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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. – Hofstra Pride head coach Craig “Speedy” Claxton started his team’s postgame press conference on Saturday with a wide smile and simple, six-word reminder. “It is great to be healthy,” he said. Throughout a recent spate of injuries that caused a negative trickle-down effect with defining roles throughout the Pride’s roster and which […]
Being a first-year head coach in today’s college basketball is extremely hard. Often, you have to put together a staff instantly, then a roster within a few weeks by sifting through thousands of players, and then build camaraderie for a group that has never met each other. But not for Jon Perry. Navy didn’t have […]
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. – Like most of this season’s parity-filled Coastal Athletic Association, the most consistent thing about the Hofstra Pride has been its inconsistency. Right after winning eight straight games, Hofstra (15-9, 6-5 CAA) lost its next five contests, but it has now started another winning streak as the Pride is getting healthy again. That […]
RIVERDALE, N.Y. — Saint Peter’s fell out of first place in the MAAC with a loss to then-last place Rider on Sunday. The Peacocks were determined to not let it spiral out of control. Bashir Mason’s team bounced back on Thursday night with an 80-75 win over Manhattan at Draddy Gymnasium, improving to 10-3 in […]
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — It was a game that had everything you could want in a college basketball game…physical play, toughness, dunks, blocks, crowd excitement and a palpable energy gave it the feeling of a big-time matchup from start-to-finish. Despite not having the lead for 36 minutes, East Tennessee State took a page out of Furman’s […]
Author’s Note: I meant to post this before the second half tipped off on Thursday night, but my wifi crashed on Wednesday night, so I had to delay until I fixed that mess. Apologies, but cut me some slack — I only spend a million hours per year on this stupid low-major league. We’re at […]
RIVERDALE, N.Y. – The 2025-26 academic year will likely be the last that the MAAC will be known by the four-letter acronym that has been its identity for all 46 years of its existence. In an interview with Mid-Major Madness at the Saint Peter’s-Manhattan men’s basketball game on Thursday night, conference Commissioner Travis Tellitocci gave […]
The Western Athletic Conference, which, for those who aren’t in the loop, is merging with the ASUN this summer, is making the wrong kind of headlines ahead of such a move. The league, which has just seven teams competing this season in each of men’s and women’s basketball, is currently in a civil dispute with […]
Thursday, Feb. 5 Vermont @ Maine (6 PM ET, ESPN+) Maine hung around with Vermont at Patrick in the first meeting, but the Catamounts were missing both TJ Long and Noah Barnett. While both will be healthy for the second meeting, the Black Bears will also have Mekhi Gray back for this game. Lucas Mari […]
The past week featured several outstanding performances, including a pair of buzzer-beating game winners, a triple-double with blocks, numerous double-doubles, an 8-for-10 shooting performance from deep and a freshman tearing up the scoreboard. The nominees are Filipa Barros from California Baptist, Southern Utah’s Brooklyn Fely, Saniyah Glenn-Bello of Harvard, Northern Iowa’s Ryley Goebel, Nikola Priede of […]
Midway through conference play with March fast approaching, we need your help to decide our men’s player of week for Jan. 26 – Feb. 1 by voting in the poll below. Here are our top five men’s candidates and a recap of their outstanding performances from across week 12 of the college basketball season. Jordan […]
While Horizon League games will only take place on Wednesday and Saturday this week, there is plenty to watch for each day. Red-hot Cleveland State, a nationally-televised game, middle-of-the-pack teams looking to ignite a late push and a battle of contenders to close the week headline another week of action. Below are five games people […]
Jacksonville awaits all 12 teams in the Atlantic Sun conference as they now fight for the four byes given to the top four teams, with just a little over a month till the league hosts its first-ever on-site championships. Those byes, apparently, might have already been earned. Sitting atop the conference is the regulars, Austin […]
Beginning the week, 3.5 games separated first and eighth place. Closing the week, 3.5 games separate first and fourth place. As March draws near, there is a little bit of separation happening at the top of the Horizon League, but as has been apparent every week in this league, that separation doesn’t mean anything until […]
Admittedly, I didn’t watch every minute of every game this past week — weird, busy weekend for me, hence why this story is 24 hours late — so this column will be approached a tad differently. I’ll mostly talk about Vermont’s win over UMBC and NJIT’s win over Vermont. I swear that isn’t my Catamount […]
The MAAC Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships aren’t going anywhere. The conference announced on Tuesday that the championships from 2027 through 2031 will be played in Atlantic City, N.J., making it 12 straight years for the tournament on the Jersey Shore. The league said that the Conference’s Council of Presidents voted unanimously for Atlantic City. […]
Saint Louis is atop the Men’s Other Top 25 for a third straight week. The Billikens are 21-1 and 9-0 in the Atlantic 10. They have won 15 straight games with their lone loss this season coming on a last-second 3-pointer against Stanford back in November in the final day of the Acrisure Invitational. Josh […]
Princeton, Fairfield and South Dakota St., who made up half of the top six spots last week, all suffered losses. Rhode Island moved into the top spot for the first time this season. The Rams are 19-2, have won 13 in a row and are a perfect 10-0 in Atlantic 10 play. The Tigers, who […]
PHILADELPHIA — The only thing Adam Fisher could do was watch as Deuce Jones made a contested three at the buzzer in front of the entire city of Philadelphia in the Big 5 Classic third place game. It was a devastating loss that dropped Fisher’s Temple Owls to 4-5 and a third consecutive defeat. That […]
FAIRFIELD, Conn. — The two-time reigning MAAC regular season champions were on the ropes on Sunday, in danger of a third straight loss. There’s a lot of basketball left to be played, but we’ve never seen an iteration of Tom Pecora’s Quinnipiac Bobcats in this situation before. Down by 11 points with 15 minutes to […]
Watching a team struggle is a strange experience. The season begins with hope and expectation, then slowly becomes a ceaseless nightmare. There’s a certain disbelief that morphs into listlessness as everything seems to go against a losing squad. But out of despair rises hope. The team asks, “Why not us? What do we have to […]
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Many MAAC schools have a certain campus culture to them. Something that draws alumni back and entices students to enroll. At Saint Peter’s, many of the students enroll out of convenience and commute from home to the Journal Square-adjacent strip of buildings known as the campus. It’s why it’s so hard […]
In Mike Magpayo’s first year as head coach of Fordham’s men’s basketball program, the Rams have had their struggles. Sitting just 11-10 overall and 2-6 in the Atlantic 10, Magpayo has been the first to admit it at times. “I just think a lack of shot making turns into a lack of energy on a […]
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. – With five teams tied for third place, each 5-4 in conference play, and with the next four teams lurking close behind (each within two games), this year’s normally competitive Coastal Athletic Conference has already produced even more parity than usual. However, two of the league’s perennial contenders – the UNC Wilmington Seahawks […]
One-bid leagues can often carry some of the greatest elements of college basketball on their back these days. Regionality aside, these conferences realistically only have one shot at sending a team to the big dance, so every game counts. Especially at the onset of February, and nearly halfway through the 18-game conference slate in the […]