No major upsets as Rhodes and Trinity both go 2-0 on the road to set up Friday's big clash for the conference lead in San Antonio.  Sewanee stumbled with two home losses to the Texas teams and Millsaps lost two on the road.  Centre picked up a win against Southwestern to remain in sight of the last spot, along with Millsaps, for the sixth and final spot in the SAA tournament.

Friday, January 30:

• @Berry 77 Millsaps 69
• @Centre 76 Southwestern
• @Oglethorpe 66 Rhodes 84
• @Sewanee 85 Trinity 98

Sunday, February 1:

• @Sewanee 67 Southwestern 71
• @Berry 68 Rhodes 80
• @Centre 88 Trinity 103
• @Oglethorpe 74 Millsaps 66

This week's games - Friday:

• Millsaps @Southwestern
• Berry @Centre
• Oglethorpe @Sewanee
• Rhodes @Trinity

Sunday:

• Rhodes @Southwestern
• Millsaps @Trinity
• Berry @Sewanee
• Oglethorpe @Centre

Team	SAA	Record	Pct	Home	Away	Neutral	Streak	NPI	Prior NPI
Trinity	8-1	16-4	0.800	8-1	5-3	3-0	W5	18	18
Rhodes	7-1	16-3	0.842	10-1	6-1	0-1	W7	60	62
Berry	4-4	8-11	0.421	5-5	3-6	0-0	L1	249	265
Southwestern	4-5	10-10	0.500	5-3	5-7	0-0	W1	214	212
Sewanee	4-5	8-10	0.444	3-7	3-5	2-0	L4	279	263
Oglethorpe	3-5	6-13	0.316	4-7	2-5	0-1	W1	370	365
Millsaps	2-6	11-8	0.579	6-2	4-6	1-0	L4	187	135
Centre	2-7	9-10	0.474	4-4	3-5	2-1	L1	204	220

Speaking of Cam, he earned his 300th win today as the Tigers defeated former conference leaders Centre 64-53 in Danville.

It's not a surprise at this point, but it is unfortunate:  per a story in today's Trinity student newspaper, the Trinitonian, Dylan Walker is out for the season due to a knee injury.

That may be an all-time record for most distant D3 soccer coaching move - 2880 miles according to Google Maps!  YMMV due to traffic ...

According to this site, 33 D3 colleges have it (or announced it, not sure):  https://www.fieldlevel.com/app/teams?sportEnum=flagfootballwomen&athleticAssociation=2&page=2&sort=distance

SCAC also is supporting it, though it had to get Millsaps from the SAA to have four teams. 

Weather interrupted the SAA schedule as noted a few days ago, but the impacts to South/Central Texas were lighter than expected (though Austin is still dealing with ice two days later) so the late games in Texas all got in.

Friday, January 23:

• Rhodes 57 @Millsaps 55
• Centre 71 @Southwestern 72
• Sewanee 84 @Trinity 103
• Oglethorpe 75 @Berry 92

Saturday, January 24:

• Centre 90 @Trinity 96

Sunday, January 25:

• Sewanee 75 @Southwestern 78

No huge surprises, though Southwestern did get two badly-needed wins at home against a decent Sewanee side and bottom feeding Centre to move to 3-4 in conference.  That said, the Colonels played better than expected against both Southwestern and Trinity, losing by one at Southwestern and six at Trinity less than 24 hours later. 

This week we reverse last week's original schedule; Friday:

• Trinity @Sewanee
• Rhodes @Oglethorpe
• Southwestern @Centre
• Millsaps @Berry

Sunday:

• Southwestern @Sewanee
• Millsaps @Oglethorpe
• Rhodes @Berry
• Trinity @Centre

Team	SAA	Record	Pct	Home	Away	Neutral	NPI	Prior NPI
Trinity	6-1	14-4	0.778	8-1	3-3	3-0	18	21
Rhodes	5-1	14-3	0.824	10-1	4-1	0-1	62	65
Sewanee	4-3	8-10	0.444	3-5	3-5	2-0	263	246
Berry	3-3	7-10	0.412	4-4	3-6	0-0	265	266
Southwestern	3-4	9-9	0.500	5-3	4-6	0-0	212	232
Millsaps	2-4	11-6	0.647	6-2	4-4	1-0	135	111
Oglethorpe	2-4	5-12	0.294	3-6	2-5	0-1	365	374
Centre	1-6	8-9	0.471	3-3	3-5	2-1	220	200

Trinity posted its schedule for its first season as a member of the SAA. 

Coming to town:  UW-Whitewater (4), Babson (3), Kean (3), Muhlenberg, Tufts (3), TLU, Concordia
Away:  TLU, Concordia, St. Thomas

SAA (3 games each):  Millsaps, @Oglethorpe, @Berry, @Southwestern, Sewanee, Rhodes, @Centre

Competition starts with a single game against UW-W on Feb 19.

It was announced on last night's webcast that Braxton Barry, who started the last two and a half seasons for Trinity and played for the school four seasons, unexpectedly passed away earlier this month.  The young man had graduated last spring, was working on his MS in Accounting at Trinity, and had a position lined up at EY in Houston post-graduation.  Rest in peace, young man, and condolences to all he touched.

CNU QB Connor Barry transfers to Penn State.

Stumbled across a podcast with TU coach Cam Hill - here's the description from the JAMODI (Just a Matter of Doing It) site:

QuoteCoach Hill shares practical insights from his 14 seasons at Trinity, including how he approaches recruiting at the Division III level, why retention and fit matter more than hype, and how culture truly lives in the locker room. The conversation dives into player development beyond minutes, why practice matters more than games, and how coaches can help players rediscover confidence when things aren't going well.

You'll also hear detailed breakdowns of a 12-second shot clock transition drill, thoughts on playing fast with purpose, adapting systems to personnel year-to-year, and why October 15th still matters in college basketball. This episode is packed with wisdom for high school, college, and youth coaches looking to lead with clarity, humility, and consistency.

Well worth the 90 minutes spent if you want more insight into how Trinity and Coach Hill do what they do. 

On another note, the weather in San Antonio/Georgetown looks increasingly iffy Saturday night (when Centre plays at Trinity) and Sunday (when Sewanee plays Southwestern) - freezing precipitation of some type, likely freezing rain, is in the forecast Saturday evening into around noon Sunday and if there's one thing you don't want to do in South/Central Texas it's have to be on the road (or fly) when there's ice on the ground.

My alma mater won its only WBB NCAA championship in '02-'03 having never previously won an NCAA tournament game, and they had been pretty bad prior to the then coach showing up but she had been there for about a decade when they won it all.

Quote from: Seatfiller on January 21, 2026, 09:43:54 AM

Quote from: rmc1982 on January 21, 2026, 09:06:28 AMRMC at VWU in a rare 5 pm start Im assuming to accommodate the ladies game afterwards. I was gonna go but the 5 pm start time prevents that so I guess Ill catch it on FloSports.

How much is FloSports? I've been avoiding paying for it.

$8.99/month for an annual subscription ($107.88) if you pay in advance for a year, or $19.99/month on a month-by-month plan.  Some discounting for .edu email addresses, sometimes schools or conferences will have a special signup link that offers a slight discount as well.  Don't know about the ODAC or schools in the conference.

A FloSports account will let you view all events by those schools that have signed up, not just your own or your conference's.  The quality of broadcast still varies widely from school to school and sometimes within a school from sport to sport. 

Actually four.  Trinity is in Region 6 with their move to the SAA.

With the inclement winter weather expected in the South, the SAA has changed some of this week's games:

- Rhodes will play at Millsaps on Friday (3pm CT)
- Oglethorpe will play at Berry on Friday (8pm CT)

The games originally scheduled for this week, Oglethorpe/Berry at Rhodes/Millsaps, will now take place Thurs Feb 19 and Sat Feb 21.  See SAA release for more:  https://saa-sports.com/news/2026/1/20/mens-basketball-saa-basketball-schedule-update.aspx

No changes have been announced to the remaining schedule, no doubt due to the costs involved in rebooking flights, but there are increasing chances of signficant ice accumulations in the Austin/San Antonio area Saturday night into Sunday which could impact air and ground travel.  The Friday games should come off without a hitch, the Saturday game in San Antonio is likely as the ground should stay warm enough to melt ice for a while, but Sunday's game in Georgetown is up in the air at this point.

Freezing precip forecasts in Texas are highly subject to change as the conditions to cause them are infrequent and can be influenced by any number of factors.

Here's a review of overall enrollment for the current school year courtesy the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center - much more detail available at the URL above, but these are their highlights from their "Final Fall Enrollment Trends 2025 Report":

• In fall 2025, there were over 19.4 million postsecondary enrollments —16.2 million undergraduate and 3.2 million graduate students. Compared to 19.2 million students last fall, this is a 1.0 percent increase in total postsecondary enrollment, driven by undergraduate gains (+1.2%) while graduate enrollment remained stable (-0.3%).Growth in undergraduate enrollment was driven by a 3.0 percent increase in community college enrollment, compared to a 1.4 percent increase at public 4-year colleges. Private 4-year institutions saw declines in undergraduate enrollment this fall (-1.6% at nonprofit and -2.0% at for-profit institutions).
• Enrollment in undergraduate certificate and associate degree programs continues to grow at a faster pace than bachelor's program enrollment (+1.9% and +2.2% compared to +0.9%). After four years of consecutive growth, there are now 752,000 enrollments in undergraduate certificate programs at community colleges, a total increase of 28.3 percent from fall 2021.
• Graduate international student enrollment declined 5.9 percent after years of steady growth (-10,000). At the undergraduate level, there was an increase in international enrollment (+3.2%, +5,000) but at less than half the rate than last fall (+8.4%).
• Freshman enrollment remained stable this fall (-0.2%) at 2.5 million students. Public 4-year institutions experienced a 1.9 percent increase in freshmen (+18,000 to 971,000 students) while private 4-year institutions saw declines (-10,000 at each sector). There were 965,000 freshmen at community colleges, an increase of only 4,000 students (+0.5%) after three consecutive years of strong growth.
• Enrollment in Computer and Information Science programs declined across all award and institution types, ranging from -3.6 percent at undergraduate PAB institutions to -14.0 percent at the graduate level.

As someone with a lifetime in the industry, it comes as no surprise that with AI taking over many entry level jobs and depressing salaries that C&IS enrollment is down, a trend that seems likely to continue.

Worth noting that the 1.6% decline in private non-profit enrollment is a sharp turnaround from gains the previous three years and a 6.6% increase last year.  Also worth noting that freshman enrollment at highly selective private non-profits (PNPs) increased 2.0%, very competive PNPs 0.6%, while competitive PNPs saw a 1.7% decline and less selective PNPs a 3% decline. However, when looking at overall undergraduate enrollment, only highly selective PNPs *and less selective PNPs* saw increases (1.7%, 1.9% respectively) while the middle two classes saw decreases of 1.0% and 1.5%.  I can't explain why less selective schools show such a disparity in freshman and total enrollment; either they're seeing more transfers from other schools, retaining more of their students, and/or other factors are in play.

If you're wondering about the definitions for selectivity, "highly selective" means anywhere from admitting <33% to 33-50% of applicants, "very competitive" admit 50-75%, "competitive" 75-85%, and "less selective" more than 85%.

Fascinating to go through the site which is open to all (and no account registration needed).