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The Illinois College Basketball Rankings will be a weekly feature this season on The Catch and Shoot where six writers who cover college basketball in the state of Illinois will rank the 13 Division I teams in the state. Here is the preseason edition: Voters:…
By Jesse Kramer The MAC is another mid-major league that has been very successful in recent years. Although its teams have not fared too well in the NCAA tournament recently save for Ohio’s Sweet 16 run two seasons ago, Akron and Kent State are consistently…
The 2013-14 college basketball season is quickly approaching, with Midnight Madness in only 31 days. To tip off The Catch and Shoot’s season preview, the website will release 10 players on its “Top 100 Players” list every Monday from now until the end of October.…
Joe Mihalich, Hofstra After 15 years at Niagara University, Mihalich decided to move on to a new challenge at Hofstra. The Pride, who spent time among the nation’s top mid-major programs within the last decade, had fallen to irrelevancy ever since Tom Pecora left for…
By Jesse Kramer We are still about six months away from the start of the college basketball season, but why not take a way-too-early look at some of the best mid-majors for 2013-14? You can also check out my Ultra Early Top 25 Rankings and…
By Jesse Kramer Entering the second week of the 2013 NCAA Tournament, a pair of mid-majors, Wichita State and Florida Gulf Coast, remain in the hunt for a national title. A few other stragglers are still playing in the NIT, CBI and CIT. As the…
BracketBuster weekend is right around the corner, starting with a pair of games on Friday night. Here are previews for all of the best mid-major matchups of the weekend. North Dakota State at Akron, Friday at 7 p.m. on ESPN2 Akron (21-4, 12-0 MAC) needs…
