D3hoops.com's weekly honor roll celebrates its 26th season, honoring the best players at each position for the past week. It's the D3hoops.com Team of the Week, presented by Scoutware.
It appears as more and more teams get back to playing basketball games there are still teams, in late January, who are a bit under the radar. Plus we react to the latest women's Top 25. Tune into Thursday's Hoopsville On Demand or the podcast.
The UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs rallied from a 12-point halftime deficit to stun No. 2 Whitman on an unusually active Monday afternoon. Meanwhile Redlands upset No. 13 Wartburg, No. 11 Transylvania picked another big win and the Dubuque men dumped No. 10 Roanoke. Get the recap here.
Taite Anderson, who led Bethel's run from unranked to Top 10, is our West Region Player of the Year. Conference foe Caitlin Rorman of Gustavus Adolphus is Rookie of the Year and Rich Murphy of Redlands is Coach of the Year.
Endicott shocked Scranton to win its NCAA Tournament debut while Bethany Lutheran picked up the UMAC's first Tournament win ever in a come-from-behind victory at Bethel. The ASC swept the SCAC and two other hosts bowed out in a wild first round of action.
If you look at the calendar, we are crossing the midway point of this basketball season. What have we learned in the first half? Tough question to answer. On Thursday's Hoopsville, we talked to a few programs that have impressed so far. Watch the show On Demand or listen to the podcast here.
The fourth-seeded University of Redlands women's basketball team headed to No.1 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges on Thursday evening for the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) Postseason Tournament semifinal in Roberts Pavilion. In a game that saw eight ties and 14 lead changes, neither team outscored the other by more than three points in any quarter. Despite hitting three more trey-balls than the Athenas, the Bulldogs missed out on the upset by a tight score of 65-69.