Anyone see any schedules posted yet? Link them here.
My kid showed me his schedule a few weeks ago. Likely won't get posted until mid-August though.
Washington and Lee:
https://generalssports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Though it may not be set in stone.
I am starting to get itchy for seeing some games!!!
Here's a random assortment of schedules that are out. You might be able to find a few of your own team's games on their schedules.
Chapman
https://www.chapmanathletics.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Pfeiffer
https://gofalconsports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Maryville
https://mcscots.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023?grid=true
Otterbein
https://otterbeincardinals.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Keystone
https://www.gokcgiants.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
McMurray
https://mcmurrysports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Coe
https://kohawkathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Knox
https://prairiefire.knox.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Denison
https://denisonbigred.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Here's another random assortment of schedules
North Central
https://northcentralcardinals.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
SUNY Canton
https://rooathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Northland
https://northlandcollegesports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
North Park (including games at Wash U and at John Carroll this year)
https://athletics.northpark.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Norwich
https://norwichathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Alfred
https://gosaxons.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Farmingdale
https://www.farmingdalesports.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Quote from: Kuiper on May 16, 2023, 04:01:34 PM
North Park (including games at Wash U and at John Carroll this year)
https://athletics.northpark.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Wash U has more or less joined Chicago as an annual presence on the NPU schedule.
Throw in Ohio Northern, and you have the core of a fairly decent non-conference schedule for the Vikings this coming season.
Quote from: Gregory Sager on May 16, 2023, 04:14:22 PM
Quote from: Kuiper on May 16, 2023, 04:01:34 PM
North Park (including games at Wash U and at John Carroll this year)
https://athletics.northpark.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Wash U has more or less joined Chicago as an annual presence on the NPU schedule.
Throw in Ohio Northern, and you have the core of a fairly decent non-conference schedule for the Vikings this coming season.
Oh I agree. I was just noting that those were two potentially tough away games, especially since they are both Wednesday road games that are part of three game weeks scheduled back to back.
And the week before the Wash U mid-week game they play Chicago on Tuesday
Mules: https://muhlenbergsports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Union
https://unionathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
are you guys just looking randomly for updated schedules or is there a trick to the searching?
Quote from: NEPAFAN on May 22, 2023, 10:13:02 AM
are you guys just looking randomly for updated schedules or is there a trick to the searching?
My guess is that most people who follow one team or conference have already or will post when their school's schedule is posted. Maybe a few others follow multiple teams on Instagram and post when they come out
If you're insane or procrastinating like me, you can simply search for 2023 (or 2023-2024 to avoid the 2022-2023 ones from last year) men's soccer schedule or something like that and sift through the US Soccer/DI/DII/NAIA morass to find the D3 schedules. You have to have a pretty good sense of the D3 universe by name to do that without wasting a lot of time clicking through though.
For example, a quick search right now found a few others:
Wheaton (IL)
https://athletics.wheaton.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Wisconsin-Whitewater
https://uwwsports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Wooster
https://www.woosterathletics.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Millsapps
https://gomajors.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Bates (of interest to the NESCAC crowd since it means the conference schedule is done)
https://gobatesbobcats.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
University of New England
https://athletics.une.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Ohio Wesleyan
https://battlingbishops.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Westminster
https://athletics.westminster.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Calvin
https://calvinknights.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Macalester
https://athletics.macalester.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
I posted this in the Go WEST thread, but on the off chance someone who reads this thread is actually interested in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC), I'll post those here as well as they come out. For those not from the West, what's interesting from the SCIAC is seeing who is traveling this year (either going elsewhere or coming here) and who teams play in conference. On the former, it's usually a budgetary issue, limiting it to once every few years, but it can also signal whether a coach is optimistic about his team. On the latter, the SCIAC ditched the home-away round robin conference schedule a few years ago in favor of more non-conference games. Both features give SCIAC teams a chance to schedule more strong non-conference opponents to boost their strength of schedule for the NCAA tourney bids, but the latter unbalances the conference so teams have double games against half the conference and single games against the other half. That can really impact who makes the conference tourney if some teams end up stronger or weaker than expected (or get all of their games thrown out because their school suspends them halfway through the season like CMS last year).
Redlands (double games against Occidental, Cal Lutheran, Chapman, and La Verne)
https://www.goredlands.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Chapman (double games against Redlands, CMS, Pomona-Pitzer. Cal Tech)
https://www.chapmanathletics.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Haven't looked at all of them, but man, the Ohio Wesleyan schedule is not for the faint of heart....
SC.
Others who follow the Centennial Conference closer than I do may already know this, but I just found out that the Centennial actually publishes the conference schedules for men's soccer (and other sports) in three year cycles and they do it years in advance (the latest one on the website for 2021-2024 says it was last updated Oct. 11, 2019). So, you can already see the conference schedule for all teams in 2023 (and 2024 if you wanted to plan ahead).
https://www.centennial.org/Schedules/2021-24_Men-s_Soccer_-_APPROVED.pdf
In the current world of small liberal arts colleges closing left and right, I would expect most conferences either don't do this or don't publish it. They also list the Jewish Holidays and then proceed to ignore them by scheduling games that appear to conflict (depending upon game time) ???
Not a full schedule for either, but on Sept 1 U of Chicago will travel to Northfield to play St. Olaf.
Messiah:
https://gomessiah.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Messiah: https://gomessiah.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
To be honest, a bit underwhelming and disappointing. The Falcons are losing W&L, Lynchburg, NYU and Christopher Newport from their 2022 schedule and the only similar level teams that have bene added are Catholic and Mary Washington. Brockport isn't a bad pick-up, and I don't mind the Lancaster Bible addition as it will give a nice boost to a nearby program's SOS. But it would be nice to have a couple more Top 25 to Top 40 calibre teams.
Quote from: Kuiper on May 23, 2023, 06:12:15 PM
Others who follow the Centennial Conference closer than I do may already know this, but I just found out that the Centennial actually publishes the conference schedules for men's soccer (and other sports) in three year cycles and they do it years in advance (the latest one on the website for 2021-2024 says it was last updated Oct. 11, 2019). So, you can already see the conference schedule for all teams in 2023 (and 2024 if you wanted to plan ahead).
https://www.centennial.org/Schedules/2021-24_Men-s_Soccer_-_APPROVED.pdf
In the current world of small liberal arts colleges closing left and right, I would expect most conferences either don't do this or don't publish it. They also list the Jewish Holidays and then proceed to ignore them by scheduling games that appear to conflict (depending upon game time) ???
The Landmark has been doing this for all sports for a few years...
https://landmarkconference.org/sports/2022/5/20/Landmark-Conference-Schedules.aspx?path=admin
Quote from: Flying Weasel on May 24, 2023, 02:12:18 PM
Messiah: https://gomessiah.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
To be honest, a bit underwhelming and disappointing. The Falcons are losing W&L, Lynchburg, NYU and Christopher Newport from their 2022 schedule and the only similar level teams that have bene added are Catholic and Mary Washington. Brockport isn't a bad pick-up, and I don't mind the Lancaster Bible addition as it will give a nice boost to a nearby program's SOS. But it would be nice to have a couple more Top 25 to Top 40 calibre teams.
I felt the same way looking at W&L's schedule. It seems much softer than last year. Maybe teams are starting to rethink the need to load up on strong non-conference games?
Trinity University (Texas)
https://trinitytigers.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Trinity's early non-conference schedule is usually filled with teams traveling in Region X because San Antonio is a convenient airport on Southwest and it's a good way for teams in the Region to cross-pollinate for strength of schedule purposes. This year, Pomona-Pitzer and Willamette are traveling to Trinity to play in a Labor Day Tournament with Trinity and St. Thomas (P-P and Willamette each play St. Thomas and Trinity, but they don't play each other and Trinity and St. Thomas play later in the fall). With Willamette and St. Thomas fresh off of NCAA tourney runs, Trinity a traditional power playing at home, and P-P no pushover after advancing in the SCIAC conference tournament last year with a lot of freshman in the lineup, that's a challenging set of early matches for those teams. Those are some games to circle on the calendar, especially Willamette v. St. Thomas at 11 am (central) on Sun, Sept 3, if Simple Coach is planning out his viewing schedule in advance.
I posted an expanded version of this in the GO WEST thread, but I'm reposting here to call special attention to the Christopher Newport trip:
Another regular early September tournament that, like Trinity, allows for cross-pollination of the three leagues in Region X, is held at UC Santa Cruz. UCSC has posted its schedule and they have a pretty good set of teams participating (UCSC, Whitworth, Pacific, and Cal Lutheran), even if none of them are likely to be quite as highly ranked as the teams playing at Trinity over Labor Day.
https://goslugs.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
One other interesting note about UCSC' schedule is that two weeks after their tournament with the SCIAC and NWC schools, they will be traveling to Colorado Springs to play Christopher Newport and Colorado College. Not only does that get UCSC exposure to two strong teams, but they get to play Christopher Newport outside of the C2C conference tournament, which I think is a first. Quite the trip for Christopher Newport, however, which not only has to travel across the country and play USCS on a short turnaround on Friday morning, but they have to play in Colorado Springs and deal with the altitude. Only the UCSC schedule has been posted and not the Colorado College or Christopher Newport schedules, but I can't imagine that Christopher Newport is coming all that way to play only UCSC. It's possible that they are also playing Colorado College, but CC is playing UCSC on Sunday afternoon at 4 pm, so it's more likely that there is a fourth team involved playing Christopher Newport on Sunday morning to allow them to fly back to Virginia. There's no one else local from D3, so it will be interesting to see if Colorado College got someone from the upper midwest to visit them (given their trip to Minnesota last year) or got someone from perhaps the ASC in Texas like Mary Hardin-Baylor. Either way, that would be a really interesting national event!
University of Chicago released its schedule and they definitely aren't coasting after their national championship.
https://athletics.uchicago.edu/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Starting the season at St. Olaf and at Gustavus Adolphus (in a rematch of last year's NCAA QFs), hosting Wisconsin Eau-Claire a week later, going on the road for games at North Park and Hope, and finally hosting Calvin three days before they start UAA play with Rochester. We'll know pretty quickly whether their defense has adjusted to the departures of Wada and Gillespie (assuming they aren't staying for a Covid year), although I heard through the grapevine that they have a big time D1 CB grad transfer coming on board.
And just to provide equal time, last year's runner up from Williams also posted its schedule
https://ephsports.williams.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Normally, the NESCAC schedules aren't all that interesting because the conference games provide so much strength of schedule that they can ease up on the throttle for the non-conference games. One very interesting non-conference addition to Williams' schedule, however, is Western Connecticut State (20-0-2 last year), in a mid-week game late in October. My guess is that Western Connecticut sought this one out as they hope to raise their strength-of-schedule and avoid getting shut out of the tourney like last year. Good for Siebert and Williams for being willing to fit them in.
Williams added a non qualifier and lost a qualifier
Full credit to the great Travis Wall. I suspected as much when I saw he was taking St Olaf to play his alma mater but now confirmed also playing Kenyon. Impressive and aggressive scheduling.
SC mentioned OWU schedule. John Carroll's is a monster as well, inclusive of OWU and Kenyon, Denison, CMU, Calvin, CWRU, North Park, etc
CMU schedule by contrast is frankly embarrassing.
Quote from: PaulNewman on May 27, 2023, 03:58:14 PM
Full credit to the great Travis Wall. I suspected as much when I saw he was taking St Olaf to play his alma mater but now confirmed also playing Kenyon. Impressive and aggressive scheduling.
SC mentioned OWU schedule. John Carroll's is a monster as well, inclusive of OWU and Kenyon, Denison, CMU, Calvin, CWRU, North Park, etc
CMU schedule by contrast is frankly embarrassing.
Here's CMU's for anyone wanting to check for themselves without googling it
https://athletics.cmu.edu/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Charitably, I would say if they were trying to save on travel costs and driving time, they almost succeeded. They must have been turned down by Chatham University.
I know you're joking, and I know arguably times are tough, but it's hard to think of the words 'Carnegie...Mellon...saving on costs' without doing a bit of a double take.
Quote from: PaulNewman on May 27, 2023, 06:12:44 PM
I know you're joking, and I know arguably times are tough, but it's hard to think of the words 'Carnegie...Mellon...saving on costs' without doing a bit of a double take.
Next thing you know they'll paywall their streams, can't imagine anyone who would resort to that.
At the risk of raising the ire of some in here, America is getting nice weather at the moment, I would have thought getting outside rather than fretting about schedule quality is a better use of people's time. I understand a lot better now the intricacies of SOS (I originally only knew it as an ABBA song), but given it's May, surely having a happy, safe and hopefully productive, summer, should be the priority. Apologies in advance if I haven't taken this topic seriously enough.
Quote from: EnmoreCat on May 27, 2023, 08:42:10 PM
At the risk of raising the ire of some in here, America is getting nice weather at the moment, I would have thought getting outside rather than fretting about schedule quality is a better use of people's time. I understand a lot better now the intricacies of SOS (I originally only knew it as an ABBA song), but given it's May, surely having a happy, safe and hopefully productive, summer, should be the priority. Apologies in advance if I haven't taken this topic seriously enough.
Fair point, but I'm not sure having nice weather is going to differentiate May from any other month for someone like me living in Southern California! 8-)
More seriously, social media is partly to blame for some of us paying more attention to D3 soccer in the spring than we might have in past years. It used to be that off-season was a dark period in college soccer, but spring is when men's D3 soccer programs' Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook accounts start to come alive with news of their schedules, their new commits (often rolled out gradually over days and weeks), coaching hires, players graduating or returning (some of which is a Covid phenomenon), and, unfortunately lately, schools closing. Schools also use social media to post videos and photos from their spring practices and games (except at NESCAC schools like Amherst, which may result in less activity on the accounts of those schools). And, finally, Simple Coach's coach-to-coach interviews during the off-season, which only just began last season I believe, and articles in publications like the New England Soccer Journal, work to keep people interested.
But, I also think there are at least a few of us now who follow D3 men's soccer generally rather than just as parents of a son playing at a specific school. if you're the latter, your interest may wane when your son's team isn't playing (or even during the season if your son isn't playing). If you're the former, though, the off-season is a time to examine broader issues like rule changes, conference realignments, coaching philosophies, and something like schedules, which give a preview of how coaches are thinking about the upcoming season. It's not much different than being a fan of any sport in America these days. There really isn't an off-season anymore in the age of 24 hour sports media news with drafts, free agent signings, spring training/training camps, etc.
And, of course, we may just be insane. But I'll leave it to Paul Newman to discuss the clinical nature of our hobby/obsession!
You'll never convince an Amherst-affiliated person that he isn't just living LIFE a little bit better than you. And any criticism only makes them even more certain. And yet apparently seeing irony is elusive. Beachgoer asks why other beachgoers would be wasting their precious time at the beach.
As for diagnoses...I know I'm whacked...so I'm good.
Rest assured Paul Newman that I need one Australian dollar to buy a lot more than the current 65 US cents to feel better, so there needs to be an Antipodean adjustment.
More Fall 2023 Soccer Schedules ...
Goucher
https://athletics.goucher.edu/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Virginia Wesleyan
https://vwuathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Shenandoah
https://suhornets.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Gwynedd Mercy
https://gwyneddathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Cairn
https://www.cairnhighlanders.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Quote from: Kuiper on May 26, 2023, 05:12:51 PM
University of Chicago released its schedule and they definitely aren't coasting after their national championship.
https://athletics.uchicago.edu/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Starting the season at St. Olaf and at Gustavus Adolphus (in a rematch of last year's NCAA QFs), hosting Wisconsin Eau-Claire a week later, going on the road for games at North Park and Hope, and finally hosting Calvin three days before they start UAA play with Rochester. We'll know pretty quickly whether their defense has adjusted to the departures of Wada and Gillespie (assuming they aren't staying for a Covid year), although I heard through the grapevine that they have a big time D1 CB grad transfer coming on board.
No surprise on the SOS, UChicago has been aggressively scheduling a top 5-10 slate since the Mike Babst days. They want to be ready for NCAAs even if it means they take some lumps along the way.
Gillespie and Wada are graduating and heading off into the work world, so the next group of guys like Gomas, Moonesinghe and the D1 transfer will be relied upon defensively. What Gillespie and Wada accomplished during their time was pretty remarkable. Playing the toughest teams in the nation year in and year out, the Maroons won 82.3 percent of their games with a defense that recorded more shutouts (36) than goals allowed (35). The team's GAA in that time: 0.64, 0.47, and 0.47.
https://clarksonathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule And a new coach
https://athletics.kenyon.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
https://hopkinssports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Thanks for posting. 13 Weeks? Below is the cumulative of what has been posted.
Hopkins https://hopkinssports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Kenyon https://athletics.kenyon.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Clarkson https://clarksonathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Goucher https://athletics.goucher.edu/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Virginia Wesleyan https://vwuathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Shenandoah https://suhornets.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Gwynedd Mercy https://gwyneddathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Cairn https://www.cairnhighlanders.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
CMU https://athletics.cmu.edu/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Chicago https://athletics.uchicago.edu/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Williams https://ephsports.williams.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
https://goslugs.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Trinity University (Texas) https://trinitytigers.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Messiah: https://gomessiah.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Washington and Lee: https://generalssports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Chapman https://www.chapmanathletics.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Pfeiffer https://gofalconsports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Maryville https://mcscots.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023?grid=true
Otterbein https://otterbeincardinals.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Keystone https://www.gokcgiants.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
McMurray https://mcmurrysports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Coe https://kohawkathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Knox https://prairiefire.knox.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Denison https://denisonbigred.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
North Central https://northcentralcardinals.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
SUNY Canton https://rooathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Northland https://northlandcollegesports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
North Park https://athletics.northpark.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Norwich https://norwichathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Alfred https://gosaxons.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Farmingdale https://www.farmingdalesports.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Union https://unionathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Mules: https://muhlenbergsports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Wheaton (IL) https://athletics.wheaton.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Wisconsin-Whitewater https://uwwsports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Wooster https://www.woosterathletics.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Millsapps https://gomajors.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Bates https://gobatesbobcats.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
The University of New England https://athletics.une.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Ohio Wesleyan https://battlingbishops.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Westminster https://athletics.westminster.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Calvin https://calvinknights.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Macalester https://athletics.macalester.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Redlands https://www.goredlands.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Chapman https://www.chapmanathletics.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
https://sports.wabash.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule (https://sports.wabash.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule)
Occidental
https://www.oxyathletics.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Texas Lutheran and Lewis & Clark (in its second season) making trips to Los Angeles this year. Not sure about Marymount College, which is playing Oxy over Labor Day. Could it be Marymount University from Arlington, Virginia? Seems like too big a trip for them, but I can't find another Marymount College that makes sense.
Whitworth
https://whitworthpirates.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Pacific Lutheran
https://golutes.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Nebraska Wesleyan
https://nwusports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Lake Forest
https://www.goforesters.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
The Labor Day tournament in Colorado Springs has to be the most diverse Labor Day tournament in the country, with schools from six states, five different conferences (only UCSC and Christopher Newport, two schools that are almost the farthest apart, are in the same conference - C2C), and four time zones (Pacific, Mountain, Central, and Eastern) represented.
Colorado College
Christopher Newport
UC Santa Cruz
Pacific Lutheran
Nebraska Wesleyan
Lake Forest
A few more from out west (where there are a lot of plane trips involved):
Whitman
https://athletics.whitman.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Doing the Texas swing this year at Southwestern and Trinity
Lewis & Clark
https://lcpioneers.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule?path=msoc
In only their second year, they are traveling to Los Angeles to play Occidental and Whittier. They are also hosting Cal Tech over Labor Day weekend, which should be a fairly competitive match-up.
Texas Lutheran
https://tlubulldogs.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Traveling to Los Angeles to play Occidental and Cal Lutheran over Labor Day weekend
Mary Hardin-Baylor
https://cruathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Traveling to Arkansas over Labor Day to play Rhodes and Hendrix
McMurray
https://mcmurrysports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Linfield
https://golinfieldwildcats.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Hosting Augsburg and Cal Tech over Labor Day and traveling to Los Angeles the following week to play La Verne and Pomona-Pitzer
Augsburg
https://athletics.augsburg.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Traveling to Oregon over Labor Day to play Linfield and George Fox. Also playing at Luther and hosting UW-Eau Claire.
Middlebury
https://athletics.middlebury.edu/sports/msoc/schedule/2023
Babson
https://www.babsonathletics.com/sports/m-soccer/2023-24/schedule
Quote from: SKUD on June 06, 2023, 02:52:14 PM
Middlebury
https://athletics.middlebury.edu/sports/msoc/schedule/2023
Babson
https://www.babsonathletics.com/sports/m-soccer/2023-24/schedule
Haven't paid that much attention but 19 game schedule for Babson - seems like alot?
from the HCAC (missing Anderson, Franklin, Transylvania still)
Rose-Hulman
https://athletics.rose-hulman.edu/sports/msoc/schedule
Hanover
https://athletics.hanover.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Bluffton
https://blufftonbeavers.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Manchester
https://muspartans.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Defiance
https://www.defianceathletics.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Earlham
https://goearlham.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Mount St Joseph
https://msjlions.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Tufts: https://gotuftsjumbos.com/sports/msoc/schedule
Two teams that are facing really strong non-conference play to start their seasons. I put in a sampling of their early non-conference games
Willamette
https://www.wubearcats.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
9/1 @Southwestern (Georgetown, Texas)
9/3 v. St. Thomas (at Trinity in San Antonio, Texas)
9/4 @ Trinity (San Antonio, Texas)
9/8 home to Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
9/10 home to Emory
Emory
https://www.emoryathletics.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
9/1 home to Covenant
9/2 home to Washington & Lee
9/8 Pacific Lutheran @ Willamette in Salem, Oregon
9/10 @ Willamette
9/15 v. Mary Washington @ Richmond, VA
9/17 v. Catholic @ Richmond, VA
If either or both of Willamette and Emory run through those gauntlets unscathed, they should be nationally ranked when their conference seasons start.
Quote from: Kuiper on June 09, 2023, 04:45:00 PM
If either or both of Willamette and Emory run through those gauntlets unscathed, they should be nationally ranked when their conference seasons start.
Emory finished last season at the bottom of the UAA along with Brandeis. Gomez is gone. Hard to say how the Eagles will fare in 2023.
Rochester
https://uofrathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Stevens makes the trek up to Rochester this year, which is an upgrade from Rochester's out of region non-conference opponents last year.
NESCAC
Not sure if these were already posted
https://athletics.bowdoin.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
https://gobatesbobcats.com/sports/msoc/schedule
https://athletics.hamilton.edu/sports/msoc/schedule
https://athletics.wesleyan.edu/sports/msoc/schedule
https://athletics.middlebury.edu/sports/msoc/schedulev
Partial listing of Centennial Conference mens soccer 2023 schedules released:
Washington College
https://washcollsports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Muhlenberg
https://muhlenbergsports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
McDaniel
https://mcdanielathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Gettysburg
https://gettysburgsports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Johns Hopkins
https://hopkinssports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Landmark (partial with some previously posted)
Susquehanna
https://suriverhawks.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Goucher
https://athletics.goucher.edu/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Lycoming
https://lycomingathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Some challenging non-conference games with Johns Hopkins, Mary Washington, Rutgers-Newark, and Messiah
Moravaian
https://www.moraviansports.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Wilkes
https://gowilkesu.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
I'm at the point where I'm generally checking specific schools where I have a particular interest to see if their 2023 schedules are out yet, rather than checking indiscriminately for any 2023 schedules.
In this case, I was curious about Western Connecticut. They got a lot of sympathy on the board for not being selected for the NCAA tournament last fall, while going undefeated. At the same time, while you can only play the teams in front of you and you have no control of your conference opponents, they played a lot of pretty weak teams out-of-conference. So, I wanted to see if their experience with the NCAA selection process led them to change their scheduling (while acknowledging that some games are home and aways scheduled years earlier and that this only matters as a hedge against not winning your conference bid).
Under the 2023 schedule, it does appear that Western Connecticut, on balance, made an effort to upgrade their non-conference opponents:
https://westconnathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Gone are the following:
Eastern Nazarene (7-7-5)
Ramapo (6-7-4)
Westfield State (3-10-5)
Pratt (1-12-3)
New are the following:
SUNY Potsdam (5-8-4)
Wesleyan (8-5-3)
Williams (10-2-11 and 2d in NCAA Tourney)
(They also continue to play non-conference opponents with pretty good records last year and/or from stronger conferences like Vassar, Lehman, Trinity, Merchant Marine, Drew etc)
SUNY Potsdam was probably a tougher opponent than their record last year, but call it a push with Ramapo and Eastern Nazarene. Replacing Westfield State and Pratt with Wesleyan and Williams, though, are clear upgrades. It will be interesting to see how they fare this year.
I believe that one of wcsu's defenders was on the Newtown Ct team that won The Soccer Tournament last week!
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
https://www.cmsathletics.org/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Coach Cartee isn't shying away from a challenge, making a difficult trip to Salem, Oregon to start the season with games against Willamette and Pacific Lutheran. That might make up for the SCIAC schedule, which has them playing Redlands, Occidental, and Cal Lutheran only once each, while playing Whitter and Cal Tech twice (although Cal Tech is improving - they ended last season tying conference champion Chapman and beating La Verne, which is tied for their longest unbeaten streak since at least 2006). Watch out for the second-to-last game of the regular season, when Pomona-Pitzer travels across the road (literally) to play CMS at 7:30 pm on a Wednesday night in the Sixth Street Rivalry. That might get the students out of the library if the teams are both still in contention for the conference tournament. The rivalry took a year off in 2022 because of CMS' suspension.
Southwestern
https://www.southwesternpirates.com/sports/m-soccer/2023-24/schedule
Hosting Willamette, Elmhurst (at Trinity), and Whitman from the Northwest Conference to start September will be a good measuring stick for the team. Also, I think this must be a typographical error that may get fixed before anyone reads this post, but Southwestern only identifies 5 games as SCAC conference games on its schedule and plays, but doesn't identify as conference games, games against 3 other SCAC opponents: Colorado College, St. Thomas, Schreiner. I guess that would be the literal definition of a school that has one foot out the conference door since they are scheduled to leave the SCAC for the Southern Athletic Association in Fall 2025!
Quote from: TNAggie on June 13, 2023, 05:32:40 AM
Partial listing of Centennial Conference mens soccer 2023 schedules released:
Washington College
https://washcollsports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Muhlenberg
https://muhlenbergsports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
McDaniel
https://mcdanielathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Gettysburg
https://gettysburgsports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Johns Hopkins
https://hopkinssports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Here's a few more from the Centennial:
Ursinus
https://ursinusathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Dickinson
https://dickinsonathletics.com/sports/msoc/schedule
Just waiting on Haverford, Swarthmore and F&M
64 DAYS!
;)
Washington University schedule
https://washubears.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Webster University
https://websterathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
The Gorlocks will play every non-conference game at home except for a trip to Grinnell. The Gorlocks should be the favorites to repeat as SLIAC regular season champions.
Quote from: Kuiper on June 24, 2023, 03:46:13 PM
Quote from: TNAggie on June 13, 2023, 05:32:40 AM
Partial listing of Centennial Conference mens soccer 2023 schedules released:
Washington College
https://washcollsports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Muhlenberg
https://muhlenbergsports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
McDaniel
https://mcdanielathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Gettysburg
https://gettysburgsports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Johns Hopkins
https://hopkinssports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Here's a few more from the Centennial:
Ursinus
https://ursinusathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Dickinson
https://dickinsonathletics.com/sports/msoc/schedule
Just waiting on Haverford, Swarthmore and F&M
Here's Franklin & Marshall. The Stevens game to open the season over Labor Day weekend should be a good gauge for both teams.
https://godiplomats.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
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Here's Franklin & Marshall. The Stevens game to open the season over Labor Day weekend should be a good gauge for both teams.
https://godiplomats.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
agreed, but the rest of their non-conference schedule is average.
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Here's Franklin & Marshall. The Stevens game to open the season over Labor Day weekend should be a good gauge for both teams.
https://godiplomats.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
agreed, but the rest of their non-conference schedule is average.
True, but the way the berths into the NCAA tournament line up, you pretty much have to concentrate on playing regional teams in order to get in.
FYI, the following non-conference scheduled teams either made the NCAAs or lost in their league finals - Stevens, Rosemont, Penn State-Harrisburg and Elizabethtown. That is 4 out of the 7 non-conference teams. So I would say not the hardest and not soft, but reasonably respectable out of conference schedule.
Cal Tech
https://gocaltech.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
The Cal Tech Beavers might actually have a chance to go 4-0 to start the season, which might be a first .... in the history of the program (or of any Cal Tech sports team?). They beat Bethesda 6-3 to start the season last year, Lewis & Clark is only in their second year of the program and went 0-7 in all of their official games last season, Linfield is coming off a 5-13-1 season in which they lost to La Verne 5-2, a team Cal Tech beat TWICE, and Life Pacific went 1-16 last year (Hope Int'l seems a bridge too far as they went 11-3-4 last year in NAIA). I'm not predicting it will happen, but I'm sure one of the Cal Tech players will put some probability calculations on the white board in the locker room to get the players pumped up. Who (other than the opposing teams and their fans) isn't rooting for that?
Pomona-Pitzer
https://www.sagehens.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Ambitious opening non-conference schedule for Pomona-Pitzer, playing St. Thomas and Trinity in San Antonio over Labor Day weekend. Vanguard, a strong NAIA side, at home a few days after they return is no easy game either. If the Sagehens can be competitive and maybe steal a result or two over these three games, that would be great for their strength-of-schedule, but the biggest takeaway might be getting them more quickly up to speed for SCIAC conference play. Last year, after an easy 8-0 victory to start the season against a weak opponent, they lost four in a row.
Quote from: Kuiper on June 30, 2023, 01:53:58 PM
Quote from: Kuiper on June 24, 2023, 03:46:13 PM
Quote from: TNAggie on June 13, 2023, 05:32:40 AM
Partial listing of Centennial Conference mens soccer 2023 schedules released:
Washington College
https://washcollsports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Muhlenberg
https://muhlenbergsports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
McDaniel
https://mcdanielathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Gettysburg
https://gettysburgsports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Johns Hopkins
https://hopkinssports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Here's a few more from the Centennial:
Ursinus
https://ursinusathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Dickinson
https://dickinsonathletics.com/sports/msoc/schedule
Just waiting on Haverford, Swarthmore and F&M
Here's Franklin & Marshall. The Stevens game to open the season over Labor Day weekend should be a good gauge for both teams.
https://godiplomats.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Swarthmore
https://swarthmoreathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Some decent non-conference opponents, including Rosemont, Coast Guard Academy, Kean, and New Jersey City University
Only missing Haverford from the Centennial
Vassar
https://www.vassarathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Mount Saint Mary
https://msmcknights.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Quote from: Kuiper on July 11, 2023, 12:31:21 AM
Ambitious opening non-conference schedule for Pomona-Pitzer, playing St. Thomas and Trinity in San Antonio over Labor Day weekend. Vanguard, a strong NAIA side, at home a few days after they return is no easy game either. If the Sagehens can be competitive and maybe steal a result or two over these three games, that would be great for their strength-of-schedule, but the biggest takeaway might be getting them more quickly up to speed for SCIAC conference play. Last year, after an easy 8-0 victory to start the season against a weak opponent, they lost four in a row.
I think Vanguard is jumping to PacWest with an even strong school in Westmont. That is a D2 conference.
Quote from: BigSoccerFan on July 11, 2023, 12:12:49 PM
Quote from: Kuiper on July 11, 2023, 12:31:21 AM
Ambitious opening non-conference schedule for Pomona-Pitzer, playing St. Thomas and Trinity in San Antonio over Labor Day weekend. Vanguard, a strong NAIA side, at home a few days after they return is no easy game either. If the Sagehens can be competitive and maybe steal a result or two over these three games, that would be great for their strength-of-schedule, but the biggest takeaway might be getting them more quickly up to speed for SCIAC conference play. Last year, after an easy 8-0 victory to start the season against a weak opponent, they lost four in a row.
I think Vanguard is jumping to PacWest with an even strong school in Westmont. That is a D2 conference.
Westmont already moved, but Vanguard's move isn't until 2024-2025. Vanguard released their 2023 schedule and they are still in the Golden State Athletic Conference in NAIA
https://vanguardlions.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Either way, thanks for pointing out this move, since it may already be impacting their recruitment and transfers to the extent DII is more attractive than NAIA. I guess that means they could be an even stronger opponent for Pomona-Pitzer this year.
Scranton
https://athletics.scranton.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Quote from: Kuiper on June 05, 2023, 07:44:56 PM
Occidental
https://www.oxyathletics.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Texas Lutheran and Lewis & Clark (in its second season) making trips to Los Angeles this year. Not sure about Marymount College, which is playing Oxy over Labor Day. Could it be Marymount University from Arlington, Virginia? Seems like too big a trip for them, but I can't find another Marymount College that makes sense.
Cal Lutheran's schedule is out
https://www.clusports.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
I think the mystery about Marymount College may be closer to being solved. Both Cal Lu and Oxy have Marymount (and Texas Lutheran) on the schedule during Labor Day weekend. Even though Cal Lu specifically lists "Marymount (CA)" and Oxy lists "Marymount College", it must be Marymount University from Virginia. Marymount (CA) was an NAIA school in Rancho Palos Verdes that closed in August 2022. The campus of Marymount (CA) was actually sold to UCLA recently (UCLA is a former member of the SCIAC, by the way, from 1920-1927). Marymount College was a school that merged with Loyola Marymount University in the 1970s. My guess is that both Oxy and Cal Lu have Marymount (CA) and/or Marymount College as a former opponent and the schedule automatically populated these former schools when they typed in Marymount. I can't confirm the mystery is solved until Marymount University posts its schedule though!
In any event, Cal Lu is also playing Whitworth and Pacific in Santa Cruz the second weekend of the season, so lots of cross-pollination with other conferences and regions.
Marymount Va. is playing Cal Lutheran and Occidental. Confirmed on their instagram page. Seems most teams in the Mid Atlantic have been posting schedule graphics on their team instagram before they post them to the athletics website!
Quote from: d3ma on July 11, 2023, 08:54:33 PM
Marymount Va. is playing Cal Lutheran and Occidental. Confirmed on their instagram page. Seems most teams in the Mid Atlantic have been posting schedule graphics on their team instagram before they post them to the athletics website!
Thank you! It's nice to know at least one Marymount is still alive and well and playing in D3 (there's another Marymount that merged with Fordham, besides the one that merged into Loyola Marymount and was acquired by UCLA).
Here's a few from the Northwest Conference. I discussed some of these before as part of tournaments at UC Santa Cruz, Colorado College and Trinity (TX) or I just provided the schedules, but might as well put them in one place
George Fox
https://athletics.georgefox.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Hosting Ausburg and traveling to Socal for La Verne and Whittier
Lewis & Clark
https://lcpioneers.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule?path=msoc
In only their second year, they are traveling to Los Angeles to play Occidental and Whittier. They are also hosting Cal Tech over Labor Day weekend, which should be a fairly competitive match-up.
Linfield
https://golinfieldwildcats.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Hosting Augsburg and Cal Tech over Labor Day and traveling to Los Angeles the following week to play La Verne and Pomona-Pitzer. They might as well be an honorary member of the SCIAC along with UC Santa Cruz now that they are playing three SCIAC members this fall
Pacific Lutheran
https://golutes.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Traveling to Colorado College where they also play Nebraska Wesleyan and hosting Emory and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Whitman
https://athletics.whitman.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Traveling to Texas to play Hardin-Simmons, Southwestern, and Trinity
Whitworth
https://whitworthpirates.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Traveling to Santa Cruz to play UC Santa Cruz and Cal Lutheran
Willamette
https://www.wubearcats.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Strong non-conference schedule. Willamette is trying to build the case for a tourney bid just in case they don't win the conference tournament
9/1 @Southwestern (Georgetown, Texas)
9/3 v. St. Thomas (at Trinity in San Antonio, Texas)
9/4 @ Trinity (San Antonio, Texas)
9/8 home to Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
9/10 home to Emory
Still waiting for Pacific and Puget Sound
Landmark schedules posted, of particular interest now that the conference has expanded to 10 teams with the inclusion of Lycoming and Wilkes.
Catholic - https://www.catholicathletics.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Early non-conference games vs. Messiah, Emory, and Gettysburg and then Mary Washington in late October
Drew - https://drewrangers.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Soft non-conference schedule with the exception of Western CT and Vassar.
Elizabethtown - https://etownbluejays.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Non-conference games vs. local rivals F&M, Messiah, Lebanon Valley
Goucher - https://athletics.goucher.edu/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Move along. Nothing to see here
Juniata - https://www.juniatasports.net/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Swarthmore and Carnegie Mellon headline the non-conference games
Lycoming - https://lycomingathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Decent non-conference games vs. Hopkins, Mary Washington, Messiah and Gettysburg
Moravian - https://www.moraviansports.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Montclair is the non-conference highlight with potential challenges from Washington Coll and Muhlenberg
Scranton - https://athletics.scranton.edu/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
The defending champions take on non-conference heavyweights MIT? Muhlenberg? Haverford?
Susquehanna - https://suriverhawks.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
The River Hawks non-conference highlight is a season opener vs. PSU-Harrisburg.
Wilkes - https://gowilkesu.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Non conference games vs. Rutgers-Camden and Swarthmore will be interesting
It's always dizzying and fun to see the Colorado College schedule, which usually has a travel schedule that is not for the faint of heart. They also schedule game days back-to-back a lot to reduce the lost time due to travel. This year, they managed to put together two mini-tournament/round robins in Colorado Springs that help, but it's still pretty brutal.
https://cctigers.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
9/1-9/3 - Home to Lake Forest and Pacific Lutheran
9/8-9/9 - Away to Wilmington in Ada, OH and @ Ohio Northern (maybe they drive 2 hours to Denver, fly to Columbus, and drive 1.5 hours to Ada?)
9/15-9/17 - Away to Univ of Ozarks in Dallas and @ UT Dallas
9/23-9/24 - Home to Christopher Newport and UC Santa Cruz
9/29-9/31 - Start SCAC conference play away to Centenary in Shreveport and to St. Thomas in Houston (with probably a 4+ hour bus ride on the rest day in-between)
Given the number of different conferences and regions their opponents come from, I feel like Colorado College (especially if it has a good season) has to have an outsized influence on strength-of-schedules and therefore Pool C tournament bids around the country.
Puget Sound.
https://loggerathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Quote from: westroadsf on July 15, 2023, 11:09:11 AM
Puget Sound.
https://loggerathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Thanks! That's a very odd schedule. Whitman in the second game is a Northwest Conference game despite not being marked as a conference game. So, that means they are playing 1 non-conference game and that's it. Last year, they played 6 non-conference games. The NWC does a double round robin, so there are more conference games than in other conferences, but I don't think any other NWC is playing fewer than three or four non-conference games plus scrimmages. I wonder why so few.
Yes wondering whether this might be an incomplete schedule. With late head coach change, maybe things are still in motion on the scheduling.
Quote from: westroadsf on July 15, 2023, 02:33:07 PM
Yes wondering whether this might be an incomplete schedule. With late head coach change, maybe things are still in motion on the scheduling.
You could be right, although given that Olney stepped down in July and his assistant was promoted to interim, you would have thought that the schedule would have been basically done already.
In any event, the addition of two games with Lewis & Clark as it transitions to conference play in the NWC has reduced everyone's non-conference schedule already, so Puget Sound is only playing 3 fewer games overall than last year and still a perfectly reasonable total number of games (17) compared to D3 teams nationally (although the NWC doesn't have a conference tournament given its round robin conference schedule format, while schools in other conferences can often play more games than they have scheduled originally because of those tournaments and therefore leave room at the end of the schedule to account for that).
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Quote from: TNAggie on June 13, 2023, 05:32:40 AM
Partial listing of Centennial Conference mens soccer 2023 schedules released:
Washington College
https://washcollsports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Muhlenberg
https://muhlenbergsports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
McDaniel
https://mcdanielathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Gettysburg
https://gettysburgsports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Johns Hopkins
https://hopkinssports.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Here's a few more from the Centennial:
Ursinus
https://ursinusathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2023
Dickinson
https://dickinsonathletics.com/sports/msoc/schedule
Just waiting on Haverford, Swarthmore and F&M
Here's Franklin & Marshall. The Stevens game to open the season over Labor Day weekend should be a good gauge for both teams.
https://godiplomats.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Swarthmore
https://swarthmoreathletics.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Some decent non-conference opponents, including Rosemont, Coast Guard Academy, Kean, and New Jersey City University
Only missing Haverford from the Centennial
Centennial Conference is now complete
Haverford
https://www.haverfordathletics.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/schedule
Out of conference schedule looks like the kind of schedule you create as a new coach to build confidence as you try to turn around a program (or maybe those are the only kind of opponents you can find when other schools are looking for out of conference opponents to help their strength of schedule and your school had a down season last year). Some decent opponents, but many of those are holdovers from last year's schedule. MIT is new.
Can not expect much. The coach was interim through the spring.
The last NWC holdout, Pacific. Notable is the out of conf travel to California for Cal Lutheran and UC Santa Cruz.
https://goboxers.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
Quote from: westroadsf on July 20, 2023, 08:49:24 PM
The last NWC holdout, Pacific. Notable is the out of conf travel to California for Cal Lutheran and UC Santa Cruz.
https://goboxers.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule
That's actually pretty unusual given how far away Cal Lutheran is from UC Santa Cruz. Either they are flying down to LA and then flying back to Oregon with a layover in San Jose or they are attempting some crazy road trip. Usually, teams schedule two games in LA, but they must have had trouble finding a school to pair with Cal Lutheran.
Looks like Santa Cruz is hosting both Cal Lutheran and Pacific along with some others (Whitworth). So several NWC teams doing some heavy out of conference traveling.
Quote from: westroadsf on July 20, 2023, 11:47:22 PM
Looks like Santa Cruz is hosting both Cal Lutheran and Pacific along with some others (Whitworth). So several NWC teams doing some heavy out of conference traveling.
That makes more sense. I should have known. Pacific and Cal Lutheran are just meeting in the middle.
A lot of teams reported in the last day or two for preseason training, so, in a sense, today is the start of the D3 men's soccer fall activities.
Many schedules don't list scrimmages they have scheduled during preseason, if they have any, but those that do generally take place next week, with a critical mass of schools listing scrimmages having them taking place on Tuesday.
BUT, two schools are actually playing a game TONIGHT! at 7 pm Central.
Mary Hardin-Baylor @ Texas Lutheran.
Now, technically, it is listed as a "reserve" exhibition game, but at this point in preseason, the lines between the fringe players on the first team and the reserve team are probably at least a little blurry.
So, I think it's fair to say that first official (exhibition) game of the preseason that is not an intrasquad scrimmage is starting in a little over an hour.
(Incidentally, Texas Lutheran has five preseason exhibition games listed, three of them listed as reserve game exhibitions, which has to be a record for preseason games against other schools!)
Best of luck to all involved deep in the heart/heat of Texas!
Crazy they start scrimmages on day 2! great info from everyone.
In case it was lost on page 1: https://masseyratings.com/csoc/ncaa-d3/games link to the MASTER D3 Schedule.
If you missed the MHB-Texas Lutheran reserve squad scrimmage last night, the next earliest scrimmage I could find is tomorrow:
Sunday, Aug 20
Paul Smith College @ SUNY Canton, 2 pm eastern
After that, the floodgates for scrimmages open (which is not exactly the metaphor I should be using in Southern California right now as the floods are literally predicted to come Sunday for us with a hurricane heading our way)