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1. It Ends in the CIT by Ian McCormick

S8 March 27, 2012 Game #8-789: Kent State Golden Flashes at South Carolina-Upstate SpartansMarch 15, 2012 8:00 pmG.B. Hodge CenterBBState Stats/RecapAfter a strong season, USC Upstate was knocked out of the Atlantic Sun by Florida Gulf Coast, a school also in its first year of eligibility for the postseason... [more]

2. Spartan Day by Ian McCormick

S8 February 27, 2012 Game #8-631: Stetson Hatters at South Carolina-Upstate SpartansFebruary 25, 2012 2:00 pmG.B. Hodge CenterBBState Stats/RecapUSC Upstate is a fifth-year Division I school that will be heading to its first-ever Atlantic Sun tournament this year. As a transitional school, the Spartans struggled. In the... [more]

3. Buzzer Bludgeoned by Cortney Basham

S8 February 20, 2012 Game #8-592: South Carolina-Upstate Spartans at Lipscomb BisonsFebruary 18, 2012 7:30 pmAllen ArenaBBState Stats/RecapLast week, “my team,” the WKU Hilltoppers, traveled to Sun Belt leader Middle Tennessee for a Thursday night tilt. We have family in Murfreesboro, Tenn., including cousins of my chil... [more]

4. ALLCAPSDAY IN THE A-FUN by Matt Cayuela

S8 February 13, 2012 Game #8-563: Jacksonville Dolphins at South Carolina-Upstate SpartansFebruary 11, 2012 2:00 pmG.B. Hodge CenterBBState Stats/RecapIN LOOKING FOR AN #ALLCAPSDAY DOUBLEHEADER IN THE CAROLINAS, I HAD SEVERAL OPTIONS TO GO WITH. I COULD HAVE GONE TO CHARLOTTE, BUT I HAD ALREADY BEEN THERE. THERE WAS ALS... [more]

5. Going Up(state) by Ian McCormick

S8 January 25, 2012 Game #8-456: Lipscomb Bisons at South Carolina-Upstate SpartansJanuary 23, 2012 7:00 pmG.B. Hodge CenterBBState Stats/RecapLike much of the Atlantic Sun, the history of USC Upstate is fairly brief. The school was established in the mid-1960s as USC Spartanburg, and played their first game in 1967 ag... [more]

6. The (Entire) University of South Carolina by Ian McCormick

S8 January 2, 2012 Game #8-327: South Carolina-Upstate Spartans at South Carolina GamecocksDecember 31, 2011 12:00 pmCarolina CenterBBState Stats/RecapThe University of South Carolina was founded in 1801, with one campus in Columbia. But as college education expanded in the 20th century, the USC system would expand to... [more]

7. The Early Bird Makes You Squirm by Matthew Paul

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... [more]

8. Stardate 113-20110228: Like Sonny Liston by Kyle Whelliston

S7 February 28, 2011 BOSTON -- There was never any master plan to any of it. The four-stage season and its familiar rhythms were formed by generations of pushes and pulls, and the best concepts became traditions. Putting the non-conference games at the beginning, holding separate league round-robins and eliminators, t... [more]

9. Stardate 108-20110223: Shootaround Deluxe by Kyle Whelliston

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... [more]

10. Stardate 101-20110216: Dream Seasons by Kyle Whelliston

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 ... [more]

11. Game 7-050: Yale at Harvard by Kyle Whelliston

S7 February 14, 2011 Yale Bulldogs at Harvard CrimsonFebruary 11, 2011 7:00 pmLavietes PavilionBBState Stats/Recap "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard": the original Ivy League smac-rap. @midmajority Game Tweets18:14 #FF @findthelastman. Take *that*, Christmas Creep!18:17 RT @LoyolanSports: @midmajority Happy birthday to the... [more]

12. Stardate 23-20101130: Le Rouge et le Noir by Kyle Whelliston

S7 November 30, 2010 Double Yellow Line Upset! Both for its "do not pass" implications as well as its road imagery, I nominate Double Yellow Line Upset for the Chaminade-Michigan State style wins.- Charles C.Maybe the "Punch Line Upset," as that's what the vicitimized Red Line school will be for about 36 hours in the sp... [more]

13. Road Report: Greetings from... Spartanburg! by Kyle Whelliston

S6 December 15, 2009 SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- In the South, it's hard to find a place that's not overrun with SEC this or ACC that. There are very few cities and towns down here that don't bleed some weird color. But tucked into the upper nublet of South Carolina, at the intersection of two important Interstate highways, ... [more]

14. Good Morning Hoops Nation: March 2 by Kyle Whelliston

S5 March 2, 2009 INDIANAPOLIS -- Every day we get just a little more physically vulnerable, every day another step closer to the inevitable finish line of life. The positive trade-off is that whether we've cheated the reaper by strengthening our bodies or not, our minds are always increasing in power. Every day, we ... [more]

15. Game! Of! The! Night! 2/9/2009: Stetson at East Tennessee State by Kyle Whelliston

S5 February 9, 2009 Stetson at East Tennessee State (Atlantic Sun) Memorial Center - Johnson City, TN 7:00 PM EST The Atlantic Sun is providing many of these mid-major hot-shot conferences a clinic on how to organize its standings. You want three teams up top with gaudy records, a strong .500 midsection, and a couple... [more]

16. Good Morning Hoops Nation: December 15 by Kyle Whelliston

S5 December 15, 2008 CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Let's get this out of the way first: the Atlantic 14 owned this weekend. Pwned it. The A-14 was in yr weekend, steelin yr basketballz. This conference put such a stamp on the last two days that the second weekend in December should be a three-day hoops holiday, by proclamation of... [more]

17. Good Morning Hoops Nation: December 3 by Kyle Whelliston

S5 December 3, 2008 SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Tonight I'll be making my first visit to Missouri State's brand new JQH Arena, which was just christened within the month. I've been really excited about this for a couple weeks now, for a few reasons. I like shiny new things as much as any American, but most of all I'm curious a... [more]

18. Game! Of! The! Night! 12/1/2008: South Carolina-Upstate at Kennesaw State by Kyle Whelliston

S5 December 1, 2008 South Carolina-Upstate at Kennesaw State (Atlantic Sun) KSU Convocation Center - Kennesaw, GA 7:30 PM EST Unless it's the absolute beginning of the season, we don't generally spotlight games involving winless teams (such as the visiting 0-4 Spartans) in the G!O!T!N!, but in a way this really is th... [more]

19. The Boubacar 2/18/2008 (Network Edition) by Kyle Whelliston

S4 February 18, 2008 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Plenty of folks have the day off for the holiday today, but we have a patriotic duty to provide you with a Supersized Boubacar that takes into account all the action from the weekend that was. We'll get to that in a second, but I wanted to share with you my most recent fantastic... [more]

20. The Mid-Majority Interview: Rick Scruggs by Kyle Whelliston

S4 January 18, 2008 Until the night of Nov. 7, 2007, most college basketball fans didn't know Gardner-Webb from a weed whacker. But with a 84-68 thumping of Kentucky at Rupp Arena, the little school in Boiling Springs, N.C. was thrust into the national spotlight. It was the first major story of the 2007-08 season, the ... [more]

21. Bally Down South by Kyle Whelliston

S4 January 18, 2008 Folks sometimes ask me why I use the word "we" so much on the site. It's not anything "royal," not at all. Wherever I go on the hoops highway, I've got a little buddy who comes with me everywhere. He's orange, and his name is Bally. Last Wednesday, Bally went to Elon, one of the very few schools... [more]

22. The Boubacar 1/11/2008 (Big Time Edition, Part 2) by Kyle Whelliston

S4 January 11, 2008 GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Super-size fast-food. Big Dog t-shirts. Enzyte. This is America, and everything is big. Real big. We all want to be big-time, and some of us do it by leading pieces with the kind of stuttering, oddly conversational, and totally incomplete sentences that have vaulted hack sports... [more]

23. The Boubacar 12/19/2007 (Dickie V Edition) by Kyle Whelliston

S4 December 19, 2007 AKRON, Oh. -- There are so few of us... we who overanalyze everything about college basketball, pore over pages of stats, treat our game like a gigantic 341-piece puzzle that takes five months to solve itself. Our vision is distorted because we spend so much time talking to each other; we forget tha... [more]

24. Game! Of! The! Night! 12/4/2007: Akron at Winthrop by Kyle Whelliston

S4 December 4, 2007 Akron (MAC) at Winthrop (Big South) Winthrop Coliseum -- Rock Hill, SC 7:00 PM EST These two teams combined for 55 wins last season, which immediately qualifies it as a mid-major showdown of the highest degree. The Eagles and Zips took different March paths, though: Winthrop beat Notre Dam... [more]