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Now, as a junior, she is the best college player in the country, the leading scorer, and Delaware, what's called a mid-major, has lost only one game all year, that on the road to eighth-ranked Maryland.

News 2012

Now, as a junior, she is the best college player in the country, the leading scorer, and Delaware, what's called a mid-major, has lost only one game all year, that on the road to eighth-ranked Maryland.

News 2012

Few expect Kansas to struggle next year, but the program has now been bounced out of the NCAA tournament by a so-called mid-major two years in a row.

The Seattle Times 2011

Any time a coach brings success to a mid-major, the whispers start.

Northeast Conference 2010

Bad losses are losses to a team with an RPI over 100 or a low mid-major team.

Carl Berman: Which Conference is Stronger? The Atlantic 10 or the Pac-12 Carl Berman 2011

Coach Todd Bozeman has done an admirable job recruiting players capable of suiting up for a high mid-major team to play for Morgan State.

Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference 2010

The docket included games against major-conference heavyweights like Louisville, Baylor and Minnesota, but also contests against comparable mid-major opponents such as Eastern Kentucky, East Tennessee State, Manhattan and Robert Morris.

Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference 2010

Butler was better than the average fifth-seeded mid-major striver.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Duke vs. Butler Post-Game Open Thread 2010

Hired away from prospering mid-major Butler three seasons ago, Lickliter wasn't Iowa's first choice but he was widely considered a good one.

Iowa - Team Notes 2010

Bad losses are losses to a team with an RPI over 100 or a low mid-major team.

Carl Berman: Which Conference is Stronger? The Atlantic 10 or the Pac-12 Carl Berman 2011