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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Feast Week is officially behind us, and for the Horizon League, that means it’s time for some early-season conference matchups. As it currently stands, just two teams in the conference have winning records, with Northern Kentucky at 6-2 and Robert Morris at 5-3. Through November, however, the League has faced plenty of uphill battles with […]
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Richmond is once again the No. 1 team in the women’s Other Top 25 this week. The Spiders were followed by Princeton, who jumped from No. 4 to No. 2. Fairfield and South Dakota St. each slid back one spot. James Madison moved up one to round out the top five. Davidson moved up to […]
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We have our third No. 1 team in the men’s Other Top 25 for this season, with Utah St. jumping Saint Mary’s for the top spot in this week’s ranking. The Aggies completed the month of November a perfect 7-0. They defeated VCU by three during the first week of the season. USU won the […]
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PHILADELPHIA – Merrimack hadn’t held an opponent under a point per possession through its first eight games of the season. That had never happened in the six previous seasons of the Warriors’ Division-I history. Following back-to-back losses to Penn and Hofstra to open up the Cathedral Classic at the Palestra, Joe Gallo’s team was beginning […]
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KISSIMMEE, Fla.-Illinois State captured the 2025 Terry’s Chocolate ESPN Events Invitational Imagination Bracket Title with a 72-65 win over Furman, while Richmond picked up a 71-66 win over the Charlotte 49ers in the consolation bracket at State Farm Fieldhouse, concluding a fantastic two days of basketball, which featured four good basketball games contested between true […]
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We are finally winding down MTE Season – that is, “Multi-Team Event” Season for those just joining us – and the theme so far, sadly, has been Corporate Money. That shouldn’t be the theme of anything ever, of course. Corporate money and venture capital ruin everything. And just because you’re used to it over the […]
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POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — John Dunne is known for his stingy defenses. He’s now in his 20th season as a head coach, and he’s only had an offense rank better than his defense in one of those seasons, his first at Marist in 2018-19. Before the season, KenPom wrote an article about which coaches are the […]
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Week four in the Atlantic 10 Conference saw a few of the league’s remaining undefeated programs fall while others like Dayton, Rhode Island and George Mason continue to flourish. 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 league. […]
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KISSIMMEE, Fla. — For the second time in four years, Furman has come to the Magic Kingdom and a posted one-point win over a team from the Commonwealth of Virginia, but unlike its 68-67 win over Virginia in the opening round of the 2023 NCAA Tournament at the Kia Center, which required a JP Pegues […]
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Feast Week is upon us and here at Mid-Major Madness, we need your help to decide our men’s player of week by voting in the poll below. Here are our top five men’s candidates and a recap of their outstanding performances from across week three of the college basketball season. Shelton Williams-Dryden – West Georgia […]
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