OT: Favorite Low Major?

[storrsroars]

Robert Morris. Local to me. Highly entertaining type of game.

 

[JimHurley]

CCSU and Quinnipiac.

 

[CL82]

Um, sociology?

Wait was that what you were asking?

 

[CallMeBruce]

I've always liked Northern Arizona for some reason.

 

[Durks07]

1. BCU. It's endearing to watch them dribble and pretend to play basketball with real basketball players every year.

2. Robert Morris. Put an embarrassing exclamation point on the Squid and Friends' 2013 season in the NIT.

 

[jpdmath]

Chaminade! Tiny Hawaiian school that hosts a premier early season tournament.

Also: Le Moyne, UVM, Mercer, Lehigh, and the 2015-16 iterations of those schools. And I'm not sure if they'd count, but I'll always love Dayton's "THE University of Dayton" paper headline in 2014.

 

[junglehusky]

Where's the line between mid and low? I think of Valpo, Davidson, maybe even Yale/Quinny & of the others mentioned as mid-major.

 

[Stainmaster]

Where's the line between mid and low? I think of Valpo, Davidson, maybe even Yale/Quinny & of the others mentioned as mid-major.

Now that Davidson's in the A10 I would definitely call them a mid-major. With Valpo being a longtime Horizon League power I would tend to put them there as well. However, the MAAC is probably where the "low-major" classification begins.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

Local teams I've always liked for some reason or another: UVM (always liked the state and I was a freshman at UConn for the TJ Sorrentine shot (I will always know where I was during that shot) for Lehigh (had friends' dads that went there and took us for football games, but Duke victory was the icing on the cake), Sacred Heart, Albany, Yale...

Now that I'm soon to be married (25 more days), I've taken to root for my future wife's family's favorite teams. She is from Montana and went to U of Montana, so I root for them.

Her parents went to North Dakota State so their recent football domination has been fun (went to a game in Fargo last October), and their basketball team has been to the tourney the last two years, so that's cool.

I also love WKU's mascot, so they rule. Gotta love the Banana Slugs of UC-Santa Cruz.

 

[kobe]

Memphis

 

[superjohn]

Not a low major but whenever I think of a non UConn team that I loved I always come back to the West Virginia team with Pittsnogle and Mike Gansey.

 

[Matrim55]

That was Hartford product (and my friend) Jared Jordan's SR year and second time leading the nation in assists. He put up 17.2pts, 5.9reb and 8.7ast and was drafted by the Clippers, then traded to the Knicks but never found a spot on either roster. Spent time in Germany, Greece and now Spain.

One of my favorite non-UConn players of all time. I still wish we'd recruited him instead of Marcus.

 

[Inyatkin]

I've always liked Northern Arizona for some reason.

Ben Howland came this close to winning a 15-2 game with them over a St. John's team that beat us three times in 2000. That was endearing.

 

[auror]

Florida Gulf Coast had one of the most entertaining teams I've ever seen...

Dunk City!

 

[Huskyhoops25]

Stonybrook. Quality school, UConn alum as coach.

 

[uconnphil2016]

Harvard