It has been a two year wait, but there are 128 teams getting ready to battle for two championships trophies. We preview the tourneys and talk to some of those involved on tonight's super-sized Hoopsville - which hits the air at 7:00 PM ET right here!
While the basketball season tends to slow down between finals and the holidays, that hasn't slowed down the action and news in Division III. Watch Hoopsville On Demand (or listen to the podcast) as Dave and guests help everyone keep pace to the apparent Holiday Rush this year.
The Capital Athletic Conference loses another member, as Southern Virginia University moves to the USA South for all sports. That means that, effective the fall of 2021, the USAC will have 19 member schools.
No. 2 UW-Oshkosh topped No. 3 North Central (Ill.) for its second straight road win over a ranked foe and Union's Mike Concannon blasted No. 25 St. John Fisher. On the women's side Illinois Wesleyan tripped No. 18 Chicago and Southern Virginia got a big game from a different name in its opener.
Who are the players to watch when the Division III women's basketball season tips off this weekend? You can start with the 25 players on our preseason All-America team.
Adam Wardenburg moved from the Southern Virginia women's program to the men's, where he'll be the new head coach. Alumna Lynette Schroeder fills the vacancy on the women's side.
After Scranton lost an All-American to injury for a chunk of the season, the Lady Royals found another. Makenzie Mason is our Middle Atlantic Region Player of the Year. Adam Wardenburg of Southern Virginia is Coach of the Year and Kate Deutsch of Dickinson is Rookie of the Year.
Teams who have had unbelievable starts, but have not faltered, are now in the spotlight. The question is no longer "can they keep this up?" But rather, the question is, "how did they get this good?" We ask versions of that question to our guests on Hoopsville. Watch the show On Demand now.
St. Thomas, Trine and Gettysburg won big games in various ways to stay in front of their conference races. Meanwhile the WIAC race got messy and it was another good Knight in Southern Virginia.
Whitman dominated its NWC battle with No. 12 George Fox while SUNY New Paltz tripped No. 14 SUNY Geneseo. Elsewhere Guilford continued its romp through the ODAC and No. 6 Tufts tamed No. 25 Middlebury.
Southern Virginia University named Adam Wardenburg as its new head women's basketball coach, replacing Heather Roberts who returned to her home state to become a boys' high school head coach.
Scranton's Bridgette Mann takes home Middle Atlantic Region Player of the Year honors while Coach of the Year goes to Juniata's Danny Young-Uhrich and Rookie of the Year to Southern Virginia's Katie Garrish.