Big South Conference Notebook by Jeremy Dunlap Gallup For Three Conference play opened Sat., Jan. 3 with four games, and the most exciting one proved to be Liberty’s visit to Conway, S.C., to battle Coastal Carolina. With Liberty leading 65-64 down the stretch, Coastal Carolina’s senior guard E.J. Gallup hit […]

Big South Conference Notebook by Jeremy Dunlap After a slightly longer than normal break, the Big South Notebook is back and gearing up for the start of conference games Jan. 3. Stay tuned to Hoopville for a Big South Report Card, in which I will take a look at each […]

Big South Conference Notebook by Jeremy Dunlap Not Much Action With semester exams taking up the schedules of most of the Big South schools last week, there were only ten games played in the conference last week. With the holidays quickly approaching, there will be a few more breaks in […]

Big South Conference Notebook by Jeremy Dunlap Historic Victory In eleven tries during the 26-year history of the Winthrop men’s basketball program, the Eagles had never defeated a team from the Southeastern Conference. In fact, Winthrop opened the year with a 65-44 loss to Kentucky, the defending SEC champions. But […]

Big South Conference Notebook by Jeremy Dunlap Bad Offense or Good Defense? Why should the score 38-34 look familiar to anybody? Well, it was the final score of the exciting game played between Florida and Florida State’s football teams Nov. 29. But it was probably also the halftime score of […]

Big South Conference Notebook by Jeremy Dunlap No Surprises Here Early season games in the Big South, especially the match-ups in the first week, typically come in two forms: The impossible games against the heavyweight contenders from the major conferences and the easy wins against non-Division I schools. Granted, there […]

Big South Conference Preview by Jeremy Dunlap There have been quite a few changes in the Big South as the 2003-2004 season gets ready to tip off. One team has joined the league (VMI) as another team has left (Elon). Along with that change, Birmingham-Southern will now have its games […]

Big South Offseason News Update by Jeremy Dunlap Swap Meet: The biggest off-season news in the Big South occurred on July 1, when VMI officially became a member of the conference and Elon officially left. VMI left the Southern Conference, of which they had been a member since 1925, and […]