(01-05-2010 11:15 AM)LetsgoBucs Wrote:  

(01-05-2010 06:37 AM)Goldfinger Wrote:  http://www.cofcsports.com/SportSelect.db...PSID=64091


Video of the fine event.


By the way who was it that used to argue to me that when Curry left Davidson the SoCon would fall off into the forgotten depths of the A-sun? I believe it was GobucsGo if memory serves correct. With College of Charleston knocking off number 9 UNC and Western Carolina getting top 25 votes....I think it's safe to say that Goldfingers assesment of the SoCon was correct. Which shouldn't be all that surprising. I've only spent twenty or so years following the conference. Davidson was not a fluke. The Southern Conference has a long history of making the national scene.

This game has no bearing on your assessment of the SoCon. Davidson mattered on the national level because they went deep in the tourney. They beat UNC years before that. It's already been noted that C of C has already beaten UNC two times since 98 before this. That did not make them a national name. One big win doesn't make your program matter on a national level. Doing it over and over and more importantly, in the NCAA tourney does.

There is only one true mid-major who actually matters on a national level and that is Gonzaga. There are other conferences that make noise by winning a few games but the Zags are the only program that does it year after year for quite a few years now. The SoCon has nothing like that.

When you talk about mid-major conferences that matter on a national level it usually centers on the Horizon league or the MVC. The SoCon is not in that conversation.

Show me any team in the Atlantic Sun over the past five years who has received top 25 votes. Spin all you like...nobody is buying.