One of the first posts I ever wrote on Pioneer Pride centered around Wagner’s upset victory over Pittsburgh three days before Christmas last season. Immediately after watching Dan Hurley’s masterpiece, I took to the keyboard to pen one of my first posts on the Northeast Conference.
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Harvard’s Upset Salvages a Tough Day for Mid-Major Teams
The second round of the NCAA tournament provided some intriguing matchups between mid-major programs and those big bad BCS conference teams. With plenty of opportunities for our beloved low-budget squads to pull off the upset, we broke out our mid-major pom-poms while channel surfing through the madness.
Conference Check-ins: America East and Patriot League
With only three to four weeks left in the regular season, I felt it was an excellent time to look at some of the mid-major regular season races across the east coast. Time is running out for teams attempting to jockey into favorable position before making a run at qualification into the NCAA tournament. Today, [...]
KenPom Movement: Feeling SWACtastic
This week’s movement post sees Lafayette leading the charge after blowing out Lehigh and Colgate. The Leopards’ week could’ve been even better, but they lost to American at home on Saturday. Check out the post for a tip on another SWAC team that just might be able to challenge Southern for the league title and [...]
No C.J. McCollum, No Problem as Lehigh edges American
If there was ever a time for the Lehigh Mountain Hawks to have an off-night, Wednesday night in Washington D.C. presented a perfect opportunity. C.J. McCollum was back on campus rehabbing his broken foot. Preseason All-Patriot League selection Gabe Knutson sat on the bench midway through the first half saddled with two fouls. The American [...]
Super Saturday for the NEC Provides Mixed Results
The last Saturday of 2012 was the final non-conference hurrah for four of the seven NEC teams that competed yesterday. Five of those seven games saw the NEC team as the favorite, yet the day concluded with a mixed bag of results overall. Many of these games were decided in the final seconds, and that [...]
A disappointing Wednesday night of NEC basketball
Coming into tonight, any NEC fan could have made the logical argument that the conference would finish a perfect 6-0 on the night. After all, you had four home favorites and two slight underdogs on the road. There were no elite opponents on the schedule, just middle of the road mid-major teams that the NEC [...]
Patriot League Q&A with Kevin Doyle
This season, most of the NEC teams will take on a Patriot League team at least once in their non-conference schedule. Lafayette (seven games) and Lehigh (six games) should be part of the NEC standings, since more than half of their non-conference schedule will be made up of NEC teams.
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