By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – A lot goes on at a college basketball tournament. This one in the Big South Conference is just getting started. The games on Wednesday matched the worst teams: eighth-best versus ninth. Winning it from here is similar to plowing a field that happens to be …
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Blue Hose take down UNCA on Peterson free throws
By MONTE DUTTON Jaylen Peterson (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Jaylen Peterson gave Presbyterian College just what it needed on Saturday afternoon in Asheville. Two free throws with four seconds to play. PC (13-14, 6-6 Big South) bounced back with a 58-57 road victory over UNC Asheville. The freebies gave Peterson 20 points and eight …
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Lots of familiar faces
The Poconos Click here. I awakened on Sunday with a ferocious appetite and immediately jumped into my pants and headed to a drive-through. My dream was tiring. Let’s see. I drove the best car I ever owned – a 2000 Honda I eventually gave to charity -- to Pennsylvania, undoubtedly to cover a stock car …
GWU beats Blue Hose at the buzzer
Trevon Reddish-Rhone saved one of his better games for last. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. HIGH POINT, N.C. – Gardner-Webb’s 61-60 men’s basketball victory over Presbyterian in the quarterfinals of the Hercules Tires Big South Championship on Thursday night was all too typical of the Blue Hose, who could just as easily be merely the …
Unbeknownst to Blue Hose, they won one for Mojo
Mojo Nixon's head still bobbling at 6:08. (Monte Dutton photo) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Oh, what a night it must have been at Templeton Center. It may have been the best night of the season for Presbyterian men’s basketball, at the very least since the season opener at Vanderbilt, and this was in the Big South. The SEC …
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Blue Hose toppled, home and away
Bryanna Brady (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Ever since Presbyterian College began playing Big South Conference basketball games this season, the problem has been winning at home until Saturday. The Blue Hose fell to Gardner-Webb at both Templeton Center (women) and Paul Porter Arena (men). Gardner-Webb bettered the Blue Hose, 72-58, in Clinton, and, 76-60, in …
Nightrider's Lament 