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#10: Emmanuel Women's Soccer student-athlete Sarah Dullaghan broke the DIII single-season goals scored record. (link)

#9: Dean has parted ways with Football HC Andrae Murphy after three years. AD Eric Desmond Lee will serve as Interim HC. (link)

#8: Berry names Baylor (DI) Dean of the Hankamer School of Business Sandeep Mazumder as its ninth president, starting July 1. (link)

#7: Carnegie Mellon taps #1 Cochran as the Official Auto Group of Tartans Athletics. The largest corporate deal in CMU athletics history will provide vehicles for team travel to practices and competition. (link)

#6: North Florida (DI) Dean of the College of Education and Human Services Steve Dittmore dives into the numbers on the balance of student-athlete enrollment relative to the entire student population, as earlier this year Dittmore wrote that all six of the institutions that have closed in the last year with 1K undergraduates had or exceeded 44% of its population of student-athletes. In DIII, 61 of the 408 DIII members hit the 44% threshold. Across the NCAA, just nine percent of members meet said threshold. Dittmore: “Due to the hierarchical nature of the NCAA divisions, does membership in Division I equate to a better academic reputation for an institution? I would submit the answer is a resounding no. Yet many schools continue to chase Division I, St. Peter’s (NJ)-type moments. St. Peter’s, by the way, has one of the 15 smallest DI enrollments with fewer than 1,800 students, 13.5 percent of which are athletes. As the landscape of higher education and college athletics changes rapidly, would certain DI schools be better served in Division III? That is an answer only those institutions and their boards of trustees are in a position to answer. Given the pressures on higher education enrollment in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, and the challenges associated with being athletically competitive in Division I, it certainly seems like a conversation worth having.” (link)

#5: Moravian Women’s Basketball HC Mary Beth Spirk announces that she won’t be on the bench this season while facing a recent cancer diagnosis. AC Kelly Anthony Fallara will step in to assume the role of Acting HC during Spirk’s absence. (link)

#4: Howard Payne AD Hunter Sims shares his thoughts on the changes surrounding the DIII Football playoffs and believes the implementation of NPI will change how programs schedule non-conference games. Sims also believes having the playoffs on ESPN+ will “improve the product produced by the institutions and allow the fans to find all playoff games on one platform.” (link)

#3: Williams receives a $105.82M tax-exempt bond from MassDevelopment to fund a number of facility projects including a new multipurpose recreation center and art museum, renovations to dormitories and dining spaces and more. (link)

#2: Postseason Updates:

+ North Central (IL) Triathlon goes back-to-back-to-back at the USA Triathlon Collegiate DIII National Championships. (link)

+ The 28-team Field Hockey bracket is set, with competition to begin on campuses on Wednesday. Tufts, Salisbury, Middlebury and Williams received byes as the top four seeds. Messiah, Lynchburg, Bryn Mawr and Ursinus were the last four in. (link - bracket, link - NPI rankings)

+ Middlebury, Tufts, Mary Washington and Amherst were the top seeds in the Men’s Soccer bracket. North Park, Hamilton, Hope and Buffalo State were the last four at-large teams. (link - bracket, link - NPI rankings)

+ The Women’s Soccer bracket is led by WashU, Loras, Washington & Lee and Christopher Newport. The last four teams in the 64-team field were Rowan, SUNY Brockport, Case Western Reserve and St. Mary’s (MD). (link - bracket, link - NPI rankings)

+ Salisbury is the new number one team in the Football NPI, with Hardin-Simmons, Saint John’s, North Central (IL) and SUNY Cortland rounding out the top five. (link)

+ Check out the latest Women’s Volleyball NPI rankings through last night. (link)

#1: Gettysburg Women’s Soccer HC Matt Garrett has resigned after allegations of verbal and mental abuse, according to The Gettysburgian. (link)

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