After leading Bowdoin back atop the NESCAC, Sydney Jones and Megan Phelps are Player of the Year and Coach of the Year in Region 1 respectively. The Rookie of the Year Award goes to Grace Ramsdell of St. Joseph's (Maine)
The regular season and conference playoffs are complete, so this is our final Top 25 ranking until after the national title game. Who made the biggest jump in our poll ahead of the Big Dance? Find out here.
No. 16 Hardin-Simmons earned hosting rights for next weekend's ASC tournament with a dramatic win over No. 24 Mary Hardin-Baylor while the top spot in the Empire 8 playoffs will come down to math after Nazareth topped St. John Fisher. Plus, Alma scratched a 23-year itch against Hope in Saturday's NCAA D-III women's basketball action.
In a Hoopsville exclusive, the D-III national committees reveal the Top 16 Seeds if the tournaments started this week (based on Week 2 rankings). Find out who are the top teams in the rankings and who made the cut. Also hear from the committee chairs and our experts have their thoughts. Watch On Demand here!
D3hoops.com's weekly honor roll celebrates its 27th season, honoring the best players at each position for the past week. It's the D3hoops.com Team of the Week.
No. 12 Bowdoin seized first place in the upcoming NESCAC tournament with a lopsided win over Amherst while Willamette clinched the NWC's top seed by sweeping Puget Sound. Elsewhere, No. 6 Hope won another MIAA crown, No. 21 Smith cleared its final major hurdle in the NEWMAC, and No. 16 Hardin-Simmons got help in the ASC. Read about it here.
On any given night in DIII hoops, you are going to be surprised. It's becoming expected. Tonight on Hoopsville, we chat with coaches near the top of their conferences races trying to avoid the surprises. Watch On Demand or listen to the podcast here!
No. 20 Mary Hardin-Baylor bolstered its position atop the ASC standings with an offensive explosion while first place in the NESCAC is a Maine event after Saturday’s results. Plus, No. 4 UW-Whitewater pushed No 22 UW-Stout farther behind in the WIAC and the NEWMAC conference title chase finally began with a close win by No. 18 Smith.
Saturday's title game between No. 1 Christopher Newport and No. 2 Transylvania is just the seventh time the top two teams in our poll will play each other in the NCAA Tournament. To celebrate the special occasion, we look back at the previous six 1-versus-2 matchups with some help from the coaches and players who won those games.
The first poll of 2023 has four NESCAC teams, including the first ever appearance for Trinity (Conn.). Plus Loras surges into the rankings, Bowdoin returns, and there's another switch near the top of the rankings. Get the list here.
Bowdoin College is a special place for Division III basketball. Just ask Megan Phelps who felt the draw first as a high school student, then as an assistant coach, and now as the Polar Bears' head coach. She spoke with us for our latest Around the Nation offseason podcast.
Megan Phelps, who helped build Bowdoin into national title contenders under Adrienne Shibles, has returned to Brunswick to lead her alma mater's women's program.
No. 1 Hope and No. 13 Bowdoin won their Top 25 showdowns on Saturday afternoon while No. 7 Tufts rallied past Brandeis, No. 5 Messiah edged No. 9 DeSales and the Maine event was a triple-overtime game in Bangor. Get the full recap here.
Adrienne Shibles, the winningest head coach in the history of Bowdoin women’s basketball, has accepted an offer to become the head women's basketball coach at Dartmouth.
We'll never know which teams would've really been our final four at the end of the 2020 season, but here are the teams that finished in those slots after our abbreviated Tournament. (Photo by Steve Herppich, Hope College)
Bowdoin has relented and is allowing teams' families to attend games, as are most of the men's tournament hosts, but Amherst and Tufts continue to keep all fans out. Here's the very latest on who is allowed where this weekend.
For all the talk about growing parity in Division III women's basketball, the last few Marches have been mostly devoid of madness. Will this be another year where the highly ranked and home-standing teams dominate? We'll do our best to break it down.
Bowdoin ended Tufts' hope's for a perfect season with a win in the NESCAC finals and Austin popped a bubble by beating Trinity for the SCAC crown. On the men's side, the top seed won the NESCAC and the bottom seed won the NEWMAC.
The women's player of the year race doesn't have any Sydney Mosses or Madison Temples in it. And while we've highlighted a handful of players here, there could be even more in the discussion once all the games are played. Ryan Scott has more.
Tufts, Amherst and Bowdoin have been atop the NESCAC and practically untouchable for several seasons. Ryan Scott takes us inside each of the three programs to find out why in Around the Nation.
In a rare match up between the top two teams in the country, No. 1 Tufts used a dominant offensive performance to beat No. 2 Bowdoin, 97-88. Game story from D3hoops.com
Time for the annual Hoopsville Marathon! For over TEN hours on Thursday, coaches, administrators, fans and others from around Division III basketball joined Dave on the show. Even the Division III VP and both national committee chairs. Watch Hoopsville On Demand or listen to the podcasts here.
Bethel and Transylvania continue their rise up the poll with each reaching their highest ranking ever. Plus we're now officially headed toward a rare No. 1 versus No. 2 battle on Friday in Maine.
An eventful holiday season shuffles most of our previously ranked teams and brings two new ones from Texas to the poll. Plus Tufts consolidates the top votes and Bowdoin moves up to No. 2 a few days before the NESCAC tips off.
With last year's champs gone from Division III, it's a wide open race for the top spot in our preseason rankings. Six teams received No. 1 votes and two rivals find themselves atop our poll to start the season.
Wheaton (Mass.) brought Sara Binkhorst back to Division III where she was an All-American guard at Bowdoin. She will be the Lyons' new head women's basketball coach, replacing Melissa Hodgdon.
Of the thousands of players in Division III women's basketball, these are the 25 we picked as the best in the country. Thomas More's Madison Temple was selected Player of the Year and Gabby Timmer of Calvin Rookie of the Year.
Bowdoin showed off its depth and defense in a 71-60 victory over St. Thomas that sends the Polar Bears to the national title game for the second straight season. Game recap from Adam Turer.
This year's Polar Bears graduating class had the unenviable task of replacing the 2018 D3hoops.com Player of the Year, stepping into the starting lineup, and turning from defensive stopper to 38-point scorer. One thing that didn't change, was seeing Bowdoin in the Final Four. Brian Lester has more.
D3hoops.com 2024 women's All-Region 1 team
March 12, 2024After leading Bowdoin back atop the NESCAC, Sydney Jones and Megan Phelps are Player of the Year and Coach of the Year in Region 1 respectively. The Rookie of the Year Award goes to Grace Ramsdell of St. Joseph's (Maine)
