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Quote from: blue_jays on April 27, 2026, 09:51:21 AMUChicago baseball just won its first conference title since 1913. The Maroons will make their second-ever NCAA postseason appearance. Great turnaround after a tough first half of the season.
https://athletics.uchicago.edu/news/2026/4/26/baseball-clinches-uaa-title-for-first-conference-championship-since-1913.aspx

So, UChicago's last title was in the "Dead Ball Era"?
 

Indeed it was, going back to the old days of Amos Alonzo Stagg. The fact the Maroons won 11-straight UAA games to clinch this past weekend was quite the feat.

UChicago baseball just won its first conference title since 1913. The Maroons will make their second-ever NCAA postseason appearance. Great turnaround after a tough first half of the season.
https://athletics.uchicago.edu/news/2026/4/26/baseball-clinches-uaa-title-for-first-conference-championship-since-1913.aspx

Quote from: north central on April 14, 2026, 10:35:11 AMI think this is where a coach or former coach needs to call out the administration publicly because that's the only way stuff will change .

For a current coach, this would be an objectively crazy thing to do, literal career suicide. Unless you are sufficiently monied for the rest of your life, no one would ever do this.

Quote from: nescac1 on March 25, 2026, 11:06:07 AMAnd just to prove I'm not showing my NESCAC bias here, as awesome a year that Shane Regan had, I would have swapped him onto the second team and Kye Robinson (or maybe even Zamet) onto the first. Robinson is just that good.  Very, very, very tough year for guards, Zamet, Geiger and Robinson all had legit first-team all-American years, and Vetter, Yarbrough, and Barnette are all guys who would have been higher up in the pecking order plenty of other seasons. 

Regan absolutely deserved 1st Team A-A spot. If he was in the championship game right now, he'd likely be up for National POTY, that's how much he has meant to UChicago's success. The Maroons hadn't done anything on the national scene in 20+ years, and he's the reason why they were as good as they were this year. His clutch play raised the ceiling and put them into the top 10 all season. Stats don't tell the whole story for him, the winning does.

I mean, who would have thought Aston Francis would go from JUCO bench warmer to one of the most prolific scorers in D3 history (2,406 points in 3 seasons). Ya never know when the unicorns will pop up.

Quote from: nescac1 on March 25, 2026, 08:17:27 AMAs a non CCIW guy I'm curious to hear how IWU managed to snag him in the first place. Was it that he made a massive leap during his redshirt year?  Because given his family pedigree and size/athleticism combo and how dominant he was from day one, it seems weird that D1s wouldn't be all over him while still in high school. 

With the sheer amount of basketball players nationally, talent falls through the cracks constantly. The coaches are now so focused on the transfer portal that incoming freshmen become more neglected. That mindset is moving basketball towards the realm of college tennis: the D1s in college tennis are so focused on international recruits, the U.S.-based players get forgotten.

Quote from: NEhoops on March 24, 2026, 06:28:27 PMnescac1 – who from the All-American teams is in the portal?

Per our ongoing discussion about team success and the relationship to individual accolades. It is interesting to see the inclusion of Landers (Concordia-Wis), Welch (Plattsburgh State) and Richardson (Wheaton-IIl). All three of their teams had limited success and aside from Richardson (from the CCIW), the other two leagues are below average. Not a knock on the players or the overall selection of the teams, just some ongoing perspective.

Scary to think that Illinois Wesleyan has a first team (sophomore) and fifth team (junior) selection. 

Interesting to wonder what success looks like for Cuevas, Civello, etc. Aside from money, what is ultimately the driving factor for them transferring, knowing that each situation is a unique set of circumstances.   

Richardson is a beast of a scorer, well deserved inclusion. If he had a better team (they're very young this past season), he would be heralded on the national scene more. Wheaton consistently produces All-Americans over the years.

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Quote from: SpringSt7 on March 18, 2026, 05:40:53 PMNo surprises on NABC All Americans but I will say, with all due respect to Endicott, who had an awesome season, if they can get a 1st team and a 2nd teamer, Trinity should have a 2nd teamer and a 3rd Teamer. Vetter 2nd team is well deserved but no Okorougo anywhere is wrong.

NABC just does one player per region per team.

Then it should be Vetter 1st and Okorougo 2nd. Another stupid rule, once again.

100% agree, one of them has to be on the first team.

I am always unimpressed by coaches orgs when it comes to All-American teams, they constantly get it wrong and usually in laughable ways (don't get me started on the soccer coaches org...).

Perfect example this year: WashU gets a player on 3rd team, and UChicago's Shane Regan is nowhere to be found on the list. What a joke. Regan has carried the Maroons to a top 10 ranking all season long, even a brief stint at #1, and advanced them to the Elite 8 for the second time ever. He is the straw that stirs the drink on that team. He has single-handedly won them multiple big games this year. Regan has been a national POTY type player, but apparently not good enough for NABC... I get it, WashU has name recognition in basketball, but frankly they underachieved this year compared to their hype (also 8-6 in UAA play). Regan takes UChicago from good to great.

Quote from: BaboNation on March 18, 2026, 05:55:03 PMOn the eve of tomorrow's games it seems to me that if you take a step back and appreciate what Tufts is doing across men's sports if they go on to win the championship then the university can claim something akin to the Tiger Slam.

Consider what trophies they'd currently retain:

Soccer
Lacrosse (2 x defending champs and probably safe to pencil them in for this year's as well)
Basketball (TBD)

So, you might say that's only 3 sports, whereas Tiger won all 4 majors.  True, but a championship in all 3 collegiate seasons (fall, winter, and spring) is pretty special.  Tiger only won in 2 seasons.  I'd need to see him tame Bethpage Black in February.

Meanwhile, the Tufts Baseball team has started 7-1, Massey #9.  Don't sleep on that team or their coach.

And then of course the conference is going to begin competing in the Football playoffs in 2026.  They aren't a powerhouse in that sport yet, but it won't hurt recruiting to know that playoffs are now in the offing.

Tufts is on a great run across the board in athletics. They've emerged as a legit national power in most of their sports and seem to be only going up.

However, nothing will touch what Wisconsin-Whitewater did in the 2013-14 academic year: they won national title in football, men's basketball, and baseball. A truly unbelievable feat.

Quote from: Kuiper on March 10, 2026, 01:38:23 PMAnother DIII transfer to DI story and one that has to sting for Gustavus Adolphus:

Kieran Mahan, a freshman forward for Gustavus who scored 12 goals and had 6 assists last season and was named MIAC Rookie of the Year, MIAC All-Conference Team, MIAC All-Playoff Team, and Second Team All-Region IX, is transferring to Drake University (DI) according to a post last month from Drake Men's Soccer Instagram

Interestingly, Drake is coached by Pat Flinn, who coached at UChicago (head and asst.) during their emergence as a national power.

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Quote from: monsoon on March 03, 2026, 08:46:23 PMWhat the D1 committee does is irrelevant. The D3 bracket is constructed differently by design. It is abundantly clear you do not like this, but your dislike does not change the systemically different realities, even if you continue to ignore them.

This year it is the NESCAC. As ziggy alluded to above, Hope/Calvin have been placed in the same pod on multiple occasions. WIAC teams are regularly bracketed to meet each other sooner than they would like. And you will certainly get no sympathy from our friends in Texas. The UAA avoids this not out of preference towards them but because of geography. 

Don't disagree, it's not fair and it's not good for d3 basketball. But easy changes could have been made, and not kill the bank. A huge bank!!!

It's not good for the NESCAC, perhaps. It doesn't matter for D-III basketball.

No number of posts from you on it is going to change the facts of seedings, or anyone's minds.

You have no idea whether it's changed anybody's mind!!!!!

Dude, chill out. You made your point many times. We don't all agree, and a lot of us know the realities of D3 and the limitations inherent to it. The bracketing in other D3 sports IMO are far worse than the issues basketball faces. Don't even get me started on NESCAC soccer and the huge NPI advantages they get.
End of the day, beat the teams in your bracket. Doesn't matter who it is.

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Quote from: Patrick Coleman on February 23, 2026, 02:38:37 PMWeakest dynasty is still a pretty decent place to be. 240 Division III schools would be happy for three national titles in the past six years.

you're right, champs are champs. crazy program accomplishment!

but there's no denying that D3FB is at a pretty low point with the portal and coaches jumping left and right. certain D3FB media has pretty much called NCC unbeatable, or the greatest team of all time...but no other "dynasty" has had such rough losses in the Stagg. 

I guess at least NCC hasn't had one taken away by cheating.  Second worst dynasty

Imagine if you used all that pent-up energy on something productive in life.

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A little gamesmanship from the Thunder?  Play Naperville on Oct 10?  Using the school logo instead of the NC?

is that not the weakest stuff?  just like Ohio State x'ing out all of the M's on campus.  super, super lame.  maybe just beat your rival for once?  nobody will care what you call them

This guy, always overreacting. It's the bell game, and that's a bell. Chill out.

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Quote from: iwu70 on February 02, 2026, 09:54:55 PMNew Poll:  U of Chicago and Nick Roper at #1.

IWU at #16, with ORV Carthage.  (IWU beat Chicago and Nick Roper earlier at Shirk). 

Five games to go.

'70

That didn't age well.

Poetic justice. Look, as a resident of the Windy City I like UC and I root for the Maroons as far as the UAA is concerned (same holds true for IIT, as I'll back the Scarlet Hawks within the NACC out of civic loyalty), but if someone's going to tout a UAA team on the CCIW board for the sole purpose of making his own team look good, then he deserves the jibe when that UAA team loses.

The UAA is stacked again this year and this is new territory for the Maroons in terms of basketball visibility.

Not exactly. Some of us still remember Derek Reich and the 2000-01 Maroons team that reached #1 in the D3hoops.com poll and made it all the way to the Elite Eight. But, yeah, that was a long time ago. It even predates the Ratner Center; I watched Chicago host those sectionals in March 2001 in the ancient Crown Field House, which felt a little like watching basketball games in a medieval European cathedral.

True, I guess I meant it more in terms of visibility to people outside the Midwest paying attention to UChicago being this good in men's basketball. Not much streaming in 2001 in D3 realm I would guess. And in terms of recent history, they had like a 17-year NCAA postseason drought, so they felt like the afterthoughts of the UAA for a long time.
Reich is still the best UChicago basketball player in school history and will likely remain in that position for decades to come.

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Quote from: iwu70 on February 02, 2026, 09:54:55 PMNew Poll:  U of Chicago and Nick Roper at #1.

IWU at #16, with ORV Carthage.  (IWU beat Chicago and Nick Roper earlier at Shirk). 

Five games to go.

'70

That didn't age well.

Poetic justice. Look, as a resident of the Windy City I like UC and I root for the Maroons as far as the UAA is concerned (same holds true for IIT, as I'll back the Scarlet Hawks within the NACC out of civic loyalty), but if someone's going to tout a UAA team on the CCIW board for the sole purpose of making his own team look good, then he deserves the jibe when that UAA team loses.

The UAA is stacked again this year and this is new territory for the Maroons in terms of basketball visibility. Losing to the previous #1 team on the road in OT is no big deal. The UAA travel weekends are rough for the road teams so it's inevitable when teams take a few losses. Regan is a lock 1st Team All-American and one of the faves for National POY, IMO. He is the straw that stirs the drink for them.
IWU showed their quality in that win earlier in the season. Those 2 teams could well meet again in the postseason.