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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.

Recent Game Recaps

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 January 20, 2013 The frigid bike ride to Portland State's gym made me nostalgic. Not for my recently concluded college career - oh no, Not as a player...are you kidding?! But for high school basketball in my hometown.Because although my hometown is just 6,000 people strong, our gym seats more people than Portland S...
S9 December 24, 2012 "Christmas, Christmas time is hereTime for toys, time for cheerWe've been good but we can't lastHurry Christmas, hurry fastWant a plane that loops the loopMe, I want a hula hoopWe can hardly stand the waitPlease, Christmas, don't be late" - Alvin and the Chipmunks, "Christmas Don't be Late"Christma...
S9 November 26, 2012 Game #9-093: Idaho State Bengals at Portland PilotsNovember 15, 2012 10:00 pmChiles CenterBBState Stats/Recap When I found out I had the day off work for Portland's home opener against Idaho State, I figured I would make a night of it instead of just coming and going as quickly as possible. Instead ...
S9 November 15, 2012 For Rockne Andrew Roll, basketball was always an afterthought. Despite his prodigious height - he's 6-foot-5 now - his youth league experience nearly ruined the sport for him entirely, thanks to a combination of "bad coaches and jackass teammates." "People always asked me if I played basketball," R...
S9 November 14, 2012 Game #9-028: New Mexico State Aggies at Oregon State BeaversNovember 11, 2012 9:30 pmGill ColiseumBBState Stats/Recap New Mexico State redshirt freshman Sim Bhullar is an INCREDIBLY LARGE MAN.He is 7 feet, 5 inches, and 360 pounds of Indian-Canadian basketball behemoth.The INCREDIBLY LARGE MAN has I...
S8 March 17, 2012 Game #8-774: Virginia Commonwealth Rams vs. Indiana HoosiersMarch 17, 2012 8:10 pmPortland, ORBBState Stats/RecapWriter's note: This is my final of 13 essays for The Mid-Majority this season, barring unforeseen #ghostbracket games. It felt like it was in the bag. I was 99 3/4 percent confident that ...
S8 March 17, 2012 Game #8-766: Virginia Commonwealth Rams vs. Wichita State ShockersMarch 15, 2012 8:15 pmPortland, ORBBState Stats/RecapJared Peyton stands behind the baseline of Virginia Commonwealth's basket. Clad in a black softball jersey with “Rams” across the front in script, and the number 1 on his ...
S8 March 16, 2012 Game #8-761: New Mexico State Aggies vs. Indiana HoosiersMarch 15, 2012 10:45 pmPortland, ORBBState Stats/RecapThere were two teams in maroon and white at Portland's Rose Garden tonight. Indiana owned the colors. New Mexico State was just leasing them, and apparently fell behind on its payments, jud...
S8 March 15, 2012 Game #8-760: Long Beach State 49ers vs. New Mexico LobosMarch 15, 2012 5:10 pmPortland, ORBBState Stats/RecapEvery now and then, basketball fans get lucky and come across a transcendent star. Sometimes you know when it's going to happen, and you get to circle it on your calendar. Other times, you ju...
S8 March 15, 2012 Game #8-759: Davidson Wildcats vs. Louisville CardinalsMarch 15, 2012 2:40 pmPortland, ORBBState Stats/RecapIn my non-college basketball-watching life -– and in my college basketball-watching life most of the time – I'm a senior journalism major at an above-the-line school and the managing editor of...
S8 March 1, 2012 Game #8-293: Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks at Oregon DucksDecember 22, 2011 10:00 pmMcArthur CourtBBState Stats/RecapWriter's note: This is the final game of six from the Global Sports Hoops Showcase to be covered for @800GP. Here's a link to game one, game two, game three, game four and game five. ...
S8 March 1, 2012 Game #8-660: Prairie View Panthers at Oregon DucksDecember 21, 2011 10:00 pmMcArthur CourtBBState Stats/RecapWriter's note: This is the fourth game of six from the Global Sports Hoops Showcase to be covered for @800GP. Here’s a link to game one, game two and game three. Because this game was the sec...
S8 December 23, 2011 Game #8-285: North Carolina Central Eagles vs. Prairie View PanthersDecember 22, 2011 7:30 pmEugene, ORBBState Stats/RecapWriter’s note: This is the fifth game of six from the Global Sports Hoops Showcase to be covered for @800GP. Here’s a link to game one, game two, game three and game four. Here i...
S8 December 23, 2011 Game #8-284: North Carolina Central Eagles vs. Prairie View PanthersDecember 22, 2011 7:30 pmEugene, ORBBState Stats/RecapWriter’s note: This is the fifth game of six from the Global Sports Hoops Showcase to be covered for @800GP. Here’s a link to game one, game two, game three and game four. Here i...
S8 December 22, 2011 Game #8-274: Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks vs. North Carolina Central EaglesDecember 21, 2011 7:30 pmEugene, ORBBState Stats/RecapWriter's note: This is the third game of six from the Global Sports Hoops Showcase to be covered for @800GP. Here's a link to game one and here's one to game two.In what ...
S8 December 21, 2011 Game #8-270: North Carolina Central Eagles at Oregon DucksDecember 20, 2011 10:00 pmMcArthur CourtBBState Stats/RecapWriter’s note: This is the second game of six from the Global Sports Hoops Showcase to be covered for @800GP. Here’s a link to game one. I just sat through the worst basketball game ...
S8 December 21, 2011 Game #8-268: Portland State Vikings at Oregon DucksDecember 12, 2011 10:00 pmMcArthur CourtBBState Stats/RecapPortland State came down to Eugene for an interstate “rivalry” game last Monday that isn’t much of a rivalry. I was originally going to write about how nobody wanted to be here except my bud...
S8 December 21, 2011 Game #8-265: Prairie View Panthers vs. Stephen F. Austin LumberjacksDecember 20, 2011 7:30 pmEugene, ORBBState Stats/Recap Writer’s note: This post is the first of six to be written about the Global Sports Hoops Showcase tournament. If there’s a basketball game, and there’s nobody to watch it, did ...
S8 November 21, 2011 Game #8-000: Washington State Cougars at Portland PilotsNovember 20, 2011 10:00 pmChiles CenterBBState Stats/RecapPeople don't just wear 00. It takes a special kind of player to don one of the least frequently worn numbers in college basketball. For Portland freshman guard Kevin Bailey, perhaps it i...
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