Scranton should win the tie-breaker since Rochester's Geneseo game is @ home.

 Let the record show that nearly half(5 of 11) of his NCAA tournaments were not 1 and done. 

Quote from: Great Day to be a Royal on September 26, 2025, 09:55:54 AMWonder how the program may have been different if he had been at the U all those years. Not taking a shot or insinuating. Just pondering.

 At a minimum, the program would have done without the significant contributions of Ross, Ethan, and Jackson Danzig.

Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on September 21, 2025, 04:24:09 PM"We don't want students who make college decisions based on athletics and we don't want to compete against schools who accept students who make college decisions based on athletics."

That's the vibe I get from a lot of places.

 College decisions are made based on a number of factors: academics, finances(public vs private; merit vs income aid; commuting vs room & board), student body size, prestige, and, for the athletes, program success; separation of D3 athletics into tiers of philosophy will largely depend on what proportion of that decision should be allocated to athletics vs all the other factors.

Quote from: WUPHF on September 19, 2025, 04:38:26 PMBut even with a Flo Sports podcast, a reminder of how spoiled we are with others offering content free of charge...  Thanks Pat!

https://d3hoops.com/notables/2025/09/d3sports-conversation-kathy-mcconnell-miller

Pat,
  Outstanding interview with a great guest. Coach's enthusiasm for coaching, D3, and basketball in general was refreshing.
  Re-encountered CMU's assistant(Megan) evaluating players at an AAU tourney this past June. When Megan was herself a rising senior, she was similarly a focus of my evaluations. Think she'll be a significant factor in CMU's program. 

Quote from: NEPAFAN on September 12, 2025, 08:23:32 PMI mean video, and color video no less from the 1940s?! unreal!

 Do you think FLO did the video, leaving out the Scranton scores?   

Quote from: NEPAFAN on September 12, 2025, 02:48:48 PM

Quote from: NEPAFAN on September 11, 2025, 06:22:29 PMFun fact: Michigan State and Scranton played once in the 1940s, on the gridiron.

https://onthebanks.msu.edu/Object/162-565-6369/msc-football-vs-scranton-1944/

 Scranton never recovered from this loss, leading to giving up football 16 years later in 1960.  Pete Carlesimo was the head coach in this game as he was til 1960. He was the AD when I began in '62 and there were still football players attending class then. Pete's son PJ was a soph at Scranton Prep then. We shared the CYC as a home court, practicing after PJ's team was done in the early afternoon.
  Pete became a renowned after-dinner speaker and appeared on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show(New York City version).

 York's nickname is the Spartans; Classic means the opponents are predetermined as differentiated from a tourney where the losers of the 1st game play each other in their 2nd game as do the winners.
 
Nepa,
 The trip should be less than an hour for you.

 If they played the 5 seed in the 1st game(as the 4 seed), then the next opponent should be the 1 seed.

Quote from: Ron Boerger on July 13, 2025, 10:50:45 AMI saw this update regarding Smith in the Forbes article this morning:

Update: Smith College, which likely would have been subject to the 4% tax given its 2023 stats—an endowment worth $2.47 billion, which worked out to $780,000 for each of its 3,192 students—contacted Forbes on July 8 to note that its full-time tuition-paying student enrollment is now below 3,000. The school currently pays a 1.4% tax on its endowment (worth $2.6 billion as of June 30, 2024). Starting in January, Smith will likely be exempt from an endowment tax. Smith declined to say how much tax it has been paying.

According to NCES, Smith's enrollment in 2023 was only 2830 (2506 undergraduate, 324 graduate), and according to the school's own "Fall Enrollments" document was, depending on how you count, either around 2600 or ~2700.  It's interesting to note the NCES numbers for 2023 and Smith's own numbers on this page don't exactly match with a difference of over 100. 

 Sounds like incentive to purposely keep your enrollment under 3000.

Quote from: saratoga on June 27, 2025, 12:03:59 PMBased upon the press conference yesterday, it looks like Lackawanna is moving from junior college power to D II and the PSAC.
The move will take place next year & then the typical NCAA rules kick in regarding championship procedures etc.
It will be interesting to see how a little school of barely 1,500 full time students will stack up and be able to recruit against long established programs and campus environments at Bloomsburg (7,000) students, Kutztown (7,400), West Chester (17,000) and Millersville (7,000).
Clearly the move had to be to D2, as their coaches are far too used to handing out free tuition & they were not going to be encumbered by D3 rules regarding financial aid.
Duda's football connections throughout the Delaware Valley, Baltimore & Northeast may play out really well for an upstart program that is used to playing at a very high level.

 And they bring a fine indoor facility(basketball, bowling, swimming, auditorium) that was my(and PJ Carlesimo's) home court. 

Quote from: scottiedawg on June 27, 2025, 12:21:07 PM

Quote from: Augie2020 on June 25, 2025, 01:26:23 PMTufts schedule is out they play the U on Sunday November 23rd at 1! YW

The only 2 NonConf teams that I've seen have Scranton on their schedule so far are Tufts and Penn State Harrisburg.

 Unofficially, the other 5 are Cortland, Stevens, New Jersey City, DeSales, and SUNY-Geneseo.

 Somebody said recently that in the past 100 years we've gone from taking Latin and Greek in high school to remedial English in college.

 Some of us are still here. Was at the women's Final 4 in 2019; would have been at the 2 most recent ones but Scranton finished 1 game shy each year.

 It seems Rowan(#7 seed) and Messiah(#8) were underrated, having gone 4-1 so far in the Finals.