[Badgerfan1533]

I’ve been looking for a nice place to make a recap about my exploits in the world of Hoops Dynasty at Whatifsports. It’s a game where you take over as the coach of a division 3 school and work your way up to division 1. I’m going to be going over my early seasons, just on memory, but from here on out I’ll be doing it with much more precision. I’ve been playing HD, this will be my 23rd season, and they simulate one game a night and an entire season can get finished in a month and a half. That is from recruiting to post-season improvements. Hoops Dynasty has a National Tournament (like the NCAA Tournament) and a Postseason Invitational Tournament (like the NIT) at the end of the season.

Season 1: DIII Wisconsin Superior (26-7, RPI:39)
-My first season in Hoops Dynasty was a successful one. I earned the conference coach of the year award in the WIAC. Also had 2 seasons recognized with prestigious postseason awards (1st Team All-American, other Conference Player of the Year). The team made it all the way to the Final Four of the PIT.

Season 2: DII Tiffin (16-11, RPI:121)
-My first season at Division II was going to be a challenge for me. I had taken over at Tiffin, which had just made it to the Elite 8 of the National Tournament. They also had a handful of seniors leaving, so it required one heck of a recruiting effort from a “rookie”.

Season 3: Tiffin (17-12, RPI:161)
-Another season where I played with the previous coaches players. My recruits were still too young to contribute much to the team. And I had my second straight mediocre season.

Season 4: Tiffin (20-8, RPI: 48)
-The first really good season I had at Division II. My original recruits were finally able to make an impact. So it helped show that my recruiting abilities were at least adequate. We got an at-large bid to the National Tournament this season.

Season 5: Tiffin (16-13, RPI: 44)
-Probably my best season as a coach while I’ve played HD, for sure my best season to this point. The record may not be as good as the previous season, but the record doesn’t show the fact that Tiffin had a top-5 strength of schedule this season. That included a win against then #1 Delta State, my biggest win in HD history. This was also the first season in which one of my teams was ranked in the top 25.

Season 6: DI Texas A&M – Corpus Christi (19-9, RPI: 145)
-My first journey into division I brought me to the south of Texas to CC which had had a 2-win season. So anything I did was going improve on the team’s win total. I had gone into the season expecting about 10 wins, and was ecstatic that I was able to win 19. This was my second conference coach of the year award season as well.

Season 7: Texas A&M – Corpus Christi (15-13, RPI: 178)
-The team kind of fell back to earth and what was expected from them based on their 2-wins from 2 years before. I have had a hard time recruiting the first 2 years at CC based on the fact that their prestige was in the gutter and not many of the top athletes were jumping at the chance to play ball for us.

Season 8: Texas A&M – Corpus Christi (15-12, RPI:166)
-The second straight so-so season in a row. Nothing special about this year, except I finally started getting my recruits integrated into the squad and things were starting to look up as far as the future of the team goes. It was obvious that this rebuilding process was going to be more time consuming, and would require more seasons, than my Tiffin retool.

Season 9: Texas A&M – Corpus Christi (17-11, RPI:147)
-I had started seeing that my recruits would be able to win me a few more games once I get them some playing time. I was excited to see how my team would play the next few seasons in that I will get to go through multiple recruiting cycles. So I should be able to send multiple classes through to their graduations.

Season 10: Texas A&M - Corpus Christi (20-8, RPI:115)
-This was my first season where I felt like I had a real shot at the post season. Sadly it didn't end the way that I had hoped for it to. However I have established a solid base of youth to build the program on top of.

Season 11: Texas A&M - Corpus Chisti (22-6, RPI: 42)
-I was unable to win my conference tournament, after claiming the regular season title. However I was awarded for my great season by getting an at large bid to the NCAA tournament. I was the 9 seed out west and faced off against Utah State who came in at 28-1 on the season. They hadn't played a tough schedule, but they were mowing through the competition with their senior dominated roster. They made short work of me, but my 1st trip the big dance at D1 was a great experience.

Season 12: Texas A&M - Corpus Christi (17-10, RPI: 126)
- This season wasn't what I had hoped for and resulted in me missing out on any and all post-season accomplishments.

Season 13: Texas A&M - Corpus Christi (23-6, RPI: 80)
- Unlike that previous year, our record looked much nicer this time around. Sadly our RPI wasn't that great and since we were only able to escape with the regular season conference title (and not the postseason one) it left us high and dry and gave us a bid to the PIT (NIT) which where we lost in the 1st round. *Was awarded coach of the year in the conference.

Season 14: Texas A&M - Corpus Christi (23-7, RPI: 59)
- Moving on up to the big dance as our RPI proved to be high enough to earn us an at large bid this season. Again we won the regular season conference title but were unable to hoist the trophy after the tournament and were stuck waiting on the bubble to hear our names called. Sadly we were knocked out in the 1st round, but at least we made it that far. *2nd straight Coach of the Year award.

Season 15: D1 Pennsylvania (14-14, RPI: 121)
- Following that 2nd straight tournament appearance, I decided to make the jump up to a larger conference team and Penn served as that option in the Ivy league. Of course I wasn't set up with all my guys like I was at CC, so the going was a little difficult.

Season 16: Penn (15-13, RPI: 103)
- I found that recruiting in the northeast wasn't nearly as easy as it was down south. I attribute this to just the amount of other teams up in the New England area that are there to fight you for the top recruits. Sadly this looked like it would be a long, difficult stay here.

Season 17: Penn (6-21, RPI: 231)
- Another year with no accolades and sadly there wasn't much of a light at the end of the tunnel either...

Season 18: Penn (12-15, RPI: 127)
- A better year than the previous one, but an RPI this high isn't going to get me into any postseason tournaments anytime soon.

Season 19: Penn (17-12, RPI: 76)
- We actually won the regular season conference title this season and got a bid to play in the PIT, where we sadly got beaten in the 1st round. At least it was our first trip to a postseason tournament since I made the move from CC.

Season 20: Penn (16-13, RPI: 126)
- I said earlier that I was starting to sense how much more difficult it was to recruit up here, well at this stage I had mostly gotten fed up with it and was winding down my enjoyment of the game and thought maybe toning it back a notch and getting wins again would help with that.

Season 21: D2 Wheeling Jesuit (23-8, RPI: 15)
- This season marks one of the best I've had during my entire career as I got my first, and only, win in the national tournament with this squad along with a regular season conference crown.

Season 22: Wheeling Jesuit (15-12, RPI: 135)
- Sadly it was about this time that my interest in HD sort of fell off. It coincided with life getting busy in college and just sort of drifting away from the game.

**16 in-game seasons passed (each season takes about a month and a half) before I decided to make a triumphant return**

Season 23: D2 Livingstone

Overall Record: 384-241
Conference Record: 233-119
Conference Titles: 8
Conference Tournament Titles: 0

National Tournament Bids: 5
National Tournament Record: 1-5