The Podcast About Division-III Baseball

Welcome to Episode 126 of The Podcast About Division III Baseball! WE'RE BACK! FINALLY! While our real life jobs made it difficult to find time to do our usual research ahead of the season, we didn't wanna just disappear. Our first episode of 2024 takes a closer look at the 25 teams in the latest Top 25 poll, and offers some bonus thoughts on several conferences and familiar contenders from the last few seasons. In order:

• Shenandoah
• Endicott
• Baldwin Wallace
• Salisbury 
• East Texas Baptist
• Denison
• UW-La Crosse
• Aurora
• Johns Hopkins
• Rowan + NJAC thoughts
• Birmingham-Southern
• Trinity (Texas)
• Salve Regina
• La Verne
• Lynchburg
• Pomona-Pitzer
• Misericordia
• Christopher Newport
• Benedictine
• Mary Hardin-Baylor
• North Carolina Wesleyan
• Chapman + SCIAC thoughts
• Arcadia
• Kalamazoo
• UW-Whitewater
• Quick thoughts on Wheaton (MA), Cortland, Webster, Marietta, UW-Stevens Point, Eastern Connecticut, Ithaca
• go listen to the NWC pod
• BIAS BALL: WashU Bears are looking GOOD but in a very different way

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Welcome to Episode 125 of The Podcast About Division III Baseball! We did it, friends -- we made it to Cedar Rapids. Together. Okay, not really, we aren't in Iowa, but we are here in podcast form to preview what should be a very fun World Series. We preview the eight teams competing for a national title, in order:

• Johns Hopkins (at 3:20)
• Misericordia (at 7:15)
• Endicott (at 13:35)
• Baldwin Wallace (at 17:00)
• Salisbury (at 19:20)
• East Texas Baptist (at 23:35)
• Lynchburg (at 27:40)
• UW-La Crosse (at 31:15)

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Welcome to Episode 124 of The Podcast About Division III Baseball! We begin with our quick reactions to the regional weekend and which moments stood out the most. Then, we preview all eight super regionals. In order:

• Wheaton (MA) at Johns Hopkins (at 2:55)
• Ithaca at Endicott (at 8:50)
• Misericordia at Marietta (at 14:15)
• Baldwin Wallace at Aurora (at 17:45)
• UW-Stevens Point at UW-La Crosse (at 21:05)
• Shenandoah at Lynchburg (at 24:20)
• La Verne at East Texas Baptist (at 30:10)
• Rowan at Salisbury (at 35:10)

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Welcome to Episode 123 of The Podcast About Division III Baseball! We begin with our reaction to the field of 60 and how we felt about our projections, and the surprising exclusion of UW-Whitewater (but also why it made sense). Then, we discuss all 16 regionals, with each regional covering seeds 1, 4, 2, 3 in that order:

• Baltimore (11:38)
  • Johns Hopkins, PSU-Altoona, Randolph-Macon, St. John Fisher
• New London (19:52)
  • Wheaton (MA), Husson, Tufts, Mitchell
• Cortland (32:43)
  • Cortland, St. Joseph's (L.I.), Ithaca, Eastern Connecticut
• Bridgewater (42:48)
  • Endicott, Bridgewater State, Middlebury, Johnson and Wales
• Marietta (49:46)
  • Marietta, Adrian, Mary Washington, Case Western
• Dallas (57:19)
  • Salve Regina, Keystone, Misericordia, Washington and Jefferson
• Granville (1:06:28)
  • Denison, Beloit, Baldwin Wallace, Spalding
• Aurora (1:13:55)
  • Aurora, John Carroll
• La Crosse (1:18:58)
  • UW-La Crosse, Bethany Lutheran, Buena Vista, Bethel
• Stevens Point (1:24:50)
  • UW-Stevens Point, Augustana, Webster, Loras
• Winchester (1:32:16)
  • Shenandoah, TCNJ, Christopher Newport, Immaculata
• Rocky Mount (1:39:52)
  • Lynchburg, Lebanon Valley, North Carolina Wesleyan, Elizabethtown
• Birmingham (1:45:35)
  • Birmingham-Southern, Lewis and Clark, La Verne, Franklin
• Marshall (1:51:56)
  • East Texas Baptist, Cal Lutheran, Pacific, Trinity (TX)
• Glenside (1:59:00)
  • Arcadia, Susquehanna, Rowan, Brockport
• Harrisburg (2:03:57)
  • Salisbury, PSU-Harrisburg

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Welcome to Episode 122 of The Podcast About Division III Baseball! In this episode, we do our best to project which teams will receive the 19 at-large bids to the 60-team 2023 NCAA tournament field. We perform a mock selection of all the teams just as the national committee will do ahead of the official selections at noon ET on Monday, May 15. This is never an easy task but we hope we at least made sense while making our selections! We look forward to seeing how wrong we are.  

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Welcome to Episode 121 of The Podcast About Division III Baseball. The third and final public regional rankings were released, giving us one final look at how the committee views the best teams in each region. Some regions deserve far more conversation than others, but we touch on all the teams we deem at-large relevant during our bubble talk at the end. In order:

• Region I - New England (at 1:20)
• Region II - New England (at 1:50)
• Region III - New York (at 2:25)
• Region IV - Mid-Atlantic (at 3:25)
• Region V - Mid-Atlantic (at 4:50)
• Region VI - South (at 6:00)
• Region VII - Mideast (at 12:00)
• Region VIII - Central (at 13:40)
• Region IX - Midwest (at 15:35)
• Region X - West (at 18:15)

Finally and most importantly (at 25:15), we go through and present where we believe the bubble currently stands if we assume all the favorites win their conference tournaments and which teams are in best position to claim the 2 Pool B and 17 Pool C at-large bids. 

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Welcome to Episode 120 of The Podcast About Division III Baseball. The second regional rankings were released and this time they are actually in a real order instead of alphabetical! We provide some caveats about how we go about this exercise projecting the at-large picture at this stage before discussing all 10 regions and the teams ranked within. In order:

• Region I - New England (at 1:50)
• Region II - New England (at 3:40)
• Region III - New York (at 5:30)
• Region IV - Mid-Atlantic (at 8:30)
• Region V - Mid-Atlantic (at 11:20)
• Region VI - South (at 14:00)
• Region VII - Mideast (at 20:35)
• Region VIII - Central (at 22:30)
• Region IX - Midwest (at 24:35)
• Region X - West (at 28:40)

At the end (32:45), we go through and present where we believe the bubble currently stands if we assume all the favorites win their conference tournaments. It's VERY early to attempt this but we did our best to paint a realistic picture of which teams are in best position to claim the 2 Pool B and 17 Pool C at-large bids. 

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Welcome to Episode 119 of The Podcast About Division III Baseball. The first regional rankings were released and while they aren't in a particular order, the teams included are the ones we know are in best position to receive at-large bids should they not win the conference tournament. We set the stage for this year's postseason picture before discussing each of the 10 regions. In order:

• Region I - New England (at 9:10)
• Region II - New England (at 12:30)
• Region III - New York (at 17:00)
• Region IV - Mid-Atlantic (at 19:50)
• Region V - Mid-Atlantic (at 24:15)
• Region VI - South (at 32:30)
• Region VII - Mideast (at 40:20)
• Region VIII - Central (at 46:40)
• Region IX - Midwest (at 53:40)
• Region X - West (at 1:00:35)

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Welcome to Episode 118 of The Podcast About Division III Baseball. This week, we take a look at the latest Top 25, sharing our thoughts on every team in the poll, how much we believe in each team long-term, and where we had them roughly ranked in our personal Top 25s. We then hit some of the other teams just outside the current Top 25 including UW-Stevens Point, Cortland, NC Wesleyan, Salve Regina, North Central (IL), Buena Vista, East Texas Baptist, and a few others. Finally, we discuss the frustrating challenges of evaluating teams in the Northwest Conference and why no one is really right or wrong in terms of the discourse surrounding those teams. Then we say goodbye.

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Welcome to Episode 117 of The Podcast About Division III Baseball. This week, we take our first look at the Top 25, sharing our thoughts on every team in the poll and where we had them roughly ranked in our personal Top 25s. We then discuss the hot starts of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps and Lewis & Clark and the challenges of judging West region teams early in the season. Finally, we shoutout the hitters off to the hottest starts in 2023: Alma's Avery Carnicom, Claremont's Julian Sanders, and Lewis & Clark's Jack Thomson. Then we say goodbye. 

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