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Chattanooga’s Double Defeats Throw North Division Into Chaos
From time to time, you will hear the term “lost weekend,” an expression used to describe a truly terrible turn of events in the course of one’s existence. This turn of phrase is most centrally reserved for genuinely momentous calamities that involve love and loss and tragedy. Sports really doesn’t enter into the equation. The results of athletic contests really don’t matter all that much in the bigger picture.
Yet, with that having been said, if there ever was an occasion in which the …

Furman 54, Georgia Southern 45

Given their place in the Southern Conference pecking order, the Furman Paladins are in many ways just biding their time until the league tournament during Championship Week in the early stages of March.
Based on the way they played on Thursday night on their home floor, the Paladin people really are engaged in the equivalent of twiddling their thumbs until the spotlight shines brightly in SoCon Country.
On a night when another SoCon game (Western Carolina-Chattanooga) was postponed due to the illnesses of several players, Furman shuffled …

College of Charleston 73, Furman 54
It’s only the first week of February, but at least one mid-major conference is beginning to take shape. The quirks of the schedule maker have put Charleston in charge of its postseason fate.
The College of Charleston Cougars defeated the Furman Paladins in a Southern Conference showdown from the Carolina First Center in Charleston, South Carolina. The win improved the Cougars to 10-2 in conference play and kept them in sole possession of first place in the SoCon’s South Division. Furman fell to 9-4 in conference …

College of Charleston 79, Wofford 54
The College of Charleston Cougars took control of the South Division of the Southern Conference after a dominating performance over the Wofford Terriers on Thursday night at the Carolina First Center in Charleston South Carolina. The Cougars moved into sole possession of first place, a full game in the loss column ahead of both Wofford and Furman. The Terriers are now 9-3 on the season and no longer control their own destiny.
The first half looked much the two squads first meeting which saw the Cougars …

Wofford 75, Western Carolina 66
Saturday was a very positive day for the team that’s intent on defending its own little neck of the college basketball woods. In the span of one afternoon in the Carolinas, the team that made its first NCAA Tournament appearance last year moved closer to a repeat of the same feat.
The Wofford Terriers moved atop their Southern Conference division with a victory over the Western Carolina Catamounts at Benjamin Johnson Arena in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Head coach Mike Young’s Terriers moved to 9-2 in the conference; …

Chattanooga 111, UNC Greensboro 110 (2 OT)
You might see more significant games this season in college basketball – the NCAA Tournament will make sure of that. However, you might never see another game as entertaining in 2010-2011 as the one that just unfolded in a college basketball mecca.
For years, the ACC Tournament has often been played in Greensboro, North Carolina. For one night, the city hosted a delicious basketball battle in the Southern Conference, not the ACC. The results were magical in a rollicking affair that lit up the evening.
The …

Western Carolina 65, Furman 41
Legs on a supermodel need to remain unblemished. Legs on basketball players need to remain fresh. For the unlucky Furman Paladins, the schedule maker removed a spring from their step on Thursday night at the Ramsey Center in Cullowhee, North Carolina.
Furman entered this game as the winner of four straight games and the owner of a tie for second place in the South Division of the Southern Conference with a 7-2 conference mark. Western Carolina entered this home game having suffered two straight crushing defeats on …

Wofford 88, Chattanooga 56

College basketball, like life itself, can be full of mysteries and brain-busting moments. One of them took place on a baffling Thursday evening at Benjamin Johnson Arena in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
It’s not hugely surprising that the Wofford Terriers defeated the Chattanooga Mocs in a battle of two upper-tier teams in the Southern Conference. Coach Mike Young’s Wofford wonderboys are the defending SoCon champions, the program that carried the league’s banner into last year’s NCAA Tournament and very nearly knocked off Wisconsin in a contentious first-round game …

Chattanooga 91, College of Charleston 88
Two years ago, a couple of teams with lots of great shooters but relatively weak defenses dueled for the Southern Conference Tournament championship and a ticket to the NCAAs. Monday night in the heart of Tennessee, that matchup was reprised, and based on the entertainment value that was found inside the gymnasium, SoCon fans could be in for a treat when the 2011 league tournament concludes.
In a collision that might very well re-emerge during Championship Week in early March, the Chattanooga Moccasins defeated the Charleston …

Chattanooga 65, Samford 60

While most college basketball fans and all casual sports fans stay focused on America’s top-level conferences and programs, there are some rather fascinating stories developing in the mid-major realm and in the country’s smaller Division I-A leagues. If you look among the smaller gymnasiums that are found near the back roads of college basketball, teams are overcoming meager histories and subpar non-conference results to take ownership of the conferences they play in.
Look no further than the Chattanooga Mocs in the Southern Conference and its North Division.
After …