Mid-Major Madness

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From Australia to Pocatello with Malta in between: Ashleigh van Vliet returns to Idaho State as assistant coach

2 days ago | midmajormadness.com | Ian Sacks

Courtesy of Ashleigh van Vliet Ashleigh van Vliet was the first recruit for Idaho State head coach Seton Sobolewski. She then helped lead the Bengals to the Big Sky championship and NCAA Tournament in 2012 and a WNIT bid as a senior. She is now back on campus to begin her first season as an assistant coach. But her playing career stretched far beyond Pocatello.
What’s your team’s coach eating?

1 week ago | midmajormadness.com | Ian Sacks

Graphic by Hannah Butler. Newly named UNLV men’s basketball coach Josh Pastner shared his love of rice in an interview with sports talk show host Damon Amendolara. The Rebels coach told a story that while he was at ESPN, he had six plates of white rice in one day. He also described that he will ask for rice as a side when eating out at a restaurant. “I’m a rice guy through and through,” he said. “I’ll mix anything with rice.”So, that got us here at Mid-Major Madness wondering ...
Green Bay seeks to participate in The Basketball Tournament

2 weeks ago | midmajormadness.com | Ian Sacks

Joseph Maiorana-Imagn Images Summer is typically a slower time in the calendar year for college basketball teams. We’re several months removed from the season. The transfer portal has opened and closed. In fact, basketball-starved fans are typically in search of how to quench that thirst. While the WNBA is stronger than ever, there isn’t much outside of that. Well, there are a few other options. Ice Cube’s BIG3 and The Basketball Tournament. Ahh, here we are.
NBA Draft: Cedric Coward started his college career at DIII, now he’s a likely 1st round pick

2 weeks ago | midmajormadness.com | Sam Federman

James Snook-Imagn Images The night before his second game as Eastern Washington’s head coach, David Riley had some free time, so he flipped on ESPN+ to watch his old boss, Shantay Legans, in his second game as Portland’s lead man. It was a mostly non-competitive game. Portland dropped 122 points, including 65 in the second half, to cruise to a win over Division III Willamette.
IU Indy fires HC Paul Corsaro: What we know

3 weeks ago | midmajormadness.com | Ian Sacks

Sam Greene/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images IU Indy announced the firing of Paul Corsaro as the head coach of its men’s basketball program Tuesday.
NBA Draft: Mid-major players who might be worth your time

3 weeks ago | midmajormadness.com | Lance Hartzler

James Snook-Imagn Images The transfer portal has really messed with the idea of a mid-major player going in the top 10 of the NBA Draft, huh? Long-gone are the days that players that came from the mid-major level like Damian Lillard (Weber State), Obi Toppin (Dayton), Jarace Walker (pre-Big 12 Houston), Jalen Williams (Santa Clara) CJ McCollum (Lehigh) get major buzz in the lottery. Instead, our sons land themselves (generally) later or they explode at a high-major squad.
Saint Joseph’s just lost the Holy War forever because of the new Pope

4 weeks ago | midmajormadness.com | Sam Federman

I’m Jewish, from New York, and did not even attend a religious school past elementary. I should have no input on any of this. But even I was struck by how down bad Saint Joseph’s University must be right now. For some background and a little history lesson:There are hundreds of Judeo-Christian schools in America, all from different denominations. Some schools are evangelical, some schools are Lutheran, some schools are Baptist, some non-denominational. Most of those schools are in the south.
The transfer portal: A land of contrasts

1 month ago | midmajormadness.com | Ian Sacks

Eakin Howard-Imagn Images Will Smith and the English band The Clash. Wait, I thought this article was about the transfer portal, not music. Going to tie both of them into the craziness of the month-long portal season. Should I Stay or Should I Go? There we go, that’s one. The Clash released that hit song in the early 80s. You’re welcome, it’s now stuck in your head. That is the question that faces every single college basketball player each year now.
These are the 3 best mid-major coaching hires in the 2025 cycle

1 month ago | midmajormadness.com | Sam Federman

Orlando Ramirez-Imagn Images Forty-one mid-major Division I programs across 21 of the 26 mid-major leagues have a new head coach representing their school who are tasked with working on building up a roster for the 2025-26 season. This year’s hiring cycle featured a ton of different wrinkles. The new wave of hiring coaches off of NBA staffs has gotten lots of talk, and even two mid-major programs hired coaches with primarily NBA backgrounds.
Mike Bibby, Shaq, Mikey Williams? Something is going on at Sacramento State

1 month ago | midmajormadness.com | Lance Hartzler

Followers of the Big Sky Conference know Sacramento State well. The program with just two winning seasons since the early 1990s is most known for its charming high-school-level of a gym fondly called “The Nest” — which is one of the NCAA’s oldest facilities being in operation since 1955. It sits a whopping 1,000 attendees. The Hornets have often been feisty in a number of Big Sky seasons but have never amounted to much at all. The Nest is rumbling, though, with a run of major moves in 2025.