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NEW YORK — In the same way that New York City is the hub of American culture, it has long been the hub of American college basketball. Before Iona existed as an institution, the best college basketball teams in the country would come to Madison Square Garden to show off under the big city lights. […]
about 2 months ago | 3 reads
High-major opportunities return this week for the Horizon League, but more importantly, arguably the league’s top-four teams go head-to-head on Tuesday night. Mixed into the madness of upset opportunities and matchups of the conference’s elites are a few more quality mid-major matchups. Check out some of the best games for the week. Note, there are […]
about 2 months ago | 3 reads
With just a few conference matchups mixed into the week’s slate, a handful of Horizon League teams had opportunities against mid-major opponents. With conference play approaching, every team is looking to establish itself and avoid bad losses. The conference as a whole avoided those bad losses, but a few teams likely left the week feeling […]
about 2 months ago | 3 reads
For a third straight week, there is a different team atop the men’s Other Top 25 as Saint Louis gets the lead spot. SLU is 9-1 this season and has won three straight. It defeated San Francisco 85-75 on Saturday. The Billikens also have wins at Bradley, over Grand Canyon and against Santa Clara on […]
about 2 months ago | 2 reads
The top six spots in the women’s Other Top 25 remained the same this week, with Princeton holding the No. 1 spot for a second straight week. The Tigers improved to 10-1 by beating Rutgers 81-63 at home on Wednesday. They are 41st in BartTorvik and sit 14th in adjusted offensive efficiency. Richmond stayed at […]
about 2 months ago | 3 reads
While a number of Atlantic 10 programs have had to stomach losing key players to the transfer portal this offseason, there have also been some notable roster additions across the conference that have already made an impact on their new squads a little over a month into play. Some transfers made their way to the […]
about 2 months ago | 3 reads
As mid-major programs work to adapt to a college basketball era driven by the transfer portal and NIL, the Richmond women’s basketball team continues to serve as an outlier, setting a standard in the Atlantic 10 Conference defined by continuity and player retention. Yes, the Spiders have dealt with losing players to the portal like […]
about 2 months ago | 5 reads
Though eight of the Atlantic 10’s 14 programs didn’t actually play in a game between Monday and Friday, somehow, it was still a down week for the conference overall. As for the six teams that did actually play this week, Fordham and St. Bonaventure were the lone winners with the Rams beating FDU and the […]
2 months ago | 4 reads
We are now firmly entrenched into December, and there are several worthy candidates of being called the Mid-Major Madness Women’s Player of the Week for the first seven days of the month. The five nominees are the following: Vernell Atamah (Northwestern State), Rhema Collins (FIU), Kaety L’Amoreaux (Fairfield), Megan Nestor (North Texas) and Joi Williams (Radford). […]
2 months ago | 6 reads
We are now well into December of the college basketball season and we need your help to decide our men’s player of week for Dec. 1-7 by voting in the poll below. Here are our top five men’s candidates and a recap of their outstanding performances from across week five of the college basketball season. […]
2 months ago | 3 reads
The opening week of conference play in the Horizon League has officially passed (more on that here). The teams expected to be competing for the title looked good for the most part, and Detroit Mercy, for the week, emerged from the teams expected to be near the bottom of the conference and is tied atop […]
2 months ago | 3 reads
As many conferences have done across the country, the Horizon League took part in a week of early-season conference matchups ahead of the full conference slate. Through one week, two teams avoided a conference loss, and the league saw scoring explosions in nearly every game, making for an entertaining week of hoops in the Horizon […]
2 months ago | 3 reads
It only took one week for Saint Mary’s to move back into the top spot of the men’s Other Top 25. Each of the top seven teams from last week are in the top seven once again with some shifting. The Gaels, who were No. 2 last week, are 9-1 this season with their lone […]
2 months ago | 4 reads
There is a new No, 1 in the women’s Other Top 25 for the first time this season. Princeton has moved pasted Richmond for the top spot. The Tigers are 9-1 this season with the lone loss coming to then-No. 9 Maryland back on Nov. 16. Five of their nine wins have come over teams […]
2 months ago | 4 reads
VESTAL, N.Y. — Le Moyne’s rivalry with Binghamton isn’t exactly organic. It wasn’t based upon years and years of hard-fought battles. Instead, it was announced with a press release. “Binghamton and Le Moyne will start a new tradition with the creation of the ‘Battle for the Interstate’ rivalry between the two I-81 schools that are […]
2 months ago | 3 reads
One I’ve written plenty about how the MAAC was the most competitive league in college basketball last season during conference play in terms of volume of close games. I wrote an entire story on late-game heroics in the conference during my first season on the beat for Mid-Major Madness. But this weekend felt different than […]
2 months ago | 4 reads
La Salle holds off Drexel in clash of John Beilein disciples PHILADELPHIA – John Beilein was somewhere smiling watching Drexel and La Salle play in the Big 5 Classic’s Fifth-Place game. 20 plus years ago, Drexel head coach Zach Spiker was on Beilein’s staff at West Virginia, working as an administrative assistant, when Darris Nichols […]
2 months ago | 2 reads
We’ve officially reached the close of the first month of the college basketball season, and what a wild journey it has been. There are sure to be many more twists and turns to come in the next three months of hoops. The end of the month has finally provided an opportunity for me, as well […]
2 months ago | 4 reads
Week five in the Atlantic 10 Conference saw some significant wins and upsets, Dayton competing with the high-major powerhouses all while there was a pair of departures in The Bronx. Our resident A10 reporter, Riley Frain, is bringing you a weekly notebook this season to recap all the latest news from his coverage around the […]
2 months ago | 2 reads
We have about one month’s worth of games in the book, so I thought it might be a good time to check in on the league at large. No long-winded, beautifully crafted messages on the America East from me this week, but I did want to provide some news, notes, and things I saw (liked […]
2 months ago | 2 reads
Feast Week is in the rearview mirror, and several mid-major women’s players feasted on the opposition. There were a bunch of good candidates to be finalists for our player of the week. So, without further ado, here are the five nominees: Sharnecce Currie-Jelks (Murray State),Kira Reynolds (UT Arlington), Meadow Roland (UNLV), Adrianna Smith (Maine) and […]
2 months ago | 3 reads
The first month of the college basketball season has come to a close, and we need your help to decide our final men’s player of the week for November by voting in the poll below. Here are our top five men’s candidates and a recap of their outstanding performances from across week four of the […]
2 months ago | 4 reads
Welcome to December. Welcome to the Chamber of Chaos known as the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference men’s basketball season. We’ve made it through the first month of the season, but the conference has already seen a few lives. In the first weeks of the campaign, the MAAC was outperforming its previous seasons in terms of […]
2 months ago | 3 reads
November has come to a close, and each team in the Western Athletic Conference has gotten its season up on the road. The season for these squads is still young, but November proved to be a time to see how each gels with their new and returning athletes. There are plenty of grains of sand […]
2 months ago | 1 read
PHILADELPHIA – For a mid-major team (from a one-bid conference) like the Hofstra Pride, November and December are less about wins and losses and more about learning before conference play begins in the new calendar year. Even better if you can learn about your team while winning. Hofstra head coach Craig “Speedy” Claxton is suddenly […]
2 months ago | 2 reads