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D3Playbook FEBRUARY 28, 2020 | written by STEVE ULRICH your must-read briefing on what's driving the day in NCAA Division III
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The NCAA Division III Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving Committee announced the participants in the 2020 NCAA Division III Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships.
The championships will be held March 18-21 at the Greensboro Aquatic Center in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Old Dominion Athletic Conference and the Greensboro Aquatic Center will serve as co-hosts. A total of 579 participants (526 swimmers and 53 divers) will compete in the championships.
Student-athletes qualified for the swimming portion of the championships by meeting the established minimum time for the events in which they entered. Divers will be determined by performances achieved at the regional diving meets February 28-29. The complete list of all swimmers competing in the championships is available at www.usaswimming.org/ncaa. Selected divers will be added to the website Monday, March 2.
Billy Arsenault scored as time expired to lift top-seeded Endicott (19-7) past Wentworth, 63-62, in a CCC semifinal. See the game-winner here.
Greenville made 31 of 67 three-point attempts to defeat Fontbonne, 164-148, in a SLIAC semifinal. Austyn Contreras led the Panthers with 41, including 11 threes. You have to see this box score.
Fifth-seeded MSOE (15-12) upended top-seed Benedictine, 74-70, in the NACC semifinals. Gabe Wear topped the Raiders with 23.
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4. Weekend Preview
Basketball (W) - D3hoops.com
Tufts (Williams)
Hope (FRI vs. Calvin)
DePauw (FRI vs. Ohio Wesleyan)
UW-Whitewater
Bowdoin (#6 Amherst)
Amherst (#5 Bowdoin)
Whitman (George Fox)
Wartburg (#11 Loras)
Bethel (#16 Augsburg)
Baldwin Wallace (#25 John Carroll)
>> Others to Watch: Montclair State at Rowan (FRI); Cortland vs. Geneseo (FRI); Cabrini at Marymount (SAT).
Basketball (M) - D3hoops.com
Swarthmore (FRI vs. Muhlenberg)
St. Thomas (#3 Saint John's)
Saint John's (at #2 St. Thomas)
Wittenberg (FRI vs. Oberlin)
Randolph-Macon (FRI vs. Hampden-Sydney)
UW-Platteville
Mount Union (John Carroll)
Johns Hopkins (FRI vs. Haverford)
North Central (FRI vs. #22 Elmhurst)
Nebraska Wesleyan (Coe)
>> Others to Watch: Eastern at Stevens (SAT); York at Christopher Newport (SAT).
Ice Hockey (M) - USCHO
Norwich (Southern Maine)
Geneseo (Potsdam)
Utica (SAT/SUN vs. Nazareth)
UW-Eau Claire (FRI/SAT vs. UW-Superior)
Hobart (New England College)
Adrian
U. of New England (Wentworth)
Trinity, Conn. (Amherst)
UW-Stevens Point (FRI/SAT vs. #15 UW-River Falls)
Babson
>> Others to Watch: Stevenson at Wilkes (FRI/SAT); St. Norbert at Marian (SAT).
Ice Hockey (W) - USCHO
Plattsburgh (Cortland)
Middlebury (Trinity)
UW-Eau Claire (FRI/SAT vs. Stevens Point)
Gustavus Adolphus (Saint Mary's)
Elmira (Utica)
UW-River Falls (FRI/SAT vs. Superior)
Norwich (Plymouth State)
Hamline (Augsburg)
Endicott (Salve Regina)
Adrian (FRI/SAT vs. St. Norbert)
>> Others to Watch: William Smith at Nazareth (SAT).
all games/matches Saturday unless indicated
5. Lax et Lux
Lacrosse (M) - USILA
Salisbury (Coast Guard)
Amherst (Hamilton; SUN vs. Western New England)
Cabrini (#15 Dickinson)
Williams (at Trinity)
RIT
Tufts (Colby)
Denison (SUN vs. Roanoke)
Wesleyan (Bates)
Ursinus (#20 Christopher Newport)
York (at #14 Lynchburg)
>> Others to Watch: #16 Stevenson at #12 Gettysburg; #19 Franklin & Marshall at #18 Washington and Lee.
Lacrosse (W) - IWLCA
Middlebury (#13 Bowdoin)
Tufts (at #16 Colby)
Gettysburg (#21 Denison)
Salisbury (SUN vs. #8 Washington and Lee)
Wesleyan (at Bates)
Franklin & Marshall (at #14 Mary Washington)
York
Washington and Lee (SUN at #4 Salisbury)
Amherst (at Hamilton)
Catholic (Rowan)
>> Others to Watch: #22 Cortland at #19 Ithaca.
* roughly translated as Lax and Light
6. Weekend's Best
(M) #15 Lancaster Bible at #3 Stevens (FRI); #10 St. John Fisher at #1 NYU.
(M): #21 North Carolina Wesleyan vs. #25 Johns Hopkins; #33 Swarthmore vs. #36 NYU.
(W): #32 Linfield vs. #36 Gustavus Adolphus.
#1 Chapman vs. #15 Cal Lutheran (FRI/SAT); #6 Babson vs. #2 Trinity, Texas (FRI/SAT/SUN); #3 Birmingham-Southern vs. #24 Rhodes (SAT/SUN); #11 Webster vs. #21 Concordia-Chicago (SUN).
(M) #4 Claremont-M-S vs. #14 Redlands at SCIAC #1 (Tukwet Canyon Champions Course, Beanount, CA)
7. 1 Bacon Thing
Dunkin' will be selling sleeves of bacon, the coffee chain announced today.
"The crispy bacon strips are smoked with cherrywood, flavored with sweet black pepper seasoning," Yahoo! reports.
"Each pack comes with eight savory-sweet half-slices of bacon, and they are available for a suggested retail price of $2.49."
"Servings contain a hearty 190 calories, with 12 grams of fat, 10 grams of carbs, and 9 grams of sugar."
Fourth-seeded U. of New England (20-7) 
(M) #15 Lancaster Bible at #3 Stevens (FRI); #10 St. John Fisher at #1 NYU.
(M): #21 North Carolina Wesleyan vs. #25 Johns Hopkins; #33 Swarthmore vs. #36 NYU.
#1 Chapman vs. #15 Cal Lutheran (FRI/SAT); #6 Babson vs. #2 Trinity, Texas (FRI/SAT/SUN); #3 Birmingham-Southern vs. #24 Rhodes (SAT/SUN); #11 Webster vs. #21 Concordia-Chicago (SUN).
(M) #4 Claremont-M-S vs. #14 Redlands at SCIAC #1 (Tukwet Canyon Champions Course, Beanount, CA)
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