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1. The Beautiful Season, Part 2 by Kyle Whelliston S6 December 29, 2009 ...... [more] |
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2. Tourney Central 3/16/2009 (Final Brackets) by Kyle Whelliston 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...... [more] |
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3. Tourney Central 3/8/2009 (Day 6) by Kyle Whelliston S5 March 8, 2009 Bullet Points Radford (Big South), East Tennessee State (Atlantic Sun) and Morehead State (Ohio Valley) have qualified for the NCAA Tournament. Cleveland State, the Horizon No. 3, eliminated No. 2 Green Bay in that conference's semis, and Illinois State upended Creighton in the Missouri Valley...... [more] |
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4. Tourney Central 3/7/2009 (Day 5) by Kyle Whelliston S5 March 7, 2009 Bullet Points Cornell became the first school to punch its ticket to the NCAA Tournament. For the second straight year, the Big Red claimed the Ivy League title, beating Penn 83-59. The upsets began in earnest on Friday. Ohio Valley No. 4 Morehead State took out No. 1 Tennessee-Martin. CAA No....... [more] |
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5. Game! Of! The! Night! 3/3/2009: Weber State at Montana State by Kyle Whelliston S5 March 3, 2009 Weber State at Montana State (Big Sky) Brick Breeden Fieldhouse - Bozeman, MT 9:05 PM EST One of the first conference games we attended this season was between Northern Colorado and Idaho State, an early Big Sky test for both. Since then, there hasn't been much mention here of the only league to b...... [more] |
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6. 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] |
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7. The State of the Other 22: Week 3 by Kyle Whelliston S5 December 17, 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...... [more] |
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8. Tourney Central 3/8/2008 (Day 5) by Kyle Whelliston S4 March 8, 2008 Bullet Points Today, three autobids to the NCAA Tournament will be awarded! The Big South, Ohio Valley and Atlantic Sun will crown champions. The No. 6 was a lucky number yesterday -- surprising Tennessee State moved to the finals of the OVC, Northern Iowa upset No. 3 Southern Illinois in the MVC, ...... [more] |
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9. The Boubacar 2/21/2008 (Marathon Edition) by Kyle Whelliston S4 February 21, 2008 JACKSONVILLE -- Lots and lots to get to today with a full slate of red-hot mid-major action, but first I wanted to pimp n' plug tomorrow's Gigantic BracketBusters Marathon Chat on ESPN.com. There are always hundreds of people who don't get their questions attended to during the regular Wednesday dea...... [more] |
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10. The Boubacar 1/10/2008 (Big Time Edition) by Kyle Whelliston 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...... [more] |
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11. The Boubacar 12/20/2007 (W-W-W-W Edition) by Kyle Whelliston S4 December 20, 2007 KENT, Oh. -- Just a reminder that you have until Friday morning at 7-ish Eastern time to enter the Mid-Majority ARRRGH essay contest. We did the great NCAA moments during Finals Week, now it's time to recall the most frustrating mid-major collapse, defeat, buzzer-beating dropped decision you can thi...... [more] |
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12. The Boubacar 12/3/2007 (Hey! Edition) by Kyle Whelliston S4 December 3, 2007 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The "e" in e-mail was supposed to stand for "emproved" and "enstant." It was designed to be better than regular mail, because it would arrive there the second you sent it and you can feel confident enough in the system that every e-mail will be properly received. Sure, you can't ...... [more] |
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13. Tourney Central 2/28/07 by Kyle Whelliston S3 February 28, 2007 Bullet Points Two defending champions were eliminated: Wisconsin-Milwaukee of the Horizon League and Murray State of the OVC. Two upsets in the Big South: the No. 3 and No. 4 seeds, Liberty and Coastal Carolina, fell at home in the quarterfinals. A minor upset in the Ohio Valley quarters, as Samford...... [more] |
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14. The Daily Paragraph 2/2/2007 (Layover Edition) by Kyle Whelliston S3 February 2, 2007 PHOENIX - O, layover... Haven of annoying cell-phone talk, home of heavily made-up airline employees yet unhelpful gate agents (that'll be seventy-five bucks to fly standby, please), opportunity to gorge oneself on 3,000-calorie Cinnabons, chance to catch up with increasingly irrelevant color period...... [more] |
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15. The Daily Paragraph 1/15/2007 (King Edition) by Kyle Whelliston S3 January 15, 2007 LORMAN, Miss. -- BracketBusters season starts in just under two weeks, and that's why we here at the Mid-Majority have put together this little map, so you can start scouting out the home teams (orange) and away teams (grey) and dream about matchups leading into the pairing announcement on Jan. 28. ...... [more] |
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16. Dribblings 1/8/2005 (Rainy Day Edition) by Kyle Whelliston S1 January 8, 2005 West Coast: Loyola Marymount 68, San Francisco 65 (story) - It does indeed rain in Southern California - man, it pours. While the water came down outside Hank's House, two up-and-coming WCC teams played soggy ball in the first conference tilt for both. Both teams traded baskets and shot poorly, and ...... [more] |
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17. Dribblings 12/23/2004 (Egg Nog Edition) by Kyle Whelliston 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...... [more] |
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18. Dribblings 12/16/2004 (Campfire Edition) by Kyle Whelliston S1 December 16, 2004 Lander 67, Charleston Southern 59 (story) - To get beat by a Division II team, you usually have to go to Alaska or Hawaii. But this game marked just the third time this season that a true D2 has beaten a D1 - and the first time it's happened at the big school's house. Charleston Southern has traditi...... [more] |
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19. Dribblings 12/14/2004 (High-Octane Edition) by Kyle Whelliston S1 December 14, 2004 San Diego 75, Eastern Washington 56 (story) - San Diego was the 298th-best team in the nation last year in terms of RPI, and now here they are beating the stuffing out of the defending Big Sky champions. EWU is now 2-5, mostly against lower-tier WCC and Big West competition. Is the door open for Web...... [more] |
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20. Dribblings 11/26/2004 (Leftovers Edition) by Kyle Whelliston S1 November 26, 2004 Everyone have a great Turkey Day? Excellent. Slight upset in Fort Worth last night, with Colonial favorite Old Dominion taking out previously unbeaten C-USA'ers TCU 79-72 in something called the Corpus Christi Caller-Times Challenge. Otherwise, the essential fabric of the college basketball universe...... [more] |
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21. Plan 9 From Starkville by Kyle Whelliston S1 November 19, 2004 Game 004: Syracuse 71, Mississippi State 58 Thursday, November 18, 2004 Madison Square Garden - New York, NY It's one of the more common getting-to-really-know-you questions there is. "What's the worst movie you've ever seen?" Most will give a stock answer. It'll usually be some low-budget sci-fi ...... [more] |
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22. The Mid-Majority vs. Cancer by Kyle Whelliston S1 November 11, 2004 To the baseball fan, a long winter of hot stove leagues and hibernation is rendered tolerable by that most optimistic of sporting phrases, those two words that warm the soul like sunshine on the coldest of January mornings: "Opening Day." The football fan can summon the bracing chill of September w...... [more] |





