Mount sweeps Muskie 12-5 and 7-3 to lock up the OAC title at 14-2.  Back to back OAC titles for the first time in program history so that's pretty cool.  Also became the first team in program history to win 30 games in the regular season (before the OAC tourney).

Individually Denham tied the single season record for doubles with 18.  Dennison struck out 14 in 7 IP to break the single season strikeout record of 101 from 1957.  Dennison has 104 strikeouts in 84 IP to go with his 8-0 record.  Incredible season.

In all likelihood the field will be Mount, BW, ONU and Muskie.  Berg is not going to sweep ONU (although Wilm almost did so maybe I shouldn't be so confident).  Etta will likely sweep Wilm.  A tie between Etta and Muskie would go to Muskie thanks to their split with BW trumping Etta being swept.

I think we all know that at the very least Hopkins should be in the UAA, they left for the Centennial in 2001 - I would have to assume they cited travel and missed class time as their reasoning. The CC is a very strong D3 conference, again as we all know, but not strong enough to contain them.

Kinda goofy to still pretend in 2026 Johns Hopkins is strongly aligned with Ursinus, Washington College, and Bryn Mawr, but not with Emory and NYU. I don't think the Dickinson student-athlete author is really in the wrong here.

Quote from: D3fanboy on Yesterday at 09:23:12 AMgoing to be tough to "replace" Fuline.  But the Mount job is a much, much better job than it was 15 years ago.  Props to Coach Fuline for building it from the ground up to a perennial top 15 type program.  It'll be interesting to see if they stay in-house and promote, or who applies from the outside. 

Feels like a job for somebody with Ohio connections for sure.  I'm sure there are a lot of options out there, two current d3 HCs who came to mind were Chris Sullivan (although he's got a pretty good thing going on at Denison) or maybe Nick Sales from RHIT, who spent all that time at Marietta.

Quote from: nescac1 on Yesterday at 09:54:34 AMI realize Shay John didn't put up huge stats, but he just LOOKS like a D1 athlete so I imagine it's a bet on his upside with the thought that with a  lot of coaching the skills will start to catch up to the size and athleticism.

So far, eight D3 to D1 transfers with likely at least a few more to come.  The guys still on the board who I expect would make the biggest potential impact in D1, or would be locks for the top two pre-season D3 all-American squads if they return: Sam Grieger, Dorion Glogovac, and Jevon Yarbrough.  As of now, Kye Robinson, Myles Barnette, Mason Funk, and Soren Richardson are the only returning all-Americans, so all are locks for either first or second team pre-season all-American next year (Robinson of course is a lock for first-team). 

Not really relevant at the moment, but we do try to field AA teams that can actually take the court together.  A lot of the returning guys on your list are guards.  We could probably put Richardson in the four spot, but there will be a big guy on there somewhere.

Just when Caltech opponents could breathe easier because all-time leading scorer Etienne Casanova was graduating, the program announced that his younger brother Matthias has committed to Caltech.

I realize Shay John didn't put up huge stats, but he just LOOKS like a D1 athlete so I imagine it's a bet on his upside with the thought that with a  lot of coaching the skills will start to catch up to the size and athleticism.

So far, eight D3 to D1 transfers with likely at least a few more to come.  The guys still on the board who I expect would make the biggest potential impact in D1, or would be locks for the top two pre-season D3 all-American squads if they return: Sam Grieger, Dorion Glogovac, and Jevon Yarbrough.  As of now, Kye Robinson, Myles Barnette, Mason Funk, and Soren Richardson are the only returning all-Americans, so all are locks for either first or second team pre-season all-American next year (Robinson of course is a lock for first-team). 

Quote from: goodknight on April 30, 2026, 11:18:04 PMMatthew Elderkin, an athletic 6-6 wing who prepped at Calvin Christian, will transfer from D2 GVSU to Calvin this fall with three years of eligibility.

Interesting sirname - isn't that what all your relatives call you GK, or maybe that's OK   

Quote from: pointlem on Yesterday at 08:17:49 AM

Quote from: goodknight on April 30, 2026, 11:18:04 PMMatthew Elderkin, an athletic 6-6 wing who prepped at Calvin Christian, will transfer from D2 GVSU to Calvin this fall with three years of eligibility.

With 14 eligible returning players and this impressive new 11-man recruiting class, Calvin should have a great jv team, GoodKnight (or some disappointed returnees and recruits)? Coaches, I presume, would rather have too much talent than too little. I'm guessing you have your varsity contributors in the post-Jalen era already penciled in.

Everyone will have the opportunity to compete for playing time in the fall, and I believe Coach Sall and the Calvin staff do a good job honestly communicating with recruits and seem to set realistic expectations with where they see them fitting in.

Case in point: during this year's MBB banquet, Luka Ressler recounted his recruitment and how Sall told him he saw him beginning as a JV player. Luka got to work proving what he could do and started 17 varsity games as a freshman.

going to be tough to "replace" Fuline.  But the Mount job is a much, much better job than it was 15 years ago.  Props to Coach Fuline for building it from the ground up to a perennial top 15 type program.  It'll be interesting to see if they stay in-house and promote, or who applies from the outside. 

The T&F students at Dickinson seem pretty out of touch.  There was a similar editorial from another in 2022.

Dickinson is competitive in some other sports so perhaps the issue is not with JHU so much as it is the Dickinson program.  Meanwhile, a little education to these student-athletes about what D3 is, what it takes to be D1, and how it is that Hopkins has a couple of D1 programs while still being a fully compliant and valued member of D3 is in order.   And maybe it's not anyone's fault other than their own for not looking at how Dickinson T&F has historically performed before they agreed to be students there.

EDIT:  In the latest NACDA Directors Cup standings, Dickinson is a very decent 51st overall (JHU, 4th) meaning that they can be competitive when they choose to be.