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McDaniel mourns Curley's passing
Kevin Curley, the head men's basketball coach at McDaniel since 2007 and the program's all-time leader in wins, died this week after a battle with metastatic esophageal cancer.
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UWO selects Schweer
Steve Schweer, who led Illinois College to two NCAA Tournaments and a Top 25 ranking, will be the next men's basketball head coach at UW-Oshkosh.
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Coaching Carousel keeps turning
The offseason is the busy season for head coaching changes, including Hannah Quilling-Iverson moving from UW-Stout to rival UW-Eau Claire to replace retiring Tonja Englund. Get the full list of departures, arrivals and context around each one.
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Krikorian joins D-III coaching exodus
Yet another Division III head coach is taking a job in Division I, as John Krikorian of Christopher Newport is heading to Elon as associate head coach. Krikorian led the Captains to 362 wins, four national semifinals and the 2023 national championship.
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O'Brien departs Scranton for Division I
Ben O'Brien, who led the Scranton women's basketball program tantalizingly close to a national title, is leaving to become the new head coach at Lafayette.
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Mary Washington caps off national title run with buzzer beater
Emory rallied from a 13-point deficit to tie the game with seconds left, but Colin Mitchell got the putback at the buzzer to win it for Mary Washington and give the Eagles their first national title.
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Denison completes dream run to title
Denison concluded a season full of first evers and best evers in the best way possible, as the Big Red defeated Scranton, 55-41, and captured their first ever NCAA Division III women’s basketball championship. The victory caps Denison's remarkable ascent from unranked underdog to top dog.
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June 1, 2026
Thompson ’13 adds Harter to coaching staff
Hobart Basketball Head Coach Stefan Thompson '13 announced the addition of DJ Harter to his staff as an assistant coach. A native of Holland Patent, Harter joins the Statesmen after spending the past three seasons as an assistant coach at Cortland.
April 1, 2026
Brad McAlester, Legendary LVC Men’s Basketball Head Coach, Retires After 32 Seasons
Brad McAlester, who began his Valley coaching career in the 1994-1995 season, announced his retirement today. Beginning with a 23-5 record in his first season, McAlester led the Dutchmen to 438 wins during his over three-decade leadership of the storied program.
March 21, 2026
UMW Men's Basketball Tops #1 Trinity (CT), 64-61, to Advance to NCAA Division III National Championship Game
The fifth-ranked University of Mary Washington men's basketball team overcame a shaky start and scored the final 10 points of the game in a 64-61 victory over top-ranked and defending national champion Trinity (CT) University on Saturday night in the NCAA Division III Tournament semifinals in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The Eagles, now 29-3 on the season, advance to the national championship game on April 5 against Emory University.
May 1, 2026
McNamara named head women's basketball coach at Conn College
NEW LONDON, Conn. – Connecticut College has promoted Wade McNamara to head coach of the women’s basketball program, as announced by Director of Athletics Mo White on Thursday.
April 10, 2026
Michael Kotrozos Steps Down After Eight Years Leading Baruch WBB Program
The Baruch College Athletic Department announced today that Michael Kotrozos has decided to step down as Head Coach of the women's basketball program.
March 21, 2026
ETCHED IN HISTORY: Denison Defeats Previously Unbeaten Scranton For First Title in Program History!
Denison used a 14-0 fourth quarter to clinch their first national championship in school history.
March 20, 2026
AJ Wick named WBCA Honorable Mention All-America
April 14, 2026
Old Gym Tour: Roanoke
Roanoke is now on its third basketball gymnasium of the past century-plus, with the Cregger Center opening in 2016, replacing the Bast Center, which is absolutely a gymnasium straight out of the 1980s. This post is about the even older gym on campus, however, Alumni Gym, which opened in 1911 and hosted basketball games as late as 1982.
February 19, 2026
Wednesday in Review: Wartburg, Concordia Moorhead, UW-Oshkosh clinch regular season titles
The final Wednesday of the regular season is in the books! We had key conference matchups playing out while the UEC opened up its league tournament, and we’re now 10 days away from the final day of games before the NCAA Tournament field is announced. It’s hard to believe the season has flown by like […]
January 29, 2026
Wednesday’s Winners: Albion stuns Hope, Schleusner claims another D-III career record
By Riley Zayas | Jan. 29, 2026 The postgame scene inside Kresge Gymnasium Wednesday night said all you needed to know. When the final buzzer went off on Albion’s 60-54 overtime upset of No. 9 Hope, a massive celebration broke out. The Britons’ entire bench rushed onto the floor to embrace their five teammates who […]
January 27, 2026
Old Gym Tour: Catholic
When I got to The Catholic University of America as a 17-year-old freshman in August of 1990, the building had already been decommissioned from basketball for several years. In fact, in 1989 it was turned into a space where a few friends of mine spent a lot of their time: The Crough Architectural Center.
May 16, 2024
The Scoop on D3 Women’s Hoops Q&A: Lynette Schroeder, Southern Virginia Head Coach
By Riley Zayas Southern Virginia had a season to remember in 2023-24, going a near-perfect 18-1 in USA South Conference play, along with a 22-7 overall record. It culminated with an appearance in the NCAA Tournament, the second in the last three years, as SVU went stride-for-stride with DeSales before falling, 53-42. But that seems […]
April 17, 2024
Hannah Varel is the perfect hire to continue Transylvania’s remarkable success
Of the challenges a new head coach can face in taking the reins of a program, one of the toughest, undoubtedly, is succeeding a legend. And Juli Fulks was most certainly a legend in Lexington, Kentucky. In 10 years at Transylvania, she took the Pioneers to a place of unprecedented success, after doing the same […]