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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

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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 March 8, 2013 I'm probably only as dedicated a Penn fan as I am because of Route 301.The option of driving that stretch of road to Wilmington instead of I-95 is one of the things that has contributed most to my willingness to continually make the 2-hour drive back and forth to Philadelphia for Penn games (especi...
S9 February 3, 2013 Noon on a Sunday seemed like a rather unfortunate time for Iona and Loyola, two of the MAAC powerhouses, to square off.Despite the time, there was a decent crowd filing in when we arrived, including a fair number of traveling Iona fans. Some of the people sitting around me were locals, including a ...
S9 January 25, 2013 When I first moved to Annapolis, I decided I needed to take up a water sport - sailing, boating, and the like are big here, but I was interested in something else: rowing. I found out that during the summer, the U.S. Naval Academy offers a week-long camp for women of all ages to be coached by Navy ...
S9 January 21, 2013 There's a website that came to my attention a few months ago called "Philly Love Notes," that collects essays and stories, with photos, of things that Philadelphians love about their city. It's the kind of website I love - using the internet to connect people to their surroundings and each other. I...
S9 January 13, 2013 "Too hyped to do school work so I will keep reading the nonsense on Sudanese diaspora list serve."Not your usual college-athlete-Twitter-feed fare."In my opinion - in the end - the university will have benefited more from having him than he will from having attended Penn."Not your usual coach-speak...
S9 January 6, 2013 It's a little strange to plan a basketball trip for a game that you don't even know will happen, but such is the lot of the pilgrim, I guess.When it was announced last March that Butler and Penn would play a #ghostbracket game in the Palestra (which gave rise to one of my favorite 800GP essays), I ...
S9 December 26, 2012 Rare is the holiday cookie that can truly survive in the wilds of the non-December baking schedule. You wouldn't eat a gingerbread man in July, right? However, I've got one that will be right at home in March: the TMM cookie. The particulars of the cookie dough itself, I leave to the discretion of ...
S9 December 14, 2012 It's a classic set up: in and among the exams, holiday travel, and holiday eating, major conference teams want to keep things moving before they transition into conference play. So they schedule a guarantee game at home. We'll take just one example: on December 30, 2011, the Princeton Tigers travel...
S9 December 7, 2012 Dear Virginia,Hi there. I'm Jen. You don't know me, but you will. Here's what you need to know right now: I'm about to help you right a terrible wrong. Look, I grew up in that Commonwealth due west (no, not that one, the one you had to give up way back in 1792). And I went to school in that state d...
S9 November 30, 2012 We truly live in a golden age of shopping. Anyone with a credit card and a public library nearby can basically get anything they want, delivered right to their door. (Unfortunately, for me this has translated into buying chocolate bars in bulk.) Which means we live in a dark age of gift giving - if...
S9 November 29, 2012 Game #9-107: Binghamton Bearcats at Pennsylvania QuakersNovember 28, 2012 7:00 pmThe PalestraBBState Stats/Recap One of these things, as they say, is not like the others.The Penn Quakers huddled up late in the second half of last night's game against the Binghamton Bearcats, a team they were expect...
S9 November 25, 2012 In his commencement speech at Kenyon College, the late writer David Foster Wallace put forth the theory that the true value of a college education is that it teaches you how to exercise the most basic freedom of all: the freedom to "consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't."Wallace give...
S9 November 20, 2012 Since this game happened, I've been trying to figure out the best way to convey how much fun it was to be in the Palestra on Saturday afternoon watching Penn and Drexel battle it out for bragging rights over ... a few blocks in West Philadelphia (as you may know, the two universities essentially sh...
S9 November 15, 2012 Game #9-035: Morehead State Eagles at Maryland TerrapinsNovember 12, 2012 8:00 pmComcast CenterBBState Stats/Recap This essay is not about the University of Kentucky Wildcats.Having grown up in the Commonwealth, I can tell you that in many parts of that state, the above sentence is almost a logical ...
15. All In
S9 November 11, 2012 Game #9-011: Maryland-Baltimore County Retrievers at Pennsylvania QuakersNovember 9, 2012 7:00 pmThe PalestraBBState Stats/Recap Friday was a pretty big day for the phrase "all in," if a phrase can have a big day.As I was speeding away from Washington, D.C. to make the 7pm tip at the Palestra, Beltw...
S8 March 20, 2012 Game #8-778: Northern Iowa Panthers at Drexel DragonsMarch 18, 2012 12:00 pmDaskalakis Athletic CenterBBState Stats/RecapWhat's more dramatic than a confession? OK, here goes: this past Sunday was my first time ever seeing a game at the Daskalakis Athletic Center on the campus of Drexel University. ...
S8 March 16, 2012 Game #8-764: Quinnipiac Bobcats at Pennsylvania QuakersMarch 14, 2012 8:30 pmThe PalestraBBState Stats/RecapAbout a week and a half ago, I walked out of the Palestra for what I assumed would be the last time this season. Penn had just defeated Yale to stay in the hunt for the Ivy League title, and t...
S8 March 6, 2012 Game #8-707: Yale Bulldogs at Pennsylvania QuakersMarch 3, 2012 7:00 pmThe PalestraBBState Stats/RecapLet's get this out of the way right up front: personally, I think the Ivy League has got it right in how it selects its NCAA tournament representative. To me, the goal should be to send the team to ...
S8 March 6, 2012 Game #8-706: Brown Bears at Pennsylvania QuakersMarch 2, 2012 7:00 pmThe PalestraBBState Stats/RecapBy the time I had a chance to write about the game that took place on Friday night, Brown coach Jesse Agel had already lost his job.Brown certainly came into the Palestra looking overmatched. They wer...
S8 February 27, 2012 Game #8-630: Northeastern Huskies at Delaware Blue HensFebruary 25, 2012 12:00 pmBob Carpenter CenterBBState Stats/RecapAlthough my heart would be in Boston with the Penn Quakers on Saturday night for their critical game against Harvard, the rest of me was obligated to be in Washington, D.C. But I c...
S8 February 21, 2012 Game #8-603: Columbia Lions at Pennsylvania QuakersFebruary 18, 2012 7:00 pmThe PalestraBBState Stats/RecapAt this time of year, the factoid closest to the front of most people's minds about the Ivy League is the lack of a conference tournament. (Indeed, I wrote about this yesterday.) This state of ...
22. Control
S8 February 21, 2012 Game #8-601: Cornell Big Red at Pennsylvania QuakersFebruary 17, 2012 7:00 pmThe PalestraBBState Stats/RecapOn my own personal sportz-related crimes-against-English scale, on which the offenses range from "just trite" to "utterly senseless and inane," the one I heard most about Penn coming into Frid...
23. Meetup!
S8 February 7, 2012 Game #8-529: Old Dominion Monarchs at George Mason PatriotsFebruary 4, 2012 5:00 pmPatriot CenterBBState Stats/RecapOn Saturday, I had the pleasure of attending a game with several of our fellow 800GP-ers when Old Dominion traveled to Fairfax for George Mason's homecoming. Although this was nominall...
S8 January 31, 2012 Game #8-490: Princeton Tigers at Pennsylvania QuakersJanuary 30, 2012 7:00 pmThe PalestraBBState Stats/RecapThe 800 GP guidelines say no smac, which in the case of this game will require great restraint on the part of your correspondent. (The lawyer in me is tempted to muse on the nature of guidelin...
S8 January 23, 2012 Game #8-447: Saint Joseph`s Hawks at Pennsylvania QuakersJanuary 21, 2012 7:00 pmThe PalestraBBState Stats/Recap"This is our house." It's a common cheer in college basketball - I've heard it, or at least versions of it, in arenas all over the place. When the "house" in question is the Palestra, thou...
S8 January 16, 2012 Game #8-401: Army Black Knights at Navy MidshipmenJanuary 14, 2012 2:30 pmAlumni HallBBState Stats/RecapIn a number of our recent recaps, writers have echoed a common refrain: The students are finally back! After those sometimes eerily quiet winter break games where you could count, if not on one ha...
S8 January 7, 2012 Game #8-355: UAB Blazers at George Washington ColonialsDecember 28, 2011 7:00 pmCharles E. Smith CenterBBState Stats/RecapAs part of my (self-imposed) duties as custodian of the @800gp Twitter feed, I occasionally search some of the common terms that TMM readers out there might be using in tweets. O...
S8 December 18, 2011 Game #8-252: Rider Broncs at Maryland-Baltimore County RetrieversDecember 17, 2011 7:00 pmUMBC FieldhouseBBState Stats/RecapThere are two reasons you might “just hope for a good game” when you watch any sporting event: you’re not emotionally invested in either team, or you’re invested in both teams....
S8 December 2, 2011 Game #8-094: Wagner Seahawks at Pennsylvania QuakersNovember 22, 2011 7:00 pmThe PalestraBBState Stats/RecapWhen Wagner visited Penn, it was a rainy Tuesday night; getting from Annapolis to Philadelphia after work for a 7 p.m. tip-off on these types of nights can be a dicey proposition. We...
S8 December 2, 2011 Game #8-168: Marist Red Foxes at Loyola (Md.) GreyhoundsDecember 1, 2011 7:30 pmReitz ArenaBBState Stats/RecapThe MAAC started conference play last night, and I love conference play, so it was off to Baltimore. My first game outside of the Palestra this season reminded me that taking in a ...
S8 November 21, 2011 Game #8-084: Robert Morris Colonials at Pennsylvania QuakersNovember 19, 2011 7:00 pmThe PalestraBBState Stats/RecapOkay, let’s get this out of the way: the Palestra is magical, historic, a fantastic place to watch basketball, etc. You do not need me to tell you this, because you are a fan of TMM an...
S8 November 16, 2011 Game #8-034: Temple Owls at Pennsylvania QuakersNovember 14, 2011 7:00 pmThe PalestraBBState Stats/RecapIn the essay E Unibas Pluram, David Foster Wallace (whom you may know from his non-fiction work like Consider the Lobster or his NY Times magazine article on Roger Federer) analyzes the relationsh...
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