Mid-major Basketball has certainly had an impact in the 2019-20 season so far? What are the biggest questions for the smaller leagues the rest of the way?
“Upsets” have been the major theme throughout college hoops in the non-conference. And a huge percentage of those came thanks to mid-major basketball. Shockers such as Evansville over Kentucky and Stephen F. Austin over Duke, along with many others, have changed the landscape of the sport.
Currently, the No. 1 team in the country is a mid-major (Gonzaga), while another is one of just two unbeaten teams left (San Diego State). And besides the upsets, a number of smaller schools have shown the ability to keep up with the big boys and possibly make a big run once March gets here.
For the past few days, I’ve been doing a series of roundtables for Busting Brackets, asking five questions to a select group of writers and gathering their answers. I’ve done it for the power conferences and with the consistent top mid-major leagues (Mountain West, WCC and Atlantic 10) but I wanted to do one focusing on the teams from the one-bid conferences. So don’t be alarmed by the lack of Gonzaga and Dayton mentions for this piece. These are the participating writers for this roundtable:
Logan Butts – @logan_butts
Brian Rauf – @brauf33
Jacob Zinkula – @1Perfectbracket
Holden Walter-Warner – @hwalterwarner
Thank you to these guys for their time and answers to this project. And for more cbb content from them, please follow their social media accounts. Here are the big questions for mid-major basketball, followed by some quality answers.