D3 Championship Belt

[sac]

Also, well done everyone.  Bravo.

[mailsy]

Good job guys. That was fun. Two thumbs up. 👍👍
I started following this board at page 19(10 years ago). It took 5 pages today to get 20 years updated.  Dilly Dilly!!

[Ralph Turner]

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

Oh shucks!  I did not know that McMurry was playing for The Belt^TM in the Elite 8 Game in the 2000 Playoffs!

[Mr. Ypsi]

With apologies to Winston Churchill:  Never in the field of D3 trivia has so much been owed by so many to so few.

You guys may not be the RAF, but good on ya.

[ronk]

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

Oh shucks!  I did not know that McMurry was playing for The Belt^TM in the Elite 8 Game in the 2000 Playoffs!

No one should be subjected to such pressure, Ralph. 

[ronk]

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'.

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

It looks like every member of the current Landmark Conference has been a holder of The Belt; can any other conference make that claim?

[Pat Coleman]

I've called a lot of belt games, but wasn't aware the Catholic/Hampden-Sydney second-round game was one of them! 

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I've got the whole Belt path copied into one document now.  I have a little formatting to do, but I'll post it later - at least through 2017.  I'll add each year at the end of the season.

[lmitzel]

+K's all around! Once the full list gets posted, I'll update the map.

Tomorrow, the women.

We should be up to date from whenever the Diva Belt^TM thread started to now. I'm just hoping that 1983 will give NCC some love in that department.

[Just Bill]

I'm not sure if these are tears of joy or sadness.

[Gregory Sager]

I've called a lot of belt games, but wasn't aware the Catholic/Hampden-Sydney second-round game was one of them! 

Turns out in retrospect that there was a whole pile of Belt^TM games that I've attended over the years, games at which I had no idea that possession of a traveling totem of supernatural powers was on the line.

I think that we can look back across the decades and call yesterday's completed chain "The Belt^TM -- The Stealth Years".

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

2001
Wooster
Savannah Art & Design
Methodist

Had we only known at the time, we could've had The Towel^TM made for Cazzie to go with The Belt^TM. (When Cazzie coached, he used to drape a towel across his shoulders during games, a la John Thompson.) Sadly, although SCAD still offers 22 sports at the NAIA level, men's basketball is no longer among them.

I'm not sure if these are tears of joy or sadness.

For me, they're tears of frustration, because we still haven't resolved the East Stroudsburg issue that kept me from finishing this project back when I first started it several years ago. But at least now we have one plausible timeline for The Belt^TM laid out, so this is something that people can enjoy (weird people like you and me, that is).

[John Gleich]

East Stroudsburg '78-'79... here's what I was able to find (not sure if this gets us anywhere)...


https://static.psacsports.org/custompages/mbball/Year-by-Year%20Men's%20Basketball%20PSAC%20Champions.pdf?path=mbball

They were 4-8 in the league, 12-15 Overall


Don Bones was included in the NCAA ranking history sheet at ESU:

https://static.esuwarriors.com/custompages/MBB/PSAC%20individual%20rankings%20-%20MBB.pdf

1978-79 Scoring Don Bones t-39 19.8 points/game
FT % Don Bones 17 .854 (76 for 89)


Don Bones was Honorable Mention NABC KODAK All-America in both 1980 and 1981:

https://static.esuwarriors.com/custompages/MBB/Postseason%20Honors.pdf

Confirmed this is D-II

http://www.poconorecord.com/article/20140325/Sports/403250303


So in '79-'80 and '80-'81, they were D-II and in the NCAA (in some way shape or form) in '78-'79.  Is that close enough?

[lmitzel]

Back to the 2018 Belt^TM Path, YorkPa just knocked off Yeshiva 81-67 and retains possession of The Belt^TM.

YorkPa also avoids some not so great company in Belt^TM history:

One and done: '17 Bethel, 12 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, '09 Transylvania, '08 Chicago
Round of 32: '07 Hampden-Sydney
Sweet 16: '14 Albertus Magnus, '11 UWSP, '10 Wooster
Elite 8: '16 Alma
Final 4: '13 St. Thomas
Title Game: '15 Augustana
Champion: None

[Gregory Sager]

East Stroudsburg '78-'79... here's what I was able to find (not sure if this gets us anywhere)...


https://static.psacsports.org/custompages/mbball/Year-by-Year%20Men's%20Basketball%20PSAC%20Champions.pdf?path=mbball

They were 4-8 in the league, 12-15 Overall


Don Bones was included in the NCAA ranking history sheet at ESU:

https://static.esuwarriors.com/custompages/MBB/PSAC%20individual%20rankings%20-%20MBB.pdf

1978-79 Scoring Don Bones t-39 19.8 points/game
FT % Don Bones 17 .854 (76 for 89)


Don Bones was Honorable Mention NABC KODAK All-America in both 1980 and 1981:

https://static.esuwarriors.com/custompages/MBB/Postseason%20Honors.pdf

Confirmed this is D-II

http://www.poconorecord.com/article/20140325/Sports/403250303


So in '79-'80 and '80-'81, they were D-II and in the NCAA (in some way shape or form) in '78-'79.  Is that close enough?

No, not really, since we're looking for the 1976-77 season. If we had an indication of D2 status for East Stroudsburg prior to that, as well as the info that we have that the Warriors were D2 subsequent to '76-'77, then we'd have pretty solid circumstantial evidence. Thanks, anyway.

[John Gleich]

East Stroudsburg '78-'79... here's what I was able to find (not sure if this gets us anywhere)...


https://static.psacsports.org/custompages/mbball/Year-by-Year%20Men's%20Basketball%20PSAC%20Champions.pdf?path=mbball

They were 4-8 in the league, 12-15 Overall


Don Bones was included in the NCAA ranking history sheet at ESU:

https://static.esuwarriors.com/custompages/MBB/PSAC%20individual%20rankings%20-%20MBB.pdf

1978-79 Scoring Don Bones t-39 19.8 points/game
FT % Don Bones 17 .854 (76 for 89)


Don Bones was Honorable Mention NABC KODAK All-America in both 1980 and 1981:

https://static.esuwarriors.com/custompages/MBB/Postseason%20Honors.pdf

Confirmed this is D-II

http://www.poconorecord.com/article/20140325/Sports/403250303


So in '79-'80 and '80-'81, they were D-II and in the NCAA (in some way shape or form) in '78-'79.  Is that close enough?

No, not really, since we're looking for the 1976-77 season. If we had an indication of D2 status for East Stroudsburg prior to that, as well as the info that we have that the Warriors were D2 subsequent to '76-'77, then we'd have pretty solid circumstantial evidence. Thanks, anyway.

Crumb. I thought I was close.