Top 25 talk

[Gregory Sager]

I remember getting a LOT of joy out of the seemingly harmless question "are you seriopus?"

Dave, best wishes for the best outcome for your wife.

Ditto to both comments.

I remember getting a LOT of joy out of the seemingly harmless question "are you seriopus?"

I am seriopus, and stop calling me Shirpley

+k  I'd forgotten all about 'seriopus' - that was all the rage for awhile.

It was the gift that keeps on giving.

[magicman]

I also gave Greg a plus K yesterday over the mascot hairdos on the Belt^TM board. #1900 It was. But I will have to give you another one for bringing this thread back from the dead. It was several weeks of highly entertaining drama on the Top 25 board and deserves a second run.    

[mailsy]

Thank you, thank you that really was quite the memory jogger. Work was asking why I was laughing so hard. +k to you Mr. Sager! 

[John Gleich]

Oh my... it is almost that much better when you can see all of the gold without the fluff.

Do you remember how much this board scrolled?

I get amused by reading the 2005 posts that are on this board -- at least, until I cringe.

I just read a number of my posts from the off-season between 04-05 and 05-06... yikes, I was wordy and overused parentheses... (and ellipses).

Talk about cringe!

[Greek Tragedy]

Thanks for the laughs and memories, Greg. I was a month off. I was looking from the beginning of February forward. I FB'd Pat and asked if he deleted all that and he thought he might have, so I stopped looking.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Oh my... it is almost that much better when you can see all of the gold without the fluff.

Do you remember how much this board scrolled?

I get amused by reading the 2005 posts that are on this board -- at least, until I cringe.

I just read a number of my posts from the off-season between 04-05 and 05-06... yikes, I was wordy and overused parentheses... (and ellipses).

Talk about cringe!

Yeah, I hated when I had to teach a night class on conference game day - most of the good stuff had already disappeared forever before I got home!

When Pat first updated, I asked him how many pages he'd be able to keep, and he replied he hoped for about 25.  Fortunately technology kept evolving and now he rarely if ever has to delete anything (for space reasons, at least ).

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Thank you gentlemen... things turned out better than feared. Though, one of the crazier days in an ER. She is recovering, but it will be slow. Turned out to be nothing serious per concerns at the beginning of the day. But still enough that she needs to slow things down. But considering the kids were in school and then picked up by the grandmother... we called it an impromptu date night. LOL

[Greek Tragedy]

Thank you gentlemen... things turned out better than feared. Though, one of the crazier days in an ER. She is recovering, but it will be slow. Turned out to be nothing serious per concerns at the beginning of the day. But still enough that she needs to slow things down. But considering the kids were in school and then picked up by the grandmother... we called it an impromptu date night. LOL

Glad to hear things worked out. Date nights are always welcome, but not if they are spent in the ER. I'm assuming you got out after you left the ER.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Thank you gentlemen... things turned out better than feared. Though, one of the crazier days in an ER. She is recovering, but it will be slow. Turned out to be nothing serious per concerns at the beginning of the day. But still enough that she needs to slow things down. But considering the kids were in school and then picked up by the grandmother... we called it an impromptu date night. LOL

Glad to hear things worked out. Date nights are always welcome, but not if they are spent in the ER. I'm assuming you got out after you left the ER.

Ha! No. We got home after 10 - having spent roughly 8 hours at the ER. Wife and I were exhausted (mine based mainly on the severe sleep deprivation I have been dealing with for the last six months).. so she went to bed and I sat on the couch scrolling through scores and the boards. Ah the life.

[John Gleich]

UWSP dropped their second straight WIAC game and their 6th game of the year. They were likely already going to drop out after the loss to Eau Claire on Wed.

Point has been ranked in 50 straight top 25 polls and 129/131. It will be 129/132 this week (and barring a substantial turn around, not likely for a return this season).

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

Believe it or not, but we are pretty much halfway through the 2015-16 season and there are plenty of teams still surprising and records being rewritten.

Tonight on Hoopsville we chat with the fourth person to reach the 900 wins in men's college basketball, a woman who keeps herself very busy even when she isn't coaching, and several other teams who are surprising everyone by leading their conference races.

Hoopsville hits the air at 7:00 PM ET and you can watch it here: www.d3hoops.com/hoopsville/archives/2015-16/jan10

Guests include ( in order):
- Glenn Robinson, #17 F&M men's coach - won career game 900 Saturday
- Pat Manning, #18 Williams women's coach - WBCA Center Court segment
- Amanda Crockett, North Park women's coach
- Mac Brown, New Jersey City men's coach
- Kendal Wallace, LaGrange men's coach

You can tune into the podcast after the show airs here::
SoundCloud: www.soundcloud.com/hoopsville
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hoopsville/id1059517087

And don't forget you can always interact with us:
Website: www.d3hoopsville.com
Twitter: @d3hoopsville or #Hoopsville
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Email: hoopsville@d3hoops.com
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[Darryl Nester]

How They Fared (Complete)

One loss at the top ...  and then a bunch of losses (32 of them) starting at #19.

As noted earlier, I added Hiram at the end as a "team worth watching."

Top 25

Rank	Pts	Team	W-L	Results
#1	625	Augustana	13-1	LOST at #5 Elmhurst, 75-77; won at North Park, 79-66
#2	596	Whitworth	13-0	def. #25 Whitman, 95-89; won at Pacific, 62-50
#3	538	Hope	12-1	def. Albion, 68-65; won at Olivet, 79-64
#4	530	St. Thomas	10-1	won at Gustavus Adolphus, 71-53; def. T#34 Bethel, 69-66
#5	510	Elmhurst	13-1	def. #1 Augustana, 77-75; won at Millikin, 73-65
#6	505	Benedictine	14-0	def. Dominican, 110-78; def. Wisconsin Lutheran, 81-67
#7	470	John Carroll	13-0	def. Capital, 75-74; won at Muskingum, 97-91
#8	457	Ohio Wesleyan	12-1	won at Wittenberg, 77-70; won at Allegheny, 89-77
#9	411	Amherst	11-1	def. Eastern Connecticut, 68-65; def. Williams, 78-66
#10	339	Marietta	11-2	def. Ohio Northern, 72-71
#11	333	Susquehanna	14-0	won at #21 Scranton, 78-63; def. Merchant Marine, 91-72
#12	329	WPI	12-1	won at Springfield, 69-56; def. #49 MIT, 70-62
#13	317	Christopher Newport	12-1	won at Penn State-Harrisburg, 77-65; def. Wesley, 81-68
#14	315	New York University	10-0	won at Wells, 89-67; def. Brandeis, 69-67
#15	224	UW-Whitewater	11-2	won at UW-Stout, 75-59; def. #19 UW-Stevens Point, 69-63
#16	197	Chicago	10-2	won at #30 Washington U., 70-69
#17	154	Franklin and Marshall	10-2	won at McDaniel, 59-43; def. Swarthmore, 57-54
#18	107	Mount Union	10-3	def. Heidelberg, 104-80; won at Wilmington, 82-79
#19	103	UW-Stevens Point	7-6	LOST at UW-Eau Claire, 59-63; LOST at #15 UW-Whitewater, 63-69
#20	88	Oswego State	8-2	LOST at Oneonta State, 52-90
#21	87	Scranton	11-3	won at Drew, 69-62; LOST to #11 Susquehanna, 63-78; won at Goucher, 78-77
#22	80	Tufts	11-2	won at Mass-Boston, 74-61; def. Bowdoin, 102-69; def. T#36 Colby, 92-65
#23	73	Trine	11-2	LOST at Calvin, 70-74; def. Kalamazoo, 77-59
#24	69	Brooklyn	11-3	won at York (N.Y.), 80-46; LOST to Baruch, 89-97
#25	68	Whitman	11-2	LOST at #2 Whitworth, 89-95; won at Pacific, 91-74

Others receiving votes

Rank	Pts	Team	W-L	Results
T#26	52	Lancaster Bible	10-0	won at Penn College, 109-52; def. Penn State-Abington, 108-60
T#26	52	St. Norbert	10-2	def. Lawrence, 82-62
#28	50	Pacific Lutheran	9-4	LOST at Linfield, 51-53; LOST at George Fox, 74-82
#29	47	Virginia Wesleyan	8-5	won at Shenandoah, 89-78; LOST to T#53 Roanoke, 84-93
#30	39	Washington U.	8-4	LOST to #16 Chicago, 69-70
#31	36	St. John's	10-2	won at Macalester, 81-56; LOST at Concordia-Moorhead, 65-83
T#32	30	Albertus Magnus	8-2	won at Anna Maria, 108-93; LOST to Lasell, 81-94; won at St. Joseph's (Maine), 56-52
T#32	30	Trinity (Conn.)	9-4	LOST at Plattsburgh State, 73-81; def. Elms, 92-63; def. Williams, 76-75
T#34	28	Bethel	9-2	won at St. Olaf, 76-66; LOST at #4 St. Thomas, 66-69
T#34	28	East Texas Baptist	9-4	LOST at Howard Payne, 65-67; won at Sul Ross State, 67-62
T#36	21	Colby	10-3	won at Pine Manor, 115-97; LOST at Bates, 69-73; LOST at #22 Tufts, 65-92
T#36	21	North Central (Ill.)	10-4	def. Millikin, 83-54; won at Wheaton (Ill.), 71-62
#38	20	Wesleyan	12-2	won at Rhode Island College, 79-77; LOST to Middlebury, 76-86; def. Hamilton, 82-76
T#39	15	William Paterson	7-6	LOST at Kean, 73-78; LOST to Rutgers-Newark, 65-78
T#39	15	Texas Lutheran	11-3	def. University of Dallas, 73-72; def. Austin, 96-93
#41	14	Delaware Valley	11-2	IDLE
#42	11	Northwestern (Minn.)	12-2	won at Bethany Lutheran, 84-66; won at Martin Luther, 97-71
T#43	10	Stockton	9-5	LOST to New Jersey City, 69-74; LOST at Ramapo, 64-70
T#43	10	Eastern Nazarene	9-4	LOST to Salve Regina, 74-83; LOST at Wentworth, 58-80; LOST to Nichols, 67-79
T#45	9	Alma	9-4	won at Kalamazoo, 86-85; def. Adrian, 85-66
T#45	9	Salisbury	10-3	def. York (Pa.), 75-56; won at Mary Washington, 81-70
T#47	8	Johnson and Wales	12-1	def. St. Joseph's (Maine), 93-51; def. Rivier, 91-53; def. Norwich, 84-48
T#47	8	Southern Vermont	9-3	LOST at Middlebury, 74-92; def. Mitchell, 103-87
#49	7	MIT	9-3	def. Clark, 56-51; LOST at #12 WPI, 62-70
T#50	6	Babson	8-4	def. Emerson, 80-63; def. Springfield, 91-76
T#50	6	Buffalo State	9-3	won at Brockport State, 81-73; won at Potsdam State, 84-78; LOST at Plattsburgh State, 91-98
#52	5	Juniata	11-3	def. Goucher, 69-62; won at Elizabethtown, 60-46; LOST at Eastern, 68-73
T#53	3	Carroll	11-1	def. Ripon, 72-66; won at Cornell, 59-55
T#53	3	Centre	10-4	def. Rhodes, 56-33; def. Hendrix, 77-74
T#53	3	Roanoke	12-1	won at Washington and Lee, 105-96; won at #29 Virginia Wesleyan, 93-84
T#56	2	Chapman	8-2	def. Pomona-Pitzer, 73-62
T#56	2	Geneseo	7-3	LOST to Fredonia State, 86-89; LOST to Oneonta State, 65-76; def. New Paltz State, 71-67
---	---	Hiram	11-2	def. DePauw, 91-60; won at Wittenberg, 72-68

[sac]

Does Hope's #3 position in the poll get a rethink? 

Hope gained almost 300 poll votes moving from #16 pre-season to #5 in week 1 based largely on their win at Stevens Point who is now 7-6 on the year.

[Ralph Turner]

TGHIJGSTO!!!

it can never be said often, or loudly, enough.

It may be foolish to ask what it means but...

A couple(?) of years ago, a wildly over-enthusiastic Richard Stockton supporter kept arguing his team was being grossly disrespected by the poll.  In his rabid haste to post, he would go ALL CAPS and mangle words.  I no longer recall whether this particular 'word' was even translatable into English in his post (I think it might have been intended as 'things to'), but it has become a standing joke among regulars.

David Collinge memorably referred to the offending poster, hplc2222, as a "Romanian spambot". The enthusiasm of hplc2222, a brand-new poster at the time, was contagious (at least for awhile), and his dedication to researching every D3 team's W-L was admirable. But his incoherence, combined with his bizarre delusion that D-Mac was rolling in the big bucks as a D3 media celebrity, spelled his eventual end via banishment ... but not before we all had a ringside seat to such hysteria as:

yes i dcid, this is a multi billionh dollar year indudtry, ... if you cant see it, you need glasses

There are not a billion dollars in Division III basketball, sir.

That was a great moment in d3boards.com history, right up there with the best of the D3 Championship Belt^TM thread and the time that the board regulars decided to build a quote pyramid in one of the multi-regional rooms.

TGHIJGSTO!!!

it can never be said often, or loudly, enough.

Not sure if that can be blown up at all... so....



Saw this on the road a while back and thought that it needed to be shared!

Nice!

I actually had it "bookmarked" somewhere, or I left myself a note as to when it started. I believe he was trying to say something like, "Don't just say things to say things."

Here is the actual quote (which linguistic archaeologists have theorized was intended to read, "Don't just say things to say things, Richard Stockton is as good as 15-0"):

DONT JUSDT SAY TGHIJGSTO SAY THINGS, RICHARD STOCKMTON IS AS GOOD AS 15-0

It's even better in the original context, because you can see how it reads as a demand to not merely say "TGHIJGSTO" in reply, but to say "things" as well. Naturally, resident wisenheimer David Collinge immediately replied to hplc2222's post in a defiant manner:

TGHIJGSTO!

I like to think of it as the d3boards.com equivalent to General Anthony McAuliffe's reply of "Nuts!" to the German demand that he surrender the besieged city of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.

Another nice aspect of that original post is that it allows me to occasionally think of our overzealous friend's favorite school as "Richard Stockmton". Of course, he also had a couple of other fat-fingered episodes regarding the home school of the Ospreys:

From an outsider looking in, it may look like Stockiton is doing it on offense, but that is far from the truth

they havnt had a win since stocktopn made the finals

"Stockmton" or "Stockiton" or "Stocktopn"? You decide.

Some of his other posts were masterpieces of gibberish as well:

there are 43 confersnces, 416 d3 teams, stcktons made the final 4 twice in 87 season,.. it would take i estimate 3200 before every team in d3 gets into the final 4

so what are you talking about

i realize i am one person in the windwebsite, and a few stranglers like me

... but my favorite remains:

oh, it takes a person, really??? well that persoin should not have a job of it it is 2 hpours latewter and it still says 450-409,... you thing these peopkme deserve to get paid gor theie qoute unquote job



come on man

what if you were making a medicaqtion in aq phrama, and you boss waqs like, oh werll , fill olut the aperwork when you caqn

lol

are you seriopus?

I felt a little badly about picking on hplc2222 at first. After all, he was obviously putting a lot of time into constructing his own ballots while painstakingly assembling lists of all of D3's one-loss teams, two-loss teams, etc., even though he didn't seem to be putting much effort into using Spellcheck. Then I found out that he was harassing D-Mac off the boards. After that, the gloves were off in terms of making fun of hplc2222, as far as I was concerned.

Of course, hplc2222 firmly believed that D-Mac had it coming to him. After all:

to totally ignore the njac on hoopseville, is notr tight,

dave, we have been through this before,.......

you are a mermber of the mecdia,... i understand you like to tsalk about d3 basketball

That's almost a compelling argument. Many's the time that I, too, have thought that D-Mac was notr tight, as far as mermbers of the mecdia are concerned.

Even Darryl "Perfect Karma" Nester, the politest man on the boards this side of Ralph Turner, got in on the fun:

I know they've lost seven games already, but I would be absolutely terrified to play Mary Hardin-Baylor right now.  Best seven loss team in d3, I think.

I believe that the established precedent on this board is that, if you are going to make such a statement, you must follow it up with detailed statistics.  Please begin with a list of all teams in D3 with 7 losses, and your analysis of the quality of those losses.  You can then move on to telling us why MHB deserves to be considered the best of that group. (And perhaps even better than some of the six- and five-loss teams.  We'll need a list of those, too.)  If, at some point, you feel obliged to post increasingly incoherent comments, and/or post in all caps, we would certainly understand.

But this might be my favorite dig at our posting-challenged friend from Dick Stockton:

i understand uw stevens point and the one or even 2 loss teams right now, have real shot at the championship,......

but of the 42 teams in the nation with no more than 3 losses, 33 had votes ,.. 9 did not

stockton sits at 32, william paterson at 30

they play each lother saturday

ikt is a bubble game

voters already have them inside, in this

so the winner of the game gets recopgnition

i do get it

usualy one team from the conference njac gets recopgnitrion, and 2 teams get in the ncaa tourney

they havnt had a win since stocktopn made the finals

but

i am not even talki g about that

i am talkingt about at least 1 team, the winnewr of tommorows game, william patterson at stockton,.. maintaining a postion yo at least get a favorable game inj the ncaa tourney

am i really wrong ?

Yes

Acknowledgements for the compliment, and the reference to me aside, that has to be the best post that I have read in years.

The inverted pyramid was unique.

I think that most of the "less sophisticated posters" have moved onto other forums/social media.

These  boards have mellowed but I think that the community has become more educated.

As for Pat Coleman being 43, his birthday was recently noted on Facebook.  My wife and I will be celebrating our 44th anniversary later this month. I did my obstetrical math and realized I am old enough to be his daddy!   

[David Collinge]

But this might be my favorite dig at our posting-challenged friend from Dick Stockton:

i understand uw stevens point and the one or even 2 loss teams right now, have real shot at the championship,......

but of the 42 teams in the nation with no more than 3 losses, 33 had votes ,.. 9 did not

stockton sits at 32, william paterson at 30

they play each lother saturday

ikt is a bubble game

voters already have them inside, in this

so the winner of the game gets recopgnition

i do get it

usualy one team from the conference njac gets recopgnitrion, and 2 teams get in the ncaa tourney

they havnt had a win since stocktopn made the finals

but

i am not even talki g about that

i am talkingt about at least 1 team, the winnewr of tommorows game, william patterson at stockton,.. maintaining a postion yo at least get a favorable game inj the ncaa tourney

am i really wrong ?

Yes

This exchange, then and now, inescapably calls to mind Tom Brookshier and Duane Thomas. "Evidently."