Before the NCAAs, Wofford basketball aimed for the SIAAs

With the Southern Conference basketball tournament this weekend, it seems fitting to look back at some of the other, more obscure postseason tournaments in which Wofford has competed over the years.

Saturday's Wofford-ETSU game historic, like the last one

It's been a while since Wofford met ETSU on the gridiron.

The Terriers (2-1) will open conference play Saturday with a midday matchup against the Buccaneers, which is in just its second season back from a hiatus lasting over a decade. Following the 2003 season, ETSU made the decision to drop its football program and subsequently departed the league in other sports.

More than football

Just as Wofford was beginning to hit its stride in Thursday's season opener at Tennessee Tech, tragedy almost struck.

In 2000, Wofford heated up in ice storm

Wofford's history against FBS opposition is rocky, dashed with a hint of heartbreak.

Since moving up to Div. I-AA in 1995, the Terriers are just 1-20 against upper division teams and have dropped seventeen straight such games since 2000.

In the 2000 season finale, Wofford accomplished what has eluded it for now fifteen years. And it came in conditions icier than the Terriers' dismal track record against FBS members.

Free throws, solid rebounding keep Wofford afloat at Presbyterian

Wofford took its first lead over Presbyterian midway through the first half and never gave it up in a 68-58 victory.

Not at easy as it sounds.

Wofford's battle with Idaho shoved into same old category

Wofford is no stranger to walking off higher-division fields with a collective dejectedness about the team.

A player's coach: Romero sent Breitenstein on path to success

In the world of college football, where a program's luck can shift on a single play and attitudes swirl around wildly during the course of a season, distinct eras can't help but pop up.

In 1981, eventual national champion Clemson came calling, and Wofford answered

Wofford, as is the case with a bevy of other programs competing in the aggressive FCS tier of Division I football play, has often served as a kind of extempore scheduling afterthought. While the unexpected shift may, in some important respects, irk the smaller outfit, that's the just the nature of the sport.