• Old Gym Tour: Roanoke
    April 14, 2026
    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.
  • Wednesday in Review: Wartburg, Concordia Moorhead, UW-Oshkosh clinch regular season titles
    February 19, 2026
    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 […]
  • Wednesday’s Winners: Albion stuns Hope, Schleusner claims another D-III career record
    January 29, 2026
    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 […]
  • Old Gym Tour: Catholic
    January 27, 2026
    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.
  • The Scoop on D3 Women’s Hoops Q&A: Lynette Schroeder, Southern Virginia Head Coach
    May 16, 2024
    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 […]
  • Hannah Varel is the perfect hire to continue Transylvania’s remarkable success
    April 17, 2024
    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 […]
  • The Scoop on D3 Women’s Hoops: Juli Fulks heads to Marshall as head coach
    April 12, 2024
    LEXINGTON, Kentucky—Lexington continues to be at the center of college basketball coaching news. In what is surely going to be the most significant move in Division III women’s basketball this offseason, Transylvania head coach Juli Fulks is taking on a new challenge…at the Division I level. Within the last hour, Marshall University, out of the […]
  • The Scoop on D3 Women’s Hoops: Trinity’s Emily Garner named head coach at Cornell
    April 11, 2024
    April 11, 2024 By Riley Zayas, D3hoops.com I wrote earlier today that we could see some D1 and D2 head coaching vacancies filled this offseason filled by current D3 head coaches…and that’s exactly what happened a couple hours later. Cornell has hired Trinity College (CT) head coach Emily Garner to lead that program after eight […]
  • Saturday’s Elite Eight is set, Thoughts on Friday’s Sweet 16
    March 09, 2024
    By Riley Zayas, The Scoop on D3 Women’s Hoops And then there were eight. The Elite Eight is set after a thrilling slate of games last night, particularly in the earlier part of the evening, as Transylvania/UW-Stout, Wartburg/Bates, and Smith/UW-Oshkosh all played in games decided by five points or less. The intensity and emotion seen […]
  • Storylines to watch heading into the Sweet 16
    March 08, 2024
    The second weekend of the 2024 NCAA Tournament has arrived! Tip-off is just hours away for these Sweet 16 games set to be played tonight in Brunswick (Maine), Providence (Rhode Island), New York City (New York), and Whitewater (Wisconsin). We’ve got 16 teams contending for one of four spots in Columbus next week, and the […]