Westfield State University (Westfield, MA.) is looking for two games for 2025-2026

If there is any availability in your schedule, please get in touch with Rich Sutter (rsutter@westfield.ma.edu) or Wesley Jackson (wjackson@westfield.ma.edu)

Westfield State University (Westfield, MA.) is looking for 1 team to compete in the Rick Martin Tournament.
Dates: Friday, November 14, 2025, and Saturday, November 15, 2025

Committed:
Westfield State
State University of New York at Old Westbury
Clark University

Guarantees:
5 hotel rooms per team for Saturday
Pizza after Saturday games
T-shirts for each team
All-Tournament awards

The tournament is in close proximity to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

If interested, please get in touch with Rich Sutter (rsutter@westfield.ma.edu) or Wesley Jackson (wjackson@westfield.ma.edu)

Yes. It is the right forum.
We are D3!

Chickens practically swimming today. Stop the rain. Good thing basketball is an indoor sport.   

Quote from: Kuiper on Today at 11:48:44 AMNot sure this is the right forum for this, but just thought people would want to know that Trinity (TX) University Offensive Coordinator Wade Lytal posted on X that his daughter is one of the kids missing from Camp Mystic after the floods.

Heartbreaking

So sad, and so close to home.

Not sure this is the right forum for this, but just thought people would want to know that Trinity (TX) University Offensive Coordinator Wade Lytal posted on X that his daughter is one of the kids missing from Camp Mystic after the floods.

Heartbreaking

Ever since the concept emerged a few years ago of a possible NESCAC game at Fenway I assumed that Trinity would be involved. Red Sox President/CEO Sam Kennedy is a Trinity alum and a key guy in these Football events at Fenway. I thought it would be a done deal- Trinity vs Tufts as the Jumbos would be the logical local choice.

Surprised the Trinity syndicate has not pulled this off. Maybe they are working on it.

Forbes has listed 26 schools that formerly had to pay the 1.4% endowment earnings tax, but as a result of the thing that just was signed will no longer have to pay due to having fewer than 3,000 students.  D3 schools included, in order of endowment (largest first) are:

• Amherst
• Williams
• Wellesley
• Pomona
• Swarthmore
• Grinnell
• Bowdoin
• Washington and Lee
• Trinity (TX)
• Hamilton
• Berry
• Claremont McKenna
• Carleton
• Bryn Mawr
• Earlham

The closest school to the 3000 cutoff is Trinity (TX), 2,762.

D3 schools still subject to the engorged endowment earnings tax as estimated by Forbes:

• 8%:  MIT
• 4%:  Smith
• 1.4%:  Emory, WashU

The only school close to 3,000 is Smith (3,192).

Quote from: Flying Dutch Fan on July 02, 2025, 08:25:46 AMSad news out of Adrian - Siena Heights wil be closing at the end of the 25-26 academic year after 105 years. I would assume Adrian College will see some impact from this closure

https://www.sienaheights.edu/siena-heights-university-announces-closure/

What will that impact be?

Let's be real if any nescac teams hosts a game at Fenway it would be tufts(you know cuz they are actually in Boston). My guess would be a tufts Wesleyan game.

Quote from: Brady12 on Yesterday at 04:58:57 PMWould love to see a Amherst/Williams game at Fenway.

Quote from: Trin9-0 on Yesterday at 10:38:20 AMCoast Guard and Merchant Marine will be playing the Secretaries Cup game at Fenway this fall. VERY cool!

A while back there was some discussion about the possibility of a NESCAC game there given the numerous connections between the league and the Red Sox and the existing Frozen Fenway ice hockey involvement.

Maybe this opens the door further...?