April 15, 2025 — Top 10 for the week of April 13 It’s been an interesting couple of weeks in our Top 10 corner of the internet, for sure. Last weekend, the 12 contests played at Spring Fling in Alexandria, Va. were very consequential, especially for the host institution, Alexandria St. Stephen’s/St. Agnes (Va.), who swept not only those two games, but got a big result over […] https://topofthecircle.wordpre....ss.com/2025/04/15/ap
April 14, 2025 — The wave of departures A few months ago, we wrote this. This past week, a journalist named Talia Goodman, writing for the basketball site On3.com, reported that approximately 1,300 women’s basketball players — about 25 percent of the entire pool of players in NCAA Division I — had put their names into the transfer portal. Read that again. TWENTY-FIVE […] https://topofthecircle.wordpre....ss.com/2025/04/14/ap
April 13, 2025 — Turmoil in the second layer There were a few dozen Division I women’s lacrosse games on the schedule this weekend, but two caught my eye: Virginia Tech 14, Syracuse 11Michigan 13, Johns Hopkins 2 Why these two games? Well, as you may have gathered by reading this space over the years, I look at lacrosse and field hockey teams like […] https://topofthecircle.wordpre....ss.com/2025/04/13/ap
April 10, 2025 — Skimming the foam off the top of the latte The governing body of high-school sports in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the MIAA, is considering another major revision in how champions are chosen in scholastic sports. Recently, the commonwealth went from a four-region format to a statewide format for its athletic competitions, with multiple divisions based on enrollment size. But now, the MIAA is considering […] https://topofthecircle.wordpre....ss.com/2025/04/10/ap