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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 January 12, 2013 There are games to write about in breathless prose and there are games to write about in a series of haikus. As the prescient reader will have already guessed, this is the latter: Tennessee State U Western Nashville, Tennessee Twelfth month, twenty-first Arriving early Sitting in the car reading ...
S9 December 31, 2012 "But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man." - Albert CamusNASHVILLE, Tenn. - I was left with a choice for the nightcap on Saturday. Coming from Murray State, there were o...
S9 December 16, 2012 Game #9-164: Tennessee State Tigers at Missouri TigersDecember 8, 2012 3:00 pmSports ArenaBBState Stats/Recap The afternoon begins well for Robert Covington. His first three-pointer swishes. His second one does, too. Before the first media timeout, Robert Covington looks like the best player on the ...
S8 February 8, 2012 Game #8-531: Tennessee State Tigers at Southeast Missouri RedhawksFebruary 4, 2012 8:30 pmShow Me CenterBBState Stats/RecapWhen I last saw the outside world last Saturday, it was a dreary, drab Midwestern winter day, with a light mist falling outside SIU Arena before a Missouri Valley tilt between E...
S8 December 8, 2011 Game #8-205: Tennessee State Tigers at Belmont BruinsDecember 6, 2011 8:00 pmCurb Events CenterBBState Stats/RecapAbout nine months ago, during spring break from my senior year, my roommate and I decided to do something adventurous. Well, adventurous on a budget. While other classmates headed for Ca...
S8 November 21, 2011 Game #8-082: Tennessee State Tigers at South Carolina GamecocksNovember 20, 2011 6:00 pmCarolina CenterBBState Stats/RecapAs Kyle has written here before, much of us do not grow up mid-major people. Growing up I liked seeing mid-major games on ESPN during “Championship Week” in part to see unfamilia...
S8 November 15, 2011 Game #8-030: Tennessee State Tigers at Western Kentucky HilltoppersNovember 14, 2011 8:00 pmE.A. Diddle ArenaBBState Stats/RecapNot so long ago in 2008, the WKU Hilltoppers were a NCAA Sweet 16 darling. But, after that magical run (“Ty Rogers! Does in Drake!”) the Hilltoppers lost coach Darrin Horn ...
S6 April 4, 2010 : INDIANAPOLIS -- At this point, the random logic of the heart is far ahead of the reasoning of raw numbers. Of course a little private school with non-scholarship football can beat a mammoth sports machine that spends almost as much on men's basketball ($9 million) as it does on all sports ($11 m...
S6 March 18, 2010 We do this every year around this time, and here again are the differences in athletic and basketball budgets between the teams in today's mid-versus-notso games. Our Red Line that separates those above and us here below is based on average athletic budgets, and teams in the Upper 8 beat the Other 2...
S6 March 17, 2010 It's the Wednesday before the Thursday of the Tournament, a day for hopes and dreams and wishes. Today, we're all still believing that the impossible will become possible. Every time we play the games in our heads, those teen seeds from one-bid leagues always seem to find a way to pull out wins in t...
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 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 5, 2010 Bullet Points The first championship game matchup is set. In the Big South, Coastal Carolina will host No. 3 Winthrop on Saturday. The Eagles upset defending champions Radford 61-46 on Coastal's home floor. Both lower seeds won in the two Atlantic Sun quarterfinals played on Thursday. No. 5 East Te...
S6 February 23, 2010 The recent history of the basketball program at East Tennessee State University is definitely tied to its building. Originally named the Memorial Center (but not in memory of anyone in particular), it was recently renamed ETSU/Mountain States Health Alliance Athletic Center. We don't really call it...
S6 February 15, 2010 Big Game Mid-American: at Akron 91, Ohio 88 (2OT) AKR - 19-7 (9-3) [RPI: 119, State: 102] OHIO - 14-12 (5-7) [RPI: 154, State: 162] Star of the Game: Chris McKnight 25 Pts (7-12 FG, 11-17 FT), 18 Reb Men's Basketball Outlasts Ohio in Double Overtime - Chris McKnight and Jimmy Conyers each po...
S6 February 3, 2010 I'll never forget Christmas 1987. The anticipation made my little underdeveloped heart jackrabbit in its bony cage. I recall bounding down the old toasty staircase, pushing my little sister aside, my eyes wide as canned hams. And there, 'neath the tinsel-topped tree, was the box I'd longed for so ...
S6 December 29, 2009 PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- One more drinker's holiday, and the calendar will flip. Many Americans are spending this week in silent fear of what's on the other side: a return to the bleak routine of five-day workweeks, the gray skies of short days, and January bills from December's illusions of prosperity. O...
S6 December 1, 2009 NASHVILLE -- In most of Hoops Nation, halftime at a small-conference basketball game is when you grab a snack from the concession stand, get in line for the toilet, or chat with folks. Maybe even all of the above. That's certainly not the case in the Mid-South. In Tennessee and the Carolinas, al...
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 11, 2008 ALBANY, N.Y. -- The thing that people don't get from television is how hot it is inside a court-storming. I mean, it's sweltering and blistering (and a little humid) in there with all the body heat and kinetic energy. Oh, and loud too. Inside a court-storming, you'll find a sound that can never be...
S4 January 28, 2008 HOUSTON -- I was thinking over the weekend, while I wasn't at any games, about all the games I go to. A total of 57 games so far this year, headed for yet another 100-game season. Having done 100 twice now, it's tough to find triple-digit motivation anymore. Need to turn it into some kind of contest...
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 ...
S1 March 2, 2005 Bracket Wrap Big South: The way is now even clearer for the dominant one-seed in this league; after the campus-seed quarterfinals, the BSC bracket is blown apart. (7) Charleston Southern 66, (2) Liberty 60 (story) (6) High Point 98, (3) North Carolina-Asheville 93 (OT) (story) (4) Birmingham-Sout...
S1 February 27, 2005 Ivy: Pennsylvania 80, Columbia 72 (story) - Congratulations to the Quakers! The first ticket to the NCAA Tournament was punched last night as Penn (17-8, 10-1) clinched the Ivy League regular-season title. They stormed to a win on the Lions' home court, bolstered by 68% second-half shooting and a ...
S1 December 23, 2004 Missouri Valley: Evansville 63, Creighton 61 (story) - The first Valley game for both teams offered a glimpse of the red-hot action this ten-deep league will offer. A seesaw second half culminated in a buzzer-beating jumper by Evansville guard Kyle Anslinger, the only Ace starter who didn't post dou...
S1 November 26, 2004 Today, we celebrate the one-weekiversary of the brawl that will likely end up plunging the NBA to levels of fan indifference not seen since the 1970's. Pundits are still lining up to decry a disturbing new "culture of violence" in the modern sports world. Who's to blame? The fans, the players, the m...
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