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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 February 12, 2013 Going into this game at South Carolina State in Orangeburg, Savannah State was 10-9 and 4-1 in the MEAC. The Tigers were third in the MEAC out of 13 teams, which is not too bad. But Savannah State entered with higher expectations. The Tigers were the preseason favorites in the MEAC, after finishi...
S9 February 6, 2013 It has been a shame that I had taken so long to go to South Carolina State to see the Bulldogs play. There have been many contributing factors to not going to Orangeburg the past two seasons. Mainly, the Bulldogs have not been very good, even by MEAC standards. They had not won a league game in the...
S9 February 6, 2013 On this Monday, January 21, there were very few games across Hoops Nation. Sure, Ray Curren was able to find Fairfield playing a Metro Atlantic game this day. But most games today were at one of the HBCUs in either the MEAC or SWAC. So the only option for me on this day was to go see South Caroli...
S9 January 9, 2013 In the past two seasons, I have seen 10 of the 12 Division I schools in South Carolina. The only schools I had yet to see were South Carolina and South Carolina State. The main reason I had yet to go to any Gamecock games is because Ian McCormick has had all of their home games against teams below ...
S9 December 18, 2012 Game #9-171: South Carolina State Bulldogs at Missouri TigersDecember 17, 2012 8:00 pmSports ArenaBBState Stats/Recap I am not a little guy. The last time I visited the doctor, I measured at right around six feet tall, or at least close enough that I have no moral problem rounding up to this thresho...
S9 December 12, 2012 Game #9-150: Norfolk State Spartans at South Carolina State BulldogsDecember 3, 2012 7:30 pmSHM Memorial CenterBBState Stats/Recap During the fundraising drive for this website back in October, Kyle retweeted a tweet from TMMer Craig Caswell: "I knew Norfolk State before they were cool. Join the @mi...
S9 December 10, 2012 Game #9-143: Jacksonville Dolphins at South Carolina State BulldogsNovember 28, 2012 7:30 pmSHM Memorial CenterBBState Stats/Recap On Wednesday, November 28, my original plan was to see College of Charleston play Charleston Southern. This was also Matt Cayuela's original plan as well. But I knew t...
S9 December 3, 2012 Game #9-115: Albany Great Danes at South Carolina State BulldogsNovember 20, 2012 7:30 pmSHM Memorial CenterBBState Stats/Recap My initial plan for the Tuesday before Thanksgiving was to see Coastal Carolina play Johnson & Wales. That game was already going to be covered on here by Matt Cayuel...
S9 November 15, 2012 Game #9-034: Kennesaw State Owls at South Carolina State BulldogsNovember 12, 2012 7:30 pmSHM Memorial CenterBBState Stats/Recap Tonight would be the home opener for the South Carolina State Bulldogs against the Kennesaw State Owls. The Bulldogs came in trying to still shake off a very bad end to l...
S8 March 9, 2012 Game #8-726: South Carolina State Bulldogs vs. Bethune-Cookman WildcatsMarch 6, 2012 6:30 pmWinston-Salem, NCBBState Stats/RecapGame five started and the first thing I could think of is it looked like the game should have been presented by 7up. In some strange uniform selection process, both teams c...
S8 February 29, 2012 Game #8-644: North Carolina Central Eagles at South Carolina State BulldogsFebruary 27, 2012 7:30 pmSHM Memorial CenterBBState Stats/RecapAccording to the Official 800GP Statistics, we are just over 70 percent through the season. But for many of us, the season is much closer to being over. Today’s g...
S8 February 21, 2012 Game #8-604: Florida A&M Rattlers at South Carolina State BulldogsFebruary 20, 2012 7:30 pmSHM Memorial CenterBBState Stats/RecapLess than a week into the season, I began to make plans for attending my first games of the season. So I sent Kyle a message using The Form to get my Bally Club password t...
S8 February 7, 2012 Game #8-525: Longwood Lancers at South Carolina State BulldogsFebruary 6, 2012 7:30 pmSHM Memorial CenterBBState Stats/RecapIn the 2003-04 school year, Longwood began to transition to Division I like Nebraska-Omaha is now. Then over the next four years, the Lancers would play a full Division I sched...
S8 January 31, 2012 Game #8-489: Howard Bison at South Carolina State BulldogsJanuary 30, 2012 7:30 pmSHM Memorial CenterBBState Stats/RecapOne of the best things about MEAC basketball is that there are more unique traditions than at other mid-majors. Most other mid-majors seem to borrow traditions from one another as ...
S8 January 10, 2012 Game #8-373: Coppin State Eagles at South Carolina State BulldogsJanuary 9, 2012 7:30 pmSHM Memorial CenterBBState Stats/RecapI remember a Saturday Night Live clip several years ago that I found to be very interesting. It was not one of their regular sketches, but rather a camera that panned the cro...
S8 January 4, 2012 Game #8-339: South Carolina State Bulldogs at South Carolina GamecocksJanuary 3, 2012 7:00 pmCarolina CenterBBState Stats/RecapThe University of South Carolina was founded in 1801 to give South Carolinians a place of publicly funded higher education. The only college in the state at this time was Co...
S8 November 30, 2011 Game #8-154: Georgia State Panthers at South Carolina State BulldogsNovember 29, 2011 7:30 pmSHM Memorial CenterBBState Stats/RecapHistorically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have some of the richest tradition among mid-majors. HBCUs are known for prestigious marching bands, dance teams, an...
S8 November 28, 2011 Game #8-137: South Carolina State Bulldogs at Kennesaw State OwlsNovember 26, 2011 5:00 pmKSU Convocation CenterBBState Stats/RecapI wasn't exactly sure what kind of basketball game I would going to when I went to the Convocation Center to watch the non-conference game between Kennesaw State and Sou...
S8 November 20, 2011 Game #8-068: Gardner-Webb Bulldogs at South Carolina State BulldogsNovember 19, 2011 7:30 pmSHM Memorial CenterBBState Stats/RecapSouth Carolina State University and Gardner-Webb University are two very different mid-major schools. Gardner-Webb is a predominantly white Southern Baptist school in Nor...
S7 April 3, 2011 AP HOUSTON -- In the early morning of January 20, 2009, after watching South Carolina State and Howard play a MEAC regular season game, I slept for two hours, grabbed my stuffed basketball, and made my way through the spaghetti tangle of Beltways and Metro lines to be on the Washington Mall to witn...
S7 March 13, 2011 If college basketball has taught us anything, it's that there's nothing that becomes irrelevant more suddenly than Championship Fortnight. Once the NCAA Tournament bracket is released, the previous two weeks slip into history... very quickly. But one thing that has to be remembered: the teams that w...
S7 March 10, 2011 Robert Morris Colonials at Long Island BlackbirdsMarch 9, 2011 7:00 pmAthletic CenterBBState Stats/Recap A classic championship game in the Northeast Conference, as Long Island defeated two-time defending champions Robert Morris in overtime. LIU would be one of the greatest programs in the history...
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S7 March 2, 2011 KINGSTON, R.I. -- The stars are beginning to flicker and burn out in the elimination games. For others, it's far from over. Here, one final look at the remaining league regular season races as we move towards getting all the rest of the Other 25 conferences in the gate and ready for bracket time. ...
S7 February 23, 2011 CHICAGO -- Every single one of the conference games going on tonight, and tomorrow, and Friday and Saturday too, were scheduled months in advance by a league office (or, in some cases, years ago). Some were circled rivalry games worth driving a day for, others were just-anothers. In early March, t...
S7 February 16, 2011 HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- March really is here before we know it, because there's half a week missing out of February. This month wasn't designed that way -- and nothing was adjusted for our benefit or anything -- but it's still disorienting and disruptive to look at a calendar and realize that in two ...
S7 February 15, 2011 Howard Bison at Norfolk State SpartansFebruary 14, 2011 8:00 pmEchols ArenaBBState Stats/Recap Behold the green and gold, most specifically the Spartan Legion band. @midmajority Game Tweets20:22 Game No. 7-056: Howard at Norfolk State. Echols Hall. http://img.ly/30Iq20:27 It's a very exciting ra...
S7 January 17, 2011 PEORIA, Ill. - Two years ago yesterday, on January 16, 2009, the news came down. I stared out the window for a little while, got a piece of a song stuck in my head -- it's all beginning/to feel like it's ending -- and wondered how it hadn't made it on to my 160GB iPod. I downloaded the MP3 from Am...
S7 December 23, 2010 PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- This is the last Stardate until 52-20101229 (a Wednesday), at which time we'll turn our attention away from Red Line Upsets to conference play. There will be a Chat Block on Christmas Eve at 4 pm Eastern, and if there's anybody around, we'll talk about whatever you want to talk ...
S6 March 14, 2010 Bullet Points Seven championships were decided on the penultimate day of Championship Fortnight. All hail Vermont, back in the Dance for the first time since 2005 (Season 1) and also for the first time in the Mike Lonergan era. Congratulations to Morgan State; the Bears navigated the always-difficu...
S6 March 13, 2010 Bullet Points In the Patriot League, your champions are the Lehigh Mountain Hawks. The former Engineers defeated their cross-valley rival Lafayette with a strong second-half burst, and will go to the NCAA Tournament for the fourth time. Higher seeds were 12-4 on Friday. The No. 3 over No. 2 upset w...
S6 March 12, 2010 Bullet Points There were no bids awarded on Thursday. Instead, many of the late leagues held quarterfinal rounds, setting up semifinals for today. The Southland and WAC put forward their top four seeds, but MEAC No. 5 Hampton snuck past No. 4 Hampton. The SWAC's bracket now has a 2-3-5-8 setup; Tex...
S6 February 16, 2010 Big Game MEAC: South Carolina State 71, at Morgan State 68 SCST - 14-9 (9-4) [RPI: 229, State: 207] MORG - 19-8 (12-1) [RPI: 117, State: 126] Star of the Game: Jason Flagler 24 Pts (11-17 FG, 1-1 FT), 2 Stl SC State Hands Morgan State First League Loss 71-68 - South Carolina State built a twelv...
S5 March 16, 2009 Bullet Points Stephen F. Austin punched Hoops Nation's final NCAA Tournament ticket Sunday afternoon, its first appearance ever. Championship Fortnight is over, and the national postseason is just ahead. Completed brackets and scores for all 23 TMM leagues are included below. Southland Texas...
S5 March 14, 2009 Bullet Points American won its second consecutive Patriot League championship, and is on to the NCAA Tournament once again. Dayton and Xavier, the two higher seeds, went down in the Atlantic 14 semifinals; this sets up an improbable 4/7 matchup between Temple and Duquesne. Other semifinal w...
S5 March 13, 2009 Bullet Points One championship to be decided this afternoon: that of the Patriot League, which has been winnowing down its field verrrry slowly since Tuesday, March 3rd. The Atlantic 14, MEAC, MAC, Big West, Southland, SWAC and WAC are down to final fours as the last weekend of Championship Fo...
S5 March 12, 2009 KATY, Tex. -- Quick programming note: we've run into some technical difficulties here in Texas, so that marathon chat we promised has to be postponed. Next week seems a better fit anyway, since there will be an actual 65-team bracket to talk about. We'll do a regular chat tomorrow from Cleveland at ...
S5 March 12, 2009 Bullet Points Two more titlists after last night's action. Portland State defended its Big Sky title, and Robert Morris will return to the NCAA Tournament out of the Northeast Conference. The Southland Conference begins today with quarterfinals in Katy, Tex.. It's the last of our 23 conference...
S5 March 11, 2009 Bullet Points Congratulations to North Dakota State (Badlands/Summit), Western Kentucky (Sun Belt) and Cleveland State (Horizon League). All three have reserved space on the Big Bracket with title game victories last night. Two championships tonight: the Northeast Conference and Big Sky will d...
S5 March 9, 2009 HOT SPRINGS, Ark. -- Our year is a blur of quick-cut transitions: from total silence to Midnight Madness, pre-season to regular season, games outside conferences to games inside parentheses. Standings grids give way to brackets, and before you know it, campaigns are cut short in early elimination ro...
S5 February 9, 2009 BATON ROUGE -- When the ax started falling in the SEC last month with midseason firings, the thought around here was that it was kinda cute. Four such severances in four years seemed like another indication that the pressures of BCS basketball were getting to be more in line with those of the pros, ...
S4 March 17, 2008 Bullet Points In the final final in mid-majordom, Texas-Arlington emerged as surprise Southland champs. All hail! We had 78 entries into our "guess-the-play-in-matchup" contest on Saturday, and not a single correct answer. The correct pairing, as we all know now, is Coppin State (MEAC) against Moun...
S4 March 13, 2008 Bullet Points Make way on the big bracket for two more mid-major champions: Mount Saint Mary's, surprise winners of the NEC out of a No. 4 seed, and Portland State, double-champions of the Big Sky. There were three exciting finishes in the Atlantic 14, with La Salle, Dayton and Charlotte pulling ou...
S4 March 12, 2008 Bullet Points Three more automatic bids were awarded last night. Full 100 percent congratulations to Butler, double-champions of the Horizon League, as well as Oral Roberts, three-time titlists of the Mid-Con cum Summit cum Badlands Conference. Western Kentucky is back in the Dance from the Sun B...
S4 March 11, 2008 Bullet Points Scissors and ladders were indeed used last night, as four mid-major champions ascended to thrones. Davidson streaked to a third consecutive title in the SoCon, George Mason survived the Colonial tourney, Siena is the double-champ in the MAAC, and San Diego stole the WCC title from Gon...
S4 February 12, 2008 PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- We'll get to all the Bally ephemera tomorrow, promise, but we're mulling over the BracketBusters TV announcement from yesterday. We wanted to share it with you if you didn't get the memo or are on the wrong mailing list. So here, then, is the final lineup for Mid-Majorpalooza 2008...
S4 November 29, 2007 HIGH POINT, N.C. -- In a world of Bill Simmons this and Dennis Miller that, there is no worse crime than blowing a pop culture reference. You know what I'm talking about. I think all of us, at one time, have tried to pass ourselves off as having seen a movie (by looking at the list of quotes on iMDB...
S3 March 28, 2007 PAWTUCKET, R.I., Mar. 28 -- All animate organisms, from the globbiest amoeba to the most intricate human machine, share one thing in common: life. Life is what keeps you going, it's the light before the beginning of the tunnel. The meaning of life is simply this: it means so much that nobody can sur...
S3 March 9, 2007 Bullet Points Most action played according to seed yesterday, but there were a few upsets: Morgan State over South Carolina State in the MEAC's 4-5 game, and both low seeds won in the SWAC, including No. 6 Arkansas-Pine Bluff. Yeah, there were a couple of pretty surprising upsets too. Lamar knocked ...
S3 March 8, 2007 Bullet Points Central Connecticut State from the NEC is going dancing, and so is Weber State of the Big Sky. Both are double champions of their respective leagues, and both just plain rock. No autobids tonight. Deep breath... No surprises in the MAC quarters, or the SWAC and MEAC early rounds, but ...
S3 March 7, 2007 Bullet Points Wright State are double-champions of the Horizon League, having beaten a Butler team that's been all up in the national grill this season. Do you take the Raiders seriously yet? Oral Roberts, repeat double champions of the mighty mighty Mid-Con, and North Texas has claimed the champion...
S3 February 14, 2007 PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- I've been talking to folks around the country these past few days, and have had a really hard time convincing them that the Northeast is where it's at. It's not all Friends and the Hamptons and day trips to Times Square... you pay for all that glamour with high gas prices, frost h...
S3 January 4, 2007 HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Just a reminder: make sure you get in on the action as The Mid-Majority expands its feature list in 2007 in return for warm, soft cash. We're halfway to unlocking mobile boxscores, a quarter of the way towards the team mileage maps, and we've also a chunk into the Tournament Geni...
S3 November 21, 2006 PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- Calendar years. Every 12 months, it's a different one. Crazy stuff, that. But aside from the numbers, here's the only real difference between this basketball season and last season. Last season, ESPN's non-Andy Katz blog was telling you all about how great all these mid-major upse...
S1 March 12, 2005 Bullet Points Congratulations to Bucknell, orange-clad kings of the Patriot League. Eight-seed Boise State continued to rip through the WAC bracket, knocking off Fresno State one day after dispatching 1 Nevada. Today marks the grand crescendo of the mid-major season. With finals in the America East...
S1 March 11, 2005 Bullet Points Western Athletic regular season champions Nevada dropped a shock decision to Boise State, clearing the way for a two-bid WAC. There won't likely be many other two-bid mid-major leagues except for, say, the Missouri Valley... apparently the new RPI isn't all it's cracked up to be. I'...
S1 March 8, 2005 Bullet Points Four champions are crowned: Creighton (MVC), Niagara (MAAC), Old Dominion (CAA) and UMPFN (WCC). Three more tonight: the Sun Belt, Mid-Continent, and the Horizon league matchup of Detroit and Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The run of the Oakland Golden Grizzlies of the Mid-Con continued, they'...
S1 February 22, 2005 Northeast: St. Francis (NY) 110, Fairleigh Dickinson 103 (story) - Nope - not an overtime game, and not something straight out of the Atlantic Sun Conference. The two teams created an old-school NBA score in just 40 minutes despite each shooting just a little over 50% - needless to say, the game's ...
S1 February 8, 2005 Missouri Valley: Southern Illinois 58, Drake 57 (story) - Faraway, so close. Sure, SIU's RPI is great, but they're really struggling right now. At Drake, they had to be bailed out by bigman Josh Warren's last-minute jumper - they shot 40% and only made two free throws all evening. The Bulldogs' seas...
S1 January 26, 2005 Missouri Valley: Illinois State 77, Evansville 58 (story) - The Redbirds have overachieved this season with explosive offense and discipline - they used a 50-point second half and extreme ball control to sink the Aces. Three-point specialist Trey Guidry scored 25 points in just 21 minutes. So what n...
S1 January 13, 2005 Western Athletic: Texas-El Paso 83, Nevada 80 (OT) (story) - UTEP (11-2, 4-0 WAC) has passed its early tests against Rice and Nevada, and have established themselves as the true team to beat in the conference. But it wasn't easy on this night, against the team with whom they shared last year's regul...
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