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Having recently completed its 9th season, The Mid-Majority is a community chronicle of the smaller Division I college basketball conferences. Last year, the theme was Team. Six groups of five (plus a fantasy mid-major player) were engaged in friendly Amazing Race-style competition, criss-crossing Hoops Nation to provide awesome college basketball content. Season X (2013-14) will be our final one.

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Epilogue, The Ninth: Only Love Can Break Your Heart

Memories

So We Meet Again

Rte. 139 - End of the Line

Hanging On

A Championship in Pictures

This Time of Year

Dotson Leads Ducks to the Sweet Sixteen

Grizzlies Overwhelmed by Orangemen

Empire

Challenge 11: Final Four Memories

By George, UConn is Dead

Butler and Us

Donning the Black and Gold

Challenge 10: Tourney Memories

The Madness of the Horizon League

The Rare Ivy League Conference Tournament

MAC Madness

Anything Can Happen in the MAAC

Challenge 9: Shock The Neighborhood

A Youthful Surprise

From Worst to First

Peers and Seers

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S9 April 5, 2013 While mid-majors are making the Final Four more in the past, it still has not been that common. George Mason in 2006 (written about by Raymond Curren) was the first true mid-major in the modern era of college basketball to make the Final Four. Butler also made it of course in 2010 and 2011, VCU did...
S9 March 30, 2013 After the last loss at Davidson, College of Charleston fans were heartbroken. They were not going back to the NCAA Tournament. But C of C did get a consolation prize: a trip to the CBI! The CBI is the College Basketball Invitational, run by the Gazelle Group which an independent organization dedic...
S9 March 30, 2013 After spending the last week watching Liberty win both the Big South women's and men's titles, I wanted a break from watching the conquest by an empire. So I decided to spend a lot more money and make the trip to Asheville and the Southern Conference Tournament, our oldest conference tournament. N...
S9 March 30, 2013 I have been a reader of this website regular since Season 4 after being in and out of the first three seasons on here. The reason I became a dedicated reader is because Kyle Whelliston connected to me more than any other sports writer. His experience was going to the same games I did, literally go...
5. Empire
S9 March 30, 2013 I really do not like talking about controversial subjects. But with Liberty University making a deep run in this year's Big South Tournament, it is hard to try and avoid controversy. And that is because Liberty University is a school all about controversy. Liberty University was founded as Lynchbu...
S9 March 30, 2013 Charleston Southern entered this game as the favorite, 12-4 in the Big South against an 8-8 squad from VMI. But as I mentioned in their last game, this is a new position for Charleston Southern. When you talk about places in Hoops Nation that have had a lot of struggling, CSU has to be near the top...
S9 March 30, 2013 I was not very confident going into this Big South quarterfinal on High Point's chances against Liberty. High Point had won the North Division and six more games in conference play than the Flames had. But that had largely come from John Brown, which High Point did not have. Of course, my main wor...
S9 March 30, 2013 Back when I was at High Point, I really did not think of Gardner-Webb and Campbell much. High Point sometimes played them out of conference, but mostly away from men's basketball and its guarantee game slate. And that is because Campbell and Gardner-Webb were both in the Atlantic Sun at that time. ...
S9 March 30, 2013 As I mentioned in my previous recap, Matt Cayuela was not too happy about watching Winthrop and Charleston Southern combine for 101 points. I told him that this next game between VMI and Longwood should be more to his liking, and he agreed. Both teams were well known for offense more so than defen...
S9 March 30, 2013 The last remaining coach below the Red Line in the NCAA Tournament is Gregg Marshall of Wichita State. Six years ago, Marshall was coaching at Winthrop where he led the Eagles to the Big South's lone Round of 32 appearance. In this quarterfinal game, it would be Pat Kelsey instead coaching Winthro...
S9 March 29, 2013 A month ago, the challenge was to write about a team that could unexpectedly "shock the world" and win the conference tournament. Coastal Carolina had won homecourt advantage throughout the conference tournament because of its partnership with the website of the Myrtle Beach Area Convention & V...
S9 March 29, 2013 Like Longwood in the last game, Presbyterian entered this game against Campbell as big underdogs. Presbyterian like Longwood finished last in the conference with a 4-12 Big South record. PC was only technically better because they beat the Lancers in Farmville. But unlike Longwood, PC has received...
S9 March 29, 2013 After years of being disrespected as an independent and shunned even by the Big South, Longwood was now finally in a conference tournament. This game would mark the first time the Lancers were finally in a Division I postseason. The last time Longwood played in a conference tournament was ten years...
S9 March 27, 2013 After nine years of the Big South having a conference tournament in the format of the higher seeds hosting (which varied year by year in how that was implemented exactly), the conference decided to go with the method Kyle prefers and having one neutral site venue. Well, not quite a neutral site. I...
S9 March 25, 2013 High Point is my school, always will be my school. Nine years ago, I chose to go to High Point over Coastal Carolina. As I have mentioned before, my reasoning was that North Carolina seemed to provide more opportunity for new experiences than Conway would have. Coastal's reputation was a school whe...
S9 March 22, 2013 When I looked at my schedule for this late season Thursday game, I saw that my expectation was to head to a basketball game between The Citadel and Furman. This was a matchup I was not particularly thrilled to see. Like with going to seven games at Presbyterian this year, I have also been to McAl...
S9 March 20, 2013 After two days off from my last game at Charlotte, I was glad to be back at a basketball game at Coastal Carolina on Wednesday. It was a game I was really looking forward to, and not because it was Senior Night for Coastal Carolina. Nor was the reason for my interest in this game being because Wi...
S9 March 18, 2013 Prior to this season, I have not attended many Charlotte basketball games. This game against Temple would be my sixth time at Halton Arena this season. I have enjoyed going to Charlotte this season as a way to acquaint myself with a higher mid-major program in the region. Charlotte's student sect...
S9 March 16, 2013 As most on here are aware, BracketBuster weekend is going away. BracketBuster weekend started mainly as a way to help get mid-majors better opponents to boost their RPI when they otherwise might not get a chance during conference play. Oh, and also to as Kyle put it, feed the "content monster". B...
S9 March 14, 2013 The VMI Keydets are always among the bigger attractions in the Big South. Not necessarily because they are good (although VMI is usually better than they are given credit for), but how they play Our Game. Keydet coach Duggar Baucom tends to emphasize a game focused on offense and often a high tem...
S9 March 11, 2013 We are finally in the homestretch of the season. After an up and down start to the season, we know who the contenders are in the Big South. At least we think we know, anyway. The Big South North Division has looked shaky most of the season, with High Point in first. In the Big South South Division,...
S9 March 4, 2013 As I mentioned in my last recap, during the game between USC Upstate and Kennesaw State game it snowed. While I was watching basketball, two inches of snow fell on the ground in Spartanburg. I know Ray Curren is going to be amused by this coming from a place that had several cancellations due to th...
S9 March 4, 2013 IT WAS NOT UNTIL I ARRIVED AT USC UPSTATE THAT I REMEMBERED WHAT DAY IT WAS. IT WAS THE ALL IMPORTANT #ALLCAPSDAY! I FIRST REMEMBERED WHAT DAY IT WAS WHEN I SAW RAYMOND CURREN TWEET IN ALL CAPS. AND RAY WAS IN THE BEST SPOT OF THEM ALL FOR ALL CAPS DAY, AT A LOYOLA GAME IN CHICAGO WITH OUR WEBSIT...
S9 March 2, 2013 Usually, I always try to find an interesting topic to talk about in my recap. If you have read any of my recaps before, you know that they sometimes can focus very little on the actual game. Take my last recap, for example. I talked about how big it was for me to finally get to a North Carolina A&a...
S9 March 1, 2013 The 26 closest Division I schools to me are in this order from nearest to furthest based on miles away as the crow flies: South Carolina, South Carolina State, Charleston Southern, Winthrop, Coastal Carolina, The Citadel, College of Charleston, Presbyterian, Charlotte, Davidson, Wofford, USC Upst...
S9 February 27, 2013 My original plan for this Saturday was to see two games, which the other leaders on this site like Raymond Curren and Matt Cayuela have also usually tried to do on Saturdays. The plan was to see Davidson play Appalachian State at 4, and then hopefully make it to the UNC Charlotte campus by 6:30 t...
S9 February 25, 2013 After five days without seeing any mid-major basketball, it was finally time to get back to seeing more of Our Game. I had last been to a game at Gardner-Webb on Saturday, and it was now Thursday. I had only had a SEC women's game and a local high school doubleheader to get my basketball fix earl...
S9 February 21, 2013 For deciding where my night cap should be this Saturday night, the choice was clear. Gardner-Webb is a fairly long drive for me compared to where I usually go, at three hours away. But Boiling Springs is just over an hour west of Charlotte, where I had been earlier in the afternoon. And I would get...
S9 February 20, 2013 In two of my three previous visits this season to Halton Arena I had not bought tickets until the day of the game. But as this game approached between Charlotte and UMass, I looked at ticket availability again. UMass has not had the success that they once had with John Calipari in the 1990s, but ...
S9 February 16, 2013 As I have mentioned before, The Citadel is not a big basketball school. Part of the appeal in coming to a game at the Citadel is that McAlister Field House is a wide open building with lots of space. You can just sit atop the general admission bleachers at mid-court, and watch a basketball game to ...
S9 February 15, 2013 The Big South leading Charleston Southern Buccaneers had another big game against the Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs. Charleston Southern was the last team in the Big South to be undefeated, having won all seven games in conference to start. But to keep ahead of defending champion UNC Asheville, the...
S9 February 14, 2013 Our challenge this past week was to write about a rivalry. I have written pretty extensively on rivalries before, with certain rivalries High Point has had as well as rivalries in the Charleston area. I felt that there really was not much more in the way of rivalries I could write about among tho...
S9 February 12, 2013 Going into this game at South Carolina State in Orangeburg, Savannah State was 10-9 and 4-1 in the MEAC. The Tigers were third in the MEAC out of 13 teams, which is not too bad. But Savannah State entered with higher expectations. The Tigers were the preseason favorites in the MEAC, after finishi...
S9 February 9, 2013 Initially, I had planned on this final Saturday of January attending a South Carolina basketball game against Arkansas, and then going from there to see Wofford play College of Charleston. But the last time I saw South Carolina, they lost at home to a bad Auburn team. Why would I want to continue...
35. X-Major
S9 February 6, 2013 One of the great old debates on this website has been: "What is a mid-major?" It is also the question Kyle hates the most. But on a website dedicated to mid-major basketball, it ultimately has to be answered. That is why we have what we call the Red Line. The Red Line has not always existed on th...
S9 February 6, 2013 On this Monday, January 21, there were very few games across Hoops Nation. Sure, Ray Curren was able to find Fairfield playing a Metro Atlantic game this day. But most games today were at one of the HBCUs in either the MEAC or SWAC. So the only option for me on this day was to go see South Caroli...
S9 February 5, 2013 Once upon a time, I used to see UNC Greensboro play at home quite regularly. In my senior year at High Point, I saw six UNCG home games. I had one project in a Sociology class that required me to do an observational study of people off the HPU campus, so I decided to pick UNC Greensboro home game...
S9 February 2, 2013 After my previous game at Coastal Carolina, I would make the long drive down the South Carolina coast to see High Point play at Charleston Southern. I would of course not be the only person doing that, as Matt Cayuela would be making the same trip as well. Due to the early start of the Coastal ga...
S9 February 2, 2013 When planning my Saturday, I was looking for two games to go to. High Point was playing at Charleston Southern, the closest my Panthers would be to where I live during the season. But Charleston Southern plays at 5:30 PM, which is a pretty odd start time even for a weekend game. There would be no...
S9 January 30, 2013 I arrived at Charleston Southern's CSU Field House just prior to 6 PM. Unlike when I went to see College of Charleston play Old Dominion a month prior, I knew that the game was not until 7:30, and the arena would not open until 6:30 P.M. I considered eating at either the Arby's or Wendy's down th...
S9 January 26, 2013 I like simple things. But while I am content getting a basketball experience that is both cheap and easy, I also like a variety of different basketball experiences. And the same holds true for a lot of what I like to do, and I know others probably have similar motives. TMMer Matt Cayuela has a we...
S9 January 25, 2013 As anybody is aware from having read my recaps on here before, I like going to basketball games. And I know other people on here like going to basketball games as well. In fact, some people go to more basketball games than I do. Matt Cayuela went to ten more mid-major basketball games than I did ...
S9 January 24, 2013 In recent seasons, Wofford has been better at basketball than Appalachian State. As I wrote about last year, Appalachian State has been a school mostly focused on football. The basketball team has struggled most of the year, having lost by over 20 at home to High Point. The Mountaineers did come ...
S9 January 22, 2013 Like South Carolina had a month prior, the South Carolina State Bulldogs were also holding a women's/men's doubleheader at 5:30 P.M. at the SHM Memorial Center. But this time it was like most other occasions where the women play before the men. During MEAC play, nearly all conference games have t...
S9 January 18, 2013 After High Point's big win at Winthrop, I was not yet done with Big South basketball for the day. I would head to Winthrop's old travel partner Presbyterian for another Big South showdown between the new North and South divisions. While Presbyterian and Winthrop are not too far apart in South Car...
S9 January 18, 2013 My original plan for the first Saturday of 2013 was to see High Point play at Winthrop before seeing Presbyterian later that evening. But yet it seemed tempting to go back to the Colonial Life Arena and see my other school South Carolina play instead. The Gamecocks were playing a mid-major team I...
S9 January 15, 2013 Once I became a team captain for the Hopping Cats, one of the first things I had to figure out was who to take as my fantasy player. Unlike in the past where we had guys celebrated on this site like Stephen "Flash" Curry and Lester "Done Ruthless" Hudson, there was no name that jumped out at me. ...
S9 January 14, 2013 New Year's Day for the most part is not very friendly to Our Game. It's not quite like December 24 through December 26, which has almost no games. But just like Christmas is dominated by the NBA (a tradition that is fairly new), New Year's Day is dominated by college football being played at neutra...
S9 January 11, 2013 After three games earlier in the weekend, it was time to crown yet another multi-team event champion. This would be my third MTE final; the others had previously been in the All-Military Classic at The Citadel and the Charleston Classic at the College of Charleston. But while multi-team events ne...
S9 January 11, 2013 One of the big problems of being attached to a team is that it can sometimes be tough to watch them play. That is especially true if your team happens to be prone to losing. It is an often irrational fear that goes through my head in worrying about High Point losing. "What if we keep losing?" "Wh...
S9 January 8, 2013 After the last game between Austin Peay and Utah Valley ended, more fans arrived for the game between High Point and Chattanooga. There still were not many fans for this game either though. Official attendance was 2,568, and there really were not that many there. Or maybe it just looked like ther...
S9 January 7, 2013 I was in a hurry to make it to Chattanooga's McKenzie Arena. Not because I was running late, as I got to my motel more than two hours before the 4:30 tip-off of the first game of the Dr. Pepper Classic. And it was not because I expected tickets to be difficult to get, with McKenzie Arena being the...
S9 January 6, 2013 During the Holidays, there are not many games to go to. Out of all 52 weeks in the calendar year, the week from December 22 through December 28 is the emptiest stretch of the sports calendar for me. A big reason for this personally is because I am traveling with family, and that reduces chances to ...
S9 January 3, 2013 This Wednesday before Christmas, the University of South Carolina hosted a men's/women's doubleheader. I have written on here about the premise of these doubleheaders before. And this game had a lot of similarities with other double features I have seen before. One team got a 5 PM start, before m...
S9 January 1, 2013 After having not attended College of Charleston's Black Line Trap Game against Anderson five days earlier, I decided to head down to Charleston to see how College of Charleston would respond against Old Dominion. Before the season started, this was expected to be a big game during the Holiday Bre...
S9 December 29, 2012 When I was at High Point, we rarely ever played a decent team out of conference at home. Nobody could be drawn to the Millis Center that often aside from the Big South teams that had to play here and non-Division I teams. Of the 22 non-conference home games High Point played when I was a student, 1...
S9 December 28, 2012 UNC Wilmington not too long ago was the pride of the Colonial. The Seahawks in the early 2000s made the NCAA Tournament multiple times, winning four CAA Tournaments in seven years under coaches Jerry Wainwright and Brad Brownell. In Wainwright's last season in 2002, UNCW won its only NCAA Tournamen...
S9 December 26, 2012 It was a late May evening in Columbia, South Carolina when I pulled up to Capital City Stadium for an amateur baseball contest. Capital City Stadium is an old deteriorating park that few people come to anymore. But when I pulled in towards the parking lot on Assembly Street more than 30 minutes bef...
S9 December 24, 2012 The challenge for this past week had been to come up with our favorite trap game. Yet in my travels of college basketball, I really do not have a trap game that would work that well. Most Red Line Upsets I can remember have actually come in November. The only RLU I have been to that was a classic t...
S9 December 23, 2012 After the previous game at USC Upstate went longer than expected due to technical problems, I then headed to Gardner-Webb. This was a game that I looked forward to as well since it featured the Runnin' Bulldogs of Gardner-Webb, a team that had played surprisingly well compared to the rest of the Big...
S9 December 22, 2012 I was excited for this game in Spartanburg between UT San Antonio and USC Upstate to start a full day of college basketball in the Piedmont region of the Carolinas. This would not be a mismatch game against a non-Division I team like with Presbyterian and Toccoa Falls. Nor would this game be a bori...
S9 December 20, 2012 Last year, the South Carolina Gamecocks ranked 45th of 345 Division I basketball teams with 8,868 fans per game. Considering the quality of the team, that is actually pretty amazing. It is especially amazing when most Gamecock fans do not care about basketball until the football team plays their bo...
S9 December 17, 2012 Game #9-170: Boston University Terriers at Coastal Carolina ChanticleersDecember 6, 2012 7:00 pmKimbel ArenaBBState Stats/Recap This matchup between Boston University and Coastal Carolina was an interesting game to go to. Not because I expected it to be a good game since BU had crushed the Chants by...
S9 December 14, 2012 Game #9-157: Charlotte 49ers at Davidson WildcatsDecember 5, 2012 8:00 pmBelk ArenaBBState Stats/Recap In the most populated county of the Carolinas in Mecklenburg County, there are two Division I schools: Davidson and Charlotte. With the local professional sports teams struggling, the basketball te...
S9 December 12, 2012 Game #9-150: Norfolk State Spartans at South Carolina State BulldogsDecember 3, 2012 7:30 pmSHM Memorial CenterBBState Stats/Recap During the fundraising drive for this website back in October, Kyle retweeted a tweet from TMMer Craig Caswell: "I knew Norfolk State before they were cool. Join the @mi...
S9 December 10, 2012 Game #9-146: Newberry at Campbell Fighting CamelsNovember 29, 2012 7:00 pmGore ArenaBBState Stats/Recap A week after Thanksgiving, I would head back to North Carolina for another basketball game. This would be my 36th basketball game attended of the season at all levels, and my 24th mid-major bas...
S9 December 10, 2012 Game #9-143: Jacksonville Dolphins at South Carolina State BulldogsNovember 28, 2012 7:30 pmSHM Memorial CenterBBState Stats/Recap On Wednesday, November 28, my original plan was to see College of Charleston play Charleston Southern. This was also Matt Cayuela's original plan as well. But I knew t...
S9 December 8, 2012 Game #9-136: Toccoa Falls at Presbyterian Blue HoseNovember 27, 2012 7:00 pmTempleton CenterBBState Stats/Recap After a 0-6 start to the season, Presbyterian was looking to find somebody they could beat. The Blue Hose had lost those six games by an average of 28 points. And while most of those ga...
S9 December 7, 2012 The main driving factor behind conference realignment is football. Football is what allows the schools above the Red Line to generate a revenue stream that Hoops Nation cannot match, thus allowing our schools below the Red Line to never be a threat. My alma mater High Point does not have football. ...
S9 December 5, 2012 Game #9-125: North Carolina-Asheville Bulldogs at North Carolina State WolfpackNovember 23, 2012 7:00 pmRaleigh Sports CenterBBState Stats/Recap For the past few years for Thanksgiving I have visited family in Durham, North Carolina. I wanted to get to at least one basketball game when there, possib...
S9 December 4, 2012 Game #9-119: Elon Phoenix at South Carolina GamecocksNovember 21, 2012 7:00 pmCarolina CenterBBState Stats/Recap There are not usually many college basketball games played on the day before Thanksgiving. But on this Wednesday before Thanksgiving, there would be a game near me with South Carolina t...
S9 December 3, 2012 Game #9-115: Albany Great Danes at South Carolina State BulldogsNovember 20, 2012 7:30 pmSHM Memorial CenterBBState Stats/Recap My initial plan for the Tuesday before Thanksgiving was to see Coastal Carolina play Johnson & Wales. That game was already going to be covered on here by Matt Cayuel...
S9 December 1, 2012 Game #9-111: Rider Broncs at South Carolina GamecocksNovember 19, 2012 7:00 pmCarolina CenterBBState Stats/Recap After having taken trips of about two hours each way per day for the previous four days to see a whopping 14 college basketball games, it was finally time to take a day off. And by day ...
S9 November 30, 2012 Have a new addition to your family? Then make sure they are outfitted with apparel from the newest member of our TMM family, the Northern Kentucky University Norse! The Norse is the most recent of a number of schools jumping from Division II to join the Atlantic Sun. So doesn't it make perfect sens...
S9 November 29, 2012 Game #9-106: Colorado Buffaloes vs. Murray State RacersNovember 18, 2012 8:30 pmCharleston, SCBBState Stats/Recap After pulling off Red Line Upsets over Auburn and St. John's, the Murray State Racers would earn their way to the Charleston Classic final and play on ESPN2. In a tournament owned by ESP...
S9 November 28, 2012 Game #9-102: Dayton Flyers vs. Auburn TigersNovember 18, 2012 2:00 pmCharleston, SCBBState Stats/Recap The fans from Dayton would get one last chance to see their Flyers play in Charleston. The multi-team event allows for their crazy fans to see their team play three teams in one weekend. And if y...
S9 November 27, 2012 Game #9-079: Boston College Eagles at Charleston CougarsNovember 18, 2012 12:00 pmCarolina First CenterBBState Stats/Recap The final day of the Charleston Classic started at high noon on a Sunday. The first game would feature the home team in the tournament, College of Charleston, taking on Boston...
S9 November 26, 2012 Game #9-094: Lamar Cardinals at Charlotte 49ersNovember 17, 2012 7:30 pmHalton ArenaBBState Stats/Recap Charlotte has been one of the more underrated mid-major programs of the last 40 years in college basketball. In a 29 year span from 1977 through 2005, the 49ers made it to the NCAA Tournament. T...
S9 November 26, 2012 Game #9-092: Virginia Commonwealth Rams at Winthrop EaglesNovember 17, 2012 2:00 pmWinthrop ColiseumBBState Stats/Recap Most early season games in college basketball often run into problems of lacking parity or a good basketball atmosphere. Our mid-majors most often play guarantee games at this ye...
S9 November 25, 2012 Game #9-081: Auburn Tigers at Charleston CougarsNovember 16, 2012 7:30 pmCharleston, SCBBState Stats/Recap After two Red Line Upsets in the previous games, the last game of the second day of the Charleston Classic would feature Auburn against College of Charleston. Auburn had been routed in a RLU...
S9 November 24, 2012 Hello there, anonymous internet surfer. Congratulations on discovering this website! This is a website about college basketball. Real college basketball. So if you were looking for something else that has to do with being middle or being a majority, you are in the wrong place. If you are looking fo...
S9 November 22, 2012 Game #9-072: Saint John's Red Storm vs. Murray State RacersNovember 16, 2012 5:30 pmCharleston, SCBBState Stats/Recap With last year's 31-2 record, the Murray State Racers were the mid-major to watch in this year's Charleston Classic. And the Racers showed that in crushing a SEC team on Thursday n...
S9 November 21, 2012 Game #9-067: Dayton Flyers vs. Boston College EaglesNovember 16, 2012 2:30 pmCharleston, SCBBState Stats/Recap To start the second game of the Charleston Classic, we had two above the Red Line schools going up against each other. While it was not Our Game, it was a relaxing start to the afternoon w...
S9 November 20, 2012 Game #9-060: Murray State Racers vs. Auburn TigersNovember 15, 2012 8:00 pmCharleston, SCBBState Stats/Recap After three games earlier in the day, it was finally time for the 8 PM nightcap of the day with Murray State taking on Auburn. Of the four games on the first day of the Charleston Classic, th...
S9 November 20, 2012 Game #9-059: Saint John's Red Storm at Charleston CougarsNovember 15, 2012 5:00 pmCarolina First CenterBBState Stats/Recap After the first game of the day between Dayton and Colorado, the afternoon session would finish between two BCS teams in Baylor and Boston College. The game was not eligible fo...
S9 November 19, 2012 Game #9-051: Dayton Flyers vs. Colorado BuffaloesNovember 15, 2012 12:30 pmCharleston, SCBBState Stats/Recap The first game of the Charleston Classic at 12:30 P.M. is a bit of a challenge to get to. It's in the middle of the work and school day in downtown Charleston next to the College of Charlesto...
S9 November 18, 2012 Game #9-044: Southern Wesleyan at Furman PaladinsNovember 13, 2012 8:00 pmTimmons ArenaBBState Stats/Recap For this Tuesday night at Furman, you could buy a ticket for both a women's basketball game and a men's basketball game for $10. That is a pretty good deal, since a doubleheader at the Citad...
S9 November 15, 2012 Game #9-034: Kennesaw State Owls at South Carolina State BulldogsNovember 12, 2012 7:30 pmSHM Memorial CenterBBState Stats/Recap Tonight would be the home opener for the South Carolina State Bulldogs against the Kennesaw State Owls. The Bulldogs came in trying to still shake off a very bad end to l...
S9 November 14, 2012 Game #9-026: Air Force Falcons vs. The Citadel BulldogsNovember 11, 2012 4:00 pmCharleston, SCBBState Stats/Recap After the consolation game of the All-Military Classic, it was time to crown a champion. The visiting U.S. Air Force Academy would take on host Citadel, with the winner being crowned Al...
S9 November 13, 2012 Game #9-023: Army Black Knights vs. Virginia Military Institute KeydetsNovember 11, 2012 2:00 pmCharleston, SCBBState Stats/Recap College basketball's opening weekend happens to fall on Veteran's Day Weekend. Many of the promotions schools are doing have a military theme. Michigan State and UConn ...
S9 November 12, 2012 Game #9-016: Saint Andrews at Winthrop EaglesNovember 10, 2012 4:00 pmWinthrop ColiseumBBState Stats/Recap Some of our favorite mid-major teams do very well. Some struggle. In Our Game, there are a wide variety of teams in their fortunes both as a school and as an athletic program. There are school...
S9 November 11, 2012 Game #9-010: Charleston Southern Buccaneers at Charlotte 49ersNovember 9, 2012 6:00 pmHalton ArenaBBState Stats/Recap Just as the first Tuesday of November holds special meaning as the climax of political campaigning, the second Friday of November each year holds special meaning in Our Game as the s...
S8 March 27, 2012 Game #8-789: Kent State Golden Flashes at South Carolina-Upstate SpartansMarch 15, 2012 8:00 pmG.B. Hodge CenterBBState Stats/RecapAfter a strong season, USC Upstate was knocked out of the Atlantic Sun by Florida Gulf Coast, a school also in its first year of eligibility for the postseason...
S8 March 21, 2012 Game #8-779: Bethune-Cookman Wildcats vs. Norfolk State SpartansMarch 10, 2012 1:00 pmWinston-Salem, NCBBState Stats/RecapWith the dust having settled from the MEAC Tournament’s big upsets in the quarterfinals when 8-seed Hampton beat 1-seed Savannah State and 3-seed Delaware State fell to 11-s...
S8 March 18, 2012 Game #8-776: North Carolina Central Eagles vs. Bethune-Cookman WildcatsMarch 8, 2012 8:00 pmWinston-Salem, NCBBState Stats/RecapAs has been previously mentioned on here, the MEAC Tournament serves as a family gathering. The tournament serves functions that go beyond Our Game in the networking of the...
S8 March 15, 2012 Game #8-757: Florida A&M Rattlers vs. Delaware State HornetsMarch 8, 2012 6:00 pmWinston-Salem, NCBBState Stats/RecapMost of us below the Red Line love upsets in March. They are usually associated with Red Line Upsets that get our teams closer to that magical chance of winning a national t...
S8 March 12, 2012 Game #8-749: Western Carolina Catamounts vs. Davidson WildcatsMarch 5, 2012 9:00 pmAsheville, NCBBState Stats/RecapAfter having been to both of the semifinals on Sunday in Asheville, I went to my home that night in South Carolina, a 200 mile drive away. I am not sure why I drove back, considering I ...
S8 March 8, 2012 Game #8-715: Elon Phoenix vs. Davidson WildcatsMarch 4, 2012 8:30 pmAsheville, NCBBState Stats/RecapThe last time I saw Elon play Davidson, the game was played at Elon’s small gym in 2008. After having dinner at High Point, I left to get to Elon early for a good seat for the 9 p.m. regionally televi...
S8 March 7, 2012 Game #8-711: Western Carolina Catamounts vs. North Carolina-Greensboro SpartansMarch 4, 2012 6:00 pmAsheville, NCBBState Stats/RecapFor the first time in 17 years, the Southern Conference Tournament would be held at the Asheville Civic Center. Or at least that is the historic name of the building. I...
S8 March 6, 2012 Game #8-661: Liberty Flames vs. Charleston Southern BuccaneersFebruary 29, 2012 8:00 pmAsheville, NCBBState Stats/RecapAfter High Point’s final loss at UNC Asheville, it was time for one more game, the fourth of the day. Charleston Southern would play Liberty, and it would be a good way to relax at ...
101. Death
S8 March 3, 2012 Game #8-659: High Point Panthers at North Carolina-Asheville BulldogsFebruary 29, 2012 6:00 pmJustice CenterBBState Stats/RecapGoing into Asheville, I had a bad feeling that this would be the night. This would be the night High Point would lose, and that magical chance would be gone. A loss tonight,...
S8 March 2, 2012 Game #8-658: Winthrop Eagles at Campbell Fighting CamelsFebruary 29, 2012 2:00 pmGore ArenaBBState Stats/RecapWinthrop has not had a great season. They have a losing record overall and in conference, which is somewhat rare for them in recent years. They finished behind five other teams in the confer...
S8 March 2, 2012 Game #8-656: Virginia Military Institute Keydets vs. Coastal Carolina ChanticleersFebruary 29, 2012 12:00 pmAsheville, NCBBState Stats/RecapComing into the Big South tournament, VMI was 8-10 in the conference and 14-15 overall. The Keydets finished seventh out of 11 teams in the Big South. But VMI s...
S8 February 29, 2012 Game #8-644: North Carolina Central Eagles at South Carolina State BulldogsFebruary 27, 2012 7:30 pmSHM Memorial CenterBBState Stats/RecapAccording to the Official 800GP Statistics, we are just over 70 percent through the season. But for many of us, the season is much closer to being over. Today’s g...
S8 February 27, 2012 Game #8-637: Furman Paladins at Wofford TerriersFebruary 25, 2012 7:00 pmBenjamin Johnson ArenaBBState Stats/RecapAfter the game at USC Upstate ended, I had one more game on Saturday. Wofford, the more established mid-major of Spartanburg, was playing just two miles south of Upstate. My original pla...
S8 February 27, 2012 Game #8-631: Stetson Hatters at South Carolina-Upstate SpartansFebruary 25, 2012 2:00 pmG.B. Hodge CenterBBState Stats/RecapUSC Upstate is a fifth-year Division I school that will be heading to its first-ever Atlantic Sun tournament this year. As a transitional school, the Spartans struggled. In the...
S8 February 23, 2012 Game #8-608: Appalachian State Mountaineers at The Citadel BulldogsFebruary 22, 2012 7:05 pmMcAlister Field HouseBBState Stats/RecapBefore leaving for the Citadel for their game with Appalachian State, I figured I could catch a baseball game first. I went to a junior college game at USC Sumter, wher...
S8 February 21, 2012 Game #8-604: Florida A&M Rattlers at South Carolina State BulldogsFebruary 20, 2012 7:30 pmSHM Memorial CenterBBState Stats/RecapLess than a week into the season, I began to make plans for attending my first games of the season. So I sent Kyle a message using The Form to get my Bally Club password t...
S8 February 20, 2012 Game #8-595: Delaware State Hornets at Gardner-Webb BulldogsFebruary 18, 2012 7:00 pmPaul Porter ArenaBBState Stats/RecapThe BracketBusters is a concept introduced by ESPN that takes mid-majors out-of-conference and introduces them to a mid-major of similar stature in another conference. Much on thi...
S8 February 16, 2012 Game #8-575: Presbyterian Blue Hose at Winthrop EaglesFebruary 14, 2012 7:00 pmWinthrop ColiseumBBState Stats/RecapThere are not usually too many games to select from on Tuesday, but tonight the Big South was active with everybody but Campbell playing. The closest game available to me was at Charles...
111. ON LOSING
S8 February 13, 2012 Game #8-560: High Point Panthers at Charleston Southern BuccaneersFebruary 11, 2012 5:30 pmCSU FieldhouseBBState Stats/RecapComing into this game at Charleston Southern, High Point was 10-15 and 6-9 in Big South play. That is not too bad of a record, and some of the schools in Our Game would be much...
S8 February 11, 2012 Game #8-543: Western Carolina Catamounts at Charleston CougarsFebruary 9, 2012 8:00 pmCarolina First CenterBBState Stats/RecapCollege of Charleston’s campus is located in the middle of downtown Charleston, one of the most historic areas of South Carolina. C of C was established in 1770, and for its ...
S8 February 7, 2012 Game #8-525: Longwood Lancers at South Carolina State BulldogsFebruary 6, 2012 7:30 pmSHM Memorial CenterBBState Stats/RecapIn the 2003-04 school year, Longwood began to transition to Division I like Nebraska-Omaha is now. Then over the next four years, the Lancers would play a full Division I sched...
S8 February 2, 2012 Game #8-497: Davidson Wildcats at Furman PaladinsFebruary 1, 2012 7:00 pmTimmons ArenaBBState Stats/RecapI had not been to Furman’s Timmons Arena in three years. The last time I was there was when I went to visit all 23 Division I and Division II men’s basketball arenas in South Carolina. Back then ...
S8 January 31, 2012 Game #8-489: Howard Bison at South Carolina State BulldogsJanuary 30, 2012 7:30 pmSHM Memorial CenterBBState Stats/RecapOne of the best things about MEAC basketball is that there are more unique traditions than at other mid-majors. Most other mid-majors seem to borrow traditions from one another as ...
S8 January 30, 2012 Game #8-482: High Point Panthers at Winthrop EaglesJanuary 28, 2012 4:00 pmWinthrop ColiseumBBState Stats/RecapMy basketball memories were for the most part fairly good at High Point. In my four years as a student, the Panthers were 47-8 at the Millis Center. We always made it to the Big South semif...
S8 January 27, 2012 Game #8-462: High Point Panthers at North Carolina-Asheville BulldogsJanuary 26, 2012 7:00 pmJustice CenterBBState Stats/RecapJust over a year ago in November 2010, I had Thanksgiving dinner with a small group of my family. My cousin Amelia was then a freshman (now sophomore) at UNC Asheville, and I...
S8 January 25, 2012 Game #8-456: Lipscomb Bisons at South Carolina-Upstate SpartansJanuary 23, 2012 7:00 pmG.B. Hodge CenterBBState Stats/RecapLike much of the Atlantic Sun, the history of USC Upstate is fairly brief. The school was established in the mid-1960s as USC Spartanburg, and played their first game in 1967 ag...
S8 January 22, 2012 Game #8-436: Liberty Flames at High Point PanthersJanuary 21, 2012 7:00 pmMillis CenterBBState Stats/RecapAs Kyle talked about in his essay at the beginning of Season 6 “That Teenage Feeling”, college basketball is ultimately about college. As Kyle writes, it is a world where tomorrow comes later an...
S8 January 20, 2012 Game #8-420: Appalachian State Mountaineers at Wofford TerriersJanuary 19, 2012 7:00 pmBenjamin Johnson ArenaBBState Stats/RecapGoing into Thursday’s games, only three schools were left in the Big South and Southern Conference that have not been covered. The schools in the Southern Conference are Ge...
S8 January 18, 2012 Game #8-410: Campbell Fighting Camels at Winthrop EaglesJanuary 17, 2012 7:00 pmWinthrop ColiseumBBState Stats/RecapI did not follow the Big South for the most part in its early days, being too young to remember the days before Gregg Marshall and Winthrop dominated. For that matter, few did follow t...
S8 January 13, 2012 Game #8-386: Winthrop Eagles at High Point PanthersJanuary 12, 2012 7:00 pmMillis CenterBBState Stats/RecapAfter my last year in high school, it finally looked like the Big South would change. Gregg Marshall’s Winthrop teams, which had dominated the conference for so long, had finally been overcome ...
S8 January 10, 2012 Game #8-373: Coppin State Eagles at South Carolina State BulldogsJanuary 9, 2012 7:30 pmSHM Memorial CenterBBState Stats/RecapI remember a Saturday Night Live clip several years ago that I found to be very interesting. It was not one of their regular sketches, but rather a camera that panned the cro...
S8 January 9, 2012 Game #8-371: Columbia Lions at Elon PhoenixJanuary 8, 2012 2:00 pmKoury CenterBBState Stats/RecapOn Sunday morning, I woke up at 9 a.m. and headed nearly four hours north to Elon. Normally I would try to stay closer to home, even settling for a women’s game or a non-Division I game. But there were a...
S8 January 8, 2012 Game #8-361: Coastal Carolina Chanticleers at Charleston Southern BuccaneersJanuary 7, 2012 5:30 pmCSU FieldhouseBBState Stats/RecapCoastal Carolina and its fans are used to small arenas. They play at Kimbel Arena, which seats 1,039 and sells out every game. It is hard to imagine the Chanticleers go...
S8 January 6, 2012 Game #8-352: High Point Panthers at Presbyterian Blue HoseJanuary 5, 2012 7:00 pmTempleton CenterBBState Stats/RecapMy first two games as a High Point fan were both on the road, going to see HPU play at Charleston Southern when I was in high school. I finally saw High Point play at home first at the...
S8 January 4, 2012 Game #8-339: South Carolina State Bulldogs at South Carolina GamecocksJanuary 3, 2012 7:00 pmCarolina CenterBBState Stats/RecapThe University of South Carolina was founded in 1801 to give South Carolinians a place of publicly funded higher education. The only college in the state at this time was Co...
S8 January 3, 2012 Game #8-333: Virginia Wise at The Citadel BulldogsJanuary 2, 2012 7:05 pmMcAlister Field HouseBBState Stats/RecapAs has been a major topic of discussion in recent recaps, basketball games over Winter Break can be a challenge to pull off for college basketball teams. The problems exist mainly in res...
S8 January 2, 2012 Game #8-327: South Carolina-Upstate Spartans at South Carolina GamecocksDecember 31, 2011 12:00 pmCarolina CenterBBState Stats/RecapThe University of South Carolina was founded in 1801, with one campus in Columbia. But as college education expanded in the 20th century, the USC system would expand to...
S8 December 30, 2011 Game #8-311: Southern Illinois Salukis at Evansville AcesDecember 29, 2011 8:00 pmRoberts Municipal StadiumBBState Stats/RecapAfter spending time with family in Ohio and Illinois, it was back to the 800 Games Project on Thursday night in Evansville to see the Purple Aces face Southern Illinois. This...
S8 December 23, 2011 Game #8-288: Miami (Oh.) Redhawks at Ohio State BuckeyesDecember 22, 2011 8:30 pmSchottenstein CenterBBState Stats/RecapLast Saturday, I attended a South Carolina game against Ohio State. With both schools above the Red Line, this game did not count. Yet it had the look and feel of a mid-major again...
S8 December 22, 2011 Game #8-276: Furman Paladins at Presbyterian Blue HoseDecember 20, 2011 7:00 pmTempleton CenterBBState Stats/RecapLast Monday on December 12, I graduated with a Master’s in Public Administration at the University of South Carolina. The next day, I wrapped up my internship duties at the school’s regi...
S8 December 22, 2011 Game #8-275: Wofford Terriers at High Point PanthersDecember 21, 2011 7:00 pmMillis CenterBBState Stats/RecapI first visited the High Point University campus in the summer of 2003, when I was a rising senior in high school. I had been interested in the school when in December 2002 I had gotten mail ...
S8 December 18, 2011 Game #8-247: Charleston Southern Buccaneers at Charleston CougarsDecember 17, 2011 6:00 pmCarolina First CenterBBState Stats/RecapCharleston is South Carolina’s 2nd largest city, with 120,000 in the city and 650,000 in the metro area. It also has three Division I schools, all of whom are mid-majors....
S8 December 17, 2011 Game #8-241: Lynchburg at Coastal Carolina ChanticleersDecember 16, 2011 7:00 pmKimbel ArenaBBState Stats/RecapFor a school established relatively recently, Coastal Carolina has a very successful mid-major program. Coastal benefits from being located nine miles from South Carolina’s tourist capital...
S8 December 15, 2011 Game #8-235: Tennessee Volunteers at Charleston CougarsDecember 14, 2011 9:00 pmCarolina First CenterBBState Stats/RecapIn most games between the mid-major and major conference school, the mid-major plays at the major conference school. This happens for a variety of reasons. First, as has been discu...
S8 December 14, 2011 Game #8-231: Presbyterian Blue Hose at South Carolina GamecocksDecember 13, 2011 7:00 pmCarolina CenterBBState Stats/RecapPresbyterian College has only 1,133 students. Yet after years of being a Division II school, it chose to abandon its rivalries in the South Atlantic Conference and join Division ...
S8 December 11, 2011 Game #8-219: Virginia Wise at Wofford TerriersDecember 10, 2011 7:00 pmBenjamin Johnson ArenaBBState Stats/RecapOver the years on this site and also in an article for ESPN, Kyle has written about how mid-majors put up with “guarantee games.” The mid-major travels to a major conference school, and g...
S8 December 8, 2011 Game #8-194: Coastal Carolina Chanticleers at The Citadel BulldogsDecember 6, 2011 7:05 pmMcAlister Field HouseBBState Stats/RecapWhen I woke up Tuesday morning, I glanced through the lines on each college basketball game posted. I saw that Vegas had posted some lines on some mid-major games, and lo...
S8 November 30, 2011 Game #8-154: Georgia State Panthers at South Carolina State BulldogsNovember 29, 2011 7:30 pmSHM Memorial CenterBBState Stats/RecapHistorically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have some of the richest tradition among mid-majors. HBCUs are known for prestigious marching bands, dance teams, an...
S8 November 26, 2011 Game #8-127: Elon Phoenix at North Carolina State WolfpackNovember 25, 2011 7:00 pmRaleigh Sports CenterBBState Stats/RecapIt was the day after Thanksgiving, and I was in Durham, NC visiting family. My relatives would go out and hit up the bars in the area, and since I don’t drink I wanted something...
S8 November 23, 2011 Game #8-100: Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils at South Carolina GamecocksNovember 22, 2011 7:00 pmCarolina CenterBBState Stats/RecapAs I wrote previously, some of us go from mid-majors to above the Red Line. Some, like Kyle, have gone from above the Red Line to below it. And of course there are...
S8 November 21, 2011 Game #8-082: Tennessee State Tigers at South Carolina GamecocksNovember 20, 2011 6:00 pmCarolina CenterBBState Stats/RecapAs Kyle has written here before, much of us do not grow up mid-major people. Growing up I liked seeing mid-major games on ESPN during “Championship Week” in part to see unfamilia...
S8 November 20, 2011 Game #8-068: Gardner-Webb Bulldogs at South Carolina State BulldogsNovember 19, 2011 7:30 pmSHM Memorial CenterBBState Stats/RecapSouth Carolina State University and Gardner-Webb University are two very different mid-major schools. Gardner-Webb is a predominantly white Southern Baptist school in Nor...
S8 November 18, 2011 Game #8-054: Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets vs. Saint Joseph`s HawksNovember 17, 2011 8:00 pmCharleston, SCBBState Stats/RecapBack in May 2007 while watching High Point play in the Big South Baseball Tournament on the campus of Winthrop, I began to think of all the sporting events I had been attending....
S8 November 18, 2011 Game #8-053: Virginia Commonwealth Rams vs. Seton Hall PiratesNovember 17, 2011 5:30 pmCharleston, SCBBState Stats/RecapAs a High Point fan, there are unrealistic things I dream about. I would love to see at every away game hundreds of my fellow Panther fans following the team who are commited as I ...
S8 November 18, 2011 Game #8-052: Tulsa Golden Hurricane vs. Western Kentucky HilltoppersNovember 17, 2011 12:30 pmCharleston, SCBBState Stats/RecapTulsa is just above the Red Line in Conference USA, which was briefly on our side of the line last season. With 3,000 students, they are the smallest school above the Red Li...
S8 November 17, 2011 Game #8-045: Clemson Tigers at The Citadel BulldogsNovember 16, 2011 7:05 pmMcAlister Field HouseBBState Stats/RecapMcAlister Field House is an old historic building on the northwest corner of the Citadel’s campus. It was built in 1939, and was renovated in 1989. When inside the building, one can se...
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