Man, Concordia can absolutely rake. If they can get their pitching going even a little, they could be trouble for people at the national level. Their lineup is loaded.

The forecast in Cleburne might make for a few long days at the tournament. Looking like pretty constant rain on both Thursday and Friday right now.

Quote from: Ralph Turner on April 21, 2026, 06:11:16 PMJekelish, Does the SCAC determine final standings by winning percentage?

If so, then McMurry at 15-13 (0.536) looks to finish above someone at 16-14 (0.533) for tournament seeding and would be seeded 4th unless AC or Hendrix sweeps. If AC finishes 15-13, I think they have the head-to-head vs McMurry for 4th.

The AC at Hendrix series is crucial for both teams. It is almost like a play-in series for them

One loss by a team at 13-14 knocks them out. Each has to sweep for any chance.

Yep - McMurry, after these games are canceled, is in. My math tells me there's no way they can be bumped at this point, because conference winning percentage is the next metric. I spent waaaaaaay too much time this weekend breaking down scenarios. And you're dead on: AC vs HC really is pretty much a play-in. I feel like we can probably expect Centenary to sweep Ozarks, which would put the Gents in. But if Ozarks takes a game, that's makes things very interesting and confusing. Looking at the forecast, it looks like there's a very good chance the HC/AC games don't end up being played, either. If that happens, both McM and AC are almost certainly in based on win percentages.

What a wild season.

Quote from: Ralph Turner on April 20, 2026, 07:35:13 PMHere is the announcement last week of the schedule change to permit the McMurry AC DH on 04/21/2026.

https://www.acroos.com/sports/bsb/2025-26/releases/20260414iciufw

Yes, it is Senior Night which is scheduled to be celebrated between games of the DH.

However, we have rain across Texas this week. The current line of showers are scheduled to move past Abilene early tomorrow morning, but not past Sherman TX until 9AM Wednesday. Might we see another postponement, which would give McMurry pitching another day of rest?  (AC is coming off a bye last weekend.)

The games have been canceled. Can't see any path to making them up at this point, with AC leaving for Conway later this week and not enough time early next week to get them in, so McMurry's regular season appears to be done.

Wasn't expecting it, but Austin College and McMurry are gonna be making up their DH that got canceled (which, turns out, was just "postponed" in retrospect) a week from today. Gonna be a very late night in Sherman since it's a DH starting at 5:30, but with the standings as tight as they are, it's gonna prove super crucial.

Quote from: 108 Stitches on April 02, 2026, 01:53:18 PMI have just kept "one eye" on D3 baseball since my son's graduation, but I think this is the first time that I can remember not seeing Trinity in the top 25 over the past 15 years. I do like that Trinity is "back" in the the SAA, which is a former subset of the SCC, and will get to play a wider group of teams.

What's wild is that Trinity was ranked #1 only a few weeks ago. I saw the latest poll and was stunned that they're not in it at all at this point. (I haven't paid attention to their schedule so I didn't notice them losing a bunch or anything; just noticed the incredibly rapid fall from #1 to no longer ranked.)

Quote from: Ralph Turner on March 29, 2026, 04:40:48 PMWith four weekends left, the SCAC is a real mess. The post-season tourney takes 4 teams and 10 of 11 teams are still in contention.


Texas Lutheran            14-4    19-7
Concordia (Texas) (CTX)    12-9    16-10
Hendrix  (HX)              10-8    15-10
LeTourneau            10-8    13-15
McMurry                  11-10    13-14
Schreiner            9-9    11-16
Austin                    10-11    12-14
Centenary (La.)            8-10    13-15
St. Thomas (Texas)    9-12    10-18
University of Dallas    7-11    9-18
University of Ozarks    5-13    11-17

TLU has almost mathematically clinched.

CTX is 12-9 and hosts UOz, at TLU, at St Thomas

Hendrix is 10-8 and is at UD, hosts TLU, at LeTU and hosts AC
LeTU is 10-8 and is at St Thomas, hosts UD, hosts HX and is at Schreiner.

McMurry is 11-10 and then is at AC, hosts Centenary, and hosts Schreiner.

Schreiner is 9-9 and is at UOz, hosts AC, at McM and hosts LeTU

Austin Coll (AC) is 10-11. They host McM, host Schreiner and at HX

Centenary LA is 8-10. at TLU, at McMurry, host St Thomas and hosts  UOz

St Thomas is 9-12.  They host LeTU, at Centenary and host CTX.

UDallas is 7-11. They host Hx, at LeTU, at UOz, and host TLU.

St Thomas made the 2025 SCAC Tourney with 17-13 and the tie-breaker over TLU (also 17-13).

Just FYI: this year the tournament is going to feature 6 teams. I believe it'll revert back to 4 next year, but this season it'll be the top 6.

Austin College with a big win in a competitive series at #25 TLU this weekend, right after TLU knocked off #1 Trinity. If AC can get more consistent pitching, their offense is good enough to potentially be disruptive in the new 6-team tournament format that's taking place this season.

Quote from: Ron Boerger on March 01, 2026, 11:36:05 AMThe SCAC will be represented by a surprising squad as Austin (15-11) and Hendrix (17-10) defeated Texas Lutheran (53-43) and top seed Colorado College (52-42), respectively, to advance to today's championship match.  For the 'Roos, this represents the team's first championship appearance since capturing the 2020 title; for Hendrix in their first year back in the SCAC since the SAA split 13 years ago, since 2011.  Only today's winner will advance to the NCAAs - no at-large bid for either of these two.

After yesterday's loss, Colorado College (20-6) is 26th among at-large candidates, and with only 21 at-large teams will remain at home regardless of today's other results.  They *might* have been a candidate had they defeated Hendrix and then lost in the final. 

I'm very happy to see the 'Roos back on track after several years in the wilderness.  It's a shame that Coach of the Year was announced before yesterday, because with all due respect to coach Auguste, all they did in the Springs was continue a tradition of excellence they've had for years.  It's much, much harder to do what coach Hunt has done in less than a year in Sherman - not to mention AC's only had two third-team all-conference selections.  CC had a first-team and a second-team recipient (and the second-teamer was also newcomer of the year). 

Regarding your last point with All-SCAC picks, that's where Austin College is really hurt because they're a very balanced squad without any dominant presences, so no one stands out statistically. Doesn't lend itself well to All-Conference voting, of course. AC only had one person average double figures this season, Lexi Martin, and I would wager even she would say this season was not her best overall, as well as the best defense (in terms of PPG allowed, at least) in the conference. It's honestly not dissimilar from one of Tony Bennett's classic Virginia squads in those ways.

Pretty solid first season for Olivia Hunt at Austin College. The 'Roos just clinched the SCAC Blue Division with one game to play after an 11-point road win at Hendrix, giving them the sweep over the Warriors this year.

Quote from: Ron Boerger on December 16, 2025, 12:25:25 PMAustin College named Dr. Rebecca Cantor, currently Provost and Chief Academic Officer at Spring Hill [AL] College, as their 17th president.  She will begin her term in July 2026; current president Steven O'Day will continue in the role until his retirement in May 2026.  Prior to her arrival at Spring Hill, Dr. Cantor was at Savannah School of Arts and Design, where she served as department chair, professor of English and Assistant Provost.  Dr. Cantor will also serve as Professor of English at Austin.

As she has never served at a school with a football program, it remains to be seen how her arrival will impact the 'Roo program, and 'Roo athletics in general. 

Dr. Cantor was a D1 volleyball player at Fairfield University, so she's definitely got an athletics background (she's apparently in their athletics Hall of Fame, at least as a member of one of their teams when she was there). That's two straight presidents for AC with an athletics background (O'Day was the women's soccer coach at Franklin & Marshall back in the day).

Quote from: WUPHF on December 08, 2025, 10:11:36 AMI assume that all Flo Sports writers are freelancers, but hard to say.

Flo has 18 conferences along with multiple team events among other things.

The margins must be too small to properly staff the content teams.

I'm guessing they use local college student interns (UT is only a stone's throw from their offices in downtown Austin) for a lot of that content.

Quote from: WUPHF on November 16, 2025, 09:54:31 PM

Quote from: jekelish on November 16, 2025, 05:08:38 PMI don't think people understand that ESPN+ streaming stuff isn't done by ESPN. It's handled by the schools, just like how Flo works. So it'll still be fully reliant on what the schools have at their disposal.

People understand how ESPN+ works.

I feel certain that ESPN would be upgrade for no other reason than the software.

I personally disagree, based on comments I've seen with people complaining about ESPN+ broadcasts over the years. Lots and lots of people have no idea that colleges are responsible for those, not ESPN. That's not really debatable, it's absolutely what happens. The ESPN+ broadcasts are only as good as what the colleges have, just like Flo is only as good as what the colleges have. (And that's not up for debate, that's a hard fact.)

Quote from: Gray Fox on November 16, 2025, 03:15:35 PM

Quote from: WUPHF on November 16, 2025, 03:11:52 PM

Quote from: y_jack_lok on November 16, 2025, 03:06:33 PM^^^ What convinces you?

The part about the decreased quality over the short run.

After ESPN or Disney take over it will look better then now but maybe not better than before.

Well, that's definitely not gonna be the case if it ever happens. I don't think people understand that ESPN+ streaming stuff isn't done by ESPN. It's handled by the schools, just like how Flo works. So it'll still be fully reliant on what the schools have at their disposal.

Quote from: Ron Boerger on September 08, 2025, 09:15:25 AMSince all Flo is doing is rebroadcasting the school's streams, contracts are most likely on a school-by-school basis. I noticed them pre-Flo.

I can say that I know part of the contract is that the schools are obligated to run, minimally, ads for Flo. Any additional ads are up to the school, but they are required to run a certain number of Flo ads during each broadcast.