Quote from: Ralph Turner on April 02, 2026, 04:35:08 PMThx jekelish.
I searched the SCAC website and found no information on this year's tourney. In 2025 Cent LA was 6th at 12-18. SW was 7th at 11-19 & AC 8th at 10-20.

Wide open!

Interesting that the SAA, which has published a bracket outline showing the top six will qualify, also has not listed a location for its conference championships.  Nor has it set one for softball.

Quote from: jekelish on April 02, 2026, 03:45:53 PM

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.)

They've lost a bunch of games (15-10 to date, pending the second of a DH at Berry) including two of three at Oglethorpe and one at home vs Concordia TX in the last week.

Nope, it's pretty consistent with making me wait after feeding it a lot of data.

And when I did get it to respond, it (a) only gave me partial results (through Iowa) and when I did a quick review the results had numerous errors, so I'm going to stop wasting time with it.

Quote from: Kuiper on April 03, 2026, 11:00:17 AMSince a lot of people in this thread wonder about the financial health and stability of DIII institutions, I thought there might be interest in the following tool from a political science professor at Colorado State.  It considers AI exposure as well, which I don't think its really a great metric and is particularly problematic for liberal arts institutions that are more focused on well-rounded educations that major-specific outcomes, so take it for what it's worth.

https://kylesaunders.com/university-map/

It's an interesting take (though I agree with you about the AI metric, which factors into the Y-axis).   It would be helpful if the author would add athletic affiliation and conference.  Maybe I should ask some AI tool to do that ...

EDIT:  I asked Grok, it said it could do it, but then said I'd have to wait two hours to ask again.

Trinity(TX) announced on IG that Gustav Moberg, a 6'1" mid from Sweden who played the last two seasons at D2 Flagler University has committed for the upcoming season.  Moberg played in 20 matches in 2024 (17 starts), 24 (22 starts) in 2025.  He was second team all-PBC last year and a member of the 2024 PBC all-tournament team (PBC = Peach Belt Conference).  His Saints team was 15-3-6 last season and made it to the third round of the D2 tournament after upsetting #2 Palm Beach Atlantic in the second round.

While classified last season as a redshirt junior (after two prior years at Missouri State, in which he saw no action one year), Moberg expects to graduate with a BBA in Accounting and Finance from Flagler in May and seems likely to enroll as a graduate in Trinity's MS - Accounting program.

For the two other people who read this board, worth noting that Illinois MBB HC Brad Underwood got his start, both as a player ('82-'83, before transferring to Independence Community College) and coach (grad assistant, '86-'87) at Hardin-Simmons.  He's one of two Final Four coaches with D3 background (Tommy Lloyd from Whitman is the other).  Former Illinois coaching great Lou Henson, who holds the record for most wins at the school, also kickstarted his college coaching career at HSU (HC '62-'66).

This was a huge deal in the D3 T&F world.

Rowan won the D3 NCAA indoor championship by *one* point.  This slob fine young gentleman earned them 20 of them.

Cyanna Cavazos, a 5'9" wing from Smithson Valley, has committed to Trinity.  She was a first-team all-26AAAA and named to the Elite Academic All-State team by the Texas High School Coaches Association.  During her career at SV she scored over 1000 points, and in early January broke the school record for steals (248 at the time).

Quote from: Ralph Turner on March 08, 2026, 10:49:11 PMQuestion.

4 errors for TUTx vs TLU on Tues.
What was the condition of TLU's infield?

Just saw this.  Trinity's somewhat error-prone this season (three games with four errors so far) and this was not only the first time they hit the road this season, but the first time they played on natural grass.

Good to see the Tiger bats get going this weekend (23, 10, and 10 runs) but looks like Jim Page's Majors are struggling this season.

Probably none, given that it's been five years since they supported it as a conference sport and nobody has started it since.  I think Hendrix is the only other SCAC school with the sport and they've remained their membership in the SAA as an affiliate in order to have access to a bid. 

Gaulladet will no doubt get the sixth seed, the other five will be based on SCAC play.

Quote from: Ralph Turner on March 19, 2026, 09:28:13 AMNot sure where to post this for discussion's sake, but I guess if every match was a plane flight, then it might make sense to get the best deal you can get and the NJAC needed Colorado College and Centenary more than anyone else.

https://njacsports.com/news/2026/3/18/general-centenary-college-of-louisiana-and-colorado-college-to-join-njac-as-mens-lacrosse-affiliate-members.aspx

They spread the pain - of the four core NJAC participants, each one takes a turn annually being in the "Gold" division.  I imagine there will be no inter-division play until the championship itself.  For CC and Centenary this gives them a path to a bid (after the first year) and they were having to travel to get games anyway.

But this probably would have been better in the SCAC channel

Which is a bit odd given that they call it a "multi-sport stadium".  From the video linked to the challenge the only athletes they show are football and lacrosse.  I guess two sports are "multi". 

I saw a tweet earlier saying HSU was having a very hard time finding an opponent for week 3 and/or 4 ... in week two (9/12) they will visit UW-La Crosse. 

Construction is underway on Southwestern's new football / multi-sport complex, but they are still raising funds to pay for the $9.2M complex (which includes a field house) as a new challenge grant was announced in late January.

QuoteFormer Trustee Brent Austin, in honor of his wife, Joanne Powers Austin '74, has generously pledged a $500,000 Challenge Match for the multi-purpose sport complex. This powerful gift comes at a pivotal moment, propelling us toward the final stretch of our $9.2 million goal. Now is the time to stand together, invest in the future, and bring this dream across the goal line.

The YT vid attached to the announcement shows a somewhat more modest rendering for the new Dice Field than earlier presentations.  Stands will only be present on the press box side (which has been the case throughout). 

When I drove past towards the end of February, the only visible signs of progress were a scraped off area with a huge mound of dirt piled in the middle, so they have their work cut out for them for the facility to be ready by the start of the 2026 season (not yet published) as planned.