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 […]

Big South Conference Notebook by Jeremy Dunlap Hitting their Stride Expectations coming into the year were very high for High Point, but until recently, the Panthers did not give many indications that they were going to be able to meet those lofty predictions. However, it seems as if the Panthers […]

Big South Conference Notebook by Jeremy Dunlap Time to Get Down to Business The fun and games are now over. For the most part, non-conference season has passed and now the serious part of the schedule presents itself as every team in the Big South will tip off their conference […]

Big South Conference Notebook by Jeremy Dunlap Rough Week Nothing came easy to anyone in the Big South this week, as the teams of the league combined to go 3-8 in a light week of action, with two of those wins coming against Division II squads. Both Winthrop and Birmingham-Southern […]

Big South Conference Notebook by Jeremy Dunlap Beating the Big Boys Teams from conferences such as the ACC and Big East generally give Big South teams fits during the non-conference portion of the season. It is not uncommon to see Big South schools come home from games against the big […]

Big South Conference Preview by Jeremy Dunlap Everybody is now invited. After an NCAA ruling early in the off-season, Birmingham-Southern will be allowed to compete for the Big South’s automatic bid a year sooner than expected. Birmingham-Southern, which finished tied for first in the regular season last year with Liberty, […]