Quote from: nescac1 on September 03, 2024, 04:36:41 PMRosters are rolling out, so this is the final end-of-summer update -- I'm sure we will learn of plenty of others as rosters are posted!

Updated master list updated as of 8/1 (* = all region player)

Transferring from D3 to scholarship level:

David Murray - Conn College to Merrimack (D1)*
Nick Anderson  - St. Thomas (TX) to Prairie View A&M (D1)
Aaron Nkrumah - Worcester State to Tennessee State (D1)*
Ben Rice -  Conn College to Johnson University (D2)
Sullivan Menard - Whitworth to Northwest Nazarene (D2)
Donovan Sevilla - WPI to Sonoma State (D2)
Miles Barnstable - Whitewater to St. Thomas (MN) (D1)*
John Adams - WPI to Citadel (D1)*
Brayden Fagbemi - JHU to Central Arkansas (D1)*
Caleb Williams - Macalester to Minnesota (D1)*
Will Coble - RMC to Appalachian State (D1) (walk-on, I assume?)
Jack Anderson - Keystone to Marquette (D1) (walk-on)
Tristan Wennersten - Ithaca to NJIT (D1)
Cael Schmitt - Coe to Northern Iowa (D1)*
Ben Callahan-Gold - Trinity to Binghamton (D1)*
Kelton Coleman - U-Dallas to Augustana (SD) (D2)
Jesse Kinnard - Covenant to Delaware State (D1)
Brody Fox - Stout to Citadel (D1)*
Jesse Hafemeister - Catholic to Mercyhurst (D1)
Tommy Kelly - Catholic to Mercyhurst (D1)
Ryan Sroka - Illinois Wesleyan to Missouri S&T (D2)
Joshua West - Dominican to Hawaii Pacific (D2)
Elijah Davis - Lynchburg to North Carolina (D1) (walk-on)
Phil Dotson III - Rhodes to Angelo State (D2)
Dj Wright - HSC to Clayton State (D2)
Jojo Anderson - Whitworth to Idaho (D1)*
Luke Ogle - Mary Baldwin to Southwest Baptist (D2)
Kendall Cave - Earlham to UNC Wilmington (D1)
Montell Cooper - Marymount VA to Millersville (D2)
Luke Kiser - UT-Dallas to St. Edward's (D2)
Bryson Huckeby - Anderson to Saginaw Valley (D2)
Stephen Akwiwu - Hartford to North Georgia (D2)
Dinari Boykin - Colorado College to Mars Hill (D2)
Joffrey Nunnally - Earlham to St. Francis-Joliet (D1)
Jikari Johnson - Ferrum to Trevecca Nazarene (D2)
Jaylan Green - Transylvania to Ohio Dominican (D2)
Davidson Hubbard - HSC to Baylor (D1)*
Jaden Gales - St. Vincent to Newman (D2)*
Henry Herman - Hartford to Franklin Pierce (D2)


Transferring to D3 schools:

Andy Barba - Duquesne (D1) to Case Western
Jack Stone - Carnegie Mellon to NYU
Aiden Blake - West Virginia Wesleyan (D2) to Waynesburg
Jaden Young - Pratt to Cal Lutheran
C.J. Campbell - Northern Michigan (D2) to Lacrosse
Jamarr Talbert Jr. - Notre Dame (OH) (D2) to Mount Union
Gavin Ralph - Platteville to River Falls
Trevor Montiel - Benedictine to Trine
Cam Smith - Anderson to Trine
Hamilton Campbell - Lenoir-Rhyne (D2) to Hampden Sydney
Austin Ambrose - Parkside (D2) to Whitewater
Nick Schiavello - Wheaton to Case Western
James Jacobs - Concordia St. Paul (D2) to Stevens Point
Jack Hutchinson - Simpson to Stevens Point
James Felton - Davenport (D2) to Calvin
Daniel Bublil - Sacred Heart (D1) to Hartford
Max Greenamoyer - Hanover to Trine
Bryce Lausier - Maine (D1) to Southern Maine
Keith Hoffman - West Florida (D2) to Stevens Point
Paul Jordan - Pepperdine (D1) to Trinity
Parker Swartz - Ohio Dominican (D2) to Calvin
Drew Stack - Portland (D1) to Hartford
Logan Scott - Vassar to Stevens
Jackson Cronin - UMass (D1) to Yeshiva
Luke Cronin - GW (D1) to Yeshiva
Jarron Flynn - Conn College to Springfield
Josiah Hardy - HSC to Cairn
Ryan Ioppolo - USCB (D2) to John Carroll
Marshawn Robinson - St. Leo (D2) to Platteville
Drew Adams - Winona St (D2) to River Falls
AJ Uttech - Stevens Point to Stout
Dorian Davis - Mary Washington to Shenadoah
Reid Chauhan - Trinity (TX) to Drew
Marc Herasme - Pace (D1) to Drew
Lemar Fulmore - Union to Sarah Lawrence
Javen Reid - MCLA to Concordia Chicago
Luke Thorburn - CWRU to Johns Hopkins
Jordan Phillips-McLoyd - Waynesburg to Randolph
Russ Wells - Emory & Henry (D2) to Randolph
Charlie Weisberg - Loyola (D1) to Skidmore
Jai Deshpande - Whitman* to Brandeis
Rob Watson - Baldwin Wallace to Brandeis
Quron Zene - Brandeis to Conn College
Chuma Oyigbo - St. Michael's (D2) to NYU
Josh Menard - St. Anselm (D2) to NYU
Brock Susko - Cal Lutheran to NYU
Tristan How - UVA (D1) to NYU
Xavier Allen - St. Joseph's LI to Oswego State
Jason Ofcarcik - Nichols to CNU
Ashton West - Clark Summit to Cairn
Christian McDaniel - Hamilton to Case Western
Dominic Martinelli - St. Thomas (D1) to UChicago
Elias Rodl - St. Anselm's (D2) to Brandeis
Simon Weisserman - Macalester to Elmhurst
Dylan Engler - NW Nazarene (D2) to Elmhurst
Ryan Isaacson - Merrimack (D1) to Elmhurst
Beluo Oranye - Hartford (formerly Amherst) to Johns Hopkins
Wade Jackson - Belmont Abbey (D2) to Case Western
Nick Farrar - UNCW (D1) to Guilford
Cole Callaway - Newbury (D2) to Lynchburg
Jake Hlywiak - Adelphi (D2) to Redlands
Chris Carter - Kansas (D1, walk-on) to Redlands
Felix Kloman - Brown (D1) to Babson
Cole Kattan - Geneseo to Oswego
Billy Reyes - Malloy (D2) to Oswego
Easton Shanholzt - Mount Union to Marietta
Landry Palata - Bluefield State (D2) to Marietta
Max Pearcy - Lamar (D1, walk-on) to Marymount (VA)
Caleb McNeely - Mary Baldwin (D2) to Marymount (VA)
Riley Brooks - Northern Michigan (D2) to Carthage
Nathan Montgomery - Winona State (D2) to Carthage
Garrett Arnold Fort Lewis (D2) to Carthage


In the transfer portal:

Connor Martin - St. Olaf
Justin Allen - Carnegie Mellon (may be returning to CMU)
Darwin Randolph - Ferrum
Andrew Milot - Knox
Chikere Nwosu - Knox
Brandon Copeland - Birmingham Southern
Rodrick Pearson - Norwich
Myles Coleman - Stevens Point
Lovenson Xavier - Marietta
David Sanford - Marietta
Tristan Holden - McMurry
Elijah Harden - Thiel
Pharaoh Amadi - Redlands
Alex Stoddard - Williams
Charlie Fantom - Skidmore
Lamonte Duffus - Hartford
Charles Nelson - Fontbonne
Ethan Chartrand - Fontbonne
Alex Elliott - HSC
Kyle Bosse - Plymouth State


Reportedly done with college hoops after this year:

Justin Kuthan - Roanoke
Daniel Mbangue - RMC*
Darry Moore - ETBU*


Seniors of note with eligibility remaining whose intentions are unknown:

Ryan Thissen - St. John's
Ousmane Kourouma - RIC*
Mason Barnes - DeSales
Marcus Stubbs - Marymount (VA)
Tommy Griffitts and Devon Lewis - Cal Lutheran
Jordan Oates - Salisbury*
Nick Everett - Wooster*
Nate Siow - Keene State
R.J. Holmes - Carnegie Mellon
Tanner Wiegerink - Hope*


Returning for a COVID year to their current program:

Logan Pearson - Platteville*
Ben Probst - Platteville
Brady Olson - Platteville
Emmanuel Magnanglo - Trine
Adam Brazil - Hampden-Sydney*
Jake Holtz - Whitworth
Uchenna Egezeke - Calvin*
Christian Parker - Mount Union*
Jahn Hines - CNU*
Zach Sawyer - Manchester*
Giovanni Rubino - Muehlenberg
Octavio Brito - Keene State*
Will Bartoszek - Harden-Simmons*
Ryan Broeckel*, Jacob Stoltz, Grayson Goetz, Jacob Hefle and AJ Vos - Wisconsin Lutheran
Joshua Van Gorp - Central*
Mason Jean Baptiste - Keene State
Jack Boyle - UDallas

Great work on this list last year. Simply amazing!

Quote from: Mitch Hall on March 07, 2025, 11:47:25 AMEagles facing "the system" tonight. Can the guards handle the pressure ? What will be the attendance in the 6000 seat Center ?

This has all the ingredients of upset.

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Quote from: Captain_Joe08 on March 03, 2025, 10:08:36 AMInteresting projection to see WLC hosting a pod. Possible teams in the pods will be Illinois Wesleyan, Chicago and Central. Still lean that Carthage will probably get the nod over WLC in terms of hosting.

They're not going to put Carthage and IWU in the same pod if they don't have to - and they don't have to.

They shouldn't have to. Felt that Carthage had a better shot of hosting over WLC. Would be the second time an NACC team gets to host a pod for the tournament (Benedictine Men 2016).

That UW-La Crosse/St. John's pod could be a fun one. St. Norbert could pull an upset if it played the way it did yesterday against WLC.

Would have been 3rd time* for the NACC

Concordia Wisconsin hosted in 2010-11.

https://www.cuwfalcons.com/sports/mbkb/2010-11/boxscores/20110304_fdv2.xml?view=boxscore

Quote from: palum on March 01, 2025, 09:42:39 AMI heard on the news yesterday that they will be tearing down Zorn arena in Eau Claire. There's a lot of history in that building.

Booooo

76-73 SNC over MSOE

Game of runs. Back and forth.

Two extremely well coached and talented teams. Very good crowd. What Division III basketball should look like.

SNC vs WLC for championship.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/business/college-sports-academic-major.html

Reviews in Division III should not be available. It simply does not make any sense.

This was a long-time coming for higher education.

When I was in college 2004-08, enrollment records were being set left and right at my institution and many others. Everyone was going to school. Admissions staff didn't have to work very hard because the applications were flooding in like crazy.

Then ever since the turn of 2010, the enrollment cliff has been falling, prices went up, the value from an education standpoint and facility standpoint (broadly speaking) have not matched it.

Take a look at many of these small private schools. Look at their facilities. In Wisconsin alone, you are seeing high schools left and right create indoor training facilities with field turf or domes. Pair that with how quickly you can learn business and communication skills online. Or save a ton of money by attending a 2 year/tech school. These small insitutions cannot keep up.

Eventually, this will all even out but not before we see many more small institutions close their doors.

I love higher-ed and have a bachelor's and master's. But, it's inability to adapt over the years (collectively) and new regimes not learning from the past have led to where we are at. Again, collectively. This isn't a one size fits all approach.

Quote from: IC798891 on February 16, 2025, 08:53:38 PMThe bigger problem with endowments isn't that you can only draw down X% a year. It's that an overwhelming majority of that money is earmarked for specific things which may have nothing at all to do with the college's biggest needs. Especially if those needs are the un-glamorous thing like dorms, or deferred maintenance, etc.

At Wells, for example, just 15% of their endowment was unrestricted when they were forced to close.

There's a lot of cynicism about spending in higher education, and I'm not naive enough to say that all of that cynicism is unjustified. But there's a reason why colleges often ask for donations right to the general fund.

Spot on. I hate when people talk endowment. Doesn't mean a whole lot if you don't know what the money is set aside for.

Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on February 14, 2025, 12:09:41 PMMy wife's grandfather died in 2019.  He lived on a $1500 a month army pension for the last 40 years of his life, but he still sent a $30 check to Berea every month, without having attended or even knowing an alum.  He was an old school social reformer in the Pete Seeger tradition and he believed in the mission.

I agree adding to huge endowments doesn't do a whole lot.  That's been Malcolm Gladwell's big talking point for a while.  He did a couple of podcasts on it a few years back, using Rowan as an example of how a big gift to a poorer school can transform an institution.  It's a good listen.

Please share a link. Thanks!

Carroll has had some tough (close) losses. Good win for Pios.

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Quote from: FiredCoachesPod on January 31, 2025, 01:24:19 PMNever want to be the guy, to follow the guy.

You mean Barker following Miles Barnstable?

No

Just say Derek Gray.

I'm not talking about players.

It's tough to follow a coach who had a ton of succcess.

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Quote from: FiredCoachesPod on January 31, 2025, 01:24:19 PMNever want to be the guy, to follow the guy.

You mean Barker following Miles Barnstable?

No

Never want to be the guy, to follow the guy.