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A mid-major guide to the NBA Draft
Here is a list of every mid-major or former mid-major player to keep an eye on during the 2026 NBA Draft, which takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday in Brooklyn. Rankings based on the consensus big board from Rookiescale.com. Mid-Major Players #20 Allen Graves – Santa Clara One of the most improbable prospect rises in […]
New Arch Madness Format Solves a Non-Existent Problem
Every year for over the past three decades, the Enterprise Center in St. Louis, Missouri, has been home to one of the best conference tournaments that mid-major college basketball has to offer. “Arch Madness” has a special feel to it. The fans are passionate, the programs are rich in tradition, and most importantly, teams have […]
MMM Reacts Survey: How many additional bids will mid-majors receive with expanded NCAA Tournament?
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. More teams = more access. But does it? The NCAA Tournament is expanding to 76 teams […]
Mid-Major Reacts Survey Results: Welcome to the mid-major ranks, Pac-12!
Gone are the days of UCLA, USC, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Arizona State… The Pac-12’s loss is our gain. We asked last week whether you thought the new Pac-12, which officially takes shape on July 1, would be considered a mid-major conference, and 67% of fans believe it will be. The Conference of Champions was whittled […]
SoCon Portal Series: Off-Season Portal Rankings/Furman Paladins Portal Evaluation
With the transfer portal now over, it’s time to look at the overall recruiting hauls at each of the now 11 Southern Conference programs after the dust as settled. There will be some teams that add late commitments, but the majority of what is going to happen has already transpired. It’s at least enough of […]
UTEP Miners clear mountains from home court
Fans of cool on-court designs in college basketball, I am sorry to report that the mountains have been removed from the UTEP hardwood floor ahead of the program’s move to the Mountain West Conference. In a tweet posted to Twitter/X The Everything App, UTEP shocked us with a photo showing the new court with the […]
Mid-Major Reacts Survey: Will the new Pac-12 be a mid-major?
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. Conference realignment is striking again. No, this isn’t an article about another change coming. Even though […]
Mid-Major Madness Mailbag: What are the destination mid-major arenas?
Hello all, the Mid-Major Madness team is here to answer all of your mid-major-related/adjacent questions this offseason! If you guys like this, we’ll do more of them throughout the offseason and season. If you don’t like it, we will still do it. Mid-Major Madness Mailbag time Lance Hartzler: As Mid-Major Madness’s resident West Coast Person, […]
MAAC Check-In: Siena coach Nevada Smith talks roster, process, & more
LOUDONVILLE, N.Y. – Every single day in between his last day leading the NBA G League’s Sioux Falls Skyforce in 2019 and his first as the new head coach of the Siena Saints, Nevada Smith spent time thinking about how he would approach his next head coaching gig. Over those seven years, he spent six […]
Missouri Valley Men’s Basketball Breakout Candidates
In a conference where the best players often hit the transfer portal at some point, development is more important than ever. We saw it last year in the Missouri Valley with Drew Scharnowski at Belmont, JaQuan Johnson at Bradley, and Will Hornseth at Northern Iowa. Those are just a few examples, but there were plenty […]
MAAC announces rebrand to The Metro Conference
NOTE: This story has been updated with additional reporting. As Commissioner Travis Tellitocci and the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference hosted the NCAA Tournament in Buffalo back in March, he kept hearing one question from others in the college athletics space. He even said he heard it from competing coaches. What would the MAAC’s new name […]
‘Keep throwing until I couldn’t’: PJ Craig lifts Rider to MAAC baseball title
WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. — For 38 minutes in between the last pitch of the bottom of the fourth, and the final out of the top of the fifth, everybody in Heritage Financial Park assumed that PJ Craig’s day was done. Except for Craig, his team, and his coaches. The long layoff wasn’t due to a […]
MAAC Check-In: Exclusive Offseason Q&A with Fairfield head coach Chris Casey
Coming off a strong finish to a season in which it started four freshmen, making a run to the MAAC Tournament Semifinals, Fairfield returned three of those freshmen as part of completing its 2026-27 roster. Mid-Major Madness caught up with Stags head coach Chris Casey on Tuesday. Here is the full exchange (Note: Casey cannot […]
Men’s College Basketball Coaches Attire Guide
As a firm believer in college basketball coaches wearing suits, I compiled a spreadsheet for the 68-team NCAA Tournament field back in March, detailing the attire each coach and his staff wore on the sidelines during the Big Dance. As an offseason project, I wanted to expand the research to include every coaching staff for […]
MAAC Check-In: Exclusive Offseason Q&A with Iona head coach Dan Geriot
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. — Iona became the first MAAC team to finish its roster, so Mid-Major Madness took a trip to the Hynes Athletic Center to check in with the staff, including head coach Dan Geriot. Here is the Q&A [SF] Go through your roster and describe every player in one word [DG] Kosy Akametu […]
Four non-Division I transfers to keep an eye on in the Horizon League
Of the 15 players who made the Horizon League’s All-League teams in 2025-26, just one player – C.J. O’Hara – is set to return to the league, and even he entered the transfer portal, but ended up at Wright State. Players transferring up after productive mid-major seasons is the new norm, and this offseason was […]
These are three of the best mid-major coaching hires in the 2026 cycle
Last year, I named Bryan Hodgson, Lennie Acuff and Eric Olen as the three best mid-major hires. I don’t have quite as strong of a conviction on three of them this year – there are a bunch that I really like – but what I did like about that group was how all three had […]
Three non-Division-I to Missouri Valley transfers to watch
Two years ago, Ben McCollum took a handful of Division-II players with him to Drake from Northwest Missouri State. It was thought to be somewhat of a rebuilding year for the Bulldogs who had lost head coach Darian DeVries to West Virginia, but we know that wasn’t close to reality. Bennett Stirtz, Tavion Banks, Mitch […]
How one college kid built Hardwood Empire, the viral college basketball simulation app
Finn Keating is a self-described hustler. He’s the type of person who always needs to be busy. His classes at Providence College and relationships with his friends are valuable and fulfilling, but he’s eager for more. Keating has long known himself to dive deep into side projects to fill his time and his endless energy. […]
The SoCon’s public endorsement of NCAA Tournament expansion leaves us with so many questions
While most that support mid-major basketball think it to be a bad idea, and that includes myself, the Southern Conference announced its support for the expansion of the NCAA Tournament from a 68-team field to 76 teams Tuesday morning by commissioner Michael Cross. Most of us have several questions, and it’s hard to know exactly […]
Now validated, Brendan Coyle returns to Siena as conduit to new era
Leading up to the 2026 MAAC Tournament in Atlantic City, Brendan Coyle was struggling. The sharpshooter who made 94 threes at a 39% clip in his junior season had dipped below 30% as a senior. When he walked on to play for Carm Maciariello in 2022-23, and then redshirted, he probably didn’t envision his career […]
‘Everybody’s just excited’: New Mexico’s retentions creates offseason buzz
Jake Hall and Uriah Tenette were unknown commodities coming into the 2025-26 season as freshmen at New Mexico. They were signed to UC San Diego by head coach Eric Olen, who took the pair with him to the Lobos when he took the gig. A year later, they’ve become two of the biggest names in […]
MMM Reacts Survey Results: Limiting transfers is a good idea, fans say
Four schools in four years. Playing college basketball into your mid-20s. Maybe even your late-20s. Coming back to school after an excursion in the pros. All that seems crazy … because it is. In fact, 64% of Mid-Major Madness fans believe limiting transfers is a good idea. This question stemmed from President Donald Trump signing […]
Colin Mitchell’s title-winning buzzer-beater honors his late grandfather
INDIANAPOLIS — The two weeks in between Mary Washington’s win over Trinity in the national semifinal and the Division-III National Championship Game in Indianapolis against Emory felt like an eternity for sophomore guard Colin Mitchell. In Emporia, 124 miles south of UMW’s Fredericksburg campus, three days on from helping the Eagles clinch a spot in […]
How did every first-year mid-major coach do in 2025-26?
A year ago, I wrote about my three favorite mid-major coaching hires from that cycle. It featured Eric Olen (New Mexico), Bryan Hodgson (South Florida) and Lennie Acuff (Samford). We now know that Olen made the NIT semifinals in year one, Hodgson made the NCAA Tournament in year one and is off to Providence, and […]
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