the MAC-Commonwealth. The Reading Eagle reports that Alvernia could also move soon.

I don’t think the PAC will approach the same endangered status as the AWCC. But the Skyline could be in trouble, at least for the women’s AQ. They lost King’s Point, Manhattanville and Stevens Tech, leaving just 7 members. And SUNY-Maritime is struggling as a program after dropping out of conference play for last season.

The Reading Eagle article cited above also says the MAC is immediately considering four teams – Arcadia, Alvernia, Manhattanville and a mystery team. Alvernia might be a natural fit for the MAC Commonwealth since it’s very close to current member Albright. Perhaps the fourth team has football, which is a concern given the departure of Juniata, Moravian and Susquehanna.

AWCC (Lost 4)

Notre Dame
Trinity (DC)
Wilson

Chatham will join the Presidents Athletic Conference. Mary-Baldwin will join the USAC.

CAC (Added 3, lost 2)

Gallaudet
Hood
Marymount
Mary Washington
Salisbury
St. Mary’s (Md.)
Villa Julie
York (Pa.)
Wesley

Hood men will join the CAC in 2006 since they are independent.

Interstate 7 (Added 8, lost 1)

Drew
Catholic
Goucher
Juniata
King’s Point
Moravian
Susquehanna

Stevens Tech ducked out of this new entity to join the Empire 8.

MAC-Commonwealth (Added 1, lost 3)

Albright
Elizabethtown
Lebanon Valley
Lycoming
Messiah
Widener

MAC-Freedom (Added 2, lost 2)

Arcadia
Delaware Valley
DeSales
FDU-Florham
King’s
Manhattanville
Scranton
Wilkes

PAC (Lost 2)

Alvernia
Cabrini
Cedar Crest (Women’s only)
Eastern
Gwynedd-Mercy
Immaculata
Marywod
Misericordia
Neumann
Rosemont (Women’s only)

NEAC (Added Chestnut Hill women, lost 1)

Baptist Bible
Bard
Cazenovia
Chestnut Hill (Women added)
D’Youville
Keuka
Keystone
Penn State-Berks
Philadelphia Bible
Polytechnic
SUNY-Purchase

Skyline (Lost 3)

Centenary
Mount St. Mary
Mt. St. Vincent
St.Joseph’s (L.I.)
SUNY-Farmingdale
SUNY-Maritime (Men only?)
SUNY-Old Westbury

The SUNY-Maritime women did not compete in the Skyline Conference last season.

The Northern Athletic Conference speaks!

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The Northern Athletic Conference is, indeed, alive! A story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel talks to actual people involved in the process, which has been pretty silent over the past year.

For those who haven’t heard of the league, and I’m sure there are many, the NathCon (sorry, NAC is already taken in D-III) consists of Alverno, Aurora, Benedictine, Concordia (Ill.), Concordia (Wis.), Dominican, Edgewood, Lakeland, Maranatha Baptist, Marian, Rockford and Wisconsin Lutheran.

Oh yeah, that’s why you haven’t heard of it. If a conference forms, and no schools issue press releases, does it make a sound?

The sound being made in today’s paper is from Milwaukee School of Engineering, which found itself on the outside looking in on its attempt to enter the Midwest Conference. Clarke is also trying to get into the NathCon.

It’s the end of the Lake Michigan Conference and the Northern Illinois-Iowa Conference. It might result in an extra Pool B bid for the next two seasons, while the NathCon goes through its waiting period.

Another new conference we have no news on is the Interstate 8. Stevens dropped out of the newly formed conference earlier this year to join the Empire 8. Rumors immediately flew that Elizabethtown was to replace them and bring the league back up to eight, but there has been no official word.

Alumni report: USBL, coaching D-II

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Dave Jannuzzi, a D3hoops.com second-team All-America selection in 2001, and Jen Nance, also a second-teamer in 2001, made news recently.

Jannuzzi, averaging 7.0 points and 2.0 rebounds in the early going of the USBL season, was the subject of a profile in the Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) Times-Leader not for his basketball prowess, but his bodybuilding career.

Seriously. This in addition to his full-time job with a financial services firm and his family. More in the paper.

By the way, Willie Chandler is averaging 18.5 points per game for the same team (Northeast Pennsylvania) in the same league. Chandler, a Misericordia alumnus, is the No. 2 scorer in Division III men’s basketball history.

Nance was named head coach at Division II Mars Hill. She had been the top assistant at Division II Ashland and was previously an assistant at Franklin. Nance played four seasons for Baldwin-Wallace. Her squad won three consecutive Ohio Athletic Conference championships as well as a pair of trips to the Elite Eight of the Division III NCAA Tournament. Nance earned a bachelors degree in 2001 as a double major in business and psychology.

Want a time out? Stay on your feet!

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According to the Associated Press, the NCAA’s Basketball Rules Committees is sending a proposal to the playing rules oversight panel regarding the good-ol’ flying-out-of-bounds timeout rule.

“With players holding the ball with two hands, diving out of bounds, there’s some risk of injury,” Larry Keating, the rules committee chair, told the AP. “The NBA had that problem four years ago and dealt with it. I just think it was something that everybody wanted to see and we were willing to do it.”

Another proposal could force Division III schools (oh, and Division II, too) to add clocks that display tenths of a second and shot clocks mounted above backboards by 2010. Will this happen? It might. Other proposals aimed at the NCAA as a whole have been struck down on the basis that they have been inconsiderate of anyone outside of Division I, but this seems like a reasonable request and timeframe.

Graduating to D-III

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As the recruiting info continues to cross our screen, we’ll make sure it crosses yours. For the previous recruiting recap, click here for an earlier Daily Dose post.

As always, if you want to contribute a name, you must provide the published confirmation. (Unless you are an SID or coach, of course, in which case your word is sufficient.) You can either post the info here on the blog or e-mail to info@d3hoops.com.

Brandon LausterShawe HS guard Brandon Lauster will play at Mt. St. Joseph next season, according to The Madison (Ind.) Courier. (This is their photo, as well.) There’s a lengthy story on the newspaper’s Web site.

Delaware Valley is getting Bryan Connors from Epping HS in New Hampshire. The Exeter News-Letter story doesn’t mention what position he plays in basketball, but that’s OK. It’s a story about Epping’s baseball team but it doesn’t mention Connors’ baseball position either. All we know is he can hit.

Cincinnati Elder HS product Brian Hamrick is heading to Thomas More. He averaged 9.8 points and 5.1 rebounds, according to The Cincinnati Post.

Transylvania has a lot of holes to fill, with a rather large senior class graduating. One of the spots will be filled by LaBradford Rollins of Webster County (Ind.) HS, according to The Gleaner of Henderson, Ky.

Covington (Ky.) Catholic HS forward Danny Noll will attend Centre, according to The Cincinnati Post.

The Northbrook Star in suburban Chicago reports Glenbrook North’s Tyler Cullitan will head to Lawrence next season. He’s 6-4 and averaged 7.3 points and 2.7 rebounds. Washington U. reports that Cullitan’s teammate, Zach Kelly, will attend the UAA school. A team captain, he averaged 11 points and nine rebounds per game while shooting a team-high 54% from the field.

Maryville (Tenn.) is getting the following players, according to the Maryville Daily Times: Michael Santiago (Miami, Fla., area), Michael Meckler from Ohio, McMinn Central HS forward Blake Derrick and Anderson County point guard Jared Laverdiere.

And Newsday continues to track Long Island seniors’ post-graduation athletics plans:
Tommy Brown, Bayport-Blue Point, Ithaca
Kyle Charters, Greenport, Ithaca

Women
K.C. Blahnik signed one of those fictional letters of intent to play at Lakeland, according to the Daily Press of Escanaba, Mich. She’ll also play softball. No basketball details were given.

Leonard (Texas) HS senior Macy Boggs has committed to play at East Texas Baptist. No mention of her position either, but the Herald Democrat of Sherman, Texas, mentions she averaged 15.2 points, 3.1 assists, and 2.6 steals per game, so put her in the backcourt somewhere.

Brittany Fuller will play basketball at Stevens, according to Newsday. She had 16 points, 12 rebounds and three blocks for East Rockaway (N.Y.) in the state Class C final.

The Maryville Times says Maryville (Tenn.) has commitments from Seymour (Tenn.) HS senior Brittany Mikels and former Seymour post player Gina Owenby, a transfer from Walters State. The school also got Rachel Draper and Haley Williams from Farragut HS, both guards.

And the Newsday list:
Kasey Agostinacchio, Kellenberg, Cabrini
Kelly Dunne, Northport, Nazareth
Katie Tolan, Island Trees, Muhlenberg

(Glad we didn’t name any of our kids Katie. Lots of Katies on the Newsday list for all sports.)