D3 Championship Belt

[sac]

Happy for Elmhurst grad asst Ben Gardner former Hope guard and something like three time wearer of The Belt^Tm

[lmitzel]

With their 78-72 win over Illinois Wesleyan last night, Elmhurst carries The Belt^TM into the NCAA Tournament, where they will also play for that other, lesser object of wood and metal.

But the Blue Jays will not have history on their side. Here's how, in the Modern Era, holders going into the tournament have fared:

One and done: '17 Bethel, 12 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, '09 Transylvania, '08 Chicago
Round of 32: '19 Nebraska Wesleyan, '18 York (PA), '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

[Veni Vidi Vici]

With their 78-72 win over Illinois Wesleyan last night, Elmhurst carries The Belt^TM into the NCAA Tournament, where they will also play for that other, lesser object of wood and metal.

But the Blue Jays will not have history on their side. Here's how, in the Modern Era, holders going into the tournament have fared:

One and done: '17 Bethel, 12 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, '09 Transylvania, '08 Chicago
Round of 32: '19 Nebraska Wesleyan, '18 York (PA), '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

In the Stealth Era:
1976 - LeMoyne-Owen - One and done (also Round of 32)
1977 - Trenton State (TCNJ) - Not in the tournament
1978 - Upsala - One and done (also Round of 32)
1979 - Millikin - Not in tournament
1980 - Ripon - One and done (also Round of 32)
1981 - North Park - One and done (also Round of 32)
1982 - Widener - Sweet 16
1983 - DePauw - Not in tournament
1984 - Wabash - Not in tournament
1985 - Earlham - Not in tournament
1986 - Centre - Sweet 16
1987 - Potsdam St (SUNY Potsdam) - Elite 8
1988 - Dubuque - Sweet 16
1989 - Otterbein - Elite 8
1990 - UW-Whitewater - Not in tournament
1991 - UW-Whitewater - Not in tournament
1992 - UW-Platteville - Final 4
1993 - Calvin - Elite 8
1994 - Otterbein - One and done
1995 - Muhlenberg - One and done
1996 - UW-Oshkosh - Round of 32
1997 - Richard Stockton - Sweet 16
1998 - Wilkes - Final 4
1999 - UW-Platteville - CHAMPION
2000 - UW-Stevens Point - Elite 8
2001 - Chowan - Not in tournament
2002 - Gettysburg - One and done
2003 - Hanover - Sweet 16
2004 - Williams - Title Game
2005 - UW-Stevens Point - CHAMPION
2006 - DePauw - One and done

[Veni Vidi Vici]

2001 - Chowan - Not in tournament

I should explain this one because it's different than what Ryan has in The Belt^TM path:

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

Instead it is:
2001
Calvin
Chicago
Wooster
Savannah Art & Design
Chowan (non-champion)
2002
Chowan
Lycoming
Alvernia
Gettysburg
Muhlenberg
Ursinus
Johns Hopkins
Gettysburg
Franklin & Marshall
Gettysburg
Lycoming
Randolph-Macon
Otterbein

SCAD's loss to Methodist came before they beat Wooster.  So instead The Belt^TM was passed from SCAD to Chowan and spent the summer in North Carolina.  This was the last time that a non-champion held The Belt^TM through the summer.

[Veni Vidi Vici]

Here's a link to SCAD's schedule and results as reported to the NCAA.
http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/statsPDFArchive/MBB2/B/Men's%20Basketball_Men's_Division%20III_2001_16006_Savannah%20College%20of%20Art%20and%20Design.pdf

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Yeah, I clearly got confused by their two games against Wooster that season.

[lmitzel]

Map^TM updates weren't too bad here, though a bunch of upstate New York and some of Pennsylvania got markers removed. I only had to go find gyms for I think four schools, which was pretty straightforward.

[Just Bill]

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Did someone invoke the Belt^TM without proper capitalization, trademark and most importantly ROYALTIES. Get me the Weasels on Line 2, stat!

https://thatd3guy.wixsite.com/thatd3guy/post/bursted-bubble-invitational

[smedindy]

A strongly worded letter should suffice, as this lower-case piece of leather is not the true and actual belt. This would be an exhibition, much like pre-season, and the Belt^TM would not deign to show itself^TM at such an event.

[Gregory Sager]

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Did someone invoke the Belt^TM without proper capitalization, trademark and most importantly ROYALTIES. Get me the Weasels on Line 2, stat!

https://thatd3guy.wixsite.com/thatd3guy/post/bursted-bubble-invitational

[kiko]

I dunno... I think that someone should petition the landlord to amend the name of this chat room so that the title reflects proper trademark protection.

[Veni Vidi Vici]

I've completed my project and will now share the fruits of my labor.  I've created this spreadsheet which logs all 1,107 games  where The Belt™ has been up for grabs (both Stealth Era and Modern Era).  Not surprisingly, there are many games that I have incomplete information.  (And probably some mistakes I made along the way).  If anyone is able to find information that I'm missing - I'd love to be able to add it into the spreadsheet.

A few interesting tidbits:

	Modern Era (434 games)	Stealth Era (672 games)	Combined
Most Points (Individual)	1) 45 pts - Nov 19,2017: Keith Brown (Endicott) 2t) 44 pts - Dec 30, 2017: Blayde Reich (York (PA)) 2t) 44 pts - Mar 15, 2019: Aston Francis (Wheaton) 4t) 41 pts - Dec 10, 2014: Hunter Hill (Augustana) 4t) 41 pts - Dec 7, 2019: Kienan Baltimore (Carthage)	1) 45 pts - Mar 20,1982: Pete Metzalaars (Wabash) 2) 40 pts - Nov 1978: Michael Harper (North Park) 3) 39 pts - Mar 16, 1996: Joel Holstege (Hope) 4) 37 pts - Mar 19, 2002: Jeff Gibbs (Otterbein) 5) 36 pts - Mar 18, 2000:Sherman Carstersen (UW-Eau Claire)
	Individual scoring is known for approximately 98% (426 of 434) games from the modern era	Individual scoring is known for approximately 40% (270 of 672) games from the stealth era
--------	--------	--------	--------
Most Games as Defender of The Belt™	1) 26 games - St. Thomas (MN) 2) 23 games - Washington (St Louis) 3) 22 games - Nebraska Wesleyan 4t) 19 games - UW-Whitewater 4t) 19 games - Augustana (IL)	1) 61 games - UW-Platteville 2) 30 games - Potsdam State (SUNY Potsdam) 3t) 28 games - North Park 3t) 28 games - Williams 5) 26 games - UW-Stevens Point	1) 63 games - UW-Platteville 2) 44 games - UW-Stevens Point 3) 32 games - Williams 4t) 31 games - North Park 4t) 31 games - Augustana (IL)
--------	--------	--------	--------
Most Wins as a Challenger to The Belt™ (Separate occasions of winning The Belt™)	1) 7 wins - St. Thomas (MN) 2) 6 wins - UW-Stevens Point 3t) 5 wins - Guilford 3t) 5 wins - Illinois Wesleyan 3t) 5 wins - Augustana (IL)	1) 6 wins - UW-Platteville 2t) 5 wins - 6 teams tied.  Widener, Franklin & Marshall, Otterbein, UW-Stevens Point, UW-Eau Claire, UW-Oshkosh	1) 11 wins - UW-Stevens Point 2) 9 wins - Augustana (IL) 3) 8 wins - Illinois Wesleyan 4t) 7 wins - Three teams tied.  St Thomas (MN), UW-Platteville, UW-Whitewater

The following conferences have never won The Belt™:

• ACAA- American Collegiate Athletic Association 0-1
• AEC- Atlantic East Conference 0-0
• AMCC- Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference 0-0
• CSAC- Colonial States Athletic Conference 0-8
• CUNYAC- City of New York Athletic Conference 0-9
• E8- Empire 8 0-1
• LAND- Landmark Conference 0-0
• LEC- Little East Conference 0-3
• LL- Liberty League 0-3
• MASCAC- Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference 0-6
• NAC- North Atlantic Conference 0-1
• NEAC- North Eastern Athletic Conference 0-1
• NECC- New England Collegiate Conference 0-3
• SAA- Southern Athletic Association 0-1
• SKY- Skyline Conference 0-3
• SLIAC- St Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference 0-7
• UMAC- Upper Midwest Athletic Conference 0-1

Some of these conferences' current members have held The Belt™ when they were members of other conferences.  For instance, Scranton is currently in the Landmark conference.  They held The Belt™ when they won the championship in 1976, but they were a member of the MAC back then.

[sac]

[kiko]

Can you unlock the Stealth Era^TM so that when I scroll the spreadsheet I can see the rows?  My excel-fu is weak today.

I have access to a ton of old newspapers and can spend a little time trying to fill in gaps in the time ahead.

[Veni Vidi Vici]

Can you unlock the Stealth Era^TM so that when I scroll the spreadsheet I can see the rows?  My excel-fu is weak today.

I have access to a ton of old newspapers and can spend a little time trying to fill in gaps in the time ahead.

I attempted to give you read/write access, but you may need to have a google account for me to give you that access.  If it is more helpful for me to attach the excel file in an email, I can do that.  I appreciate your willingness to help fill in some of these gaps.