Big South Conference

And, you know, notably, if you look at the ACC and you see a guy like Steve Forbes or Mike Young, heck, if you even go down to like Jeff K. in the same league, it kind of feels like you have a bunch of middling ACC schools.

And eventually, a middling ACC school with a lot of roster continuity and a lot of head coaching continuity are going to go off and they're going to play a team from the SEC or a team from the Big 12 or a team from the Big South with that same sort of continuous aspect.

I think in the early goings, when you're seeing those non-conference matchups with the rosters and coaching staffs that we've very familiarized ourselves with, Those are going to be more of the matchups that I'm keying in on because the spread feels like something we can really properly gauge when you're talking about, you know, all these teams that are are battling to fit in these last second guys or entirely basically overrun with transfer portal guys from this cycle.

Yeah, those are teams that I'm excited to watch.

So there was a pretty cool, I guess, a lot of things that took place down in Savannah.

In 86 and 87, it hosted the Big South Conference's men's basketball tournament.

And I believe they recently had some, within the last few years, some renovations to kind of create a new MLK Junior Arena.

And they created or they built the End Market Arena.

They're coming.

The Big Sky, the Ivy League, the Southland, the Horizon, the Sunbelt, the SoCon, the Big South, the Summit League, the ASUN, the Metro, the OVC, and the newly founded UAC.

And then the low major, I have Patriot, SWAC, MEAC, A-East, and NEC.

Okay.

She's won at High Point.

She won four regular season Big South championships, made it to four Big South tournament finals.

Won three of them, three NCAA tournament bids, 140 and 79, which is a pretty stellar record.

And she played at Florida Gulf Coast University for two years.

We got to the A-10 final that year and lost a heartbreaker.

Oh, dang.

Never worse than tied for fourth in the Big South in your time there.

In the semifinals, every year you had the tournament except for one year in your time there or better.

But I think the returning pieces that Trey White is now paired with, in addition to some of these transfer guys, are going to be really, really important because they were all high production guys at their last stop.

You're talking about Dennis Parker Jr., a guy who averaged 18.3 points per game last season, came from Radford, played in the Big South, kind of that small forward 6'6 position.

But he's a guy, six rebounds a game, just averaged over 18 points a contest.

So that's going to be a big piece.

Yep, absolutely, and I think that that's going to be fun to be taking a look at, and when it comes to these guys, a lot of changes here for Pepperdine.

Griff Aldrich, who coached for a long time out there in the Big South, he comes in, and if they have a fully healthy Will McClendon, that's going to be big, but limited to four games over at North Texas last year.

We recall what he did over at San Jose State a few seasons ago.

Petar Mistrovich, he's got some familiarity with the West Coast, being over at Long Beach State last year.

And then you bring in someone from NJIT in Jordan Rogers, who should be able to help out the offense again.

need some defense cj highland nice three-point shooter that comes in from western carolina just have so many question marks in a conference that has so many good defenses with this team i think it's going to be a rough year number one here for denver i've got them in my projector finish for the wcc here at number 10 and number nine in my projector finish for the wcc i go with peptide A little bit of a changing of the guard.

Griff Aldridge, who is a solid Big South coach, he's going to be coming in.

And I love Will McClendon coming in, but you don't know how good Will McClendon is going to be because he only had four games last season over at North Texas.

Okay.

Um, Asheville, Big South.

I never coached the Big South.

When I was at Gardner-Webb they was in the A-Sun then, so I never coached the Big South.

Yeah, then um, the Division II conference, um, the Carolinas Conference.

Well, I technically worked for Pembroke for two weeks, but it was the Peach Belt.

It was the Peach Belt.

Okay.