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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 15, 2013 Can you imagine the excitement that can be generated from a Thursday mid-afternoon game at a neutral site? After sitting through one, I'd give it a less than hearty endorsement. Nevertheless, the schedule dictated that Butler and Dayton would square off here in Brooklyn among a largely empty hou...
S9 February 5, 2013 So might have said Bob Ramsey after this one. Or not; I didn't listen to much of the post-game show.I hadn't planned to go to this game, but a friend of mine had an extra ticket at half-price through something called "Living Social", so I jumped at the chance. He brought his two young boys along an...
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 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 18, 2012 Living in basketball-crazed Dayton, Ohio has some significant perks, not the least of which is a steady stream of hoops to enjoy between sub-Red Line schools Dayton and Wright State. For the most part, Dayton is below the Red Line in name only, which has both benefits and drawbacks. One of my fav...
S9 November 28, 2012 Game #9-102: Dayton Flyers vs. Auburn TigersNovember 18, 2012 2:00 pmCharleston, SCBBState Stats/Recap The fans from Dayton would get one last chance to see their Flyers play in Charleston. The multi-team event allows for their crazy fans to see their team play three teams in one weekend. And if y...
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 Game #9-080: Dayton Flyers vs. Auburn TigersNovember 18, 2012 2:00 pmCharleston, SCBBState Stats/Recap Once the College of Charleston game against Boston College ended with the hometown Cougar getting a Red Line Upset, the TD Arena turned into a human traffic jam. You had the Charleston fans walking...
S9 November 21, 2012 Game #9-067: Dayton Flyers vs. Boston College EaglesNovember 16, 2012 2:30 pmCharleston, SCBBState Stats/Recap To start the second game of the Charleston Classic, we had two above the Red Line schools going up against each other. While it was not Our Game, it was a relaxing start to the afternoon w...
S9 November 19, 2012 Game #9-051: Dayton Flyers vs. Colorado BuffaloesNovember 15, 2012 12:30 pmCharleston, SCBBState Stats/Recap The first game of the Charleston Classic at 12:30 P.M. is a bit of a challenge to get to. It's in the middle of the work and school day in downtown Charleston next to the College of Charlesto...
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 3, 2012 Game #8-678: Massachusetts Minutemen at Dayton FlyersFebruary 25, 2012 6:00 pmU. of Dayton ArenaBBState Stats/RecapHeading into Dayton's showdown with the UMass Minutemen, I think it is fair to say that no one really knew what to expect from the Flyers. On the one hand, Dayton had played at an extre...
S8 February 12, 2012 Game #8-555: Dayton Flyers at Fordham RamsFebruary 11, 2012 1:00 pmRose Hill GymBBState Stats/Recap “A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is...
S8 February 2, 2012 Game #8-494: Saint Louis Billikens at Dayton FlyersJanuary 4, 2012 8:00 pmU. of Dayton ArenaBBState Stats/RecapAUTHOR’S NOTE: Once every so often, I get so excited about something that I tend to bite off a bit more than I can chew. It has become readily apparent to me that my most recent something i...
S8 January 23, 2012 Game #8-448: Xavier Musketeers at Dayton FlyersJanuary 21, 2012 1:00 pmU. of Dayton ArenaBBState Stats/RecapXavier and Dayton is one of the more underappreciated rivalries in our game. All of the publicity goes to Duke-Carolina, Syracuse-Connecticut, and Kentucky-Louisville or something of that ilk ...
S8 January 15, 2012 Game #8-397: La Salle Explorers at Dayton FlyersJanuary 14, 2012 7:00 pmU. of Dayton ArenaBBState Stats/RecapChristmas Break. In college basketball, this is the time when road wins become slightly more attainable because the students have been sent home to detox from the copious amounts of crap food...
S8 January 8, 2012 Game #8-358: Dayton Flyers at Temple OwlsJanuary 7, 2012 4:00 pmPhiladelphia, PABBState Stats/RecapBefore the game, Dad and I went over to Dalessandro's in Roxborough for steaks. (That'd be cheesesteaks. Yes, with Cheese Whiz. Those of you elsewhere in the country, particularly the Northwest, please...
S8 December 30, 2011 Game #8-307: Seton Hall Pirates at Dayton FlyersDecember 21, 2011 7:00 pmU. of Dayton ArenaBBState Stats/RecapI had forgotten how loud UD Arena can get. The atmosphere here is incomparable. My first-ever college basketball game was at this very place in 2002. Two things that I remember clearly from ...
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 12, 2011 Game #8-226: South Carolina-Upstate Spartans at Dayton FlyersDecember 11, 2011 2:00 pmU. of Dayton ArenaBBState Stats/RecapIt is often said that the early bird gets the worm. There is something clearly advantageous about getting the jump on your competition, both in Our Game and in almost every othe...
S8 December 9, 2011 Game #8-209: Alabama Crimson Tide at Dayton FlyersDecember 7, 2011 7:00 pmU. of Dayton ArenaBBState Stats/RecapAs a junior here at Dayton, I had not yet had the ability to see a nationally-ranked opponent visit UD Arena. And goodness, it was a treat. For starters, former UD standout Anthony Grant ca...
S8 November 19, 2011 Game #8-063: North Carolina-Wilmington Seahawks at Dayton FlyersNovember 19, 2011 2:00 pmU. of Dayton ArenaBBState Stats/Recap We are one of the lucky ones. This was my 131st time seeing the Dayton Flyers live and in 81 percent of those games they won and today was no different. From the opening ti...
S8 November 19, 2011 Game #8-063: North Carolina-Wilmington Seahawks at Dayton FlyersNovember 19, 2011 2:00 pmU. of Dayton ArenaBBState Stats/RecapAs a student at Dayton, when you buy your tickets for the season, you are also given that year's student section t-shirt. On the back of this year's are the words "New Coach....
S6 March 30, 2010 Downtown Vancouver, February 2010 MINNEAPOLIS -- I've been thinking a lot about the Kent State team from 2002, the one that went to the Elite Eight, during these last couple of days. No specific reason, really, because I've been too busy straining to remember the particulars. This all happened eig...
S6 March 16, 2010 DAYTON, Ohio -- Just the word "playoffs" tightens heart muscles, bates breaths, causes sleepless and nervous palpitations. Fans can't wait for the fun to begin. In the professional ranks of American-Style Football, "wild card weekend" is the start of a month of lost weekends. ALDS and NLCS and con...
S6 March 15, 2010 INDIANAPOLIS -- We pause to repect the accomplishments of Utah State, Richmond and Xavier. Heck, even Gonzaga. And even though we don't draw the line between power conferences and "none of the above" the same way as the people on TV, there were some other schools that don't play in the Premier Leagu...
S6 March 8, 2010 PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- This is the last week we'll all be together, before the 23 Champions of Hoops Nation (and a few others) move on to the fourth and final round -- leaving everyone else to figure out what comes next. It's a bittersweet final few days, full of joy and anguish, ultimate wins and ter...
S6 March 7, 2010 Bullet Points A mighty congratulations to the first three conference tourney winners. Winthrop is the Big South representative for the ninth time in 12 seasons. East Tennessee State repeated in the Atlantic Sun, out of a No. 5 seed. And dangerous Murray State won the championship of the Ohio Valley...
S6 March 7, 2010 This is the final Hoops National of the 2009-10 season. Big Games Atlantic 14: at Massachusetts 69, Rhode Island 67 MASS - 11-19 (5-11) [RPI: 200, State: 205] URI - 21-8 (9-7) [RPI: 30, State: 48] Star of the Game: Ricky Harris 28 Pts (10-21 FG, 6-11 FT), 7 Reb UMass Into A-14s With 69-67 Win O...
S6 March 5, 2010 NOTE: The Hoops National will only cover regular-season games for the remainder of the week. Big Games Atlantic 14: at Richmond 60, Dayton 56 RICH - 23-7 (12-3) [RPI: 30, State: 32] UD - 19-10 (8-7) [RPI: 41, State: 51] Star of the Game: Kevin Anderson 22 Pts (6-14 FG, 9-10 FT) Spiders Finish 14...
S6 February 25, 2010 Big Games Atlantic 14: at Temple 49, Dayton 41 TU - 23-5 (11-2) [RPI: 13, State: 21] UD - 18-9 (7-6) [RPI: 43, State: 51] Star of the Game: Lavoy Allen 9 Pts (3-8 FG, 3-5 FT), 17 Reb #18/20 Men's Basketball Tied For First In A-14 With 49-41 Win Over Dayton - PHILADELPHIA – Sophomore Ramo...
S6 February 22, 2010 Big Games Atlantic 14: at Duquesne 73, Dayton 71 DUQ - 15-12 (6-7) [RPI: 98, State: 118] UD - 18-8 (7-5) [RPI: 37, State: 48] Star of the Game: Eric Evans 14 Pts (6-9 FG, 2-2 FT) Dukes Down Dayton, 73-71 - Damian Saunders, who scored 16 of his 20 points in the second half, hit a driving layup w...
S6 February 19, 2010 Kyle once said, "Dayton is a program that never asked for anyone's sympathy," a fact that shows exactly how the Dayton Flyers reflect the attitude of the city that has adopted them, blue-collar, hardworking and a "won't quit" attitude that always leads to great things. Our Game, college basketball...
S6 February 19, 2010 Big Games West Coast: at Loyola Marymount 74, Gonzaga 66 LMU - 14-13 (5-6) [RPI: 210, State: 184] GONZ - 21-5 (9-2) [RPI: 18, State: 28] Star of the Game: Drew Viney 16 Pts (5-12 FG, 4-4 FT), 10 Reb Lions Get Healthy, Beat No. 9 Gonzaga - Playing with a full line-up for the first time in nearly...
S6 February 14, 2010 Big Games Missouri Valley: at Bradley 68, Northern Iowa 59 BRAD - 13-12 (8-7) [RPI: 125, State: 147] UNI - 22-3 (13-2) [RPI: 15, State: 16] Star of the Game: Chris Roberts 13 Pts (6-8 FG, 1-1 FT), 2 Stl Bradley Knocks Off #18/19 UNI - Bradley junior guard Andrew Warren (Indianapolis, Ind./Brebe...
S6 February 11, 2010 The State of College Basketball is a ratings system that uses a lot of good basketball sense, per-game team performance ratings and degradation of older results to rank the teams from No. 1 to 344 (here's the long-winded version). In its overall form, it retroactively picked three of the Final Four ...
S6 February 11, 2010 Big Games Atlantic 14: Richmond 69, at Rhode Island 67 RICH - 19-6 (8-2) [RPI: 31, State: 39] URI - 19-4 (7-3) [RPI: 14, State: 25] Star of the Game: David Gonzalvez 19 Pts (7-12 FG, 2-3 FT), 2 Stl Surging Spiders Grind Out Road Win At Rhody, Move Into A-14 First-Place Tie - KINSTON, R.I. - Dav...
S6 February 10, 2010 Colonial: at George Mason 82, Virginia Commonwealth 77 (OT) GMU - 16-9 (11-3) [RPI: 132, State: 104] VCU - 17-6 (9-5) [RPI: 49, State: 41] Star of the Game: Michael Morrison 18 Pts (8-10 FG, 2-3 FT), 10 Reb Men's Basketball Rallies Late, Downs VCU in Overtime - Cam Long hit a pair of free throws ...
S6 February 5, 2010 One of the greatest paradoxes in our human condition is that we seek acceptance from a greater collective, when all we need in order to find fulfillment and satisfaction is one single Other from among those strange billions. Just one, somebody with whom you can lock eyes, who will say, "I understa...
S6 December 23, 2009 Guided By Voices "Dayton Ohio 19 Something and 5" Isn't it great to exist At this point in time? DAYTON, Ohio -- Schoolteacher-turned-rocker Robert Pollard, leader of the legendarily little-known and long-departed indie band Guided by Voices, has written thousands of songs -- literally. Only a ...
S5 January 30, 2009 The State of College Basketball is a sorta-newish ratings system that uses a lot of good basketball sense, per-game team performance ratings and degradation of older results to rank the teams from No. 1 to 344 (here's the long-winded version). In its overall form, it retroactively picked three of th...
S5 January 7, 2009 The State of College Basketball is a new-ish ratings system that uses a lot of good basketball sense, per-game team performance ratings and degradation of older results to rank the teams from No. 1 to 344 (here's the long-winded version). In its overall form, it retroactively picked three of the Fin...
S5 January 6, 2009 Miami (Oh.) at Dayton U. of Dayton Arena - Dayton, OH 7:00 PM EST "Super" Tuesdays are tough for finding games during January and February. It's the in-between night when the power conferences hog all the TV time as well as the good officials, and a number of mid-major leagues have been wise to av...
S5 December 31, 2008 The State of College Basketball is a new ratings system that uses a lot of good basketball sense, per-game team performance ratings and degradation of older results to rank the teams from No. 1 to 344 (here's the long-winded version). In its overall form, it retroactively picked three of the Final F...
S5 December 10, 2008 The State of College Basketball is a brand-new ratings system that uses a lot of good basketball sense, per-game team performance ratings and degradation of older results to rank the teams from No. 1 to 344 (here's the long-winded version). In its overall form, it retroactively picked three of the F...
S5 December 10, 2008 Dayton at Creighton Qwest Center - Omaha, NE 8:05 PM EST Even though they rarely play each other, Dayton and Creighton just go great together. Not only do they rhyme, they're both small schools in non-power conferences that have the kind of remarkable infrastructure, organization and long-term vis...
S5 December 1, 2008 TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- It's the first of December. Do you know where your college basketball team is? (Arkansas State, by the way, is here in town.) More importantly, do you know what it is? So much of this right now, at this point of the season, is involved in figuring our what is real and what is tr...
S4 February 25, 2008 FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Sometimes I just have to pinch myself (even though dreams can be complicated enough that I wouldn't wake up if I did). Three years ago, I was just another computer programmer with a college basketball blog, and the next thing I know I'm talking over BracketBusters highlights wit...
S4 February 7, 2008 CLEVELAND -- There are a lot of subtle differences between higher-strata conferences and the leagues at our level. For instance, when a team in the ACC or Pac 10 is having a bad year, the media is still going to write about it, no matter what. The stories usually come with the angle of, "what's goin...
S4 February 4, 2008 MEADVILLE, Pa. -- It's a lot of effort trying to live a life free of American-style football, the lengths you have to go to in order to pretend it doesn't exist. It's come to this, it really has, and I can't believe it myself. But I made it through the night, Hoops Nation. I'm shacked out in a litt...
S4 January 25, 2008 PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- I tried to make it simple, I tried to offer the sound-bite answer. I tried to simplify things on the far side of complexity, because 'tis a gift to be simple. But I attempted to shave with Occam's razor, but ended up having to wear a small piece of toilet paper, attached with spit...
S4 January 24, 2008   Dayton at Xavier (Atlantic 10) Cintas Center - Cincinnati, OH 8:00 PM EST Like the new header? Yeah, it's come to this -- doing stuff just to see who complains. More about all of that tomorrow. For now, we have a hot game in the conference that gives fans 40 percent more than advertised, t...
S4 January 14, 2008 CHARLESTON, S.C. -- It's Monday, which means no cutesy-cutesy, no how-do-ya-do, no warm-up act jokes. Nearly every one of the 245 teams in Hoops Nation played over the weekend, and we're totally committed to mention at least two percent of those. It's all basketball today. Drake. No leading score...
S4 January 10, 2008 SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- I was going to start out today with a hilarious joke about squirrels and their nuts, but this came across the wires this morning. The Cincinnati Enquirer, a fine newspaper, ran this today: Xavier shuns mid-major award. Here's a taste for those who don't like clicking things: Ri...
S4 January 9, 2008   Rhode Island at Dayton (Atlantic 10) U. of Dayton Arena - Dayton, OH 7:00 PM EST If we've learned anything from college basketball, it's that November and December results can be intoxicating, bewildering, and occasionally ultimately maddening. There's no rollercoaster that quite matches t...
S4 January 4, 2008 SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- I attended my first-ever Summit League game last night. Oh sure, I've been to plenty of Mid-Continent Conference games before, but things are different now. They've got a new name, new colors, and a new clip-art logo. Are their feelings of inadequacy solved? Hope so! Folks fro...
S4 January 3, 2008 DES MOINES -- We usually leave the politics to bloggers who enjoy disseminating red-or-blue opinions and sorting through 300 comments' worth of fallout (You're in league with al-Qaeda! No, you are!), but it's been fascinating to see the caucus process in action up close. People around here take this...
S4 January 2, 2008   Akron (Mid-American) at Dayton (Atlantic 10) U. of Dayton Arena - Dayton, OH 7:00 PM EST OK, remind me how to do this thing again. There's a premier spotlight game between mid-major schools, lots of exclamation points, and at least two exploratory paragraphs about key storylines and player...
S4 December 31, 2007 MUNCIE, Ind. -- Well, here it is, the last Boubacar of 2007, coming at the beginning of the final broken week of the 2007-08 season. No Boubacar tomorrow, but there will be a few special treats posted here, including our annual New Year's essay. You'll want to stay tuned for that. For now, here are ...
S4 December 13, 2007 PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- It's the bright early morning of an American day that will likely end with a lot fewer baseball fans. As I often say to disillusioned sports nuts tired of steroids this and Barry Bonds that, why don't you give mid-major college basketball a try? We've got close games, tons of te...
S4 December 10, 2007 PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- I was looking over the schedule, trying to find some games to go to this week. Maybe you were too. There's hardly anything going on out there in Hoops Nation this week. Virtual bupkis. Not enough nothing to cancel the G!O!T!N! for the week, but all across the land, the "athlete" p...
S4 November 16, 2007   Dayton (A-10) at George Mason (CAA) Fairfax, VA - Patriot Center 7:00 PM EST All due respect to the "2-0 Showdown" tonight between Colgate and Texas State at the Kennesaw tourney, but we have an Atlantic-14 threat visiting CAA country on Saturday evening. Dayton has great senior leadership...
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