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Last year, the High Point Panthers’ men’s basketball program reached a new high point. It made it to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history. But that was then. There’s a new zenith right now. HPU notched a 83-82 comeback upset win over Wisconsin in Portland on Thursday afternoon for the program’s […]
It’s March Madness time, and there are some sensational players on the mid-major teams in the field. Here is one player to watch on each squad. Region 1 — Fort Worth UTSA: Cheyenne Rowe The senior forward leads the Roadrunners by averaging 14 points and 8.8 rebounds per game. Western Illinois: Mia Nicastro The junior forward from […]
We’ve all wondered since UNLV last won a national championship as a mid-major in 1990, when it would happen again. Mid-majors have come close – Butler in 2010 and 2011, Wichita State in 2013, San Diego State three years ago – but haven’t gone all the way yet. What if we already knew we were […]
The Horizon League champion Wright State Raiders will call the City of Brotherly Love home this week. Head coach Clint Sargent’s team earned a No. 14 seed in the NCAA Tournament and will meet No. 3 Virginia on Friday in Philadelphia. Wright State currently stands as a just under 20-point underdog, the kind of margin […]
Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NCAA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Mid-Major fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. Cinderella is dead. Or is it? Last year was historically bad for mid-major teams, with none […]
Led by National Player of the Year Cam Boozer, Duke lost two games all year by a combined four points and will have Patrick Ngongba back after missing the last four games. With a thin rotation made even thinner late in the year, Siena’s star guards Justice Shoats and Gavin Doty have stepped up in […]
The days of suits being the standard on the sidelines for college basketball head coaches are long gone. A large majority of coaches have resorted to a simple polo or quarter-zip look on gameday, but some admirable program leaders maintain the tradition of formality. When the 68-team field was released on Sunday, the overwhelming majority […]
ITHACA, N.Y. – T.J. Power had his hands on his knees at midcourt. His line of sight covered by the brand new championship t-shirt that he put over his head, but not around his body yet. Did that really just happen? His brain had no other reaction to what had just occurred. “I was super […]
Utah State was the top team in the Men’s Other Top 25 when conference play began in earnest at the beginning of the calendar year. Now that the conference tournaments are in the rearview mirror, the Aggies find themselves atop the poll once again. Jerrod Calhoun’s bunch swept the Mountain West regular season and tournament […]
The regular season and conference tournaments are in the books, and with that, Princeton is the No. 1 ranked team in the Women’s Other Top 25. The Tigers are 26-3 and won their last seven games to cut down the nets at Ivy Madness. They are the highest seeded mid-major in the NCAA Tournament as […]
PITTSBURGH — Phil Martelli Jr. has plenty of stories about going to the Atlantic 10 Tournament when he was growing up. On Sunday afternoon, 10 years after his father, Phil Martelli, cut the nets down at this very tournament for the final time as the head coach at Saint Joseph’s, Martelli Jr. wrote his own […]
The Obvious Ones Miami University I think everyone saw this coming. The RedHawks are in despite their first-round exit in the MAC tournament to UMass, and the MAC has two teams in the field of 68. The main issue with that, though, is that one of them is headed to Dayton, and it’s not Akron. […]
It’s March Madness. The 68 teams for the women’s tournament has been announced. There’s just one at-large selection from the mid-majors. Shoutout to the two-bid Atlantic 10 for a second straight year. Region 1 — Fort Worth UTSA: The Roadrunners were the first mid-major team revealed. They are a 16-seed, and congratulations, the prize is […]
Don’t worry, fans of mid-major schools: Miami (OH) made the NCAA Tournament despite losing in the MAC tournament, and despite the weird narratives being pushed by terminally football-pilled bloggers and “journalists.” Broken down by league, the multi-bid mid-major leagues landed as just three leagues, which feels lower than usual: WCC (3, same as Big East) […]
PITTSBURGH – The final 30 seconds of Saturday afternoon’s Atlantic 10 Semifinal showdown between Saint Louis and Dayton played all the hits that only a conference tournament game in March can deliver. Dayton’s Amael L’Etang was the hero, tipping in a ball that seemed to hang in the air in slow motion with less than […]
March Madness isn’t the only thing heating up as we head towards Selection Sunday; the mid-major coaching carousel continues to intensify. There is quite a buzz surrounding new Southern Conference member Tennessee Tech’s latest hire: the Golden Eagles welcome in Tobin Anderson, who was most recently a head coach at the NCAA Division-I level for […]
Back on March 7, St. Bonaventure head coach Mark Schmidt officially announced to the world that he would be retiring from his position at the conclusion of the 2025-26 season. After leading the program to multiple NCAA Tournament appearances, a run to the NIT semifinals in 2022, and securing some Atlantic 10 silverware in the […]
The Mountain West championship game is set. No. 1 Utah State vs. No. 2 San Diego State. Today at 6 p.m. ET in Las Vegas. So, now the question is how many bids will the conference get tomorrow on Selection Sunday? You replied overwhelmingly that we’ll have a two-bid MWC with 83% of the vote […]
The UMBC Retrievers will host the Vermont Catamounts at the Chesapeake Employers Insurance Arena in Baltimore, Maryland, for the America East Championship game. The game will tip at 11 a.m. ET and can be streamed live on ESPN2. A long, long time ago, I believe I was the only America East media personality who picked […]
You know we’re getting close to Selection Sunday when it’s Ivy Madness time. The 14 regular season games are complete, and we’ve known the matchups for the men’s semifinals for nearly two weeks at this point, but it’s finally time to get underway in Ithaca and determine the autobid. Here’s everything you need to know […]
Let’s start with the positive: The Streak lives on. Until this year, there has been at least one NMTC team to make the tournament in every single NCAA Tournament ever held. And this year, thanks to Queens and the ASUN Conference, that streak will continue. (Congratulations to the Queens Royals on making the tournament in […]
It’s championship season, and tickets are being punched to March Madness left and right, all leading up to Selection Sunday. We have a first-time champion. Shout out to the Queens men, who edged top-seed Central Arkansas in overtime in the ASUN title game. We have a couple of teams who are dancing for the first […]
Miami (OH) lost. Now what? The RedHawks were the only team in men’s Division-I college basketball to go undefeated in the regular season and entered the MAC Tournament at 31-0. However, they lost 87-83 to No. 8-seed UMass in the quarterfinals, which puts their NCAA Tournament hopes in the hands of the selection committee. We […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – If it’s not exactly repeating itself, history sometimes has an interesting way of reinventing itself in a similar fashion. It had been 23 years since the Hofstra Pride last played in the NCAA Tournament when former Long Island point guard Craig “Speedy” Claxton led Hofstra back to the Big Dance in 2000 […]
Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NCAA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Mid-Major fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. We had a six-bid Mountain West just two years ago. This year, in the final iteration […]