Quote from: D3fanboy on January 14, 2026, 02:31:53 PMhttps://footballfoundation.org/news/2026/1/14/nff-announces-all-star-2026-college-football-hall-of-fame-class.aspx

the all-time great Jordan Lynch of Northern Illinois makes the CFBHOF, but Nate Kmic and Bill Borchert are on the outside looking in...makes perfect sense

Lynch was 3rd in the Heisman voting and took a mid-major team to the Orange Bowl. Dude was a beast as a dual threat QB. He had a great college career. No need to try to diminish him just cuz your guys didn't get in yet.

The UChicago vs. WashU game over the weekend was notable, mostly because I've never seen both teams ranked so highly while playing each other (WashU is used to it but this is new territory for the Maroons). The fact UChicago won in such dominating fashion is an eye opener. Regan is putting himself into national POTY territory if this run continues.

Quote from: iwu70 on January 12, 2026, 10:06:30 PMNew Poll:  IWU #15, ORV Carthage.

I don't quite get it.  IWU beat #2 Chicago and #13 Wash U, yet is ranked lower. 

IWU has Wheaton @Wheaton this weekend.

'70

Pretty simple reason why: IWU has 3 losses and they have fewer.

Quote from: WRMUalum13 on December 20, 2025, 05:52:49 PM28-0 after one of the worst  pick 6s I've ever seen.

YUCK, Mount didn't lose to a true semi finals quality team.

This is what NCC does to teams. They make you second guess how good your teams really are.

Quote from: Gregory Sager on December 19, 2025, 11:59:59 AMThis is, AFAIK, the complete list of CCIW triple-doubles. There are five CCIW schools that have no records of a triple-double, but I'm not sure if that's because the program in question has never had a player make a t-d before or because their SIDs have never put them in the record book. The latter seems unlikely, since the t-d has been a noteworthy achievement for at least since the NCAA began compiling official stats for assists and blocks (if I remember correctly, that was 1978). If there are that many CCIW programs that have never had a triple-double before, it only emphasizes just how rare an achievement a t-d is on the college level.

(If anyone knows of any other triple-doubles recorded by a CCIW men's basketball team besides these, please PM me. I'm trying to get Brainard Avenue to put triple-doubles in the CCIW MBB record book.)

CCIW triple-doubles

 
 
 
 
 
 

Lars Anderson, North Park	18 pts, 11 rebs, 10 blks vs. Carroll (Dec 12, 1984)*
Michael Starks, North Park	23 pts, 12 rebs, 13 asts vs. Illinois Wesleyan (Jan 31, 1987)*
Miguel Tharpe, North Park	19 pts, 10 rebs, 10 asts vs. Concordia IL (Dec 7, 1996)
Steve Djurickovic, Carthage	23 pts, 10 rebs, 12 asts vs. Wisconsin Lutheran (Nov 29, 2009)
Tim McCrary, Wheaton	35 pts, 18 rebs, 10 asts vs. Grinnell (Dec 12, 2009)
Connor Raridon, North Central	18 pts, 15 rebs, 12 asts vs. Greenville (Nov 15, 2019)
Fillip Bulatovic, Carthage	29 pts, 16 rebs, 15 asts vs. Greenville (Nov 23, 2021)
Kolden Vanlandingham, North Park	11 pts, 11 rebs, 11 asts vs. Cornell (Dec 18, 2026)

* CCIW game

Not surprised to see McCrary in there. One of the best passing bigs in CCIW history, IMO.

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Quote from: uvmcatamount14 on December 06, 2025, 10:53:08 PMIt is the OAC. Beating up on Wilma, Cap, Musky, et al. means squat. D3's Big Game James. Little F Geoff.

No one in D3 fears playing  the Purple Raiders anymore.

This is patently untrue. While their mystique has lost its luster with NCC's ascension, 99% of teams are intimidated by both Mount's history and on field talent. Mount is everyone's biggest game of the year (NCC excepted), playoffs included.

Truth is, hegemony is not a thing in D3 like it used to be. The on-field talent has risen across the board, and the game has changed a ton over 20 years. Can't stay on top forever.

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Quote from: D3fanboy on December 07, 2025, 02:00:23 PM2021 - ran into a buzzsaw with NCC in the semis, no shame
2022 - needed a hail mary bounce off of a BW player to win the conference (after being up 17-0 at half, the only other score was the hail mary)  made a run to the Stagg Bowl.  Offense didn't show up until the 4th quarter after a 21-0 hole
2023 - Alma.  Was the Dartt masterpiece until 12/6/25
2024 - great run to the Stagg Bowl after a couple of turds in OAC play.  The end of the 1st half coaching blunders took away any chance of an upset
2025- peaked in week 2 (or was it the 3rd quarter of game 1?)  went through the motions for much of the OAC year and laid the program's biggest egg yesterday

can't wait to see what is in store for the 2026 Raiders

I know you all might have talked yourself into this being a possibility at the time, but there was no way that NCC team was gonna lose in 2024. Lehnen was not going to be denied regardless of how close the game ever got. They were a juggernaut for a reason.

Did you miss the 2023 Stagg Bowl?

Admittedly yes, NCC was a clearly better team last year, but I don't think a Mount upset was outside the realm of possibility. I mean Lehnen is only 2/4 in Stagg Bowls

I did not miss the 2023 Stagg Bowl, and that game was precisely why Lehnen wasn't going to lose in 2024. They were a team of destiny and you could see it right from Week 1.

Quote from: D3fanboy on December 07, 2025, 02:00:23 PM2021 - ran into a buzzsaw with NCC in the semis, no shame
2022 - needed a hail mary bounce off of a BW player to win the conference (after being up 17-0 at half, the only other score was the hail mary)  made a run to the Stagg Bowl.  Offense didn't show up until the 4th quarter after a 21-0 hole
2023 - Alma.  Was the Dartt masterpiece until 12/6/25
2024 - great run to the Stagg Bowl after a couple of turds in OAC play.  The end of the 1st half coaching blunders took away any chance of an upset
2025- peaked in week 2 (or was it the 3rd quarter of game 1?)  went through the motions for much of the OAC year and laid the program's biggest egg yesterday

can't wait to see what is in store for the 2026 Raiders

I know you all might have talked yourself into this being a possibility at the time, but there was no way that NCC team was gonna lose in 2024. Lehnen was not going to be denied regardless of how close the game ever got. They were a juggernaut for a reason.

Quote from: Coach.myers on December 07, 2025, 09:03:25 PMNESCAC soccer isn't pretty, but they have won 8 of the last 11 tournaments and have had a team in 10 of 11 semis. Last possession oriented team to win was Messiah.

Apparently you don't watch enough soccer. University of Chicago put together one of the greatest seasons in D3 history in 2022 en route to an undefeated title where they beat a NESCAC team in the final 2-0. UChicago has been possession oriented and technical since Mike Babst arrived in 2013 and brought the program to new heights.

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Quote from: Jbothe on November 16, 2025, 02:54:31 PMNorth Central/IWU was closer than expected. Did IWU have a lot of time of possession?  NC miss some scoring opportunities? 

It was a Week 10 contest for a team that already clinched who just wanted to get into the playoffs healthy. Just playing with their food.

Don't discredit Wesleyan.  They came to play and Smythe and Nazha are the real deal.  Cardinal defense couldn't keep Smythe contained.  I feel like he could have rushed for a lot more than 63 if they wanted.  They had a great game plan and executed it as well as they could have.  Offensively, NCC had a ton of success between the 20s but due to some funky stuff had a rough time closing out drives.  Some drops on some shots they took on first down as well as penalties and a few tfls eventually got them behind the sticks a few times.  They should have it cleaned up in the next few weeks. 

I'm not discrediting IWU, but I am saying its Week 10 before the playoffs. Not the same intensity. If NCC was playing Wheaton in Week 10, that's a different level of focus. Also I'm sure the coaches don't want to show anything on tape that they're saving for the playoff run.
Wheaton hung 65 on IWU down in Bloomington this year. IWU was the 5th-best CCIW team this year. NCC was not in danger of losing this game.
McNeal being injured though is a big deal.

Kudos to UChicago on a great bounceback season after last year's disappointment. Hopefully the young guys continue to improve and they can better this season's result, they are certainly capable.
Unfortunately their lack of scoring punch bit them at the worst time once again. Just need to find a Yetishevsky type who can put the offense on their back and score clutch goals. (I woulda said find a Max Lopez type but as one of the top 2 offensive talents in school history, that's asking too much).

Quote from: Jbothe on November 16, 2025, 02:54:31 PMNorth Central/IWU was closer than expected. Did IWU have a lot of time of possession?  NC miss some scoring opportunities? 

It was a Week 10 contest for a team that already clinched who just wanted to get into the playoffs healthy. Just playing with their food.

Quote from: Gregory Sager on November 11, 2025, 04:50:33 PMI just don't see it that way. Wash U's associate membership in the CCIW isn't being revoked when the scoreboard hits 00:00 up in Sun Prairie a week from Saturday (if indeed the Bears end up repping the league in the Isthmus Bowl). It was revoked 14 months ago. It's just that the revocation doesn't take effect until Wash U's 2025 season ends. Think of it as being the football-conference equivalent of being given two weeks' notice in the business world.

Wash U's forced departure from the league has absolutely nothing to do -- nada, zero, zilch -- with how the Bears are actually faring on the football field against the rest of the CCIW. And if the revocation announcement back in September 2024 had included telling Wash U that it couldn't represent the CCIW in the Isthmus Bowl in 2025 because the Bears would no longer be in the league once the regular season ended, it probably would've struck most people as being ungracious and deeply unfair. If you earn the bid you should get the bid, regardless of whether you're going to be in the league next season or not.

Oh I agree with you on all counts. I just found UChicago's recent experience with the MWC amusing.

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Quote from: Gregory Sager on November 10, 2025, 11:54:53 PMI'm not sure why it would be embarrassing for the CCIW if Wash U represents the league in the Isthmus Bowl. After all, the Bears have done so twice before; that means that half of the Isthmus Bowl's four-year history has featured Wash U as the CCIW's representative. The Bears have finished in the top third in five of the six years that they've been in the league, and in the 2025 preseason coaches poll the CCIW braintrust forecast that the Bears would make it six out of seven by slotting them -- you guessed it -- third behind North Central and Wheaton.

If the CCIW's nine full members thought it was relevant to consider where the Bears were going to finish this season, they wouldn't have shown Wash U the door in the first place. But they didn't, so they did.

Quote from: WUPHF on November 10, 2025, 05:57:15 PMMore embarrassing for the CCIW is the record against Washington University.

7-0 vs. Carroll
6-1 vs. Illinois Wesleyan
7-0 vs. Carthage
7-0 vs. Elmhurst
6-1 vs. Millikin
7-0 vs. North Park
5-1 vs. Augustana

I'm not sure why this is embarrassing, either. While the jury was out as to how well Wash U would compete in the CCIW when it first came in, the Bears immediately disabused CCIW football fans of the notion that the Bears would be anything other than an upper-tier team. And because that was established quickly and then maintained, again, it's hard to see why anyone should be red-faced about the likelihood of an Isthmus Bowl bid for Wash U that was so predictable that the coaches, in fact, went right ahead and predicted it.

Ok ---I will change it to this---the Institutions that voted to rid themselves of WashU should be embarrassed and ashamed of themselves. (since it looks like they are ducking competition i.e. "if you can't beat them ---kick them out").  IMHO.

I know, I know, there are sooooo many reasons to bring in a full member, that dismissing an academically elite very competitive football program makes sense.

This is basically what I meant by my post. While it may be interpreted that way, I don't think it's primarily a case of ducking competition. But I do think it's an embarrassment to the CCIW to have a member be good enough to represent the conference in a bowl game in which the sound of the final buzzer means that team's conference membership is immediately revoked and the team is a conference member no more. Like I said—-thanks for representing us so well. Now, you're out. 🫠

I mean, UChicago baseball got the boot from the Midwest Conference recently because a bunch of the coaches (led by Beloit's coach/AD) thought they were too good/a threat to win the auto bid. So they voted them out in baseball, but the MWC still kept them in football (you won't find a more sensitive bunch than baseball coaches...). Keep in mind, UChicago did not win the MWC tournament during their time in the league, but they did have some quite good squads and individuals during that time.

So UChicago baseball rejoined the UAA in 2025, and in its first year, qualified at-large for the NCAA postseason for the first time in program history. They proceeded to knock Beloit out of the playoffs and reached the regional championship decider game.

Quote from: kansas hokie on November 10, 2025, 12:04:16 PMsome thoughts on the bracket...

Chicago and Wash U in same pod??? that's #8 and 9 ranked teams!

Lazy and bad bracketing right there. Potential conference match-up in round 2 should never happen.