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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 March 23, 2013 The hallmark of Tommy Amaker's teams at Harvard has been repetition. From the high pick and roll offense of Jeremy Lin to the 4 out, 1 in motion offense of the recent teams, Amaker has picked one basic offensive philosophy and stuck with it, no matter what. The Crimson have essentially run five off...
S9 March 8, 2013 If you've read my writing, you may have guessed that my main area of conference expertise is the Ivy League. The Ancient Eight does not have a conference tournament, preferring to send the winner of their true round-robin conference schedule to the NCAA's. On rare occasions, however, when there is ...
S9 February 21, 2013 This was never supposed to be Boston University's year. The Terriers lost what were widely considered to be their two best players, swingman Darryl Partin (to graduation) and center Jake O'Brien (to transfer) from last year's squad. The Terriers also graduated two other starters, leaving juniors Dom...
S9 February 16, 2013 It is often difficult for college basketball fans who do not follow the Ivy League to understand the profound swings that race their way up and down the Eastern seaboard on cold winter Fridays and Saturdays. For every other college basketball league, the regular season is important, but there is al...
S9 January 29, 2013 For 38 minutes on Saturday, the Dartmouth Big Green thoroughly and comprehensively outplayed Harvard on the road at Lavietes Pavilion. To put that accomplishment in context, you need to know a bit about Dartmouth basketball.To say the Big Green have struggled recently would be an understatement. Da...
S9 December 21, 2012 Watch the Princeton Tigers go through layup lines, and not much stands out. The team is fairly homogenous; the uniforms and shoes are all the same (no headbands or accoutrements here), and even the players' haircuts are uniform. Get them on the court against another team, however, and you see what ...
S9 November 19, 2012 Game #9-050: Manhattan Jaspers at Harvard CrimsonNovember 16, 2012 7:30 pmLavietes PavilionBBState Stats/Recap In the middle of the second half on Friday night, Harvard's freshman point guard Siyani Chambers did something he had not done for the last 76 minutes of the Crimson's game time: he sat dow...
S8 March 30, 2012 Game #8-800: Pennsylvania Quakers at Harvard CrimsonFebruary 25, 2012 7:00 pmLavietes PavilionBBState Stats/Recap "May I, composed like themOf Eros and of dust,Beleaguered by the sameNegation and despairShow an affirming flame." -September 1st, 1939, W.H. AudenI don't know Zack Rosen, the man. I ...
S8 March 29, 2012 Game #8-479: Harvard Crimson at Brown BearsJanuary 28, 2012 6:00 pmPizzitola Sports CenterBBState Stats/RecapThe Pizzitola Sports Center is a bizarre place to watch a college basketball game. It is a low-slung, wide building from the outside, connected to Brown's hockey rink next door. Inside, the s...
S8 March 27, 2012 Game #8-791: Brown Bears at Harvard CrimsonFebruary 17, 2012 7:00 pmLavietes PavilionBBState Stats/RecapAs Harvard and Brown lined up for the National Anthem on a mild February Friday night at Lavietes Pavillion, you could easily spot the disparity that became the story of the Bears' season. Harvard...
S8 March 26, 2012 Game #8-787: Harvard Crimson at Boston University TerriersDecember 10, 2011 4:00 pmCase GymBBState Stats/RecapBoston University is a hockey school. That much is immediately clear after walking into BU's sparkling Agganis Arena. Agganis, and the dorms beside it, opened in the heart of BU's campus in ...
S8 March 17, 2012 Game #8-768: Montana Grizzlies vs. Wisconsin BadgersMarch 15, 2012 3:10 pmAlbuquerque, NMBBState Stats/RecapDrive past the University Arena on the campus of New Mexico, aka The Pit, and it doesn’t look so fearsome. The low-slung, one-story structure sits on a plateau overlooking the valley south of ...
S8 March 17, 2012 Game #8-767: Harvard Crimson vs. Vanderbilt CommodoresMarch 15, 2012 5:40 pmAlbuquerque, NMBBState Stats/Recap “I am not afraid. I’m actually rather curious. Usually in life, you know how things are going to happen. You can imagine even in great detail what the dentist is going to do to you, what yo...
S8 February 25, 2012 Game #8-620: Princeton Tigers at Harvard CrimsonFebruary 24, 2012 7:00 pmLavietes PavilionBBState Stats/RecapWatching the Princeton-Harvard game last night, I couldn't help but be reminded of one of my favorite movies, Die Hard. At the end of Die Hard, after our hero John McClane has against all odd...
S8 February 24, 2012 Game #8-613: Yale Bulldogs at Harvard CrimsonFebruary 18, 2012 7:00 pmLavietes PavilionBBState Stats/RecapSometimes, it takes an outsider to provide a new perspective on this game we love. I've seen, either in person or from afar, every game Harvard has played this season. I've seen the Crimson triu...
S8 February 12, 2012 Game #8-554: Harvard Crimson at Princeton TigersFebruary 11, 2012 7:00 pmJadwin GymnasiumBBState Stats/RecapPrinceton basketball. The name instantly conjures up visions of backdoor cuts, low-scoring games and teams that won with ruthless execution rather than talent. Our consumption of sports is bui...
S8 February 11, 2012 Game #8-547: Harvard Crimson at Pennsylvania QuakersFebruary 10, 2012 7:00 pmThe PalestraBBState Stats/RecapImagine a drill sergeant yelling at you in your face. Then imagine that you are in a tiny room, and the noise reverberates and crashes. Then multiply that by 8,000.That was what the Palestra w...
S8 February 5, 2012 Game #8-505: Columbia Lions at Harvard CrimsonFebruary 4, 2012 7:00 pmLavietes PavilionBBState Stats/RecapAs I walked into Lavietes Pavilion with 1:30 left to go in the first half of Harvard's clash with Columbia, I thought to myself that, all things considered, things had gone very well. I had plan...
S8 January 28, 2012 Game #8-474: Harvard Crimson at Yale BulldogsJanuary 27, 2012 7:00 pmJohn J. Lee AmphitheaterBBState Stats/RecapFor any fan of Harvard basketball, it only took stepping one foot inside the John J. Lee Amphitheater in New Haven, Connecticut for the memories to come flooding back. Harvard’s twin last ...
S8 January 28, 2012 Game #8-469: Harvard Crimson at Yale BulldogsJanuary 27, 2012 7:00 pmJohn J. Lee AmphitheaterBBState Stats/RecapFor any fan of Harvard basketball, it only took stepping one foot inside the John J. Lee Amphitheater in New Haven, Connecticut for the memories to come flooding back. Harvard’s twin last ...
S8 December 9, 2011 Game #8-210: Harvard Crimson at Connecticut HuskiesDecember 8, 2011 7:00 pmHartford Civic CenterBBState Stats/RecapIt happened right in front of me. The famous Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges once wrote that there is “a single moment—the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.” While sma...
S8 December 4, 2011 Game #8-183: Seattle Redhawks at Harvard CrimsonDecember 4, 2011 2:00 pmLavietes PavilionBBState Stats/RecapTwo years ago, as a freshman, I made the trek across a frozen Charles River to Lavietes Pavillion for my first Harvard basketball game. On that blustery December night, the Crimson beat Rice b...
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