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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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S9 March 1, 2013 Every season ends, but they all end differently. In 2011-12 I couldn't wait for the Portland Pilots' season to be over. After seeing too many games in which they were overmatched and inexperienced I was tired and ready to wait for next year.This season, however, after a 1-8 start in WCC play, the P...
S9 February 27, 2013 It doesn't take very long to tell the Pilots have struggled to score the past couple of seasons. In fact, when they were mired in a six-game losing streak in the middle of the WCC season I was not alone in thinking the offense had actually gotten worse over the course of the season. Portland may ha...
S9 February 15, 2013 After their win against Loyola Marymount it seemed as if the Pilots might have turned things around. They had shot the ball well, especially from superhoop range. They also got a good game from starting center Thomas van der Mars when another inside player to complement Ryan Nicholas had been lacki...
S9 February 9, 2013 I have to admit, at this point in the season it's not as easy to get excited for a Pilot game. I'm more nervous than anything. If they're playing someone good like Gonzaga or Saint Mary's I worry about how badly they're going to get blown out. If it's a team at the bottom of the standings, like Loy...
S9 January 29, 2013 Most of the writers for this season's Game go simply as fans and pay for their own tickets. They may follow one team predominantly, or take advantage of the many colleges in their area to see as many games and teams as they can. I sometimes wish I lived in an area with more mid-majors, but on the w...
S9 January 26, 2013 Thursday's Portland Pilots game against the San Francisco Dons came down to the final shot. USF's Cole Dickerson hit a three with 0.1 second left to give the Dons a 75-72 win in a finish that would have been thrilling if you were a USF or neutral fan, and devastating for Pilot fans. From scanning t...
S9 January 23, 2013 Sometimes it appears men's and women's basketball operate in completely different worlds. No doubt many readers of this site only see passing glimpses of women's basketball when coming for the second, men's game of a doubleheader, or flipping through television channels looking for a game. In my ca...
S9 January 22, 2013 Going into Portland's game with Saint Mary's Saturday, I was feeling hopeful about the Pilots' chances. Portland had been beaten by Gonzaga two nights earlier, but they had also played well for stretches.I was wrong. Very wrong.The Pilots' 60-38 loss to the Gaels is about the worst college game I c...
S9 January 21, 2013 Here on this side of the Red Line there's not many chances to see one of the top 10 teams in the nation, much less in your home arena. Gonzaga comes to Portland every season and it's sold out every season, but this time the Bulldogs were ranked 8th in the polls. Now I'm one of those fans who thinks...
S9 January 1, 2013 Back in the first season of this site a wise man named Kyle laid out the arc of the javascript:nicTemp(); Early-season opponents give way to more important conference games, then the tournaments where it will, sooner or later, end in a loss. Today the first, non-conference portion of my Game ended ...
S9 December 30, 2012 One of the reasons to watch sports is that every so often you get a surprised by a result. Sometimes it's a pleasant surprise, sometimes it isn't. For Portland fans last night's 56-52 loss to Texas-Pan American was definitely a surprise in the latter category. UTPA was 6-8 going into the game and h...
S9 December 24, 2012 After coming home from my first game of the day, I rested a while, then headed downtown to see Portland State and Weber State in the first weekend of Big Sky Conference action. One of the nice things about the PSU campus is that it's close to my house, the parking meters turn off at 7:00, a half ho...
S9 December 23, 2012 I love living in the city of Portland and the state of Oregon, but one thing I wish we had more of was Division I basketball. Like most areas in the western half of the country people and schools are more spread out here. I go to almost every Portland game and a fair number of Portland State games, ...
S9 December 22, 2012 It sometimes doesn't seem like it, but Portland is pretty well off as mid-majors go. Sure, they historically lose a lot more than they win, but last season notwithstanding Eric Reveno has the program headed in the right direction. They're in the WCC and will always have to deal with Gonzaga, St. Ma...
S9 December 19, 2012 Monday's game between Portland and Cal State-Bakersfield was part of the Las Vegas Classic. That's what I found out from consulting the Pilots' website. If I didn't follow Pilot basketball so closely I would have thought it was just another non-conference game. There were no special announcements, ...
S9 December 17, 2012 Game #9-167: Portland Bible at Portland PilotsDecember 14, 2012 10:30 pmChiles CenterBBState Stats/Recap We see them on our favorite team's schedule, usually as exhibition games in the weeks before the games actually count, occasionally during the non-conference schedule itself. Some of us don't re...
S9 December 14, 2012 Game #9-155: Oregon State Beavers at Portland State VikingsDecember 12, 2012 10:35 pmRose GardenBBState Stats/Recap You can group non-conference games below the Red Line into three common groups: The game against a non-D1, a mid-major visiting a school above the Red Line, or two mid-majors playing e...
S9 December 6, 2012 Game #9-127: UNLV Rebels at Portland PilotsDecember 4, 2012 11:00 pmChiles CenterBBState Stats/Recap The Chiles Center on the campus of the University of Portland is, based on what I've seen on this site, very nice as mid-major arenas go. It's got a good size capacity (about 5000), but it's not too ...
S9 November 29, 2012 Game #9-104: Lewis & Clark at Portland PilotsNovember 27, 2012 10:00 pmChiles CenterBBState Stats/Recap If you were to just see the score of the Pilots' game last night against Division III Lewis and Clark you might think Portland barely avoided the dreaded Black Line Upset with a 78-73 win. While ...
S9 November 23, 2012 Game #9-075: Portland State Vikings at Portland PilotsNovember 21, 2012 10:00 pmChiles CenterBBState Stats/Recap To the casual observer it might appear Portland-Portland State could be the big rivalry for bragging rights in the Rose City. I wish it was this way. I wish there was a purple half and a ...
S9 November 16, 2012 Game #9-038: Idaho State Bengals at Portland PilotsNovember 15, 2012 10:00 pmChiles CenterBBState Stats/Recap My first game of Season 9's Game was between the Portland Pilots and Idaho State Bengals at Portland's Chiles Center. This was a game between two teams who were somewhat unknown quantities g...
S8 March 18, 2012 Game #8-774: Virginia Commonwealth Rams vs. Indiana HoosiersMarch 17, 2012 8:10 pmPortland, ORBBState Stats/RecapAs I took my seat for the round of 32 game between VCU and Indiana I knew the two games in tonight's session were the last basketball games I would see until the fall. The second game was...
S8 March 17, 2012 Game #8-761: New Mexico State Aggies vs. Indiana HoosiersMarch 15, 2012 10:45 pmPortland, ORBBState Stats/RecapWithout the 800 Games Project I would never have learned about so many teams around Hoops Nation. The final game in Portland on Thursday featured one of these teams, New Mexico State. Willi...
S8 March 17, 2012 Game #8-766: Virginia Commonwealth Rams vs. Wichita State ShockersMarch 15, 2012 8:15 pmPortland, ORBBState Stats/RecapThe term "rockfight" is my favorite new word from Season 8. When I see it I think of the great East Coast mid-major leagues like the CAA or A10, where all the teams play tough and t...
S8 March 16, 2012 Game #8-760: Long Beach State 49ers vs. New Mexico LobosMarch 15, 2012 5:10 pmPortland, ORBBState Stats/RecapAfter the first game of the day in Portland I was looking through my notes, waiting for the Long Beach State-New Mexico game to start. And then, like a gust of wind, it hit me. This simile wa...
S8 March 16, 2012 Game #8-759: Davidson Wildcats vs. Louisville CardinalsMarch 15, 2012 2:40 pmPortland, ORBBState Stats/RecapI don't usually get up at 8:30 in the morning to go to a basketball game. Most of the ones I've been to start in the afternoon or evening. Today, though, the first of the four Round of 64 game...
S8 March 5, 2012 Game #8-703: Montana State Bobcats at Portland State VikingsMarch 3, 2012 10:00 pmRose GardenBBState Stats/RecapIn one week I saw two distinctly different Portland State men's basketball teams. On February 28 I went to their final Big Sky Conference game, against Northern Colorado. As Donovan Potts ...
S8 February 26, 2012 Game #8-626: Saint Mary`s Gaels at Portland PilotsFebruary 23, 2012 10:00 pmChiles CenterBBState Stats/RecapOn the court, the Pilots' home season did end in a loss to St. Mary's. The Gaels showed why they are nationally ranked and no worse than WCC regular season co-champions, outright champions if ...
S8 February 12, 2012 Game #8-559: Loyola Marymount Lions at Portland PilotsFebruary 9, 2012 11:00 pmChiles CenterBBState Stats/RecapIt was another bad night at the Chiles Center for Pilot fans. This time they were beaten by Loyola Marymount 76-62 on a night when Portland allowed the Lions to shoot 51% from the field and...
S8 February 8, 2012 Game #8-533: Brigham Young Cougars at Portland PilotsFebruary 4, 2012 10:00 pmChiles CenterBBState Stats/RecapSome of you writing for and reading the 800 GP have seen teams join and leave the conferences you follow. Not me. Until this season, the West Coast Conference has had the same lineup for as ...
S8 January 31, 2012 Game #8-487: Montana Grizzlies at Portland State VikingsJanuary 29, 2012 4:05 pmRose GardenBBState Stats/RecapIt's not often you see TV trucks outside Portland State's arena, the Stott Center. While the Portland Pilots appear a couple times a season on the ESPN networks thanks to the WCC's TV deal, ...
S8 January 27, 2012 Game #8-465: Gonzaga Bulldogs at Portland PilotsJanuary 26, 2012 11:00 pmChiles CenterBBState Stats/RecapLet's get some things out in the open now: I don't like Gonzaga. I've disliked them since 1994, the last time Portland beat them at home. That is, of course, well before they made deep NCAA runs,...
S8 January 22, 2012 Game #8-438: San Francisco Dons at Portland PilotsJanuary 21, 2012 4:30 pmChiles CenterBBState Stats/RecapThe Portland Pilots had another possible win slip away Saturday as they fell at home to San Francisco 73-72. Instead of feeling frustrated or depressed about another loss I actually came home up...
S8 January 21, 2012 Game #8-422: San Diego Toreros at Portland PilotsJanuary 19, 2012 11:00 pmChiles CenterBBState Stats/RecapIt seemed as though Portland had a good chance at a win Thursday when it faced San Diego. The Pilots had won their past two WCC home games. The students would finally be back from break, giving ...
S8 January 19, 2012 Game #8-413: Idaho State Bengals at Portland State VikingsJanuary 16, 2012 10:05 pmRose GardenBBState Stats/RecapSince the Mid-Majority has made it halfway to its goal of 800 games since my last recap, and since the Idaho State at Portland State game was to have been the halfway point of my season b...
S8 January 8, 2012 Game #8-364: Pepperdine Waves at Portland PilotsJanuary 7, 2012 8:00 pmChiles CenterBBState Stats/RecapPilot fans are, by and large, a pretty laid-back bunch by college basketball standards. They haven't gotten too worked up over the team's difficult start. They're also an intelligent group who real...
S8 January 7, 2012 Game #8-353: Santa Clara Broncos at Portland PilotsJanuary 5, 2012 11:00 pmChiles CenterBBState Stats/RecapThe 2011 portion of the 2011-12 season couldn't have gone much worse for Portland. In non-conference games, they went a painful 3-10, with one of those wins against a D-III school. Last Wednesd...
S8 December 24, 2011 Game #8-293: Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks at Oregon DucksDecember 22, 2011 10:00 pmMcArthur CourtBBState Stats/RecapFor the sixth and final game of the Global Sports Hoops Showcase, I saw the host Oregon Ducks play for the second time this season. The first was a loss last Sunday to Virginia, a tea...
S8 December 24, 2011 Game #8-284: North Carolina Central Eagles vs. Prairie View PanthersDecember 22, 2011 7:30 pmEugene, ORBBState Stats/RecapAfter reading Kenny Ocker's recaps from the first two nights of the Global Sports Hoops Showcase, I was prepared for some basketball that was somewhat lacking in entertainment va...
S8 December 19, 2011 Game #8-263: Portland State Vikings at Oregon State BeaversDecember 18, 2011 10:00 pmGill ColiseumBBState Stats/RecapBefore I discovered this site three seasons ago I didn't think much of PSU basketball and just focused on my team, Portland. Now I support both my local mid-majors, so when I discover...
S8 December 18, 2011 Game #8-250: Montana Grizzlies at Portland PilotsDecember 17, 2011 10:00 pmChiles CenterBBState Stats/RecapAt first glance it would appear Portland suffered another loss to a team that was much better than them, this time to Montana by a score of 80-65. Watching the game I certainly felt this way. A...
S8 December 12, 2011 Game #8-229: Ohio Bobcats at Portland PilotsDecember 10, 2011 10:00 pmChiles CenterBBState Stats/RecapThis is an unusual season at Portland. Since coach Eric Reveno arrived for the 2006-07 season, the Pilots have improved dramatically. In each of his first two seasons, they won 9 games. As his recru...
S8 December 4, 2011 Game #8-174: Walla Walla at Portland State VikingsDecember 3, 2011 8:05 pmRose GardenBBState Stats/RecapHaving read the Mid-Majority since Season 6, I've been envious of all the mid-major options available to residents in some parts of Hoops Nation. In cities like New York and Philadelphia, Kyle an...
S8 November 30, 2011 Game #8-157: Lewis and Clark at Portland PilotsNovember 29, 2011 10:30 pmChiles CenterBBState Stats/RecapI'll be honest here: Before Portland's game with the Lewis and Clark Pioneers, a Division III school on the other side of the city, I was hoping for a blowout win. It had been a rough stretch fo...
S8 November 21, 2011 Game #8-083: Washington State Cougars at Portland PilotsNovember 20, 2011 10:00 pmChiles CenterBBState Stats/RecapBasketball is always changing. For the Portland Pilots it change has taken multiple forms for the 2011-12 season. The first change actually came in 2010 when the West Coast Conference in...
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