Big South Conference 2007-08 Preview
by Phil Kasiecki

For quite a while now, the Big South has largely been Winthrop’s to lose. They have had challenges, even serious ones like those from Birmingham Southern before they left Division I and Coastal Carolina a couple of years ago, but they’ve prevailed in the end each time. [...]

Big South Conference Tournament Semifinal Recap
by Jerry Hinnen

After chaos reigning in the Big South tournament brackets the past several seasons, the 2006 conference championship will be decided by the top two seeds: one the league’s most on-paper talented team and regular season champion, the other its personal nemesis and the conference’s hottest squad. The [...]

Big South Conference Quarterfinal Recaps
by Jerry Hinnen

No. 6 Charleston Southern 96, No. 3 Birmingham-Southern 76

The curse of the Big South’s third seed continued Tuesday as Charleston Southern upset Birmingham-Southern in Birmingham 96-76 in the Big South quarterfinals. BSC won both regular-season meetings handily, but behind 45 points from guards Chris Moore and Donnell Covington [...]

Big South Conference Notebook
by Jerry Hinnen

Down to the Wire
Every year, something NFL fans look forward to is the late-season appearance of charts and lists detailing exactly what scenarios need to play out for their team to make the playoffs. Those fans now have something in common with the scenario-studying supporters of Winthrop, Birmingham-Southern, and [...]

Big South Conference Notebook
by Jerry Hinnen

Teal is the new black
It’s Winthrop and Birmingham-Southern pestering the country’s bracketologists with their tie atop of the Big South standings at 10-2, but the capital-H Hottest team in the Big South is Coastal Carolina, winners of six straight and eight of their last nine to move into sole [...]

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, the one school [...]

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 and lifting Winthrop to a 68-46 win [...]

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 seven years after beating Birmingham-Southern, 78-64. [...]

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 semifinals after knocking off the Chanticleers, 74-62. [...]

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 in the Big South Tournament, which [...]

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 the regular season. The Eagles only [...]

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 remainder of the season. All four [...]

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 early December and five wins 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 then had to come through again [...]

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 home to a Division II opponent [...]

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 have found themselves, and have now [...]

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 season this upcoming week.

Though the league [...]

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 had the week off for exams [...]

Big South Conference Notebook
by Jeremy Dunlap

Player of the Week

Radford’s Chris Oliver did his part in helping the Highlanders start the year with a 2-1 record. In three games, the sophomore forward has made 29 of 38 field goal attempts (76.3 percent) and is leading the league with a 23.3 ppg scoring average. [...]

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 boys with 30, 40, or even [...]

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, has been in an [...]

Big South Conference 2003-04 Season Recap
by Jeremy Dunlap

Going into the season, most people expected the favorites to be Winthrop, Liberty, and Birmingham-Southern, with Winthrop being the consensus choice as league champion. Liberty and Birmingham-Southern played well throughout the conference season, as they finished tied for first in the conference with a 12-4 record. [...]

Big South Conference Finals Recap

Recap by Jeremy Dunlap

(1) Liberty 89, (2) High Point 44
The result was never in doubt as the top-seeded Liberty Flames easily ran over the visiting second-seeded High Point Panthers in the Big South Tournament Championship game, 89-44. The 45-point victory broke the conference’s record for largest margin [...]

Big South Conference Semifinals Recap

Recap by Jeremy Dunlap

(1) Liberty 88, (4) Coastal Carolina 73
Liberty broke open a close game late and withstood a 28-point effort by Coastal’s Brandon Newby to win 88-73 and advance to their first Big South Championship game since 1997. The top-seeded Flames were up 71-68 with less than [...]

Big South Conference Semifinals Preview

Preview by Jeremy Dunlap

(4) Coastal Carolina at (1) Liberty
Coastal Carolina has not made it to the Big South Championship game since 1993, and if they hope to make it again, they will have to do what no other conference team has done all season, beat Liberty in the Vines [...]

Big South Conference Quarterfinals Preview

Preview by Jeremy Dunlap

The Big South tips off its tournament today with a brand new format. All tournament games will now be played at the home court of the better seed instead of being played at a centralized location. The semifinals will be played on Thursday, March 4 [...]

Big South Conference Quarterfinals Recap

Recap by Jeremy Dunlap

Game 1 – (1) Liberty 60, (8) Charleston Southern 54
The top-seeded Liberty Flames did not have an easy time with Charleston Southern, but were able to withstand the upset bid by the Buccaneers and hold on to win, 60-54. Liberty never led by more [...]

Big South Conference Notebook
by Jeremy Dunlap

Tourney Time

The jockeying for seeds is over and on Tuesday, March 2, the Big South Conference Tournament gets underway featuring a new format and eight teams hungry for a chance to get to the NCAA Tournament. For the first time in league history, each tournament game will be played [...]