The Brackets Are Set

 

written by STEVE ULRICH your must-read briefing on what's driving the day in NCAA Division III   >> Good Morning DIII!  >> Do Your Record Books Need An Update? Email us. We have solutions. >> Thanks for reading D3Playbook. Help us keep this site free. Support D3Playbook and click on our advertisers' links.    I know someone who would like D3Playbook TOP STORY 1.  The Brackets Are Set It's national tournament time in Division III basketball and the men's and women's committees have released their 2023 championship brackets. Women Marymount vs. St. John Fisher; Morrisville at (4) Smith Mary Washington vs. Roger Williams; Mitchell at (8) DeSales Cortland vs. Saint Vincent; Notre Dame at (20) Trinity, Conn. Ohio Wesleyan vs. (9) Gustavus Adolphus; Webster at (17) UW-Whitewater Emory vs. (18) Millikin; Rhodes at (2) Transylvania UW-Oshkosh vs. Washington and Lee; Berea at (16) Ohio Northern Washington, Mo. vs. (14) Trine; Knox at (15) Loras (6) NYU vs. Greensboro; Bridgewater State at (11) Messiah Elizabethtown vs. Stevens; Brooklyn at (1) Christopher Newport (22) Baldwin Wallace vs. (24) Wartburg; St. Norbert at (7) Hope (12) Hardin-Simmons vs. Redlands; Texas-Dallas at (5) Trinity, Texas Skidmore vs. Johns Hopkins; Merchant Marine at (21) Tufts Gettysburg vs. New Paltz; Maine Maritime at (13) Babson Marietta vs. E. Connecticut; La Roche at (19) Ithaca UW-Eau Claire vs. Whitman; Northwestern at (10) Chicago Rhode Island College vs. Rowan; St. Joseph's (Maine) at (3) Scranton (#) D3hoops.com ranking >> Brackets: Interactive | Printable Men Scranton vs. N.C. Wesleyan; Wilson at (1) Randolph-Macon (10) John Carroll vs. Albertus Magnus; Marymount at (6) Oswego State Hamilton vs. Montclair State; Mitchell at (11) Johns Hopkins UW-Whitewater vs. Wabash; Arcadia at (8) Case Western Reserve Utica vs. Babson; Cal Lutheran at (22) Rowan Hope vs. Bethany Lutheran; Fontbonne at (12) UW-Oshkosh (19) North Park vs. Sewanee; Coe at (18) Washington, Mo. NYU vs. Lancaster Bible; Anderson at (3) Mount Union St. John Fisher vs. Whitworth; SUNY Delhi at (7) Swarthmore Tufts vs. Widener; Baruch at (5) Keene State Rochester vs. Nichols; Worcester State at (16) Middlebury Mary Washington vs. St. Lawrence; La Roche at Stockton (2) Chris. Newport vs. Farmingdale State; Emory at (20) Hampden-Sydney (15) St. Thomas vs. (24) E. Texas Baptist; Schreiner at (17) Mary Hardin-Baylor (21) Carleton vs. St. Norbert; Illinois College at (9) Wheaton, Ill. (25) Pomona-Pitzer vs. (14) Williams; Chatham at (4) Saint Joseph's, Conn. (#) D3hoops.com ranking >> Brackets: Interactive | Printable A MESSAGE FROM SLEEK   Sleek: the Future of Online Shopping Online checkout sucks. It's always the same: shipping address, billing address, credit card. So why do we have to type it in every time, at every site? Current 'solutions' don't work. Fast checkouts aren’t available at the big retailers. Autofill is clunky and frequently wrong. So we built THE most convenient way to checkout online: Sleek. Give Sleek your info once, and you can checkout with 1 click at over 2 million stores like Best Buy, Zara and Dick's. No more forms. Finally. Add to Chrome Powered by Swapstack FEATURE 2.  Quatrocky Pushing DIII Forward   by Troy Provost-Heron, The Daily Times "Sara Quatrocky remembers what the initial conference calls were like when she joined the NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Championship Committee for the 2018-19 season. “One of the guys would always say, ‘Hey guys,’ or ‘Good morning, guys,’ and then he would always say, ‘And Sara,’” the Maryville College athletics director told The Daily Times. The unfamiliarity of having a woman on the committee eventually led to a search of if there had been another in the past. There had not." >> Court Awareness: "Quatrocky previously served on NCAA committees for tennis, lacrosse and women’s golf before applying to become the then-South/Southeast representative — Division III has since moved to the 10-region model — of the men’s basketball committee when she was the senior woman administrator for athletics at Rhodes College." >> What They're Saying: “It was very clear to the rest of the committee that she was the next person to grasp that role and step up into that leadership position,” NCAA Coordinator of Championships and Alliances Alex Mortillaro said. “Over the last five years, she has shown she knows what the ultimate goal is and does a great job of uniting the group to work toward that goal, but she also keeps the bigger picture in mind at the same time." >> Quotable: “Basketball has always been a huge part of my life,” Quatrocky said. “I was a tomboy growing up with my dad, and we went to Kansas Jayhawks games all the time. College basketball was everything to me, and now to think that I’ve helped grow Division III basketball to the point where we had a media room last year full of media and national media stories. We were on ESPN and we have our national championship game televised on CBS Sports. Those things are priceless." >> Continue Reading ICE HOCKEY 3.  Down The Stretch They Come It's Conference Championship Weekend in Division III ice hockey with top teams in the latest USCHO.com rankings still in the hunt for hardware. Men Utica (14), 24-2-1 Hobart (5), 25-2 Adrian (1), 22-4-2 Endicott, 22-2-2 Curry, 21-4-1 Plattsburgh, 19-5-2 UW-Stevens Point, 18-5-4 Aurora, 19-7-2 Norwich, 19-6-2 Plymouth State, 21-3-1 >> Conference Finals We're Watching: #1 Utica vs. Nazareth (UCHC); #2 Hobart vs. #13 Babson (NEHC); #3 Adrian vs. #8 Aurora (NCHA); #4 Endicott vs. #5 Curry (CCC); #6 Plattsburgh vs. #11 Oswego (SUNYAC); #7 Stevens Point vs. #14 Eau Claire (WIAC). >> Complete Poll Women Gustavus Adolphus (12), 23-3 Plattsburgh (6), 24-2 UW-River Falls (2), 23-3-1 Amherst, 22-3 Adrian, 24-3 Hamilton, 19-4-2 UW-Eau Claire, 22-3-2 Middlebury, 16-6-3 Elmira, 21-5 Colby, 17-6 >> Conference Finals We're Watching: #1 Gustavus Adolphus vs. Augsburg (MIAC); #2 Plattsburgh vs. Cortland (SUNYAC); #3 River Falls vs. #7 Eau Claire (WIAC); #6 Hamilton vs. #10 Colby (NESCAC semifinal); #9 Elmira vs. #11 Norwich (NEHC); #12 Utica vs. #13 Nazareth (UCHC); #14 St. Norbert vs. #15 Aurora (NCHA semifinal) >> Complete Poll   LACROSSE 4.  Spotless The 2023 college lacrosse season kicked into high gear last weekend and now awaits the start of NESCAC play to get everyone into the fray. Women Middlebury Tufts TCNJ Washington and Lee (3-0) Salisbury (2-1) Colby Gettysburg (2-1) Franklin & Marshall (0-1) William Smith (1-0) Ithaca (1-0) >> Games We're Watching This Week: #8 F&M vs. #13 Messiah (Wed.); #10 Ithaca vs. #14 Cortland (Wed.); #1 Middlebury vs. #16 Bowdoin (Sat.); #2 Tufts vs. #6 Colby (Sat.); #4 W&L vs. #7 Gettysburg (Sat.). >> Complete Poll Men RIT (16), 2-0 Christopher Newport (2), 2-0 Gettysburg, 2-0 Tufts Union, 1-0 Salisbury, 3-1 Bowdoin Lynchburg, 3-0 Dickinson, 3-0 Washington and Lee, 3-0 >> Games We're Watching This Week: #6 Salisbury vs. #8 Lynchburg (Sat.); #9 Dickinson vs. #15 Cabrini (Sat.); #12 St. John Fisher vs. #14 St. Lawrence (Sat.); #10 Washington and Lee vs. #16 Denison (Sun.) >> Complete Poll   A MESSAGE FROM MORNING BREW     2.6 million people wake up to this newsletter every morning There's a reason over 2.6 million people start their day with Morning Brew - the daily email that delivers the latest news from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Business news doesn't have to be dry and dense...make your mornings more enjoyable, for free.   Check it out! Powered by Swapstack NEWS 5.  Lightning Round    News  The board of trustees at Utica University voted Thursday to end 13 of the institution’s bachelor’s degree programs, according to the Rome Sentinel. New students will no longer be admitted to the shuttering programs, but current students will be able to complete their studies.   U.S. District Judge Carlos Mendoza concluded that esports does not count as a sport for purposes of Title IX, the federal law that commands gender equity in collegiate athletics and education more generally. Although esports has been litigated in other contexts, this is the first time a federal judge has issued a written ruling on esports as it pertains to whether a college has complied with Title IX.   The University of La Verne will pay $8.9 million to resolve claims that its students didn’t get their tuition’s worth in spring 2020 due to campus closures caused by the coronavirus pandemic.   Happy Birthday Cake and candles for Bailey Adams, Muskingum soccer alum; Ryan Widenhain, associate AD, Marymount; Noah Aftanas, athletic communications, Saint Vincent; and a special wish for Bridget Belgiovine, former Wellesley AD and NCAA DIII director. Do you know of someone celebrating an upcoming birthday? Drop us a line at D3Playbook@gmail.com TRANSACTIONS 6.  Comings and Goings   CABRINI - Tim McDonald stepped down as head men's basketball coach DEFIANCE - Alexis Beauregard named assistant volleyball coach MANCHESTER - Vann Hunt named head football coach MOUNT UNION - Bethany Snider named head women's lacrosse coach TRINITY, Conn. - Jessica Bergen named head field hockey coach   Thanks for starting your day with us. What did you think of today's newsletter?  Please invite your friends to sign up for D3Playbook

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