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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 […]
3 months ago | 6 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 […]
3 months ago | 6 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 […]
3 months ago | 5 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 […]
3 months ago | 7 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 […]
3 months ago | 3 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 […]
3 months ago | 4 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 […]
3 months ago | 6 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 […]
3 months ago | 8 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 […]
3 months ago | 6 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 […]
3 months ago | 3 reads
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 […]
3 months ago | 5 reads
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 […]
3 months ago | 3 reads
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 […]
3 months ago | 1 read
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 […]
3 months ago | 4 reads
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 […]
3 months ago | 2 reads
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 […]
3 months ago | 0 reads
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 […]
3 months ago | 2 reads
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. […]
3 months ago | 1 read
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 […]
3 months ago | 0 reads
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 […]
4 months ago | 1 read
As Feast Week is upon us, there were several standout performances from the week leading up to the holiday. That includes five players who are finalists for our Women’s Player of the Week honor, which you can vote on at the bottom of this article. They are the following: Fordham’s Alexis Black, Richmond’s Maggie Doogan, […]
4 months ago | 0 reads
Memphis is 1-4 Yeah, that’s not something that you thought you’d hear, but the Tigers are starting to see what happens when you schedule three top-50 KenPom opponents during non-conference and fail to recruit well enough to beat them. Adding on the home loss to a shaky UNLV team, Memphis’ inability to beat the big […]
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Columbia first fielded a men’s basketball team for the 1900-1901 season, which makes it one of the 60 oldest basketball programs in the country. During its 124-year tenure, though, Columbia has made the NCAA Tournament just three times and currently has the third-longest tournament appearance drought in college basketball history — the last appearance was […]
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NEW BRITAIN, Conn. — A season ago, Anthony Latina led the Sacred Heart Pioneers to a 10-10 record in their first year in the MAAC. There are many ways to get to that mark, and for the Pios, it was pairing the conference’s second-best offense with its fourth-worst defense. At Sacred Heart’s pace, it led […]
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