SoCon Men: Cougars slump to SoCon finals loss
The College of Charleston has been a second-half team all season, but with a trip to the NCAA Tournament on the line, Doug Wojcik’s Cougars put themselves in a first-half hole they could not escape. Charleston missed 18 of its first 23 shots and fell behind by as many as 12 points in the first...
View from the Sidelines: Snapping closed
When the CisternYard Media crew was checking into our hotel in Asheville on Friday afternoon, 24 hours before the Cougar women were to take the court for their quarterfinal game against Appalachian State, the Western Carolina women were already checking out. As we were walking to our rooms, we passed purple-clad women, some still red-eyed...
SoCon Women: Hustle not enough as App ousts Cougars
Sometimes, hustle isn’t enough. The College of Charleston’s women’s basketball team hustled Appalachian State into 25 turnovers, but the Mountaineers scorched the nets from the field and from the line to knock the Cougars out of the quarterfinals of the Southern Conference Tournament, 74-60, in Asheville, N.C., on Saturday. The Mountaineers shot 49 percent from...
SoCon Women: Five questions for the Cougars
With a quarterfinal Southern Conference Tournament matchup with Appalachian State looming on Saturday, it’s difficult to understand where the College of Charleston’s women’s basketball is without looking at where it has been. Last season, the Cougars finished 7-23. The year before that, 10-20. After an encouraging preconference schedule that saw them beat East Carolina and...
Cougar women lock up SoCon bye, winning regular season
The College of Charleston’s women’s basketball team held off rally after rally in a tough-fought second half to defeat Furman, 70-58, and cap a remarkable turn-around season under first-year head coach Natasha Adair. The win not only moved Charleston into fifth place in the final Southern Conference standings, it also locked up a first-round bye...
Bench blasts Wofford as Cougar women stalk SoCon bye
The College of Charleston’s women’s basketball team spent most of the month of January losing, punctuated by a heartbreaking final minute at Wofford on Jan. 23, when the Terriers came from three down with 43 seconds to play to steal a victory and send the Cougars to a season-worst six-straight loss. Since that game, Charleston...
Cougar women edge Wildcats for massive win
Natasha Adair has always had a plan. When she was introduced last spring as the new head coach of the College of Charleston’s women’s basketball team. When fall practice started, and her team was picked to finish 10th in the 11-team Southern Conference. When her Cougars were struggling through a seven-game losing streak in January....
View from the Sidelines: It’s time to be heard
One of the curses of having lived in Charleston since Kresse is remembering how basketball used to sound. In the days before the currently named TD Arena, the College of Charleston played in a high school-sized fortress with concrete walls and pull-out bleachers. The seating capacity of John Kresse Arena was listed as 3,500, but...
Tolbert sparks Cougars to win over UNCG
Any athlete will tell you that when opportunity presents itself, you’ve got to seize it. Even if that opportunity presents itself at 11:30 in the morning in front of 2,347 screaming school children. Afreyea Tolbert did just that Monday, using her first start in almost two years to spark the College of Charleston’s women’s basketball...
Women maintain perfect SoCon start
Last season, the holidays were anything but joyous for the College of Charleston’s women’s basketball team. The semester break saw them mired in a seven-game losing streak that included a devastating overtime loss to Central Michigan at a tournament in New Orleans. But, despite having an almost identical roster to last season, this is an...
The New Faces of Cougar Basketball
In the past year, the College of Charleston has said goodbye to two legendary basketball coaches. Nancy Wilson, whose 542-win résumé stretches back to a time when the NCAA did not even recognize women’s sports, had planned to retire after the 2011-12 season. But the sudden, mid-season departure of the larger-than-life Bobby Cremins – a...
It’s official: Board votes to move to the Colonial
On the eve of the Southern Conference basketball season, the College of Charleston announced on Friday that it will be leaving the SoCon for the Colonial Athletic Association. While the men’s and women’s basketball teams were in transit to Elon, N.C., to tip off what will be the school’s final season in the SoCon, the...