How good is D3 basketball?

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Im going to be transfering to a D3 school next semester and just wanted to know how good D3 basketball really is. i havent seen them play ever so how would youcompare it to high school ball? i was thinking they might be on the same level but im not sure. like if you were a pretty good high school player will you be agood D3 player or what? i know a dude that plays D3 and he SUCKED in high school but somehow he is playing. he got no clock in high school so im thinking youcan just be a scrub and play D3. i dont know though, how would you compare D3 to high school?
 
I don't think it would really compare. D3 College >>> High School ball. But I mean, you're nothing to special if you're not good enough toplay D2, not to mention D1.
 
yeah i know^

i never really played basketball seriously in my entire life. the past couple of years i have just been playing and getting better and a few dudes have told mei should try out for a D3 team since i really really want to play. its not that serious though
 
I don't think it would really compare. D3 College >>> High School ball. But I mean, you're nothing to special if you're not good enough to play D2, not to mention D1.
Not true. Some people want to go to a D3 school for academics. I had D1 and D2 offers out of high school but I knew I had no pro ambitions and theschools weren't good academically so there was no point in me going. I got a full academic scholarship to play D3 and a top 30 education as a result.
i never really played basketball seriously in my entire life. the past couple of years i have just been playing and getting better and a few dudes have told me i should try out for a D3 team since i really really want to play. its not that serious though

It really depends on the school and the conference. There were several people in our conference and my team who went on the play professionally.The game is a lot more physical and faster than high school ball. I'm sure there are scrubs who play D3 ball, but those programs are probably terrible.
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But I mean, you're nothing to special if you're not good enough to play D2, not to mention D1.


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there is no shame in playing D3 ball....the difference between playing D2 and D3 is very small...I have had a lot of friends play D1, NAIA, D2, and D3....ifyou got love for the game, then don't sweat where you play. Look at Horace Jenkins and Devean George...both played D3 basketball, and gotnoticed....Jenkins got run with the Pistons a few years back, and we all know about George's exploits at the PIT. I had a friend who got humbled real quickplaying D3 ball. He was the man in HS, and didn't get too many looks from D1 or any JC's...he went the D3 route in hopes of playing well to transferout....he got eaten alive, because he thought it was going to be a cakewalk.....of course playing D1 is the pinnacle of college hoops, but I think a lot of youare talking out of your butts and or have little to no concept of the skill level of some of the guys who play in other divisions other than D1.
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Well my school is a D2 basketball school and it's honestly not that big a difference from high school in terms of spirit and stuff.
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And from what I sawthey suck.

Butjust cuz it's not D1 doesn't mean you can't shine though.
 
^ Those the only two examples you have? There's always going to be the couple of exceptions out of the hundreds of thousands of people that have played D3ball. So like i said, you're nothing special if you're playing D3 ball. Im not knockin anyone though, i played high school ball and i wasnt nearly goodenough to play at any kind of college...so more power to you, you're probably better than i am.
 
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^ Those the only two examples you have? There's always going to be the couple of exceptions out of the hundreds of thousands of people that have played D3 ball. So like i said, you're nothing special if you're playing D3 ball. Im not knockin anyone though, i played high school ball and i wasnt nearly good enough to play at any kind of college...so more power to you, you're probably better than i am.
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If you need to go to the NBA to be special than D3 is probably not for you.

If you want to go on to play professionally abroad than D3 is more than adequate. I know at least four players who are playing pro ball abroad, or gotoffers to, from my league alone. So how is that not special?
 
There's a D3 school a few miles from my hometown, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point....they won back to back national championships a couple yearsago and are always in contention for it. They hung with Marquette when marquette was ranked in the top 25, and damn near beat them. So i guess it reallydepends on what school. Like every division, there are power houses and there are crappy programs too.
 
Eh, being good enough to play abroad really isnt THAT serious. I balled up with a dude in high school, he went to the local CC, and eventually got an inviteto play ball over in France. Dude's name was Ryan Frasica...he could shoot, and that was about it. Basically everyone that plays D1 ball is better thaneveryone that plays D3, and not everyone in D1 is good enough to play in the NBA or even play in the D-league or whatever. Special=being good enough to makeSERIOUS cash.

If you know of 3 or 4 dudes just from your league that got invites to play abroad, i guess it just makes my point that you don't have to be anythingspecial.
 
Originally Posted by WestRoxbury011


Eh, being good enough to play abroad really isnt THAT serious. I balled up with a dude in high school, he went to the local CC, and eventually got an invite to play ball over in France. Dude's name was Ryan Frasica...he could shoot, and that was about it. Basically everyone that plays D1 ball is better than everyone that plays D3, and not everyone in D1 is good enough to play in the NBA or even play in the D-league or whatever. Special=being good enough to make SERIOUS cash.

If you know of 3 or 4 dudes just from your league that got invites to play abroad, i guess it just makes my point that you don't have to be anything special.
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you're making reckless over-generalizations and assumptions. I go to a D3 school and in my 4 years here there have been at least 8 dudes good enough to get serious burn in D1 institutions, they just either didn't getscholarship offers or chose to go here because of academics. "Everyone who plays D1 is better than everyone who plays D3"
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That's not true at all. People play D1, D2, D3 for a number of reasons,usually just opportunity. One or two big games in front of the right scout, connections, poor grades etc can all affect where you end up.

I have a friend that got scholarship offers from a top ACC school at the time but for whatever reason just couldn't get his $@@% together and ended upplaying D2 and never amounted to anything. I have a friend who's 6'7" who is the best non-nba defensive player I have ever seen in my life (heheld Lebron to 2 points, 2 assists, and 10 or so rebounds his junior year of high school) and he played D2 ball. I have a friend who's6'7-6'8" and could have come off the bench for a bunch of Atlantic 10/Big East schools but he chose to go D3 for playing time and the degree. Inthe same grain I know several kids who sit on benches at D1 schools who I can hang with on the court and I can't even make my schools D3 roster. peopleplay at whatever level they may for a number of reasons.
Don't make unfounded assumptions.
 
Some of you guys have probably never played college or even high school basketball with some of those reponses. D3 is no joke. Man on my team we have 20ppg scorers in high school not even getting that much burn. That school that dude mentioned UW-Stevens Point would beat at least 1/3rd of D1 teams. We had adude transfer in who started every game on a D-II team and not start for us. The main difference between D1 and D3 is the size. D3 the centers are about 6-7while D1 you might have 7 footers. But to say that D-III is garbage would be a ridiculous statement.
 
AK's definitely got it. On D3hoops.com you hear in the beginning of the season all the time about d3 squads beating lower end d1 schools duringnonconference games.
 
When I played my two years at my Junior College here in Ohio called Lakeland Community College, we always ued to scrimmage D3 teams like College of Wooster,Lake Erie College(now a Division 2 program), John Carroll University, Baldwin Wallace College and we killed these teams HANDLY. But we had about 6 guys to playDivision 2 or NAIA including myself thats going to play Division 2 ball in 2008-2009 since i graduated from my JC this past December.
From looking at all Divisions of college basketball from D1 to NAIA is basically the size but if you are good enough to play, you will get looked at any level

To me D3 is like High School Basketball to me because there wasnt much athleticism in those D3 teams we played. If you can earn a scholly to play any level ofcollege basketball just use it to your advantage to get your degree.
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I went to UW Oshkosh and the WIAC is by far the best top to bottom D3 basketball conference in the country. There are currently 4 teams in the d3 top 25 fromthis conference. When I was there, Bo Ryan was coaching Platteville to back to back titles. Stevens Point has one and Whitewater and Oshkosh have made runsdeep in the tournament over the last several years.

Also, if you want to see a totally different brand of basketball, check out D3 Grinnell college (grinnell.edu). They have this weird system where their goal isto shoot something like 50 threes a game, shoot within the first 10 seconds of the shot clock, full court press the entire game, they sub 5 guys at a time.Look at some of those scores! It's amazing to watch this.
 
Originally Posted by Blazinbama

Some of you guys have probably never played college or even high school basketball with some of those reponses. D3 is no joke.
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Preach. Most people don't have a clue what they talkin bout.

Besides, there are different levels of D3 just like in D1. Some schools arent nice and you could be an above average hs player and get burn, while othersactually have cats who can straight smash just about anywhere. I would love some of y'all to tryout on some of the better D3 teams. They aint Beasley,Rose, Gordon, Mayo etc., but they aint no scrubs.
 
Just look at it this way Ohio St. and Michigan St. both lost to division II teams, and they're in the Big Ten, and I guarantee you those Division II teamswould need to play well to beat the top Division III teams. I think many of you would be surprised to see the players that end up at division II and divisionIII schools. Like it was said above, some don't have the grades, some were late bloomers, and some want to go to a premier academic institution anddon't mind giving up a scholarship. Especially in the Midwest, there are essential no low-major division one schools, while the northeast has threelow-major conferences, and the south has some low-major conferences too, so players that could play division one form Minnesota, Wisconsin, etc, often end upat division two and division three schools because they aren't seen by further away schools or they want to stay close to home. Like in all divisions,there is a big disparity from the top to the bottom, but I wouldn't underestimate the quality of the players in division III. i would also caution usingpick -up games as a barometer, because depending on how you play pick-up, organized games can be vastly different.
 
Grinnell is wild!!! In one game this season, they were 23-86 for THREE POINT ATTEMPTS!
 
There's some very good programs but of course there's some awful ones

depends on the conference

there's times where kids who were D1 or D1 talent that end up there because of circumstance

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my friend plays D3 and he just had 37 and 33 the other night, lol
 
Like most people are saying here it all just depends...I play d1 basketball at Portland state and we played a couple d3 schools and a d2 school..

Our first exhibition was against Western Oregon...which is a d2 school...we beat them 93-58
About 3 weeks later we played Linfield...which is a d3...we beat them 93-50
Two weeks later we played Lewis and Clark....which is a d3...we beat them 61-60

We arent a elite D1 school by new means...we play in the Big Sky which is the same conference as eastern washington where Rodney Stuckey (on the pistons)played....We are probably your average d1 school outside of the big conferences....

By we smashed the d2 school and one of the d3's but BARELY beat one of the other d3's...It all just depends on the teams...I'm sure there areprobably some really good d2's like Virginia Union (where ben wallace and charles oakley grad from)...that could beat us or give us some good games

They're are plenty of people I know and played with that go to d3 schools or d2 school and they are good enough to play at d1...they just dont for whateverreasons....

So some d3 schools are good but then there are other d3 schools that are a joke...it all just depends
 
A large majority of D3 schools are made up of guys who played ball and were REALLY good students academically but werent as talented as the rest. There aresome D2 & D1 caliber players that end up there through special circumstances however as mentioned before
 
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