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.

Typical tough NON-CONFERENCE schedule for Hope ;-)

Quote from: Augie2020 on June 25, 2025, 01:26:23 PMTufts schedule is out they play the U on Sunday November 23rd at 1! YW

The only 2 NonConf teams that I've seen have Scranton on their schedule so far are Tufts and Penn State Harrisburg.

Quote from: justafan12 on May 16, 2025, 04:21:13 PM

Quote from: scottiedawg on May 14, 2025, 08:58:46 AMand thank goodness they didn't just smash Linfield and Redlands into the same pod.

Honest question, why would that be bad?

Teams #6 and #9 in the same opening pod would be seeded very very poorly.

Ideally you have one team from each group in an opening weekend pod:
#1-16
#17-32
#33-48
#49-64

and thank goodness they didn't just smash Linfield and Redlands into the same pod.

Official NCAA Mileage Calculator tool says 501 Huntingdon -> ETBU and 502 ETBU -> Huntingdon. So unless there's a change I don't know about it's a "flight."

Marietta is in bad financial trouble right?

I wonder how much Isaiah Hamlet's recruiting commitment is linked to VanderWal.