Division III is down to the final fours in men's and women's basketball - ever closer to crowing 2024 champions.

On Monday's Hoopsville, we chat with most of the programs that are still in the dance. Some big upsets on the women's side while for the first time this century every host school advanced on the men's side. Learn more how teams are preparing for the final weekend of the 2023-24 season.

Plus there are other news and notes in DIII getting our attention.

Guests appearing on the Hudl Hoopsville Hotline:
- Caleb Kimbrough, No. 1 Hampden-Sydney men's coach, & Tom Palombo, No. 7 Guilford men's coach
- James Cosgrove, No. 3 Trinity (Conn.) men's coach
- Bob Amsberry, No. 7 Wartburg women's coach
- Brooks Miller, No. 13 Trine men's coach (interviewed by D3hoops.com's Pat Coleman )
- Natalie Bruns & Belle Pellecchia, No. 1 NYU senior forward & junior guard
- Laken Ball & Dasia Thornton, No. 2 Transylvania 5th year center & forward

Also reactions from post-game press conferences after Sectional Finals games including Smith coach Lynn Hersey.

Hoopsville is presented by D3hoops.com and Sport Tours International from the NABC Studio.

21.27: Fantastic Fours

Founded in 1780, what would become Transylvania University was established over a decade before Kentucky even became a state. In 1818, Horace Holley—a Yale-educated minister from Connecticut—took over as president of the fledgling institution. Holley attempted to transform the institution, but ran into a host of difficulties. Join us today for a discussion with a former research fellow, who has written a book exploring Holley’s life and the tumultuous time that he spent at Transylvania.

Dr. James P. Cousins is the President of Kentucky Wesleyan College. He holds a PhD from the University of Kentucky and has published widely on the history of education. He co-authored, Collaboration and the Future of Education: Preserving the Right to Think and Teach Historically. A former research fellow at the Kentucky Historical Society, Dr. Cousins will talk to us today about his book “Horace Holley: Transylvania University and the Making of Liberal Education in the Early American Republic,” which he published with the University Press of Kentucky.

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This episode was recorded and produced by Gregory Hardison, with support and guidance from Dr. Stephanie Lang. Our theme music, “Modern Documentary” was created by Mood Mode and is used courtesy of Pixabay. Other backing tracks are used courtesy of Pixabay or are original compositions by Gregory Hardison.

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Horace Holley and the Transformation of Transylvania | Dr. James P. Cousins

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