D3 Championship Belt

[Pat Coleman]

Earlham jumped back into the NCAA in 1983-84.

I found the RHIT site that had the 1982-83 schedule.

After beating Wabash, their next loss was to Southwestern (TN) - which is now Rhodes. They were NAIA then.

Then they lost to DePauw, which was D3

So the next branch is DePauw in 1983.

DePauw did not lose again in 1983.

In 1983-84 - DePauw lost to Butler (NO), Valpo (NO), IUPUI (NO), then Wabash. So it went back to the Little Giants.

In 1984-85 (my freshman year, hooray!) - We lost to Taylor (NO), Mesa (NO), Abilene Christian (NO), Regis (NO), then DePauw again.

Back to DePauw - their next loss was to Washington U, but their 1984-85 records are missing from the  NCAA site. So...that's where I end.

Depauw must not have made it to the tourney in '83 because Scranton won it again in '83.

There's a lot of that when your tournament is 40 teams.

[Gregory Sager]

1995
Lebanon Valley
Widener
Moravian
Widener
Wilkes
Lebanon Valley
Goucher
Wilkes
Trinity (CT)
UW-Platteville

1996
UW-Platteville
UW-Oshkosh
Gustavus Adolphus
Wittenberg
Hope
Rowan

1997
Rowan
William Paterson
Richard Stockton
Williams
Nebraska Wesleyan
Illinois Wesleyan

1998
Illinois Wesleyan
DePauw
Franklin
Eureka
Rose-Hulman
Buffalo State
Widener
Wilkes
Scranton
Delaware Valley
Lycoming
Drew
Albright
Elizabethtown
Juniata
Susquehanna
Wilkes
Hope
UW-Platteville

[Gregory Sager]

1990
UW-Whitewater (non-champion)

1991
UW-Whitewater
UW-Oshkosh
UW-Whitewater (non-champion)

I guess the part that confuses me is looking at Whitewater's record from those years and seeing them still hold The Belt^TM. The '89-'90 Warhawks went 8-8 in their own conference that year, so was the rest of the Division all non-D3? The '91 records don't make a ton of sense either, since according to both Whitewater and the WIAC, they lost both of their games to Oshkosh that season.

1990
UW-Whitewater (non-champion)

1991
UW-Whitewater
UW-Oshkosh
UW-Whitewater (non-champion)

I guess the part that confuses me is looking at Whitewater's record from those years and seeing them still hold The Belt^TM. The '89-'90 Warhawks went 8-8 in their own conference that year, so was the rest of the Division all non-D3? The '91 records don't make a ton of sense either, since according to both Whitewater and the WIAC, they lost both of their games to Oshkosh that season.

(Sigh.) You're right. I'll go back and correct the path. I hope that it converges pretty quickly with the one I've already laid out.

UWW was for quite some time the only WSUC (that's what the WIAC used to call itself on the men's side) program that was D3. The rest were dual affilaites that annually declared for NAIA. A couple of the schools joined UWW in D3 (UW-Oshkosh and UW-Platteville) before the league as a whole moved over to D3 in 1993-94.

[Gregory Sager]

It didn't turn out to be too bad of a detour. And my alma mater got another turn with The Belt^TM, which was nice.

1989
Ohio Wesleyan
Grove City
Mount Union
Otterbein
Capital
Wittenberg
Otterbein
UW-Whitewater

1990
UW-Whitewater (non-champion)

1991
UW-Whitewater
UW-Oshkosh (non-champion)

1992
UW-Oshkosh
St. Norbert
Wheaton
North Park
Augustana
Illinois Wesleyan
Elmhurst
Illinois Wesleyan
Maryville
UW-Platteville
Rochester
Calvin

1993
Calvin
Albion
Kalamazoo
Hope
Calvin
Ohio Northern

1994
Ohio Northern
Baldwin Wallace
John Carroll
Ohio Northern
Heidelberg
John Carroll
Mount Union
Muskingum
Otterbein
John Carroll
Heidelberg
Otterbein
Washington & Jefferson
Wittenberg
Lebanon Valley

1995
Lebanon Valley
Widener
Moravian
Widener
Wilkes
Lebanon Valley
Goucher
Wilkes
Trinity (CT)
UW-Platteville

1996
UW-Platteville
UW-Oshkosh
Gustavus Adolphus
Wittenberg
Hope
Rowan

1997
Rowan
William Paterson
Richard Stockton
Williams
Nebraska Wesleyan
Illinois Wesleyan

1998
Illinois Wesleyan
DePauw
Franklin
Eureka
Rose-Hulman
Buffalo State
Widener
Wilkes
Scranton
Delaware Valley
Lycoming
Drew
Albright
Elizabethtown
Juniata
Susquehanna
Wilkes
Hope
UW-Platteville

[Gregory Sager]

1999
UW-Platteville
UW-Eau Claire
UW-Oshkosh
UW-Stout
UW-Platteville

2000
UW-Platteville
UW-Stevens Point
UW-Superior
UW-Whitewater
UW-Eau Claire
UW-Stevens Point
UW-Eau Claire
Calvin

[smedindy]

FUN RESEARCH!!!!   I kinda wish there had been a little more to each line... ie date, score.... but will be fun to summarize all the data when completed  ie multiple time schools etc...

Date may be a tough one. I had to use game numbers to reconstruct the IIAC path out of Simpson in 1979-80.

[smedindy]

1990
UW-Whitewater (non-champion)

1991
UW-Whitewater
UW-Oshkosh (non-champion)

I thought we may have had a detour but I saw that Oshkosh declared NAIA in 1990 and lost to Viterbo in the District.

[sac]

I have to go back 6 or 7 pages to find mention of this years Belt^Tm

[sac]

Excuse me but did anyone bother to file the 10 year extension for the trademark?

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I have to go back 6 or 7 pages to find mention of this years Belt^Tm

York has it.

[Gregory Sager]

FUN RESEARCH!!!!   I kinda wish there had been a little more to each line... ie date, score.... but will be fun to summarize all the data when completed  ie multiple time schools etc...

Date may be a tough one. I had to use game numbers to reconstruct the IIAC path out of Simpson in 1979-80.

I had to do the same thing with Moravian in 1994-95. The coach or SID who was supposed to fill out the sheets only filled out the stat sheet; he didn't fill out the schedule sheet as well. I had to print out all of the rest of the MAC Commonwealth's schedule sheets and then reconstruct the path via game numbers.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

FUN RESEARCH!!!!   I kinda wish there had been a little more to each line... ie date, score.... but will be fun to summarize all the data when completed  ie multiple time schools etc...

Date may be a tough one. I had to use game numbers to reconstruct the IIAC path out of Simpson in 1979-80.

I had to do the same thing with Moravian in 1994-95. The coach or SID who was supposed to fill out the sheets only filled out the stat sheet; he didn't fill out the schedule sheet as well. I had to print out all of the rest of the MAC Commonwealth's schedule sheets and then reconstruct the path via game numbers.

The Upsala stuff was a mess, but luckily the MAC media relations guy is as much of a research nerd as the rest of us.

[Gregory Sager]

2001
Calvin
Chicago
Wooster
Savannah Art & Design
Methodist
Lincoln (PA)
St. John Fisher
Nazareth
Rochester
SUNY Geneseo
SUNY Potsdam
SUNY Brockport
SUNY Poly
SUNY Geneseo
SUNY New Paltz
SUNY Brockport
SUNY Geneseo
SUNY Oswego (non-champion)

2002
SUNY Oswego
St. Lawrence
Christopher Newport
Randolph-Macon
Emory & Henry
Virginia Wesleyan
Emory & Henry
Hampden-Sydney
Catholic
Clark
Elizabethtown
Otterbein

2003
Otterbein
Savannah Art & Design
Methodist
Defiance
Mt. St. Joseph
Manchester
Anderson
Bluffton
Franklin
Anderson
Hanover
Gustavus Adolphus
Williams

2004
Williams
Amherst
Williams
UW-Stevens Point

2005
UW-Stevens Point
UW-Whitewater
UW-Eau Claire
UW-Stout
UW-Platteville
UW-River Falls
UW-Stevens Point
UW-Oshkosh
UW-Stevens Point

2006
UW-Stevens Point
Lakeland
Wisconsin Lutheran
Dominican
Southwestern
Trinity (TX)
Rhodes
DePauw
UW-Whitewater
Illinois Wesleyan
Virginia Wesleyan

... and that will bring us back to 'Do'.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

We did it!!! Full Belt path complete.



Tomorrow, the women.

[sac]

Warms my heart to know Cazzie Russell achieved the highest honor in basketball by holding The Belt^Tm

2001
Wooster
Savannah Art & Design
Methodist