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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 January 31, 2013 One of my favorite movie quotes comes from Major League and legendary manager Lou Brown: "OK, we won a game yesterday. If we win today, it's called 'two in a row'. And if we win again tomorrow, it's called a 'winning streak'...IT HAS HAPPENED BEFORE!". It has been quite some time since VCU fans had...
S9 January 31, 2013 When I think things are going bad with Longwood basketball I just try to think back to 2004-05, my freshman year on campus when my Lancers went 1-30 with their only win coming against Howard. Since then, Longwood only has one winning season under their belt, but things always seemed to be more or l...
S9 January 25, 2013 It's hard not to become a rival with a school that is a mere ten or fifteen minutes away and its certainly something the University of Richmond and VCU haven't avoided. The two schools are nine miles apart but couldn't be more different. While Richmond has a picturesque suburban campus with just ov...
S9 January 23, 2013 I ventured out Tuesday on a familiar trip, but a trip I had not taken in quite some time. Liberty University and Longwood University have a basketball rivalry dating back to the late 70s but the two schools, which are 50 miles apart from each other, had not clashed in nearly five years. In 2008 Lib...
S9 January 21, 2013 People seem to forget that Charlotte is in the Atlantic 10. While most of the conferences power is in the northeast, Charlotte sits in the south quietly going about their business. I became familiar with Charlotte (or UNC Charlotte back in the day) as a kid because they matched up annually with VCU...
S9 January 20, 2013 It seems like its been a season of firsts for VCU on their inaugural voyage through the Atlantic 10. Every time you open the paper you hear about some record being broken or what not. This past week was the story of VCU being ranked in both polls for the first time since 1985. Personally, I think p...
S9 January 13, 2013 The beautiful thing about mid-major college basketball is that everyone starts the season with excitement and hope. You get to see how new pieces will begin to come together and everyone feels as if they have a shot heading into conference play. In their first year of conference play things were in...
S9 January 10, 2013 The Campbell Camels have become fairly familiar to the Longwood faithful over the course of the Division I era. Campbell has been one of the rare Big South teams that had no problem scheduling the Lancers when they were a DI Independent and the two squads had met six times with both teams winning t...
S9 January 7, 2013 I had to hustle back to Richmond from Farmville to check out mid-major greatness C.J. McCollum and the Lehigh Mountain Hawks take on VCU for a 5PM tip in Richmond. I knew there was a possibility that I wouldn't make it, but who could pass up a game like this? I thought I'd see a good game, but not ...
S9 January 6, 2013 When I chose to go to Longwood in 2004 I certainly thought that I'd get to see the Lancers play a conference game before I graduated. Man was I wrong...because of a "political" spat between the Longwood president and Winthrop president it took awhile and a presidential change to get Longwood into t...
S9 January 3, 2013 When Chris Mooney came to the University of Richmond in 2005 I wasn't quite sure what to think. Mooney was replacing the ever popular Jerry Wainwright who was highly successful at UNCW and then took the Spiders to two postseason births in his three year tenure. Mooney and Wainwright couldn't be mor...
S9 January 1, 2013 A lot of people hear the name Farmville and think of the popular Facebook game. I often get a chuckle when people ask where Longwood is and I respond "Farmville". Farmville is an old school, southern town of just under 7,000 people. There is basically one street of importance, Main Street, and ther...
S9 December 30, 2012 I hadn't planned on heading to Mr. Jefferson's university for a Sunday afternoon basketball matinee, but with my Redskins being flexed to primetime I figured the short trip would be a nice escape. Not to talk about football, but I knew if I stayed home I would've just sat on the couch and watched t...
S9 December 30, 2012 Richmond, Virginia has grown into a sort of hub for mid-major basketball. You have solid programs in VCU and the University of Richmond, and the CAA tournament is held in town annually (not for long though). But this year it seems as if there has been an influx of quality programs visiting town. VC...
S9 December 26, 2012 The inaugural Governor's Holiday Hoops Classic at the Richmond Coliseum had started off with a bang after George Mason's Sherrod Wright hit a buzzer beater to take down the Richmond Spiders. With a party going down in the GMU section, I headed down to the Coliseum bar for the 30 minute or so interm...
S9 December 24, 2012 One of the cool things about living in Virginia is the number of quality and unique college basketball programs. You have schools ranging from the ACC all the way down to one of the best programs in DIII hoops (Virginia Wesleyan). As a Division I fan its upsetting that some of the best in the state...
S9 December 22, 2012 I went into Friday night's game at VCU not expecting much of anything. I knew my Lancers were going to get blown out, but it is still always cool to see Longwood in my hometown. We had a great pregame event for Longwood fans, alumni, and students at a bar not too far from the Siegel Center named ...
S9 December 19, 2012 I was pretty lucky growing up. I hit the dad and grandpa lottery. My dad is a golf professional, so free golf never hurts. My grandpa (my mom's dad) ran a golf shop in town just about five minutes away from my dad's course. What does this have to do with anything regarding basketball? Both always...
S9 December 14, 2012 Game #9-158: Southern Virginia at Longwood LancersDecember 13, 2012 7:00 pmHenry I. Willet, Jr. HallBBState Stats/Recap As I said earlier this year, I hate playing non-Division I teams! As I'm sure many have gathered this year, the Big South is certainly having a down year with a slew of young tea...
S9 December 11, 2012 Game #9-147: Longwood Lancers at Georgetown HoyasDecember 10, 2012 7:00 pmMCI CenterBBState Stats/Recap I've seen Longwood play plenty of big schools before. You always know that the game will likely end in a total dismantling, but there is always hope that you may just see a miracle take place. The...
S9 December 3, 2012 Game #9-117: Wake Forest Demon Deacons at Richmond SpidersDecember 1, 2012 6:00 pmRobins CenterBBState Stats/Recap Timing was working out well for my first MidMajority doubleheader. I left Farmville just before 4 o'clock and I'd have just enough time to grab a beer with my dad at a local bar by Univ...
S9 December 3, 2012 Game #9-116: Dartmouth Big Green at Longwood LancersDecember 1, 2012 2:00 pmHenry I. Willet, Jr. HallBBState Stats/Recap December 1 was a day I had marked off on my calendar for quite some time. First off, who doesn't like it when the calendar turns to December? College basketball continues to heat ...
S9 November 29, 2012 Game #9-105: Central Penn at Longwood LancersNovember 28, 2012 7:30 pmHenry I. Willet, Jr. HallBBState Stats/Recap If you watch college basketball long enough then you eventually come across some strange things. One time I was at a Virginia-Georgia Tech game and the buzzer got stuck for five minute...
S9 November 21, 2012 Game #9-063: Wofford Terriers at Richmond SpidersNovember 20, 2012 7:00 pmRobins CenterBBState Stats/Recap I decided to head to what I like to call the "City Morgue" tonight to catch Richmond taking on Wofford. I certainly wasn't expecting much, the Spiders were coming off a loss to Minnesota but th...
S9 November 16, 2012 Game #9-039: Norfolk State Spartans at Longwood LancersNovember 15, 2012 7:00 pmHenry I. Willet, Jr. HallBBState Stats/Recap First things first, I'm a very proud Longwood alum. I graduated Longwood in 2008 which means I got to campus just in time in 2004-05 to be a part of Longwood's first season wi...
S9 November 14, 2012 Game #9-029: Wichita State Shockers at Virginia Commonwealth RamsNovember 13, 2012 7:00 pmSiegel CenterBBState Stats/RecapHow do two schools over 1,200 miles apart develop a rivalry? Sure you don't see it happen very often, especially on the mid-major level, but it has seemingly become so between tw...
S9 November 11, 2012 Game #9-004: Liberty Flames at Richmond SpidersNovember 9, 2012 7:00 pmRobins CenterBBState Stats/Recap "What’s our score? DOUBLE YOURS"... That was a cheer we used to shout during high school basketball games. Usually it was used in the first half when you might find your school up twenty-four to t...
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