I'm confused, you're complaining about the games against St. Francis and Cambridge-Isanti? A 3 point game and a 1 point game. Seems to me that when the game is so close, those teams clearly belong in the same division.
The coliseum would be a terrible venue for basketball unless they put the gym right in a corner and I don't remember it ever being used for the state tourney. Roy Wilkins and the Xcel Center were used in the early 2000s.
Lavietes doesn't belong on that list. It's an old building but it was just an indoor track and batting cages until 1982 when they turned it into a gym.
Can't believe some people in this thread that have already forgotten about Bowling Green. We paid 2x as much to Bowling Green as we would to a Dakota and it was far more embarassing to lose to Bowling Green.
It's very hard to hear the band if you don't happen to be in a seat facing a majority of the band. I think they could probably do a little bit less music/etc. Let the game breathe a bit, then ramp it up for big situations.
Enrollment is really only a disadvantage when your school is so small, maybe less than 1000 undergrads, that you don't have a typical variety of majors. St. Thomas wasn't one of the bigger D3 schools, they just recruited better than most. Many other factors besides enrollment went into that...
I'm sure a bunch of people watching that segment were pretty surprised when they learned about that Ohio State brawl for the first time. "He offered the Ohio State player a hand to help him up ( viewer thinks-oh wow, what a nice picture and memory of sportsmanship), then kneed him in the groin!"