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Quote from: CNU85 on March 22, 2026, 10:40:52 AMTime to become a Mary Wash fan for 1 game!  Congrats to the Eagles.

CNU hung tough for most of the game and just didn't have enough in the tank for the last few minutes. Emory is too good of a team to mount a comeback.

We will be back.

I would think (before seeing final rosters) CNU would be preseason top 3.

Could be. CNU loses one senior. UMW has zero seniors. There's always the transfer portal issue, but I'm not too worried about that. I'm not sure about the other top teams. Maybe I will do some research in the off season.

Thank you, Colin Hines. You were fun to watch. Captains For Life! 

Time to become a Mary Wash fan for 1 game!  Congrats to the Eagles.

CNU hung tough for most of the game and just didn't have enough in the tank for the last few minutes. Emory is too good of a team to mount a comeback.

We will be back.

Quote from: y_jack_lok on March 20, 2026, 09:52:02 AMCongrats to CNU and UMW. Could it be an all C2C championship game? Greek Tragedy, over on the 2026 Tournament board, thinks not. He's predicting a Trinity vs Emory final.

Who knows. Once you get to this stage, it's anybody's game!

Interestingly, of the 2 C2C teams in the final four....there's only 1 senior. That's Colin Hines for CNU.

Quote from: Patrick Coleman on March 14, 2026, 03:36:38 PM

Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on March 14, 2026, 11:40:03 AM

Quote from: CNU85 on March 14, 2026, 08:08:53 AMWhat a win for CNU!  Wow. I not only missed the game in person, I couldn't even watch on line from Florida. A lot going on but I was able to open the horrible ncaa live stats and somewhat follow the game. What can be done about their live stats? They're ridiculously horrible!

Now it's time for UMW to get it done tonight!

This won't help for the rest of the tourney, but most schools still use their sidearm stats, so if you can figure out how to enter that manually, you can still follow along the old way.

You don't have to figure out how to enter that manually. Just go to the D3hoops.com scoreboard. That's the link we use if it's available!

I think that's what I did. I don't normally go to ncaa.com. But maybe not. I'll blame it on age.

What a win for CNU!  Wow. I not only missed the game in person, I couldn't even watch on line from Florida. A lot going on but I was able to open the horrible ncaa live stats and somewhat follow the game. What can be done about their live stats? They're ridiculously horrible!

Now it's time for UMW to get it done tonight!

Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on March 10, 2026, 09:26:53 PM

Quote from: CNU85 on March 10, 2026, 08:49:49 PMHere's some trivia for you...NCAA men's basketball...DI D2 and D3...since 2016....only two schools have reached the Sweet 16 round 8 times! Can you name them?

I did a copy and paste from a text I received asking me this. I eventually got it correct.

CNU makes sense.  I'll go with Gonzaga from D1?

Bingo!

Here's some trivia for you...NCAA men's basketball...DI D2 and D3...since 2016....only two schools have reached the Sweet 16 round 8 times! Can you name them?

I did a copy and paste from a text I received asking me this. I eventually got it correct.

Mario Byrd Returns to CNU as DC

Quote from: Patrick Coleman on March 09, 2026, 01:55:11 PM

Quote from: y_jack_lok on March 08, 2026, 09:41:57 AMWhat an amazing game it must have been at Emory. I was peeking in on the live stream, mainly to check the score, since the live stats on the D3hoops.com scoreboard weren't updating reliably.

The "live stats" provided by NCAA.com are pretty terrible. Don't know why they are the worst live stats literally every. Even the basic package people started using in like 2002 is better than theirs.

Their live stats are ridiculous! I can't even look at them.

Looking at the 2023 Equity and Athletics data, UCSC is in the top half of D3 Budgets. #148 out of 407 schools listed. Total Expenses in 2023 were right in line with Salisbury and not far off from UMW. Of the 407 schools, the average was $3,996,280. Santa Cruz expenses were $4,358,257. Salisbury was $4.2 Million (#143). UMW broke into the top 100, coming in at #98 with expenses just below $5 Million

I agree, any school facing deficits should, and probably are, looking for ways to right the ship. However, UCSC is so remote even from those conferences that perhaps their expenses would increase if they were in a conference that actually required regular season conference games. Now, they can pretty much be an independent until the post season and can schedule based on what makes sense for them. Reasonable travel against teams from multiple conferences. There would have to be some study on the impact to them as well as potential impact to the other schools from conferences mentioned. Adding UCSC could possibly add to travel costs for all other conference members.

There is a reason(s) they joined the C2C and not already in another conference out west. Perhaps this is one the reasons.

While not entering the NCAA tournament as conference champions, CNU will be making its 10th consecutive NCAA appearance. I believe that is the longest active streak in DIII, but I could be wrong.

Coach Krikorian is in his 15th season at CNU and his teams have made it to the NCAA tournament 12 times (once the selection show makes it official on Monday).

In the first 11 trips to the postseason under Krikorian:



Lost in 1st round - once
Lost in 2nd round - 3 times
Lost in Sweet 16 - once and one time COVID stopped the tournament. Home game vs Hobart
Lost in Elite Eight - twice
Lost in Final Four - twice
National Champion - once

Incredible run!

Congratulations to the Lady Captains. 7 straight conference titles. 10 consecutive trips to the NCAA postseason.

This is Coach Broderick's 13th season at CNU. It will be his 12th trip to the NCAA tournament. 9 of the previous 11 trips his team went to the Sweet 16 or better!

Impressive!

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Quote from: FCGrizzliesGrad on February 28, 2026, 08:22:27 PMThe amount of AQs decided by one possession today is staggering.


Hood beat York (PA) in 2OT

Penn St-Harrisburg beat Cairn by 1
Neumann beat Gwynedd Mercy by 1
MUW beat Webster by 1
Bethany Lutheran beat Minn-Morris by 1
Aurora beat Marian by 1

TCNJ beat Montclair St by 2
Keuka beat Brockport by 3
UW-La Crosse beat UW-Whitewater by 3
Rhodes beat Trinity (TX) by 3

Still almost a dozen more games left tonight.

 That's the way it should be.

One could only wish. To quote a friend, CNU was beaten "like a rented mule"

Congrats to the Eagles. Absolutely crushed CNU tonight. I think they might make another long run in the tournament.