Round 1

1. Ryan - Chapman - SCIAC
2. Nescac1 - Williams - NESCAC
3. FCGG - Connecticut College - NESCAC
4. NCF - Nebraska Wesleyan - ARC
5. Ronk - Scranton - LAND
6. Greek - Oswego St - SUNYAC

Round 2
7. Greek - Hardin-Simmons - ASC
8. Ronk - Colby - NESCAC
9. NCF - Oshkosh - WIAC
10. FCGG - Hampden-Sydney - ODAC
11. Nescac1
12. Ryan

Round 3
13. Ryan
14. Nescac1
15. FCGG
16. NCF
17. Ronk
18. Greek

Anyone with good post-spring info? Chapman still the favorite? Do they have a plan to replace Pacheco and Zimmerman?

I'd expect CMS and Redlands to both be trending upward. Redlands has some studs to replace on D but they always seem to get the defense ready to play. Most of their playmakers on O were underclassmen. CMS is hopefully over their year long QB controversy and found a RB toward the end of the year.

I'm expecting Laverne to sneak up on people. They were way better toward the end of last year than they were early and I have heard good things about that staff. Any word on Cal Lu? Pomona?

Pretty cool:

https://nypost.com/2026/06/06/sports/how-little-known-assistant-saved-knicks-from-crushing-collapse/

Birmingham-Southern's former campus reopened yesterday as the Coast Guard's newest facility, Training Center Birmingham-Southern.

Cross-posted from the 2026 Schedules Thread

A couple of really interesting schedules from our in Region X

Redlands

New Redlands coach Alex Ortega has constructed a pretty ambitious schedule for his first year after leaving Amherst for the west coast.  They added SCIAC and D3 newcomer Azusa Pacific to the schedule in place of UC Santa Cruz and Nelson (AZ) (NCCAA), but the rest of the schedule is going to be a challenge.  They had to replace a bunch of one-off games from a slew of long road trips last season in Ralph Perez's retirement tour on the east coast.  The positive is that Ortega managed to do that with a schedule that basically keeps the team at home or close to home until October when they travel to Eagle Rock to play Oxy.  They open against Whittier in a non-conference game, which is something I haven't seen SCIAC schools do very often, if at all, lately.  SCIAC teams play all but three other teams in a home-and-away series, so it makes sense to play one or more of the single game teams again, but most teams want to play against other teams for variety or to enhance strength-of-schedule.  For the latter issue, that won't be necessary for Redlands because not only is Whittier likely to be one of the better SCIAC teams, but they also have Final Four team Emory and SCAC finalist Colorado College visiting Redlands.  I expect Colorado College will be better this year as they should have all but two starters returning and all of their leading scorers.  Redlands is returning its top scorers - Beckton and Darmanyan - and some of its starters, but it doesn't have a goalkeeper returning with any college experience and it has an entirely new coaching staff.  Non-conference should be a big test for the team.

Colorado College

Always the most fun schedule for the variety, the ambition, and the audacious travel for the most deserted of island schools in all of D3.  The first weekend of the season they host Whitworth (NWC) and Wheaton (IL) (CCIW) (which rivals Colorado College this season for the most diverse schedule).  Both those teams also play Austin College.  Then, Colorado College travels to Southern California for the return game against Cal Lutheran (SCIAC) and the game against Redlands (SCIAC) mentioned above.  The following weekend, they travel to Wisconsin to play Carroll (CCIW) and UW-Eau Claire (WIAC). The next weekend, they travel to Lincoln, NE (8 hour bus ride if they aren't flying) to play Nebraska Wesleyan (ARC) and St. John's University (MN) (MIAC).  After that they open SCAC play by flying to Arkansas to play Hendrix and Ozarks.  After 9-4/9-5, they don't have another home game until 10-9/10-11 when St. Thomas and Centenary travel to Colorado Springs.  That's a heck of a lot of travel the first month of the season!

A couple of really interesting schedules from our in Region X

Redlands

New Redlands coach Alex Ortega has constructed a pretty ambitious schedule for his first year after leaving Amherst for the west coast.  They added SCIAC and D3 newcomer Azusa Pacific to the schedule in place of UC Santa Cruz and Nelson (AZ) (NCCAA), but the rest of the schedule is going to be a challenge.  They had to replace a bunch of one-off games from a slew of long road trips last season in Ralph Perez's retirement tour on the east coast.  The positive is that Ortega managed to do that with a schedule that basically keeps the team at home or close to home basically until October when they travel to Eagle Rock to play Oxy.  They open against Whittier in a non-conference game, which is something I haven't seen SCIAC schools do very often, if at all, lately.  SCIAC teams play all but three other teams in a home-and-away series, so it makes sense to play one or more of the single game teams again, but most teams want to play against other teams for variety or to enhance strength-of-schedule.  For the latter issue, that won't be necessary for Redlands because not only is Whittier likely to be one of the better SCIAC teams, but they also have Final Four team Emory and SCAC finalist Colorado College visiting Redlands.  I expect Colorado College will be better this year as they should have all but two starters returning and all of their leading scorers.  Redlands is returning its top scorers - Beckton and Darmanyan - and some of its starters, but it doesn't have a goalkeeper returning with any college experience and it has an entirely new coaching staff.  Non-conference should be a big test for the team.

Colorado College

Always the most fun schedule for the variety, the ambition, and the audacious travel for the most deserted of island schools in all of D3.  The first weekend of the season they host Whitworth (NWC) and Wheaton (IL) (CCIW) (which rivals Colorado College this season for the most diverse schedule).  Both those teams also play Austin College.  Then, Colorado College travels to Southern California for the return game against Cal Lutheran (SCIAC) and the game against Redlands (SCIAC) mentioned above.  The following weekend, they travel to Wisconsin to play Carroll (CCIW) and UW-Eau Claire (WIAC). The next weekend, they travel to Lincoln, NE (8 hour bus ride if they aren't flying) to play Nebraska Wesleyan (ARC) and St. John's University (MN) (MIAC).  After that they open SCAC play by flying to Arkansas to play Hendrix and Ozarks.  After 9-4/9-5, they don't have another home game until 10-9/10-11 when St. Thomas and Centenary travel to Colorado Springs.  That's a heck of a lot of travel the first month of the season!

Whenever Fischer decided to leave I thought it would be for a head coaching position at like the Missouri Valley or something. I didn't have an assistant at Nebraska on the board.

From Marshfield to Lincoln.

The coaches have made the biggest difference. Lance at UW-Whitewater. Coach Fred at UMHB. Thorne family at North Central.

I agree though that facilities get recruits to campus.

I also really worry about the spending on facilities at the D3 level. Enrollments have dropped and fewer kids entering the pipeline for colleges in the near future.

Not a month goes by without hearing about a D3 college or the financial brink.

Round 1

1. Ryan - Chapman - SCIAC
2. Nescac1 - Williams - NESCAC
3. FCGG - Connecticut College - NESCAC
4. NCF - Nebraska Wesleyan - ARC
5. Ronk - Scranton - LAND
6. Greek - Oswego St - SUNYAC

Round 2
7. Greek - Hardin-Simmons - ASC
8. Ronk - Colby - NESCAC
9. NCF - Oshkosh - WIAC
10. FCGG
11. Nescac1
12. Ryan

Round 3
13. Ryan
14. Nescac1
15. FCGG
16. NCF
17. Ronk
18. Greek

Fischer stepping down.