Hoopsville

Time for a marathon!

Thursday, Hoopsville will be on the air for at least nine hours in the 7th Annual Hoopsville Marathon Show.

This year's show will feature coaches, administrators, and many others around Division III to give us a sense of the season to date and what is to come. There is only a month or so left in the regular season, so there is plenty to talk about.

The marathon is also a chance to fund raise of the show. Many fans of Hoopsville ask often how they can give to the program so we can continue doing our work into the future. In the first few years of the Marathon, the fundraising side was an important aspect. However in the last few years, we have shied away from fundraising as we tried to find other means to financially run the program. After requests from many, we are do have a few ways fans can contribute.

Hoopsville is presented by D3hoops.com and airs from the WBCA/NABC Studio. Guests appear on the Hoopsville Hotline presented by BlueFrame Technology.

The Hoopsville Marathon is the kick-off to a fundraiser to help Hoopsville continue into the future. Many have asked about helping the show. Here is how you can donate. Click on the PayPal link below and use either your PayPal account or any major credit card to donate to the show. If you prefer to send a check, please email Dave for more information. All funds help not only keep Hoopsville broadcasting for future seasons, but also allows the show to be at big events like the DIII Men's Championship game in Atlanta.

Click here to donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=BSRFLPUJQ9MKL&source=url

Hoopsville Marathon Schedule

- Jim Calhoun, St. Joseph's (Conn.) men's coach

- Pat Juckem, No. 11 WashU men's coach

- Brian Morehouse, No. 3 Hope women's coach

- Lauren Busalacchi, Ripon women's coach

- Ryan Hyland, John Jay men's coach

- Dan Dutcher, NCAA VP for Division III

- Karin Harvey, Montclair State women's coach, Women's National Committee chair

- Adrienne Shibles, No. 2 Bowdoin women's coach

- Kate Pearson, Cabrini women's coach

- Mark Gilbride, RPI men's coach

- Matt Donohue, Catholic women's coach

- Charles Katsiaficas, Pomona-Pitzer men's coach

- Jon Herbrechtsmeyer, No. 5 Bethel women's coach

- Chris Carideo, Widener men's coach

- Dave Hixon, Amherst men's coach (sabbatical

- Tricia Cullop, WBCA Board President, Toledo women's coach

- Alex Richey, No. 18 Oglethorpe women's coach

- Jody May, Albion men's coach

- Dave Macedo, No. 18 Virginia Wesleyan men's coach

- Melissa Kuberka, St. John Fisher women's coach

- Sam Atkinson, Gallaudet Associate AD for Comm., Men's National Committee Chair

- HOOPSVILLE HAPPY HOUR with Ryan Scott, Lennny Reich, and Chris Mitchell

Time for a marathon!

Thursday, Hoopsville will be on the air for at least nine hours in the 7th Annual Hoopsville Marathon Show.

This year's show will feature coaches, administrators, and many others around Division III to give us a sense of the season to date and what is to come. There is only a month or so left in the regular season, so there is plenty to talk about.

The marathon is also a chance to fund raise of the show. Many fans of Hoopsville ask often how they can give to the program so we can continue doing our work into the future. In the first few years of the Marathon, the fundraising side was an important aspect. However in the last few years, we have shied away from fundraising as we tried to find other means to financially run the program. After requests from many, we are do have a few ways fans can contribute.

Hoopsville is presented by D3hoops.com and airs from the WBCA/NABC Studio. Guests appear on the Hoopsville Hotline presented by BlueFrame Technology.

The Hoopsville Marathon is the kick-off to a fundraiser to help Hoopsville continue into the future. Many have asked about helping the show. Here is how you can donate. Click on the PayPal link below and use either your PayPal account or any major credit card to donate to the show. If you prefer to send a check, please email Dave for more information. All funds help not only keep Hoopsville broadcasting for future seasons, but also allows the show to be at big events like the DIII Men's Championship game in Atlanta.

Click here to donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=BSRFLPUJQ9MKL&source=url

Hoopsville Marathon Schedule

- Jim Calhoun, St. Joseph's (Conn.) men's coach

- Pat Juckem, No. 11 WashU men's coach

- Brian Morehouse, No. 3 Hope women's coach

- Lauren Busalacchi, Ripon women's coach

- Ryan Hyland, John Jay men's coach

- Dan Dutcher, NCAA VP for Division III

- Karin Harvey, Montclair State women's coach, Women's National Committee chair

- Adrienne Shibles, No. 2 Bowdoin women's coach

- Kate Pearson, Cabrini women's coach

- Mark Gilbride, RPI men's coach

- Matt Donohue, Catholic women's coach

- Charles Katsiaficas, Pomona-Pitzer men's coach

- Jon Herbrechtsmeyer, No. 5 Bethel women's coach

- Chris Carideo, Widener men's coach

- Dave Hixon, Amherst men's coach (sabbatical

- Tricia Cullop, WBCA Board President, Toledo women's coach

- Alex Richey, No. 18 Oglethorpe women's coach

- Jody May, Albion men's coach

- Dave Macedo, No. 18 Virginia Wesleyan men's coach

- Melissa Kuberka, St. John Fisher women's coach

- Sam Atkinson, Gallaudet Associate AD for Comm., Men's National Committee Chair

- HOOPSVILLE HAPPY HOUR with Ryan Scott, Lennny Reich, and Chris Mitchell

When it comes to the game of basketball, we love celebrating not only the student-athletes in Division III, but also those who help carry the game forward sometimes outside of the spotlight.

Sunday on Hoopsville, we celebrate those who have made the game of basketball, especially at DIII, so great. Coaches who continue to excel in different parts of the country and programs who play for more than just themselves.

Hoopsville is presented by D3hoops.com and airs from the WBCA/NABC Studio. Sunday's show primarily covers the Atlantic, Central, South, and Northeast Regions. All men's coaches appear in the NABC Coach's Corner. And all guests are featured on the BlueFrame Technology Hoopsville Hotline.

Guests Schedule (order subject to change):

- Cameron Hill, No. 13 Trinity (Texas) women's coach

- Keri Carollo, No. 6 UW-Whitewater women's coach

- Damien Strahorn, No. 5 Colby men's coach

- Elliot Steinmetz, Yeshiva men's coach

- Ryan Scott, Top 25 Double-Take

The Division III basketball season has reached the point where many conferences are making the turn into the second half of their double-round robins. The landscape of those conferences has gotten a little more in focus ... and there are some surprises.

Thursday on Hoopsville, we chat with a few coaches whose teams are on top of their conference races either surprising many with that simple fact or getting there with surprising outcomes. 

Plus, we talk to a coach (whose team happens to be leading their conference as well) who become a head coach in a rather surprising manner. How she adapted and now finds herself in Division III and how the coaching community also came to her aid.

There is also breaking news out of the NCAA Convention regarding regional realignment and expansion. And much more to get everyone up to speed.

Hoopsville is presented by D3hoops.com and airs from the WBCA/NABC Studio. Thursday's show primarily covers the East, Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, and West Regions while also featuring a women's coach in the WBCA Center Court segment. All men's coaches appear in the NABC Coach's Corner. And all guests are featured on the BlueFrame Technology Hoopsville Hotline.

Guests Schedule (order subject to change):

- Mike Fuline, Mount Union men's coach (NABC Coach's Corner)

- Jacey Brooks, Cortland women's coach

- Kristina Danella, Keystone women's coach (WBCA Center Court)

- Alecia Parker, Pacific women's coach

With conference action always comes surprises. There are teams who upset those at the top of the conference and make the races a bit more interesting. That is especially true for programs who look to distance themselves from the rest of the conference, but a surprising loss keeps those plans at bay.

Sunday night on Hoopsville, we continue to dive into conferences races across the country and look at how the last week's results have either helped clear up races or made them more messy. Plus we talk to several conference leaders to find out how they are faring.

Hoopsville is presented by D3hoops.com and airs from the WBCA/NABC Studio.

Sunday's show primarily covers the Atlantic, Central, South, and Northeast Regions. All men's coaches appear in the NABC Coach's Corner. And all guests are featured on the BlueFrame Technology Hoopsville Hotline.

Guests Schedule (order subject to change):

- Jenna Cosgrove, Rhode Island College women's coach

- John Baines, No. 10 Elmhurst men's coach (NABC Coach's Corner)

- Greg Mason, Centre men's coach (NABC Coach's Corner)

- Bob Quillman & Ryan Scott, Top 25 Double-Take

There are six weeks left in the regular season, but the grind of conference schedules can make it feel like the end is a long ways off.

As teams try and focus on each game in front of them, the ramifications of each outcome grow larger and larger. Conference tournament seeding (or even participating), at-large hopes, and to a larger degree opportunities to be home in March with the hopes of a national championship as the goal.

Thursday on Hoopsville, we chat with a few programs that are on top of their conference races (or were), but the standing could change in just one game. We chat about how teams deal with being everyone's target or how to survive the grind.

Plus, relationships with a program's alumni can go a long way to how successful the program becomes and even the institution on a larger scale. In this week's WBCA Center Court, MIT coach Sonia Raman discusses what prompted her to get alums more involved and how it has resulted in a significant increase in contributions as well.

Hoopsville is presented by D3hoops.com and airs from the WBCA/NABC Studio. Thursday's show primarily covers the East, Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, and West Regions while also featuring a women's coach in the WBCA Center Court segment. All men's coaches appear in the NABC Coach's Corner. And all guests are featured on the BlueFrame Technology Hoopsville Hotline.

Guests Schedule:

- Sonia Raman, MIT women's coach (WBCA Center Court)

- Dale Wellman, No. 11 Nebraska Wesleyan men's coach (NABC Coach's Corner)

- Darryl Keckler, Drew men's coach (NABC Coach's Corner)

- Juli Fulks, No. 9 Transylvania women's coach

If you are a Top 25 team, or a conference leader, every team now thinks you can be beaten. Each night in Division III basketball we are seeing top teams take losses because even the best can't avoid even an okay team knocking them off.

Sunday on Hoopsville, we continue to talk about what seems like nightly upsets in DIII. Whether it's undefeateds who are no more or unexpected squads rising to the top of conference races. There just isn't any "normal" nights in the game anymore.

Hoopsville is presented by D3hoops.com and airs from the WBCA/NABC Studio. You can watch Sunday's show LIVE in the video player above starting at 7:00 p.m. ET. An audio-only podcast will also be available on the right side of the page shortly after the show is off the air.

Sunday's show primarily covers the Atlantic, Central, South, and Northeast Regions. All men's coaches appear in the NABC Coach's Corner. And all guests are featured on the BlueFrame Technology Hoopsville Hotline.

If you have questions about Division III basketball, feel free to send them and we will answer them on a the show. Email them to [email protected] or use any of the social media options to the right.

Guests Schedule (order subject to change):

- Demetrius Poles, Rowan women's coach

- Karen Middleton, No. 9 UW-La Crosse women's coach

- Jeff Brown, No. 3 Middlebury men's coach

- Bob Quillman & Ryan Scott, Top 25 Double-Take

If you look at the calendar, we are midway through the 2019-20 regular season. While there are probably more games ahead than behind for many teams, we now find ourselves looking at the half of the campaign.

What have we learned so far? Anything?

We may not be able to answer all of those questions, but we will see if we can turn over a few more rocks to find more clues on Thursday night's Hoopsville.

We will chat with a men's program that has gone from obscurity to at least being in the conference and regional conversation (if not national). Another men's program is about as high as they can go in the national convo, but do we really know how good they are and is there pressure to win it all? Plus a women's team many of you might not be talking about now, but probably will be chatting about come tournament time.

Tonight is also the season debut of the WBCA Center Court segment. We talk to Randy Tuggle, the head coach at Greensboro, on why the season is the perfect distraction for a far bigger priority. Tuggle chats with us about his battle with pancreatic cancer and how his team (and family) have been there every step of the way.

Hoopsville is presented by D3hoops.com and airs from the WBCA/NABC Studio.

Thursday's show primarily covers the East, Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, and West Regions while also featuring a women's coach in the WBCA Center Court segment. All men's coaches appear in the NABC Coach's Corner. And all guests are featured on the BlueFrame Technology Hoopsville Hotline.

Guests Schedule:

- Rich Murphy, Redlands women's coach

- Randy Tuggle, Greensboro women's coach (WBCA Center Court)

- Sean Coffey, Utica men's coach

- Matt Croci, No. 2 Wittenberg men's coach

The break for the holidays always has plenty of games to enjoy. It also has it's handful of results that make one scratch their head or an upset to enjoy. This holiday "season" saw plenty of all of that. Top 25 teams were not safe. Nearly all seemed to lose. There were results every day that made Division III coaches, fans, and many others take note.

Sunday night Hoopsville returns to the air from the holidays with plenty to talk about, but not enough time. We chat with teams that impressed, got a big win, continue to stay unscathed, and may end up in the new Top 25 polls. We also try and read the Top 25 tea leaves to figure out how voters may fill out their ballots on Monday (hint: it might be anyone's guess).

While we try and cover all Division III basketball news, now that we have entered January we split up the regions to cover as many teams as possible each week. Sundays the regions are Atlantic, Central, Northeast, and South.

Hoopsville is presented by D3hoops.com and airs from the WBCA/NABC Studio. All men's basketball coaches appear in the NABC Coach's Corner. All guests appear on the BlueFrame Technology Hoopsville Hotline.

Guests Schedule:

- Tom Palombo, No. 21 Guilford men's coach

- Bobby Hurley, Stevens men's coach

- Lynn Hersey, Smith women's coach

- Bob Quillman & Ryan Scott, Top 25 Double-Take

What a start to the 2019-20 season! As we head into the holidays "break," there is a lot to talk about. We don't have enough time in a show to cover it all, but we will do our best.

Tune into Hoopsville Thursday night as Dave is joined not only by a couple of coaches who have their programs humming along, but also three of the show's best prognosticators who will open up a few Christmas gifts for Division III fans.

Marietta men are once again playing very well in the first half of the season, but do you know why the Pioneers are this good? Jon VanderWal gives us some insight of what is going on in Southern Ohio. Plus, the Augsburg women are one of four MIAC teams ranked in the Top 25 this past week. The Auggies are coming off an unprecedented win over St. Thomas (Minn.) as well. Ted Riverso discusses how it is the perfect bow before their three-week break.

Plus, Bob Quillman and Ryan Scott give us their individual takes on the first part of the season and what they expect in the final two months. And Gordon Mann gives us his exceptional takes on the women's side of the ledger. Who really are the best teams in the country and who should we be watching?

Hoopsville is presented by D3hoops.com and airs from the WBCA/NABC Studio. Guests appear on the BlueFrame Technology Hoopsville Hotline.

Guests Schedule (order subject to change):

- Bob Quillman, Hoopsville contributor

- Jon VanderWal, No. 6 Marietta men's head coach

- Ryan Scott, D3hoops.com Around the Nation columnist

- Ted Riverso, No. 16 Augsburg women's head coach

- Gordon Mann, D3hoops.com Senior Editor