D3hoops.com is a website that covers men's and women's
NCAA
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Division III
In sport, the Third Division, also called Division 3, Division Three, or Division III, is often the third-highest division of a league, and will often have promotion and relegation with divisions above and below.
Association football
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college basketball
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. D3hoops.com is most noted for its
Top 25 poll of Division III schools, featured on the website of the NCAA.
NCAA.com – The Official Website of NCAA Championships
/ref> The site is run by Patrick Coleman and has been featured in Sports Illustrated
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, ESPN Magazine
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, the Wall Street Journal
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, CSTV
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, and ESPN
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. The site has been online since 1997.
History
D3hoops.com started as Division III Basketball Online in January 1995, when it was created by the Centennial Conference
The Centennial Conference is an athletic conference which competes in the NCAA's Division III. Member teams are located in Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Eleven private colleges compose the Centennial Conference. Five of ten members of the Centenn ...
office and commissioner Steve Ulrich. Pat Coleman took over operation of the site in November 1997 and moved it to a server at Gallaudet University
Gallaudet University ( ) is a private federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing. It was founded in 1864 as a grammar school for both deaf and blind children. It was the first sc ...
. The following February, the traffic to Division III Basketball Online overwhelmed Gallaudet's server, and Coleman was asked to remove the site. It took the domain www.d3hoops.com and was activated on Feb. 4, 1998.
When Coleman began a football site in the summer of 1999, named D3football.com, Division III Basketball Online was renamed D3hoops.com to match its partner site.
References
External links
*{{official website, http://www.d3hoops.com/
Basketball mass media
College basketball websites