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#10: Multiple DIII football playoff games experienced issues with their streams on ESPN+ this weekend. In The D3FB Huddle’s Frank Rossi heard from individuals at multiple sites who pointed to ESPN as the source of the potential issue after initial tests prior to gameday were successful and took issue with their lack of support, with one individual stating: “[T]he NCAA has tasked us with the impossible, and getting this news and information out is important. ... [W]ithout eyes on from above at the NCAA and ESPN, I'm unsure how it gets better moving forward through this year's tournament and in the future.” More from Rossi. (link); Hoopsville’s Dave McHugh does not believe the problem solely lies with ESPN’s technology, as there were not widespread issues across the worldwide leader. McHugh: “What I think is happening is that’s our hiccup; something in the IT systems on those campuses is flagging this, restricting the broadcast, throttling it; that’s what I visually was seeing. … It’s not all on ESPN. It’s not on all of the schools and the productions. There’s a cacophony of issues there with one big central one, I think. Get all those solved and we’ll be fine. … I think in general the entire process has to be a little bit to get more people involved in these conversations when something new comes on-site to do these streams so that everybody is prepared.” (link); D3football replies: “A lot of it is ESPN. A lot of it is the NCAA pushing this on understaffed Division III schools. Some of it is on athletics. Sometimes, some of it is even on a school's IT department. Lots of things, not just one, coalesced into the imperfect storm we saw yesterday.” (link)
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#9: Cal Lutheran teams up with ARI Athletics to help streamline its recruiting and operations. (link) |
#8: SUNY Fredonia removes the interim tag from Baseball HC Frank Jagoda III. (link) |
#7: Ursinus names Babson Men’s Lacrosse AC Ryan Burke as the Bears’ new HC. (link) |
#6: WPI AD Dana Harmon joins The WPI Podcast and says of the future for DIII: “I think the next couple of years are really going to be telling, because the money is so big in Division I and they all need it, and what does it take to continue to bring in the money that they need? So I think the byproduct has been in Division III that we've been like, ‘Oh, maybe it won't affect us or we hope it doesn't affect us.’ And now we are taking that turn, and we need to set what we need to do moving forward. … [The DI men’s] basketball contract is coming up in a few years, but if they do the same model as football, where they take it, and those schools want to have their own tournament, like they have the College Football Playoff … That's where probably Division I is going to go. What does that do to us in DIII? … So I think we're trying to weather, for lack of a better term, a storm.” (link)
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#5: Wisconsin-Whitewater led the football regular season in average attendance with over 10K fans, followed by Saint John’s, Hampden-Sydney, Maryville and Baldwin Wallace. The Warhawks hosted three of the four highest-attended on-campus games this season. (link); If you want to see a comparison of attendance and wins, we have a chart for you. (link)
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#4: MSOE AD for External Operations Bill Massoels is now solely the Men’s Cross Country/Track & Field HC, with AD for Internal Operations/Women’s Basketball HC Hannah Trees now serving as Interim AD for the Raiders. (link)
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#3: Washington College has broken ground on its new Lim Family Tennis Center that will include six indoor courts, six outdoor pickleball courts and more. The facility is scheduled to be complete in October 2026. (link)
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#2: Postseason Updates…
➤ Congratulations to Wisconsin-La Crosse and NYU, who won the men’s and women’s cross country national championships, respectively. The trophies are the Eagles’ fifth and second straight and the Violets’ first title in program history. (link, link)
➤ Congratulations to Tufts field hockey, which takes home its second national title in program history with an overtime win over Johns Hopkins. (link)
➤ The men’s and women’s soccer semifinals are set. On the women’s side, WashU will play Chicago and Tufts will face Emory. (link); On the men’s side, Tufts will square off against St. Olaf and Emory will face Trinity (TX). (link)
➤ Check out the women’s volleyball quarterfinals matchups to begin next week in Bloomington, IL. (link)
➤ Here are the second-round football matchups set for this weekend’s games. (link) |
#1: As two-thirds of DI members voted to rescind the rule change that would have allowed student-athletes and staff to bet on pro sports, the ban on pro sports gambling will remain in place for all divisions. (link)
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