We love a way too early contest here at The D3 Datacat so it’s time to break out our annual draft to predict which teams will receive at-large bids to the NCAA Division III men’s basketball tournament! Zac and Matt alternate selections for 11 picks each with three points awarded for each pick that ends up making the tournament as an at-large. Any pick that winds up as their conference's automatic qualifier for the tournament will gain one point. Who do we think have positioned themselves well so far this season?

Join us this week on The D3 Datacast for that and more as we take our usual look around in a new four-point play, a new five game slate for our picks in what will be a thin week of games, then we’ll wrap up with a peek in the mailbag.

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D3hoops.com Top 25 Poll: https://d3hoops.com/top25/index

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We often use the D3 Datacast computer efficiency ratings to talk about the strength of teams and how they stack up compared to each other but what about conferences? This week we zoom out from our usual focus on individual teams and look at how efficiency rating conference rankings are taking shape through the early portion of this Division III men’s basketball season.

Join us this week on The D3 Datacast for that and more as we take our usual look around in a new four-point, see what Matt has cooking in his ballot for the new Top 25 poll, then we’ll wrap up with our weekly picks slate and a quick mailbag.

Related Episodes:

Conference Champion Draft 2025-26 - Episode 121: https://youtu.be/eAZaSQAhwO0

Preseason Efficiency Ratings 2025-26 - Episode 118: https://youtu.be/KRW-DitTCgg

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D3hoops.com Top 25 Poll: https://d3hoops.com/top25/index

Efficiency Ratings: https://d3datacast.com/efficiency-ratings/

NPI Rankings: https://d3datacast.com/npi/

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A total of 71 Division III men’s basketball teams have been named on at least one D3Hoops.com Top 25 ballot so far this season. In this week’s show we turn to the D3 Datacast efficiency ratings and take a look at the top ten teams that have not yet been named on a ballot. Are there some hidden gems, some teams flying under the radar?

Join us this week as we take our usual look around D3 hoops with our four-point play, examine those ten top teams not yet receiving Top 25 votes, talk about what the computer seems to like and how a human voter might or might not agree with the evaluation.

There will be a new D3hoops.com Top 25 poll this week so Matt reveals the ballot he will submit and we talk about where the Top 25 picture stands, how the past week’s results are helping to shape it and working through what can seem like confusing and conflicting results. We’ll wrap up with our weekly picks slate and a word of thanks for our great supporters.

Related Episodes:

Conference Champion Draft 2025-26 - Episode 121: https://youtu.be/eAZaSQAhwO0

Preseason Efficiency Ratings 2025-26 - Episode 118: https://youtu.be/KRW-DitTCgg

Related Links:

D3hoops.com Top 25 Poll: https://d3hoops.com/top25/index

Efficiency Ratings: https://d3datacast.com/efficiency-ratings/

NPI Rankings: https://d3datacast.com/npi/

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The week of Thanksgiving tends to be a lighter week in the Division III men’s basketball calendar but there is still plenty to react to and talk about from the holiday weekend. Join us this week for another four-point play where we talk about what has been catching our eye across the country then dive in to take a look at a few programs who have made notable moves in our efficiency ratings so far this season.

There will be a new D3hoops.com Top 25 poll this week so Matt reveals the ballot he will submit and we talk about the dynamics at play in what has been another difficult to decipher the Top 25 picture. We’ll wrap up with our weekly picks slate and three questions in the mailbag.

Related Episodes:

Preseason Efficiency Ratings 2025-26 - Episode 118: https://youtu.be/KRW-DitTCgg

Related Links:

D3hoops.com Top 25 Poll: https://d3hoops.com/top25/index

Efficiency Ratings: https://d3datacast.com/efficiency-ratings/

NPI Rankings: https://d3datacast.com/npi/

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The intensity of the 2025-2026 Division III men’s basketball season has ramped up with another great week of non-conference games, including the always fantastic Great Lakes Invitational. This year’s event was hosted by Washington & Jefferson and had a field that included Carthage, Case Western Reserve, Marietta, Mary Washington, Maryville, Trine and Trinity (TX).

Join us this week for another four-point play where we talk about what has been catching our eye across the country then dive in deep into what happened at the Great Lakes Invitational. We’ll review the GLI with our poll-style power rankings based on the games this weekend, then wrap up with the picks and mailbag.

Related Links:

D3hoops.com Top 25 Poll: https://d3hoops.com/top25/index

Efficiency Ratings: https://d3datacast.com/efficiency-ratings/

NPI Rankings: https://d3datacast.com/npi/

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Every Division III men’s basketball program has played at least one game now so it’s official game on for the 2025-2026 season! Join us this week as we react to another exciting week of action and try to make sense of it all, starting with a scan of the country in our “four-point play” to start another episode.

There is still another week until the first D3hoops.com Top 25 poll of the regular season but that might be for the best given what has happened so far. We talk about the Top 25 picture, the struggle to figure out just how much to react to a result and what, if any changes, are in play when new ballots are submitted a week from now. We also check in on how we did in our week two picks and have five more games to pick against the computer line for week 3 before wrapping up with two questions in the mailbag.

Related Episodes:

Preseason Efficiency Ratings 2025-26 - Episode 118: https://youtu.be/KRW-DitTCgg

Top 50 Games in November 2025 - Episode 122: https://youtu.be/8_aUDkQxVNI

Related Links:

D3hoops.com Top 25 Poll: https://d3hoops.com/top25/index

Efficiency Ratings: https://d3datacast.com/efficiency-ratings/

NPI Rankings: https://d3datacast.com/npi/

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The opening weekend of the Division III basketball season is in the books! Not every team made their debut during the first weekend of play but there were a lot of great games as we start learning just what each team is, or could be, for this season. Join us this week as we discuss what took place in this week’s “four-point play” and talk about how these first games may, or may not, alter the view of teams in or around the Top 25.

We also give a review of the wide range of information we have available at D3Datacast.com to serve as resources as you follow the basketball season, helping give context to teams as they relate to each other and their outlook for postseason play. We also check in on how we did in our week one picks and have five more games to pick against the computer line for week 2 before wrapping up with one question in the mailbag.

Related Episodes:

Preseason Efficiency Ratings 2025-26 - Episode 118: https://youtu.be/KRW-DitTCgg

Top 50 Games in November 2025 - Episode 122: https://youtu.be/8_aUDkQxVNI

Related Links:

D3hoops.com Top 25 Poll: https://d3hoops.com/top25/index

Efficiency Ratings: https://d3datacast.com/efficiency-ratings/

NPI Rankings: https://d3datacast.com/npi/

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A new week is here and it’s a week with a Division III basketball games! We celebrate the new season by debuting a new segment we’re calling our “four-point play” in which we scan the four points of the compass and talk about what is catching our eye or on our minds in the North, South, East and West. We also take a look at Matt’s preseason Top 25 ballot and talk about how it compares and contrasts to the total D3hoops.com preseason poll released last week.

This week’s show also features audience-submitted hot takes and bold predictions for the seasons and we were joined on the show by Ryan Scott to help react and discuss to how our viewers are feeling about the upcoming season. We also provide some hot takes and bold predictions of our own before finishing with our first picks slate of the season.

Related Episodes:

Preseason Efficiency Ratings 2025-26 - Episode 118: https://youtu.be/KRW-DitTCgg

Top 50 Games in November 2025 - Episode 122: https://youtu.be/8_aUDkQxVNI

Related Links:

D3hoops.com Top 25 Poll: https://d3hoops.com/top25/index

Efficiency Ratings: https://d3datacast.com/efficiency-ratings/

NPI Rankings: https://d3datacast.com/npi/

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We are always excited for a new season of Division III basketball but this is the show we do each preseason that really takes the anticipation to another level. As we have done in previous years, we’ve combed through schedules and compiled our list of the Top 50 games of the men’s basketball season taking place in the month of November.

This season is sure to get off to a fast start with so many great matchups between teams meeting up on campus and at a number of great events around the country. There are even more great games to anticipate that we don’t even know about yet because they are guaranteed good matchups based on the first day of some early-season tournaments.

Join us on the preseason hype train as we talk about 50 great games and the teams taking part in them.

Related Episodes:

Preseason Efficiency Ratings 2025-26 - Episode 118: https://youtu.be/KRW-DitTCgg

Related Links:D3hoops.com Top 25 Poll: https://d3hoops.com/top25/index

Efficiency Ratings: https://d3datacast.com/efficiency-ratings/

NPI Rankings: https://d3datacast.com/npi/

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It’s way too early to know who the conference champions will be during the 2025-2026 Division II basketball season but that won’t keep us from trying to guess! We’re back with year three of our conference champions draft contest with the usual suspects of Karl Barkley, Bob Quillman and Ryan Whitnable joining us to go through eight rounds of picks.

Each conference can only be picked once so once someone makes their pick of a team to be a conference champ, that conference is off the board. Five contestants making eight picks each means 40 of the 42 conferences will factor into the picks while two will be left on the board. Also going without a pick will be the Coast-To-Coast Conference because they do not have official conference regular season play.

We follow up the draft with some talk about our thoughts on the overall landscape informed by our draft prep and other relevant topics as we look forward to another great season.

Related Links:

Karl Barkley on X: https://x.com/d3direct

Bob Quillman on X: https://x.com/BQuillmanQcast

Ryan Whitnable on X: https://x.com/OACBBallShow

Efficiency Ratings: https://d3datacast.com/efficiency-ratings/

NPI Rankings: https://d3datacast.com/npi/

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