If you’re a big fan of chaos and upheaval this week’s small school rankings won’t be for you. In D-II, nine of the teams from last week’s top 10 are still in the same group, just with a slight jostling of positions. For the most part each team held relatively close to their previous position….
DII, NAIA, DIII rankings: March 7
There are no changes to the top-ranked teams in either of the three small school rankings, but there’s plenty of hullabaloo in the second halves of the Top 25s as teams flex their muscles and might. As a refreshing change of pace, most of the clubs that were removed from the rankings weren’t due to…
DII, NAIA, DIII rankings: Feb. 28
With the season still in its infancy, the latest updated rankings are, for better or worse, still grounded much more on preseason prognostication rather than on-the-field results. It’s difficult to determine if a team’s lopsided defeat was due to a bad day on the diamond, of if they simply were outmatched. For example, in D-II…
DII, NAIA, DIII rankings: Feb. 21
The first rankings update of the year is here, but seeing that just under half of the D-II and D-III have yet to play an official game this season, there isn’t much to report. A sensational start isn’t reason enough to catapult a team up the rankings just as a dismal first few games isn’t…
2018 Division III College Preview
This season’s Division III preseason rankings look very different compared to those in the past as a new crop of contenders are quickly stepping up to challenge the perennial powers for national supremacy. It’s no mistake that annual favorites like Birmingham Southern and Emory, as well as teams that reached last year’s D-III Baseball Championship…
2018 Division II College Preview
It’s not uncommon for the reigning national champion of a college sport to be the preseason No. 1 the following season; in fact it’s quite common. However, let’s be honest, this distinction typically isn’t formulated on astute forecasting. To be blunt, it’s a tepid, uninformed prediction using only the past season’s final outcome as…