Quote from: WUPHF on May 14, 2026, 11:25:45 AMNo promises of feature-style coverage or maybe I missed it.

Flo College did publish a greatest sports dynasties story last week, so they are doing things.  Limited things.

It seems strange that Johns Hopkins lacrosse and St. Thomas football made the list by the way, especially with the obvious recency bias.

You have to favor the recent dynasties to pick NYU Women's Basketball over the other more storied UAA program.

And Calvin volleyball?

https://www.flocollege.com/articles/15882801-the-greatest-d3-sports-dynasties-ever

The Calvin volleyball dynasty could almost be called the Kamp dynasty. In the 11-year stretch from 2008-2018, eight MIAA MVP awards awards were collected by Calvin's string of Kamp sisters.

Rebecca Kamp (x3), Lizzie Kamp, Maggie Kamp (x2), Anna Kamp (x2)

In that span, Calvin also had six AVCA D3 National Player of the Year winners, including each of the four Kamp sisters above, won three national titles, and two national runner-up finishes. There were other amazing players who weren't all related to each other as well, but it was a pretty incredible run for the program and family!

Quote from: Jake Feldman on May 14, 2026, 02:11:07 PMIF we had most of the D2 schools move down to D3, that may necessitate a split to maintain competitive balance in the division.

My baseline assumption is programs coming to D3 from 'higher' levels will struggle for a while as they adjust to turning over their roster and recruiting without scholarships to offer.

Quote from: pointlem on May 01, 2026, 08:17:49 AM

Quote from: goodknight on April 30, 2026, 11:18:04 PMMatthew Elderkin, an athletic 6-6 wing who prepped at Calvin Christian, will transfer from D2 GVSU to Calvin this fall with three years of eligibility.

With 14 eligible returning players and this impressive new 11-man recruiting class, Calvin should have a great jv team, GoodKnight (or some disappointed returnees and recruits)? Coaches, I presume, would rather have too much talent than too little. I'm guessing you have your varsity contributors in the post-Jalen era already penciled in.

Everyone will have the opportunity to compete for playing time in the fall, and I believe Coach Sall and the Calvin staff do a good job honestly communicating with recruits and seem to set realistic expectations with where they see them fitting in.

Case in point: during this year's MBB banquet, Luka Ressler recounted his recruitment and how Sall told him he saw him beginning as a JV player. Luka got to work proving what he could do and started 17 varsity games as a freshman.

You shouldn't be hurt by not taking them because you could just decide to take them.

I think we're at the point when most all-region caliber players are going to check out their opportunities?

I don't see him as a D1 guy, so hopefully he'll return to Hope. Maybe I'm wrong, I'm not a scout.

1,281 combined attendance was the number I heard.

Quote from: PauldingLightUP on March 18, 2026, 01:53:32 PMWhat type of schools is Overway looking at? D2 or D1 or UAA?

I think he'd be looking at D1 opportunities.

So it's a scheduling agreement and some consolidation of conference office personnel?

Parker Sundman, 6-4 Hartland, has committed to Alma.

The MIAA is well represented on the All-Region list:

Jalen Overway, Calvin, 1st Team, Region POY (tied w/ Luke Chicone)
Parker Hovey, Hope, 1st Team
Nathan Richardson, Olivet, 2nd Team
Jayden Bradshaw, Trine, 3rd Team

https://d3hoops.com/awards/all-region/2025-26/region-7-men

This post mentions that Luke Tubergen of Unity Christian is also heading to Calvin.

https://www.westmichiganballers.com/news/four-unity-christian-seniors-will-play-together-at-calvin-university

It seems like there are indications that it was purely a miss on Endicott's part and there wasn't a reason they couldn't host besides not submitting to.

I doubt the C2C will kick anyone out, but I could see a scenario where they develop critical regional mass, try to implement some sort of regular season schedule, and 'force' the geographic outliers out voluntarily.

Although, in MBB at least, the Christopher Newports and Mary Washingtons don't really want to play the Warren Wilsons or Regents, so I doubt the above would happen any time soon.

Tufts and Wesleyan played the same number of times as Tufts and Endicott.

d3hoops.com has a post up now containing what should be the direct link (it might show up as Access Denied until show time, but I think that's right):

https://d3hoops.com/playoffs/men/2026/selection-day