Final

https://nacda.com/documents/2025/6/8/24.25DIII_FinalOverallStandings.pdf

Quote from: Ron Boerger on June 10, 2025, 02:07:33 PMThe final NACDA Directors Cup standings were released today:

T71.  HSU 164
T139. ETBU 75
T148.  UMHB 73

HPU did not score any points.  Future ASC members:

89.  McMurry 133.75
206. Schreiner 40

Those appear to be winter.

North Carolina Wesleyan

In an odd relationship that reflects the fact that both teams have trouble filling out a schedule for different reasons, last year and again this year NC Wesleyan has played a home-and-away series with Mary Washington. It kind of puts in perspective NC Wesleyan's 9-4-4 record this year when you consider 2 of the losses were to one of the best teams in the country. This year, Bethel, Loras, Marymount, Johnson & Wales, Virginia Wesleyan, and Shaw are off the schedule and NC Wesleyan really powers up its SoS.  In addition to playing Mary Washington twice and Randolph-Macon again on opening weekend, it adds games at Emory, at Oglethorpe, home to Roanoke and Averett, at Hampden-Sydney, at Catholic, and home to Christopher Newport.  if they survive all of that, I like their chances in the USA South tournament.

Johnson & Wales-Providence

For a team that finished 15-3-3 last season, losing out on an auto bid in the GNAC championship game to St. Joseph's (CT), JWU-Providence mostly follows the same scheduling formula.  They have no illusions they can amp their NPI up high enough to get a bid that way, so they just focus on racking up wins and getting ready for conference play.  They drop Bridgewater State and Roger Williams and add Emmanuel and Rhode Island College.

Randolph Macon

Drops Rutgers-Newark, Marymount, Bethany, but gets a bunch of geographically diverse set of new opponents to travel to them in non-conference, including Ohio Northern, Kean, Washington & Jefferson, and Southern Virginia.

Quote from: Ron Boerger on June 10, 2025, 01:42:38 PMFor Trinity, without winning a championship it is very hard to break into that top 20, where many schools get points for sports they don't sponsor (lacrosse, rowing, men's VB, fencing, ice hockey, men's wrestling, field hockey).  Not all schools in the top 20 have even most of those - doubt any has all of them - and you can only score in 18 sports of which 4 must be M/W basketball and soccer.  But having more opportunities overall means more chances to maximize points and to eliminate those zero-point sports.  I would like to see NACDA do what the SCAC did for their President's Trophy and award more points to sports with more competitors instead of small sports like women's rowing or men's VB getting the same number of points for champions as do women's volleyball or m/w soccer.

They do, though not to champions, and probably not to the extent you want.

5th place in women's rowing earned Ithaca 55 points. 5th place in softball earned Rowan 78. There's differences in a variety of sports, usually starting at 5th place.

One thing they could do, that Ithaca College's old conference did for their conference-wide trophy, is base it off of a percentage of possible points earned.

So, if you sponsor let's say, enough to hit the max in both sports, your total would be X/1,800, but if you only sponsor six of each, it would be x/1,200.

I'd kind of prefer having both. Award one for most overall points, and one for best percentage.

Ok. Maryville has one last chance to dominate the CCS and get to the NCAA.  Looks promising.

https://mcscots.com/news/2025/6/8/mens-basketball-announces-2025-26-schedule-and-signing-class.aspx

https://mcscots.com/news/2025/6/2/mens-basketball-placeres-announces-rasnick-as-new-assistant.aspx

Is anybody out there?

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Quote from: The Third Division on May 28, 2025, 01:41:45 PMIt should be "The College of North Central That Is North Central of Absolutely Nothing"

Not even in the center of Naperville, or DuPage County for that matter.

In 1926, when then name was adopted, the college would have been nearly directly North of the population center of the United States.

And in 1926 when Naperville was a sleepy small town of about 4,500 NCC, being adjacent to downtown, was certainly right in the center of Naperville.
Currently, it's in the northern part of the city as over the years the population has expanded in a southerly direction. Wheaton, to Naperville's north, also grew southward forcing Naperville to expand mostly in the same direction into Will County now as well as DuPage.

Boy, I know the boards are hopping when we're diving into the minutiae of city planning and historical population trends. Time for me to dust off my treatise on local flora and their influence on arthropod proliferation.

Guilford College (Greensboro, NC) is looking for 1 team for tournament (December 28-29,2025)

1 night, 8 hotel room guarantee

Contact Sarah Mathews if interested, 336.905.0308

Guilford College (Greensboro, NC) is looking for 2 single games.

Contact Sarah Mathews if interested, 336.905.0308

Some OAC schedules

Wilmington

Looks like a schedule upgrade for the Quakers, who went 11-6-3 last season.  Gone are Spalding, Centre, Franklin, and Asbury.  In their place are Berea, Bluffton, Adrian, and Ohio Wesleyan.  They get a soft start to their OAC schedule with Heidelberg (1-14-2) and Muskingum (4-13-2), although both games are away.  The conference has to feel just a little more wide open this season with John Carroll in the NCAC, but Wilmington has to feel a tinge of regret that they won't be able to get revenge last season after leading John Carroll 2-1 in the 53rd minute and giving up 3 straight goals in an 8 minute period to go down 4-2 and scoring a goal of its own less than 90 seconds later that gave them what turned out to be false hope they could come back

Capital

Pretty brutal opening weekend of the season, hosting Kenyon on Friday and then traveling to John Carroll on Sunday for a non-conference game after beating them in the OAC QFs last season.  In another brutal pair of games a week-and-half before opening conference play, they host Ohio Wesleyan and Denison back-to-back.  If Capital can survive both of those weekends, they have to like their chances to compete in the John Carroll-less OAC (and the NCAC for that matter).

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