Southern Conference 2007-08 Preview
by Phil Kasiecki

The Southern Conference has been getting its share of national attention this off-season, and it has come largely because of one team that many have high expectations for. It’s safe to say that the prohibitive favorite this season is Bob McKillop’s team at Davidson.
There is good reason for [...]

Southern Conference Notebook
by Tyler Annett

As we begin 2007 in the Southern Conference, two teams have started out of the gate surprisingly strong both in conference and non-conference play. Appalachian State and Davidson have posted 4-0 records to begin conference play, as the Mountaineers are 12-3 and the Wildcats are 13-3. These two [...]

Southern Conference Notebook
by Tyler Annett

Star Power
The outstanding play of the returning stars of the Southern Conference led the way in these week’s games as well as new players arriving on the scene to give the league some fresh faces.
Kyle Hines of UNC-Greensboro, a potential player of the year candidate, proved the pre-season speculation true [...]

Southern Conference 2006-07 Preview
by Tyler Annett

The Southern Conference is preparing to once again be as competitive and exciting a conference as it has always been.
There were three coaching changes made and numerous strong players have left in league, which then in turn means its time for some new guys to step up and shine. [...]

Southern Conference 2005-06 Preview
by Michael Protos

The Southern Conference will have a new look this season after Davidson dominated it from start to finish last season – or at least the finish of the regular season.

The Wildcats finished 16-0 in conference play but lost to UNC-Greensboro in the conference tournament semifinals. Davidson loses a lot [...]

Southern Conference Tournament Preview
by Jonathan Gonzalez

The first stop to March Mania. That is the tagline for the 84th edition of the Kyocera Southern Conference Basketball Championship, which kicks off today at noon in Chattanooga, Tenn. For Davidson, it is a stop that the Wildcats hope is indeed the first for them, and the last [...]

Southern Conference Notebook
by Jonathan Gonzalez

So what did we learn about the Southern Conference this week? For starters, we learned that Davidson doesn’t seem too fond of losing games. We also learned that Appalachian State is pretty good, while UNC-Greensboro is slipping. East Tennessee State’s Tim Smith can really score, and Elon cannot win forever, [...]

Southern Conference Notebook
by Jonathan Gonzalez

In the spirit of Valentines Day, Davidson continued to show no love to the rest of the Southern Conference as the Wildcats ran their winning streak to 12 games. Davidson enjoyed another strong week from Brendan Winters, who is having a SoCon MVP-type season.

While the rich get richer, Davidson’s opposition [...]

Southern Conference Notebook
by Jon Gonzalez

It’s Feb. 1, and you are a member of the Southern Conference. You look at the calendar, count the weeks, and find that in a little more than five weeks, the NCAA will select 64 teams for their tournament. You wonder if your team can find its way into the [...]

Southern Conference Notebook
by Jonathan Gonzalez

After three consecutive close-but-no-cigar losses to Massachusetts, Seton Hall and Princeton, the Davidson Wildcats have run off six straight conference victories and are sitting pretty atop the Southern Conference’s Southern Division. Leading the charge for the Wildcats (11-7, 7-0) is Brendan Winters. The junior forward from Denver is averaging nearly [...]

Southern Conference 2003-04 Recap
by Michael Ermitage

The 2003-2004 basketball season for the Southern conference began with a conference realignment that separated rivals between Chattanooga and Charleston and ETSU and Davidson. For 2004-2005, it is possible that none of these traditional Southern Conference powerhouses finish in the top five. Charleston was hit by [...]

Southern Conference Semifinals Recap

Recap by Paul Oren

No. 1N East Tennessee State 96 No. 2S Davidson 84
Tim Smith proved once again that he is a big game player and ETSU overcame both foul and injury problems to advance to the SoCon Championship game with a 96-84 victory over Davidson. Smith [...]

Southern Conference Finals Preview

Preview by Paul Oren

No. 1N East Tennessee State vs. No. 2 N Chattanooga
It’s fitting that the oldest NCAA conference tournament is going to be the first conference tournament to hold their championship game and thus have the first team to get their dance card punched, and it’s fitting that the two [...]

Southern Conference Finals Recap

Recap by Paul Oren

No. 1N East Tennessee State 78 No. 2N Chattanooga 62
Championship games have a tendency to bring out the best in a player. They say that “Big time players make big time plays in big time games,” and that is what makes a champion.”
[...]

Southern Conference Quarterfinals Recap

Recap by Paul Oren

#1N East Tennessee State 94 #4S Furman 84
Tim Smith picked up right where he left off from last season’s SoCon Tournament. The 2003 MVP scored a team-high 24 points and had 4 steals to lead ETSU to a 94-84 victory over Furman. The “Furman Freshman” [...]

Southern Conference Semifinals Preview

Preview by Paul Oren

No. 1N East Tennessee State vs. No. 2S Davidson
Tim Smith and company look to keep their dream rolling of getting back to the NCAA Tournament as they take on Davidson in the semi-finals of the SoCon Tournament. While Smith, the point guard, is the leader of [...]

Southern Conference First Round Recap

Recap by Paul Oren

No. 4S Furman 73, No. 5N Western Carolina 68

Maleye Ndoye scored 25 points, including 5 three-pointers, to lead Furman to a 73-68 opening round victory over Western Carolina. The Paladins built their largest lead at 60-42 with 9:16 remaining, but a 22-4 run by the [...]

Southern Conference Notebook
by Paul Oren

SoCon Game of the Year

In a simply amazing finish to a game featuring two of the best that the Southern Conference has to offer, College of Charleston held on to defeat East Tennessee State 91-89 in Charleston. Mike Benton tipped in an errant three-pointer with [...]

Southern Conference First Round Preview

Preview by Paul Oren

The 2003-2004 Southern Conference Tournament gets underway Wednesday in North Charleston, South Carolina. It is the 83rd edition of this post-season tournament, and it represents the longest running conference tournament in the nation.

Entering the tournament, there has been a lot of talk from the league [...]

Southern Conference Notebook
by Paul Oren

It’s all about the seed…

Saturday marks the final day of regular season play in the Southern Conference, and it also represents the final chance for teams to get the best seed possible in the upcoming conference tournament. The 12-team tournament will start on March 3rd in Charleston [...]

Southern Conference Notebook
by Paul Oren

Bracket Buster

Two SoCon teams were featured in the made-for-TV ESPN Bracket Buster on Saturday. Created with the idea of giving Mid-Majors a chance to beef up their RPI and an opportunity to play on national television, this year’s installment provided plenty of intrigue for East Tennessee State and [...]

Southern Conference Notebook
by Paul Oren

“It’s a marathon, not a sprint.”

For the coaches of any mid-major college basketball team, those words ring true, especially in the late days of February. Unlike the ACC or SEC, most mid-major conferences such as the SoCon only get one bid to the NCAA Tournament, and regardless [...]

Southern Conference Notebook
by Robby Trail

The Southern Conference continues to struggle in non-conference play, going 5-6 in such games this week with teams losing several games they should have won. This week is a big one for the conference with non-conference match-ups against teams such as Vanderbilt, Alabama, Missouri, Arkansas, Ohio State, Tennessee, and [...]

Southern Conference Notebook
by Robby Trail

Southern Conference teams must start winning non-conference games if they want to gain any respect. Last week as a conference, the teams went 7-7 in non-conference games. This isn’t bad by itself for a mid-major conference, but when you realize that most of those 14 games, with the exception of [...]

Southern Conference Notebook
by Robby Trail

Charleston made a statement Monday night with a 75-69 win over Davidson, roaring back after Davidson held an 11-point lead at halftime and a six-point lead with just over 3 minutes remaining. These two teams were picked to finish one-two in the conference’s South Division and Charleston now takes over [...]

Southern Conference Notebook
by Robby Trail

The biggest story in the SoCon this week was how close several teams were to making a big story in the conference. Several teams came oh so close to making national waves and gaining the conference needed recognition.

Chattanooga led No. 5 Kansas by double digits in the first half, but [...]

Southern Conference Preview
by Robby Trail

After a conference tournament last season that featured neither number one seeded team making it to the championship game, the Southern Conference returns this year with many of the usual suspects picked to do well in the conference.

The biggest development of the off-season was a realignment of divisions within the [...]

SoCon Offseason News Update
by Robby Trail

Appalachian State

Coaching Changes: Mountaineers head coach Houston Fancher hired Daryl Robinson as an assistant. Robinson previously coached high school ball at Lee Road High School in Raleigh for ten seasons, taking Lee to the state playoffs nine of those ten seasons.

College of Charleston

Georgetown Transfer: [...]

Southern Conference Finals
by Mike Baller

The 2003 Southern Conference Championship belongs to The Bucs of East
Tennessee State University who receive an automatic bid the NCAA tournament.
They held off Chattanooga 97-90 in front of 4,100 fans and a national
television audience at the North Charleston Coliseum on Saturday night.
[...]

Southern Conference Quarterfinals
by Mike Baller

Everything is going as planned in the Southern Conference
Tournament . . . almost. It’s No. 1 vs. No. 2 in the top half of the bracket and the No. 2
seed is into the semis in the lower bracket. The one unforeseeable disruption
the seeders did not account for is the run [...]