Quote from: Flying Dutch Fan on Today at 09:50:24 AM- Was great to see Grayson Guy get some minutes returning from an ankle injury - thought Katie Blazei has playing extremely well in her abscence.

heartily agree on both points!

oh good clarification, I only count games against D3 opponents. But you totally could count other games too.

I've got the WBB at 44-14 in NonConf play after yesterday: https://thed3statlab.com/conference_rankings.html

Team	W	L
Lynchburg	5	0
Bridgewater (VA)	5	1
Shenandoah	5	1
Guilford	4	0
Washington & Lee	4	0
Hollins	4	1
Randolph-Macon	4	2
Virginia Wesleyan	3	0
Randolph Col	3	1
Roanoke	3	1
Eastern Mennonite	3	3
Averett	1	4

Quote from: Flying Dutch Fan on November 20, 2025, 11:14:16 AMHope is quite a young team.  5 games into the season, there are 8 players averaging double digit minutes: 2 Sr, 2 Jr, 3 So, and 1 Fr

Hope's minutes weighted Class Year is 2.54, so right between a Soph and a Junior. They are the 140th youngest team in D3.

Oldest team is Mass-Dartmouth, at 3.98.

Rest of MIAA

Calvin - 3.02
Adrian - 2.89
Albion - 2.76
Alma - 2.66
St. Mary's - 2.66
Trine - 2.65
Hope - 2.54
Kalamazoo - 2.44
Olivet - 2.44

Carollo has the 21st tallest team in D3 this year and is using it to their advantage!

Illinois Wesleyan is 55th tallest.

I have my eye on Oglethorpe who could outperform that poll position.

I also understand that they're basically tied for 3rd with Berry and Millsaps so ending up 3rd isn't reallly that much of an outperform of the poll position!

I definitely see Trinity and Centre as the top 2.

Quote from: saratoga on October 31, 2025, 06:05:16 PM7.Goucher-
They had their best year in over a decade last season & if they've retained those players & the new coach can build on their success, then they can have another admirable campaign.
However, if the turnover of players continues, it will be an up & down year at best.

Goucher WBB bring back 7/16 underclassmen.

The 9 non-returners played 1,286 minutes last year.

That exhibition is a great picture of why, on my preseason top 25 ballot, I had no team higher than IWU that brought back less scoring.  It's just so difficult to have any idea what sort of recruiting class a team is bringing in, but looking at track record you should bet on IWU / Mia Smith!

Inter-conference transfers are always interesting to me!

Bethel has added Grad Lexi Scherrmann, who last played for Gustavus Adolphus in 2023-24.

Concordia Moorhead has added Soph Tatum Findley, who played 431 min last year for St. Benedict.

St. Scholastica has added Soph Evie Schmitz, who played 50 min last year for St. Benedict.


Other transfers of note:
Olivia Boily of St. Benedict is a Grad transfer to UW-River Falls
Madison Kenyon of St. Scholastica is a transfer to Nebraska Wesleyan
Hanna Hoskin of Northland is a transfer to St. Scholastica

Trine WBB have posted a roster and 5 underclassmen do not return (I think I heard most of them graduated).

JR Jada Rhonehouse - 608 minutes
JR Alexis Snodgrass - 94
JR Jordan Walters - 52
JR - Allie Walther - 21
SO Sydney Horton - 173

Trine returns 43.8% of their 2024-25 scoring production, currently 327th most in the division.

Division-wide scoring return % is currently 60.31%.

As a league the MIAA currently returns 4th most of any league, 68.53%. A lot of that is driven by Kalamazoo (87.4%) and Adrian (85.4%).

Looking only at teams that won 0.700+ last year, the MIAA returns 19th most (54.76%).

I've got Scranton's first 2 games as the T-2nd hardest opening pair of opponents across the country:

Main Team - Opponent 1 (My preseason rank), Opponent 2 (My preseason rank)
New Jersey City  -  Opponent 1: NYU (6), Opponent 2: Scranton (2)
Rochester  -  Opponent 1: Cortland (7), Opponent 2: SUNY Geneseo (37)
Scranton  -  Opponent 1: SUNY Geneseo (37), Opponent 2: Cortland (7)
UW-Whitewater  -  Opponent 1: WashU (31), Opponent 2: Illinois Wesleyan (16)
Dickinson  -  Opponent 1: Randolph-Macon (23), Opponent 2: Messiah (26)
Carroll  -  Opponent 1: UW-Oshkosh (8), Opponent 2: St. Norbert (50)
Chicago  -  Opponent 1: St. Norbert (50), Opponent 2: UW-Oshkosh (8)
Husson  -  Opponent 1: St. Joseph's (ME) (51), Opponent 2: Bates (9)
Chatham  -  Opponent 1: Rochester Tech (65), Opponent 2: Washington & Lee (3)
Allegheny  -  Opponent 1: Washington & Lee (3), Opponent 2: Rochester Tech (65)
Hope  -  Opponent 1: UW-La Crosse (33), Opponent 2: UW-River Falls (39)
Calvin  -  Opponent 1: UW-La Crosse (33), Opponent 2: UW-River Falls (39)

You're really on top of this! I think it just got posted ~35 min ago.

Quote from: y_jack_lok on September 16, 2025, 02:17:07 PM^^^ Prin has actually put together quite a non-conference schedule. In addition to the two ODAC opponents, they've scheduled three WIAC opponents. Also, not counting the Oct 23rd game vs UMSL, which I assume is an exhibition, they are showing a total of 26 games, 10 being non-conference. Unless something has changed, that's one more game than allowed, right?

Yes, once the season starts on 11/7, a team can only have 25 D3 games. Principia will need to eliminate one of those games.

My data currently has Principia's schedule:
193rd most difficult overall
250th most difficult Conference schedule
57th most difficult Non-Conference Schedule

RMC also does not return 2024-25 Sophomore Bella Bruce, who started 23/31 games and played 719 minutes (transferred to Montclair St.).

I'm fascinated by Principia playing 4 games in 5 days 11/21-25/25!

North Park published today.