Last season eventual D-II national champion Nova Southeastern started the season 0-3 and had a pedestrian 11-10 overall record as last as mid March. D-III’s Trinity started the year an unremarkable 2-2 before taking home that Division’s title at season’s end. As such, it’s unwise to put too much focus or emphasis on early results….
Tag: DIII
2017 Division III College Preview
Last season Trinity captured their first D-III baseball national championship after a banner season in which they won a school record 44 games with only seven losses, three of which were by only a single score. The Tigers steamrolled the second half of the season, going a perfect 17-0 after losing a series in early…
Final 2016 DII, NAIA, DIII Rankings
If the small school postseason is any barometer of what’s to come as the D-I season comes to a crescendo, there are going to be slew of memories made in Omaha in a couple of weeks. The 2016 small school baseball season saw two clubs win their first-ever school baseball title while the third was…
DII, NAIA, DIII Rankings: May 18
The postseason regionals were announced last week and for the most part I think the selection committees were on point. As always there were a few inclusions/omissions as well as seedings which left me a bit puzzled, but overall it’s hard to argue too hard. Notable absences from the D-II level included Florida Southern, Erskine,…
DII, NAIA, DIII Rankings: May 11
These are, for all intents and purposes, the last rankings that have any substance as far as the rest of the season plays out. In the next few days the final decisions will be made as to who’s in and who’s out. There are no more quality wins to be earned or style points to…
DII, NAIA, DIII Rankings: May 4
As the regular season begins to crescendo, the top teams in each of the small school divisions are continuing to pull away from the rest of the pack. There was only minor shuffling in the Top 25, especially in the top 10 where the positions remained virtually the same. In these last couple of weeks…