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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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One of the unique effects that the transfer portal has had on the SoCon hoops scene this season has been that is that more coaches in the league, especially the ones who didn’t have replace a lot of outgoing talent, have once again started to rely on freshmen. The league has been able to get […]
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This week marks the end of the first half of the AmEast regular season, as we get into rematches in Week 6. UMBC-Vermont is going to be wicked. Updated Power Ratings Thursday, Jan. 29 UMBC @ Vermont (7 PM ET, ESPN+) This one is a doozy, so I’ll spend the most amount of words/energy/time breaking […]
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Conference play is now well underway and we need your help to decide our men’s player of week for Jan. 19-25 by voting in the poll below. Here are our top five men’s candidates and a recap of their outstanding performances from across week 11 of the college basketball season. Kamrin Oriol – North Florida […]
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This week saw several outstanding performances across the country from mid-major women’s basketball players. The week was highlighted by a pair of program-record 40-plus point scoring efforts and a career-high 32 points to lead a 26-point comeback. The nominees are the following: Abby Cater (Wichita State), Lydia Melashenko (Merrimack), Megan Norris (UC Davis), Tristen Taylor […]
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The second half of Horizon League play is officially here, and boy, is it exciting. Eighth-place Detroit Mercy is still less than four games behind first-place Wright State in the standings, which shows that this is anybody’s league to win. Another full week of action awaits and below are five key games to monitor the […]
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The halfway mark of the Horizon League season is here, and less than four games separate first from eighth place. A handful of teams have a legit shot to win the league in the regular season, and there has been no shortage of upsets, which means anything could happen in the postseason. Additional upsets could […]
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NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. — This isn’t the first time I’ve written about how Dan Geriot isn’t used to the grind of a college basketball season. Geriot was in the NBA in various roles, including assistant coach for the Cavaliers and Pelicans, over the last 10 years. It’s an 82-game season with constant travel, few practices, […]
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Travis Steele loves visuals. “I showed our team a picture of a guy driving a car with a phone in his hand,” Steele told Mid-Major Madness in an interview. “I asked our guys, what do you see?” Senior forward Antwone Woolfolk responded, “I see a guy texting and driving.” “I said that’s exactly right,” Steele […]
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POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — Tom Pecora trusted his players to finish the job. He didn’t want to take a timeout to let Marist set up its defense, so he left two on the board as Quinnipiac tried to finish a comeback on the road. The Bobcats got to the precipice of making that comeback, cutting a […]
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From the departure of former head coach Billy Lange just weeks before the season, to Steve Donahue’s subsequent promotion, to losing leading scorer and sophomore guard Deuce Jones II, it’s been a long five months on Hawk Hill. Each new storyline seemingly piled up, and it gave way to Saint Joseph’s closing out the non-conference […]
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Saint Louis held steady at the top of the Men’s Other Top 25 for a second straight week. Undefeated Miami (OH) came in at No. 2 once again. The RedHawks are 20-0 and are the last unbeaten mid-major team. Saint Mary’s jumped back into the top five at No. 3. Utah St. and San Diego […]
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Rhode Island is on a tear this season and has won a dozen straight games. The Rams jump four spots up to No. 2 in this week’s Women’s Other Top 25 behind Princeton, who remained in the top spot for an eighth straight week. Rhodie is 18-2 and a perfect 9-0 in Atlantic 10 play. […]
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