One game into the season, Notre Dame (Md.) announced it is dropping basketball, effective immediately.

The school, a women's-only institution in Maryland, also announced the resignation of coach Rob Long. It's unclear how many players were on the roster for the 2009-10 season; only six played in the team's season-opening and closing loss to Goucher, 73-19 on Nov. 18. Two players fouled out and Notre Dame was forced to play the last five minutes short-handed.

"After a number of serious injuries to several members of the team, our roster size has been depleted to the point where continuing the season would put the health and safety of our student-athletes at risk," read a statement on Notre Dame's Web site.

Notre Dame is a member of the Colonial States Athletic Conference, and was slated to play in tournaments at Methodist and Gettysburg.

Kirsten Russell, a former assistant coach at Washington College and Luther and Notre Dame's current soccer coach, was named interim coach with a term expiring in February 2010.

Camontae Griffin scored 13 straight points in a four-minute span in the second half to help St. Mary's (Md.) erase a seven-point deficit and go on to beat Hood 89-77. Griffin finished with 51 points to help the No. 20 Seahawks win their second consecutive Pride of Maryland tournament title.

Griffin repeated as tournament MVP as well for the Seahawks, who improved to 3-0. The tournament features eight of the nine Division III men's basketball programs in the state of Maryland on a rotating basis. Sunday's men's scores.

Aaron Thompson tied a career high with 31 points to lead the top-ranked Wash U men past Illinois Wesleyan 76-71 on the road. “They were chasing me off screens, so it gave me more of an opportunity to score inside the three-point arc,” said Thompson. “With four years of experience playing with these guys, we learn to stay calm when we get behind.”

In women's action, Dickinson took advantage of uncharacteristically poor shooting from the foul line to knock off No. 15 Moravian 67-65. The Greyhounds led Division III in free-throw shooting percentage in 2009 but converted just nine of 18 attempts. It's Moravian's first loss of the season, following a win against No. 21 College of New Jersey last week. Sunday's women's scores.

Jim Smith joined an exclusive club in Division III men's basketball as his St. John's team knocked off Division II Minnesota State-Moorhead 81-79 on Saturday night at St. Cloud State.

Smith won his 700th career game, becoming just the second D-III men's coach to reach the milestone and the 27th in collegiate men's basketball history.

He joins Franklin and Marshall coach Glenn Robinson, who improved his career record to 758-291 on Saturday with a win against Gwynedd-Mercy.

Sophomore Andrew Latzke led all scorers with a career-high 27 points, 21 of which came from behind the arc. Junior Chris Schwartz and sophomore Aaron Barmore added 13 apiece, while junior Aaron Burtzel tallied nine points, nine assists and eight rebounds.

No. 25 Amherst pulled away from Ithaca on Saturday afternoon to win 92-67. With the win, Lord Jeff head coach David Hixon got the 600th victory of his 33-year career at Amherst.

A 1975 graduate of Amherst, Hixon has spent his entire career there, having worked as an assistant for three years before assuming the head coaching position. Hixon is just the ninth Division III coach to reach the 600-win plateau, and has the seventh-most victories by an active D-III coach.