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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 1, 2013 The commitment and dedication it takes to be a Division I college athlete is insane. Not only do you have to manage a full-time class load of 15-18 credit hours each semester, you have 20 hours of practices and games each week during the season, and that doesn't account for any travel time. Even in...
S9 February 12, 2013 I had yet to visit Oxford, Ohio or Miami University yet this season. That may not seem strange, except that Miami is the closest Division I school from my home. I'm not the only one that has struggled to find a reason to attend a Miami basketball game this season. Millett Hall was only seeing an av...
S9 January 30, 2013 I've seen many games inside UD Arena. It was often the host of the sectional that my high school played in. I've also witnessed several Dayton and NCAA tournament games inside the venue as well. The one thing I hadn't seen is my college alma mater, Butler, play there.For a few years in the late 80s...
S9 January 25, 2013 When you arrive on the campus of Northern Kentucky University, you notice that it doesn't have a lot of personality. There's a reason why; it hasn't been there long enough to develop one. NKU wasn't an independent university until 1968, and has only been on its current site since 1972. Most of the ...
S9 January 20, 2013 When I decided to go to the Butler-Vanderbilt game, I knew that I wanted to check out at least one more game during the trip. I really wanted to check out Belmont, but they didn't have a game at home during the time I was down there. Tennessee State had a game, but it was at the same time as the Bu...
S9 January 11, 2013 When word got out last season that Butler would be playing a home-and-home series with Vanderbilt starting in 2012, I knew that it would be a must go road trip if I could make it. Having seen Vanderbilt's Memorial Gymnasium on television, I knew it was one of the most unique venues in college baske...
S9 December 29, 2012 There is one band from Dayton that has received a cult following and has become a bit of a muse in the Mid-Majority, that band being Robert Pollard and Guided By Voices of course.But GBV wasn't the only band to emerge from the Dayton music scene. Funk legends The Ohio Players came out of Dayton in t...
S9 December 21, 2012 With the number of games dwindling as the holidays approached, I didn't have many choices locally that fit into my schedule. I hadn't attended a Cincinnati game yet, and the number of opportunities to do so in a game that would count were running out. Plus, last year I witnessed a Red Line Upset wh...
S9 December 14, 2012 Admittedly, my memories of the events of December 29, 2001 are a bit vague. Part of that is the lapse of time and part of it is the fact that I did not actually attend the final of the Hoosier Classic at Conseco Fieldhouse between host Indiana and Butler.I can't remember why I didn't go to the game...
S9 November 30, 2012 Hey! You! It's only 26 days until Christmas! Do you have that special gift picked out for that RedHawk fan in your life? Well, look no further! Take a look at this beauty!That's right, it's a Miami RedHawk Flip Flop Charm Bracelet!What better way to express you love and honor for Miami than with th...
S9 November 27, 2012 Game #9-099: Manhattan Jaspers at Dayton FlyersNovember 24, 2012 2:00 pmU. of Dayton ArenaBBState Stats/Recap From time to time, I've tried my hand at coaching soccer. I even coached a girls varsity high school team for one season when the school was desperate for a coach. My career high school reco...
S9 November 25, 2012 College basketball. You can't find it in the dictionary, but you can find it in Wikipedia: "College basketball is the USA basketball competitive governance structure established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)." That might be what it is, but it's not totally accurate and cert...
S9 November 25, 2012 Game #9-085: North Carolina A&T Aggies at Wright State RaidersNovember 16, 2012 7:00 pmErvin J. Nutter CenterBBState Stats/Recap Wright State is a bit of a challenged university. It has only been an independent institution for 45 years, it was a branch campus of Ohio State and Miami University until...
S9 November 20, 2012 Game #9-056: Butler Bulldogs at Xavier MusketeersNovember 13, 2012 4:00 pmCintas CenterBBState Stats/Recap Since around this time last year, Butler fans and Xavier fans knew that their teams would meet on November 13, 2012 at 4 p.m. in Cintas Center. Both schools had agreed to play a home-and-home s...
S8 March 22, 2012 Game #8-782: Iona Gaels vs. Brigham Young CougarsMarch 13, 2012 10:00 pmDayton, OHBBState Stats/RecapWith Game 1 of the QuadPIG over, it was time to kill the massive amount of time between games. Since my evening food consumption to that point consisted of a giant candy bar and NCAA-appropriate spor...
S8 March 21, 2012 Game #8-780: Western Kentucky Hilltoppers vs. Mississippi Valley State Delta DevilsMarch 13, 2012 7:30 pmDayton, OHBBState Stats/RecapWhen I first heard that President Obama and Great Britain Prime Minister David Cameron were going to attend our beloved Quad-PIG, I immediately noted the following on...
S8 March 13, 2012 Game #8-753: Presbyterian Blue Hose at Cincinnati BearcatsNovember 19, 2011 4:00 pmFifth Third ArenaBBState Stats/RecapWriter's Note: This recap was written months ago, but eaten by a hard drive failure on my computer. This is an attempt to recreate a much better recap.Purgatory: The condition or te...
S8 March 8, 2012 Game #8-716: George Washington Colonials at Dayton FlyersMarch 6, 2012 7:00 pmAtlantic City, NJBBState Stats/RecapYou may ask yourself, how did we get here? Well, the results of Saturday’s George Washington-Dayton game, along with other results around the Atlantic 10 Saturday, led to the exact same ...
S8 March 5, 2012 Game #8-701: Ohio Bobcats at Miami (Oh.) RedhawksMarch 3, 2012 12:00 pmMillett HallBBState Stats/RecapEvery once in a while, something happens that reminds you that we take this game too seriously. Friday night was one of those times.The second leg of the Battle of the Bricks, the rivalry between Mi...
S8 February 28, 2012 Game #8-639: Eastern Illinois Panthers at Eastern Kentucky ColonelsFebruary 25, 2012 7:00 pmMcBrayer ArenaBBState Stats/RecapWhen I really got hooked into the Mid-Majority community three years ago, I resolved to go to at least one college arena every year that I had never been to and normally would...
S8 February 16, 2012 Game #8-574: Central Michigan Chippewas at Miami (Oh.) RedhawksFebruary 11, 2012 3:30 pmMillett HallBBState Stats/RecapI’M JUST GOING TO COME OUT AND SAY IT. THE ONLY REASON TO ATTEND SATURDAY’S GAME AT MILLETT HALL WAS TO WRITE A RECAP FOR ALL CAPS DAY. BOTH TEAMS WERE SOLIDLY IN THE BOTTOM HALF OF...
S8 February 11, 2012 Game #8-545: Detroit Titans at Butler BulldogsFebruary 4, 2012 12:00 pmHinkle FieldhouseBBState Stats/RecapThere was a big sporting event going on in Indianapolis last weekend, and it wasn’t at Hinkle Fieldhouse. Indeed, the city’s attention was transfixed on downtown and Sports Bubble Stadium for t...
S8 January 26, 2012 Game #8-460: Saint Louis Billikens at Xavier MusketeersJanuary 25, 2012 7:00 pmCintas CenterBBState Stats/Recap“Instant Karma's gonna get you, gonna knock you right on the headyou better get yourself togetherPretty soon you're gonna be dead.” Karma seems to have gotten the better of Xavier lately. ...
S8 January 8, 2012 Game #8-362: Butler Bulldogs at Wright State RaidersJanuary 6, 2012 7:00 pmErvin J. Nutter CenterBBState Stats/RecapIf you ever attend a game between Wright State and Butler, you may want to bring a mouthpiece. Just in case. Last year’s game at the Nutter Center seemed more like a mixed martial-art...
S8 December 27, 2011 Game #8-298: Illinois-Chicago Flames at Dayton FlyersDecember 23, 2011 7:00 pmU. of Dayton ArenaBBState Stats/Recap‘Twas the game before Christmas and through UD Arena,12,000 people were cackling, like laughing hyenas. The fans were decked in their blue and their red, Excited for a victory that la...
S8 December 18, 2011 Game #8-251: Belmont Bruins at Miami (Oh.) RedhawksDecember 17, 2011 4:30 pmMillett HallBBState Stats/RecapIf you tried to come up with story ideas prior to Saturday’s game at Millett Hall between Miami University (don’t call the school Miami of Ohio, unless you want beaten with a stick) and Belmont...
S8 November 12, 2011 Game #8-008: Morgan State Bears at Xavier MusketeersNovember 11, 2011 7:00 pmCintas CenterBBState Stats/Recap On the first full night of the college basketball season, both Morgan State and Xavier could take the court at Cintas Center full of hope of a great season ahead. Morgan State took the cou...
S6 February 15, 2010 When Kyle proposed the series of fan essays about various schools in the Mid-Majority, I hesitated about writing about mine. It's not like Butler has been starved of column inches by the national media or TMM. Butler has almost reached a Gonzaga-esque point where some folks might prefer calling th...
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