North Park extended its lead in the CCIW by beating Illinois Wesleyan while Augsburg distanced itself from St. Thomas in the MIAC. Elsewhere Misericordia forced a three-way tie atop the MAC Freedom and Hope shut down Albion.
Misericordia had its showdown with DeSales postponed until next week, but the Cougars still made the Monday headlines by achieving their first ranking in our poll. Transylvania is also ranked for the first time since 2015.
Katie Sire of Montclair State headlines the D3hoops.com 2016-17 women's All-Atlantic Region team as our Player of the Year. Jason Rhine takes the coaching honors for turning around Misericordia and Kendrea Williams dazzled as Rookie of the Year at FDU-Florham.
Jason Rhine has been named head women?s basketball coach at Misericordia University, Chuck Edkins, director of athletics has announced. The Cougars return all five starters from last year's team.
This is why sports is the best reality show. You can’t write scripts for what happened at Misericordia this weekend, where the men made the tournament and the former men's coach led the women there as well.
At least three teams will enter the 2012 NCAA tournament with a perfect record. A few more will enter it on tremendous rolls. And some will enter it for the first time ever.