Top 25 talk

[OxyBob]

Any gym to see a D3 men's game...at least one D3 team had to be playing...yeah.

Azusa Pacific
Biola
Buena Vista
Cal Baptist
Cal Lutheran
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Cal State Dominguez Hills
Cal State Fullerton
Cal State Northridge
Caltech
Chapman
Claremont
Concordia-Irvine
Hope International
La Sierra
La Verne
Occidental
Pomona
Puget Sound
The Master's
Redlands
San Diego
UC Riverside
UC Santa Cruz
UNLV
USC
Westmont
Whittier

28 total

OxyBob

[John Gleich]

Here goes nothing...

Men
Stevens Point (Quandt)
Stevens Point (Berg)
Whitewater
Oshkosh
Platteville
Superior
Stout
Eau Claire
River Falls
La Crosse
Wheaton (Centennial Gym)
Elmhurst
North Central
Coe
Viterbo
St. Francis U
Carroll
Lawrence
Marian
Edgewood
Carnegie Mellon
La Roche
McDermott Center (Las Vegas, NV)
Gustavus Adolphus
Puget Sound
Salem Civic Center
Lakeland
Finlandia University (was Suomi College at the time)

Women
IWU (I stepped in the gym when the women were playing when I was pretty young... it was the Shirk though, so it was post '94)
Rose Hulman

I also watched Point's women in both the Quandt and the Berg... and at each of the other WIAC schools, but those aren't distinct gyms.


So I think that's 30 gyms.

[KnightSlappy]

I voted totally wrong on the poll.    I guess it's 13 for me, not 9.

Calvin (old), Calvin (new), Hope, Olivet, Albion, Trine, Kalamazoo, Defiance, Wheaton, Aurora, Salem Civic Center, Grand Rapids Christian HS (while Calvin was under construction), Aquinas (NAIA vs. D3)

[BUBeaverFan]

Bluffton, Defiance, Mt. St. Joe, Manchester, Anderson, Franklin, Hanover, Transylvania, Heidelberg, ONU, Wilmington, B-W, Witt, Denison, Capital, Otterbein, John Carrol, Hiram, Case, Calvin (old), Tiffin U, Albion, Adrian, Tri-State (now Trine), Chicago, Carnegie-Mellon, North Central, Illinois Wesleyan, Salem Civic Center. (28 + Salem = 29)  Might have missed a few I'm sure. 

Believe it or not I haven't seen Wash U play at home, yet.  I guess I have another year to try and make that happen (or maybe I can sneek in one of the last 3 home games this year).

Man if I could count NAIA schools the list would be a bit longer. I traveled with the Tiffin University men's team for about 7 years when they were NAIA including a couple of NAIA tourney runs. Several teams I watched when they were NAIA and now they are D3, I need to go see them again so I can count them.  Total college basketball gyms (non-DI) might be around 60 or so.

[Hoosier Titan]

Augustana
Benedictine
Carthage (old gym)
Chicago
DePauw
Elmhurst
Hanover
Illinois College
Illinois Wesleyan
Lawrence
Millikin
North Central
North Park
Salem Civic Center
Wabash
UW-Whitewater
Wooster

I think that's 16; not too bad for not having seen a D3 game until 2003.

[Greek Tragedy]

I'm around a (shameful) 25.    Not nearly as many as I thought.

WIAC-Stevens Point, Platteville, River Falls, Eau Claire, Stout, Oshkosh, La Crosse (haven't made it to Superior yet)

MWC-Carroll, Lawrence, Ripon, St. Norbert

NATHCON (old LMC)-Edgewood, Lakeland, Wisconsin Lutheran, Marian, Aurora, MSOE

Others-Northern Michigan, U of Chicago, Clarke College, Carthage, and of course, Salem Civic Center.

*Kemper Arena to see the NAIA Nationals

Most interesting gym-Northern Michigan-played inside an ice rink.
Smallest-Edgewood-it's a high school too, and it looks like a YMCA gym.

[John Gleich]

I'm around a (shameful) 25.    Not nearly as many as I thought.

I agree... I thought I would have more than 30.  We just played a whole bunch of obscure schools at home!

...I wonder what the number of teams that people have seen... or the number of DIII gyms, even if not for a game...  guess those are lists for next week!

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Yeah, I screwed up my vote in the poll as well.  I think I'm only at 13 (I voted 15-20).

For Men's Basketball:

Eastern Nazarene, Gordon, Anna Maria, Endicott, Colby-Sawyer, Elms, Emerson (although it was before the construction of their current gym so the game was in a Rec Center in Roxbury), Becker, Curry, Newbury (Hellenic College's gym; I saw another team there as well, but I forget who), Nichols, Salve Regina, and Grinnell.

I attended a women's playoff game at Rowan in 2000 and I've been in Johnson State's gym, although not for a game.

I have been in a number of additional gyms used for basketball while attending volleyball matches - UMass-Dartmouth, Salem State, UNE, Babson, Bridgewater State, Johnson & Wales, RIC, and Regis.

College was a while ago, I guess some of them have run together.

[ronk]

Men's:
   played (10)@ Scranton(CYC), Kings'(Scanlon), Wilkes, Moravian, Upsala, Lafayette, Muhlenberg, Lycoming, Susquehanna, and, the ultimate for a Pennsy guy, the Penn Palestra;
   viewed (10) Scranton(Long), Kings'(new one), Catholic(old gym and Dufour), Gettysburg, Albright, Goucher, DeSales, Mt.St. Mary(Md), F&M(1976 championship);
   women(5) Dickinson, Messiah, Salisbury, Johns Hopkins, Va. Wesleyan(2005 final 4)
  dances (2) Misericordia, Marywood(Bo Diddley-sorry Bo, all the songs sounded the same)

[D.B. Cooper]

Ronk

What championship was at F&M in 1976? I thought Albright hosted perhaps one of the 1st Men's Final Fours at that time frame. I'm pretty sure F&M never hosted anything more than a few Elite Eights with the initial one being against Jersey City State in 1979.

[ronk]

 Yes, it was Albright in '76(there's a pic in Scranton's media guide from the championship game); I confused it with a 1st round game against Montclair St. that I saw in '84 @ F&M. The years are running together.

[Darryl Nester]

How They Fared (So Far)

Top 25

Rank	Pts	Team	W-L	Results
#1	617	St. Thomas	22-0	def. Bethel, 75-72; 02/14 at Gustavus Adolphus
#2	608	Washington U.	19-1	02/13 at Emory; 02/15 at Case Western Reserve
#3	571	UW-Stevens Point	20-2	def. UW-Eau Claire, 61-58; 02/14 at #5 UW-Whitewater
#4	547	UW-Platteville	19-3	LOST at #5 UW-Whitewater, 62-75; 02/14 vs. UW-Superior
#5	501	UW-Whitewater	19-3	def. #4 UW-Platteville, 75-62; 02/14 vs. #3 UW-Stevens Point
#6	488	Puget Sound	19-2	02/13 vs. #30 Whitworth; 02/14 vs. Whitman
#7	454	Buena Vista	21-2	def. Dubuque, 74-70; 02/14 at Loras
#8	431	Ithaca	21-1	def. Stevens, 81-68; 02/14 vs. St. John Fisher
#9	396	Richard Stockton	22-2	def. Rowan, 65-55
#10	392	Wheaton (Ill.)	19-3	def. #17 Elmhurst, 79-64; 02/14 at Illinois Wesleyan
#11	378	Trinity (Texas)	19-2	02/13 at Millsaps; 02/14 at Hendrix
#12	352	Elms	19-1	def. Becker, 102-80; 02/12 at Daniel Webster; 02/14 at Newbury
#13	324	Middlebury	20-2	02/13 at Trinity (Conn.); 02/14 at #26 Amherst
#14	290	Capital	19-3	def. Mount Union, 77-65; 02/14 at Ohio Northern
#15	282	Mass-Dartmouth	19-3	LOST at #25 Rhode Island College, 71-82; 02/14 vs. Eastern Connecticut
#16	221	Franklin and Marshall	20-2	def. Ursinus, 87-81; 02/14 vs. Haverford
#17	189	Elmhurst	16-6	LOST to #10 Wheaton (Ill.), 64-79; 02/14 at North Park
#18	139	John Carroll	17-4	def. Heidelberg, 105-84; 02/14 vs. Marietta
#19	127	St. Norbert	18-3	def. Ripon, 77-72; 02/14 at Lawrence
#20	119	Augustana	17-6	def. Millikin, 65-55; 02/14 at North Central (Ill.)
#21	108	Carnegie Mellon	16-4	02/13 vs. Brandeis; 02/15 vs. New York University
#22	84	DePauw	17-5	02/14 at #23 Centre
#23	82	Centre	17-4	02/14 vs. #22 DePauw
#24	79	Guilford	18-4	def. Eastern Mennonite, 82-71; 02/14 at Lynchburg
#25	75	Rhode Island College	17-4	def. #15 Mass-Dartmouth, 82-71; 02/12 at Roger Williams; 02/14 at Southern Maine

Others receiving votes

Rank	Pts	Team	W-L	Results
#26	72	Amherst	18-4	02/13 vs. Williams; 02/14 vs. #13 Middlebury
#27	65	Texas-Dallas	19-3	def. University of the Ozarks, 69-54; 02/12 vs. Texas-Tyler
#28	31	Transylvania	16-5	LOST at Franklin, 76-88; 02/14 vs. Bluffton
#29	28	William Paterson	18-5	LOST at Rutgers-Newark, 43-51; 02/14 at Ramapo
#30	26	Whitworth	17-4	02/13 at #6 Puget Sound; 02/14 at Pacific Lutheran
#31	21	Chapman	18-3	02/09 at Golden St. Baptist; 02/12 vs. Hope Int'l
#32	8	Rochester Tech	16-5	LOST at St. John Fisher, 51-72; 02/13 vs. Stevens; 02/15 vs. Hartwick
#33	6	Worcester Polytech	17-4	def. Springfield, 66-62; 02/14 at MIT
T#34	4	DeSales	18-4	def. Muhlenberg, 59-57; LOST at King's, 64-69 OT; 02/14 at Eastern
T#34	4	St. Lawrence	16-4	02/13 at Hobart; 02/14 at Hamilton
T#36	2	McDaniel	17-5	def. Dickinson, 69-55; 02/14 at Washington College
T#36	2	Randolph-Macon	18-5	def. Washington and Lee, 74-66; def. Bridgewater (Va.), 71-38; 02/14 vs. Virginia Wesleyan
T#38	1	Roanoke	16-6	LOST at Hampden-Sydney, 63-67; 02/14 at Eastern Mennonite
T#38	1	Salem State	17-5	LOST to Framingham State, 80-84; 02/14 at Fitchburg State

Other teams to watch (as suggested by posters on this board)

Rank	Pts	Team	W-L	Results
---	---	Franklin	14-8	def. #28 Transylvania, 88-76; 02/14 at Mount St. Joseph
---	---	Calvin	15-6	def. Hope, 63-62; 02/14 at Olivet

[monsoon]

Adrian
Albion
Alma
Aquinas
Aurora
Calvin
Carthage
Chicago
Cornerstone - old
Cornerstone - new
Defiance
Elmhurst
Hope (Civic)
Hope (Dow)
Hope (DeVos)
Kalamazoo
North Park
Olivet
Spring Arbor
St. Norbert
Trinity Christian
UW-Stevens Point
Wheaton
Wittenberg
Wooster

TOTAL:  25

[Titan Q]

I believe I've seen IWU play in exactly 50 gyms.  I've seen non-IWU D3 games in two additional venues.

Albion
Augustana
Aurora
Beloit
Benedictine
Bradley*
BYU-Hawaii*
Cal Lutheran
Carthage
Chaminade*
Chicago
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
DePauw
Eastern Illinois* #
Eckerd*
Elmhurst
Florida Gulf Coast*
Florida Southern*
Fontbonne
Hanover
Hawaii Pacific*
Illinois College
Illinois Wesleyan
Johnson & Wales (FL)*
Kaimuki High School (Honolulu)*
Lawrence
Manchester
Maryville (Tn)
Millikin
North Central
North Park
Northern Illinois*
Northwestern (IL)*
Occidental
Olivet Nazarene*
Randolph-Macon
Ripon
Roanoke
Salem Civic Center*
Southwestern
St. Xavier*
U. of Illinois*
UW-Platteville
UW-Whitewater
Wabash
Wartburg
Wash U
Westminster (Mo.) #
Westmont College*
Wheaton
Wittenberg
Wooster

* non-D3 gym
# non-IWU game

[oldchap]

Number 31 of the "Top 25"  Chapman University posted a big win today (2/12) against Hope International, 68-61. Hope is NAIA Division I, considered to be generally more competitive than NCAA Division III and even though Hope's overall record and Conference records are pretty bleak, it nonetheless shows that Chapman is a very competitive team. Chapman's overall record now stands at 20-3.