I've heard the Fuline rumor since basically the end of the season.  I wonder if these Mount Union guys going into the portal was because they knew, too?

St. Joe's (ME) (x2)

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.

Quote from: stlawus on April 30, 2026, 10:11:52 PMShay John To Buffalo

Buffalo coach Halcovage probably got a lot of scouting info from his former HC at Babson (Brennan) and his former Villanova coaching friend and current Babson AC (Flannery) who have watched John for 2 years in the NEWMAC.
I think he'll get plenty of chances to prove he belongs at the D1 level.  Really tough for Buffalo to recruit and hold onto talent in the portal age.

Calvin snags a second D2 transfer.
Matthew Elderkin, 6-6 wing, from Grand Valley State University to Calvin with three years of eligibility.

Matthew 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.

Is Johns Hopkins so dominant that it should be kicked out of DIII?!  That's what a Dickinson athlete is apparently arguing in an article in their schools newspaper.  It's certainly not true in men's soccer, where they are historically strong, but nothing in either the Centennial Conference or the Division itself that would merit this reaction.

QuoteJust when every athlete at Dickinson thinks their season is going well, they realize their next match up is against Johns Hopkins University. I've felt it personally in both cross country and track, and I've heard the defeat in people's voices when they tell me they're playing Hopkins. I wasn't aware of Hopkins' athletic prowess until I got here, but watching how all of their seasons have panned out, regardless of the sport, the question came to me: why aren't they Division I? Their men's and women's lacrosse teams are both members of the Big 10 Conference, participating at the Division I level, and they are even ranked higher than schools several times their size in the Big 10, such as the University of Maryland and Rutgers.

QuoteJohns Hopkins currently has 22 varsity athletics teams at the DIII level and 2 teams at the D1 level. They have 57 national championship titles—two of those being won concurrently on November 23, 2019. Additionally, Johns Hopkins has amassed 314 conference titles, 179 of those being in the Centennial Conference. This is not very encouraging for anyone who faces Hopkins, as high-performing seasons are crushed to dust in the aftermath of getting whalloped by the Blue Jays. This serves as a slap in the face to sportsmanship as Hopkins has crafted such athletic gallantry to such a degree of punching above their weight class.

QuoteI acknowledge the benefits of being a Division III institution, but it is disheartening to toe the line with programs so clearly more dominant than you and who carry themselves in the same way as a DI school. Hopkins has a habit of using pacers during track conference championships, meaning they will ask an athlete to qualify for an event, thus taking a spot from someone else, for the sole purpose of helping their teammate hit a certain time. While not banned on paper, it introduces a new vector of competitiveness and questionable sportsmanship to the conference. Hopkins has shown that it can perform well against larger, arguably more competitive institutions and yet continues to come back to the Centennial Conference to assert dominance. The excuse of it being an academically rigorous and research-focused university loses weight when you acknowledge that every Ivy League school is Division I, holding their athletes to incredibly high standards. While I'm not in the NCAA board room calling the shots on who goes in what division, I think I speak for every frustrated athlete on this campus when I say the following: Johns Hopkins should transition to Division I athletics for all of their varsity teams.

Congratulations to former North Park PG Michael Thomas ('81), who will be inducted into the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame this year. North Park's all-time leading scorer, a three-time national champion, and a three-time All-American who was also named the 1981 CCIW Most Outstanding Player, Michael T. will join his former teammate Michael Harper and his former head coach Dan McCarrell in the SCBHOF.

Shay John To Buffalo

6'5" Fremd(IL) F, Tommy Moffett, has committed to Platteville.