Big South Conference 2005-06 Preview by Jeremy Dunlap Change is inevitable, especially in college basketball. In the Big South, there were plenty of changes during the off-season. Three schools underwent head coaching changes while another three schools are replacing more than half of their roster from a year ago. However, […]

Big South Conference Championship Game Recap by Jeremy Dunlap (1) Winthrop 68, (7) Charleston Southern 46 All season long, Winthrop’s defense has carried the load, and though Charleston Southern did manage to connect on over 48 percent of their shots, the Eagles’ defense gave the Bucs fits, causing 18 turnovers […]

Big South Tournament – Semifinals by Jeremy Dunlap (Note: All tournament games are played at the home court of the higher seeded team.) (1) Winthrop 78, (4) Birmingham-Southern 64 Winthrop extended its winning streak to seventeen games and will appear in its fifth Big South championship game of the last […]

Big South Quarterfinal Recaps by Jeremy Dunlap (Note: All tournament games are played at the home court of the higher seeded team.) (1) Winthrop 74, (8) Coastal Carolina 62 It took a while, but Winthrop eventually took control of their match-up against Coastal Carolina, and will advance to the conference […]

Big South Conference Notebook by Jeremy Dunlap Regular Season Champs With one week remaining in the regular season, Winthrop clinched its fourth regular season Big South title of the last seven years with a pair of victories this past week. The regular season championship gives the Eagles the top seed […]

Big South Conference Notebook by Jeremy Dunlap Eagles Flying High Winthrop was faced with a busy four-game schedule this past week, due to a rescheduling of an earlier postponed game, but won all four games and now hold a commanding three-game lead over Liberty with only four games remaining in […]

Big South Conference Notebook by Jeremy Dunlap Four Highlanders Suspended The biggest news of the week in the Big South came out of Radford, as head coach Byron Samuels announced soon before the Highlanders’ game at Charleston Southern on Saturday that four of his players had been suspended for the […]

Big South Conference Notebook by Jeremy Dunlap Oh My, VMI After a promising start to the season during their non-conference schedule, the VMI Keydets have fell on very hard times as their losing streak has now reached ten games after an 0-3 week. With a win over Virginia Tech in […]

Big South Conference Notebook by Jeremy Dunlap Halfcourt Heroics Saturday night proved to be an exciting night in Radford, Virginia as the Highlanders hosted High Point. After making a baseline jumper with about ten seconds remaining in overtime to put his team up by one, Radford junior guard Whit Holcomb-Faye […]

Big South Conference Notebook by Jeremy Dunlap Charleston Southern? Of all of the teams that one would have been picked to start the conference season 4-0, Charleston Southern would have probably been amongst the last taken. Not only did they finish in last place last year, but they lost at […]