United Soccer Coaches announced their All-Region teams.  Bizarrely, they have the Trinity(TX) women in Region VI, where they now belong, but the men still in Region X.  First team:

K Alex Wolter, Jr - Colorado College - New Canaan, Conn.
D Luke Chandler, Sr - Trinity University (Texas) - Glasgow, Scotland
D Alex Hart, Fr - Texas Lutheran University - Missouri City, Texas
D Rex Karjian, Sr - Colorado College - Issaquah, Wash.
D Daniel Urquidi, So - Trinity University (Texas) - Round Rock, Texas
M Zachary Anderson Sr - Trinity University (Texas) - Davis, Calif.
M Jack Hilliard, Jr - Colorado College - San Antonio, Texas
M Adam Knutson, Sr - Trinity University (Texas) - Dripping Springs, Texas
F Anders Beckton, Jr - University of Redlands - Seattle, Wash.
F Teddy Opler, Jr - Colorado College - Wilson, Wyo.
F Samuel Theiss, Jr - Trinity University (Texas) - Boerne, Texas

A light weekend overall for the SAA.  Trinity moves to 6-1 with a closer-than-it-needed-to-be home win against HSU; after trailing by 19 at the break, the Cowboys closed to 3 after shutting down the Tigers' three-point shooting before two techs on the HSU bench helped the Tigers escape, 81-73.  Leading scorer Dylan Walker was on crutches and did not play for Trinity.

Millsaps (5-1) surprsingly suffered their first loss of the season at formerly winless University of the Ozarks (1-6), 78-76.  After the Eagles took the lead with 1:18 to play, the Majors had no fewer than three chances to tie the game; the first was blocked, the second (after a steal with 27 seconds left) was missed, and after Ozarks missed the front half of a 1-and-1, Millsaps missed a layup with one second left.  The Majors also missed nearly half (12) of their 28 free throws.

Rhodes (5-2) also suffered its first losses of the season at the WashU tournament, to #7 Chicago (5-1) 84-70 and homestanding #4 WashU (6-0) 94-78.

Centre moved to 5-1 with a 69-66 home win against Spalding (3-2).  The visitors closed to within one with just over a minute to play, but despite forcing two Colonel turnovers and benefiting from a missed one-and-one, Spalding was unable to close the gap.

Southwestern (4-1) matched their win total of the last two seasons combined after a 71-63 win at home over struggling ETBU (2-6) in which the Tigers could not get closer than six in the last ten minutes.

Oglethorpe - who I incorrectly credited with on one win last week - lost 104-96 at home to Greensboro (2-3), moving to 2-4.  Sewanee's season from hell (where they join the equally winless Trinity women) continued with a 80-69 home loss to Berea (3-3), dropping them to 0-6.

Big games coming up the week include Trinity at their nemesis (RV, "#26") St. Thomas (5-1) and Berry at #9 Emory (3-1).

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I know I've mentioned it here, but it's been years since Ed O'Brien's son joined the squad.  McGinlay was the person who not only recruited his son, but got Ed to give a talk at Trinity in 2022.

No, they didn't win the ESPY the year of the Mississippi Miracle - just a free trip to the award ceremony.  A pass from Eli Manning to David Tyree in the Stupor Bowl (aka "the helmet catch") won the ESPY for Best Play.  Yawn.

This week's ATN Podcast not only covers the weekend's festivities, but includes links to many of the postgame news conferences, including Trinity's. 

Lagrange had plenty of opportunities to win that game but turned the ball over too danged much when they were getting close.

Really great to see TJ Scannell get that game clinching INT and run it back for the final score.  Dude has some jets!   First INT of the year couldn't have come at a better time.

The O-line deserves some credit too.  Our D sacked them 5 times and had 11 TFL.  They got 0 sacks and 1 TFL.

I was talking with one of the experts who said they couldn't pick Trinity today because they lost so badly to Berry.  I think the last couple of weeks have shown a Tiger team playing at a much higher level than that early-season matchup and next week should see a better showing by the team from San Antonio.

Looks like nice weather in San Antonio today as what little rain that was in the forecast moved through overnight.  Low 70s to start and cloudy, mid 70s and sun may peek out by the end of the game.  Winds out of the southwest around 10 mph will help dry things out a bit.

It will be a cool fall afternoon in Mount Berry with temperatures increasing from the upper 40s at noon to the mid 50s by games end, with partly cloudy skies and winds around 10 mph. 

McGinlay's 590 wins trails only D2 Rockhurst's Tony Tocco's 751 in number of wins by an active NCAA coach.  If Tocco can hang on for a couple more years, he could overtake Ohio Wesleyan's Jan Martin, who retired at the end of 2024 with 774 wins to lead all NCAA coaches.

• Martin got his 774 in a 47 year OWU career.  He continues at OWU as their Director of Sport Performance.
• Tocco is in his 55th year, all at Rockhurst, where he started coaching in 1970. As a 1967 graduate of St. Louis University, he's closing in on the big 8-0.  Most of Tocco's wins, 437, came while Rockhurst was an NAIA school but the NCAA credits those in his total.  Besides heading the soccer team, he's a full-time professor and head of the accounting department at Rockhurst.
• McGinlay is the rookie of these three, now in his 35th season at Trinity.

Former DePauw WR Jamarcus Shephard '04 (and he was an exceptional player) has been named head coach for Oregon State.  He comes over from Alabama where he was assistant coach, co-offensive coordinator and WR coach.

Spotted a pic of Anson Mount (aka Captain Pike in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) wearing a pretty ratty Sewanee Tigers ball cap.  Is he an alumnus?

In other news, every member of the D3football.com panel picked HSU to win tomorrow's game, all by a TD or more.

Updating where the SAA stands before Thanksgiving:

Overall 26-14
Home 9-7
Away 12-6
Neutral 5-1

School Rec'd Home/Away/Neutral NPI
Rhodes 5-0 (4-0/1-0/0-0) 190th
Millsaps 5-0 (3-0/1-0/1-0) 92nd
Trinity 5-1 (0-0/2-1/3-0) 15th
Centre 4-1 (0-1/3-0/1-0) 147th
Southwestern 3-1 (0-0/3-1/0-0) 165th
Berry 3-3 (2-2/1-1/0-0) 289th
Oglethorpe 1-4 (0-1/1-2/0-1) 353rd
Sewanee 0-4 (0-3/0-1/0-0) 402nd

I would like to point out that is Trinity(CT) - whose net assets have increased from $764M to $1.000B between 2018 and 2024, and been profitable four of those seven years and three of the last four.

And I'm disappointed that the author(s) lumped all these schools together and provided findings which are generalities rather than tied to any of them.   There's obviously a dataset - share the damned thing.

The "vagabonds" get past La Roche 90-77 after trailing by 11 early, led by big man Will Bronson who had 24 points and ten boards (and 4 fouls) in 26 minutes to lead all players in both categories.  Trinity also becomes the first SAA team to be ranked in the D3hoops.com Top 25 since Berry in '22-'23, coming in at 16th in the Week 1 poll released today.

I'd composed a lengthy reply only to have the site eat it.  And then Kuiper posted almost everything I was going to, but I will add this: 

Trinity controlled run of play (no!) and their back line, as it normally does, made getting shots off difficult.  Augsburg didn't get a shot on goal until after halftime, and they only managed three all game (seven shots total).  Trinity's opponents average 6.3 shots a game, about a third of which are on target.  Of the three SOG, the best chance was the final one with 2' left that was just nudged over the crossbar (by Brandon Gongora, who had been inserted in goal a few minutes earlier).  The other two SOG were routinely saved.  The very best shot taken by Augsburg, early in the second, hit the top of the crossbar and bounced over. 

It's interesting that in some sports, like women's volleyball, the NCAA continues to update NPI during the tournament and then reseeds when it gets to the final weekend (in which there are three rounds and eight teams rather than two and four).  It can make a difference in how teams are paired.  We have Tufts (1st in NPI at the end of the regular season), St. Olaf (3), Emory (5), Trinity (12); repairing could have given us Tufts v. Trinity and St. Olaf v. Emory rather than facing off Tufts/St. Olaf and Emory/Trinity as we will see this week.