Mid-Majors

A basketball and trophy are displayed at the 2022 Big South basketball media days in Charlotte, N.C. (Mitchell Northam / The Next)

Gardner-Webb remaining silent as head coach Scott Merritt is dismissed

By Mitchell Northam / February 6, 2025

After less than two seasons on the job in the Big South, Scott Merritt is out as Gardner-Webb’s head basketball coach

Four Niagara women's basketball players (in black) huddle around each other while freshman guard Nevaeh Otis (No. 1, center) looks to her right and has her hands on her hips. (Photo credit: Demetrius Kazanas).

How Niagara is trying to find silver linings in its one-win season

By Ben Yeargin / February 6, 2025

Pierce: ‘We’re learning lessons here, and we just got to start to figure it out and put it together’

Alabama State's Cordasia Harris goes to the basket in a February 2024 game against the University of Arkansas Pine-Bluff. (Photo credit: David Campbell/Alabama State University

Alabama State’s board boss, Cordasia Harris, is always dressed to dominate

By Rob Knox / February 5, 2025

Alabama State head coach Freeman Jackson: ‘She’s always been a double-double machine’

Drexel's Amaris Baker splits a pair of Towson defenders and dribbles inside the arc.

‘She’s relentless’: How Drexel’s Amaris Baker became the CAA’s leading scorer

By Rob Knox / February 3, 2025

Baker: ‘You just read the defense. You never want to fight it’

Fairfield sophomore guard Kaety L'Amoreaux dribbles the ball upcourt while looking to her right.

Inside the preparations for, and takeaways from, Quinnipiac-Fairfield

By Ben Yeargin / January 31, 2025

Carly Thibault-DuDonis: ‘[Grit] is what this team has always hung our hat on’

Harvard guard/forward Elena Rodriguez dribbles the ball with her left hand on the perimeter. She looks to her right and motions a teammate toward her with her right hand.

Elena Rodriguez’s journey from the Canary Islands to becoming Harvard’s ‘quarterback’

By Jenn Hatfield / January 30, 2025

Carrie Moore: ‘She’s at the core and the foundation of everything that we do’

Coppin State's Cire Worley looks o make a pass in a game against Saint Francis. (Photo credit: TagTheShooter/Coppin State Athletics)

Fueled by late mom’s spirit, Coppin State’s Cire Worley provides spark and big shots

By Rob Knox / January 30, 2025

Worley: ‘I know every game I play she is always with me’

Maya McDermott of UNI against Creighton.

Maya McDermott finds perfect fit at University of Northern Iowa

By Angie Holmes / January 28, 2025

Small point guard, big on determination

Princeton guard Ashley Chea shoots a right-handed jump shot. Several Duquesne defenders are nearby but aren't close enough to fully contest it.

Chea-t code: Ashley Chea is thriving in the spotlight as Princeton’s floor general

By Jenn Hatfield / January 26, 2025

The Tigers are young this year, but Chea has helped keep them rolling

Manhattan junior guard Brianna Davis (in white) releases a jump shot with her right hand and looks toward the basket over Fordham junior guard Chae Harris (in black) in the Jaspers 65-58 win on Nov. 20. (Photo credit: Vincent Dusovic).

‘Learn from the mistakes’: Manhattan hoping to escape hot-and-cold start to conference play

By Ben Yeargin / January 24, 2025

Davis: ‘We have to adapt better’