Catamounts take on SoCon Basketball Tournament

The 2022 Ingles Southern Conference Tournament is slated to begin on Thursday, March 3 with the women’s final on Sunday, March 6 at 12 p.m. and the mens final Monday, March 7 at 7 p.m. All games will be played at the Harrah’s Cherokee Center in Asheville, NC. The lady cats tip off their first […]

Reminiscing on ’96

The Cullowhee community found themselves on the top of world in March of 1996, thanks to the WCU men’s basketball team. WCU Alumni Engagement celebrated the 25th anniversary of that special 1996 men’s basketball run via Zoom on March 17. The ’96 mens basketball team won the Southern Conference Tournament and are the only WCU […]

Q&A with Carlos Dotson

In preparation for the WCU Men’s Basketball season, I sat down with senior forward Carlos Dotson for a Q&A, recorded for The Sports: Plus Podcast, part of the WWCU Podcast Network.    How’s your second year here at Western going? Pretty good, we’ve had a productive start to fall practice, so we’re really looking good […]

Lady Catamounts trounced by Chattanooga in SoCon tournament

Western Carolina’s women’s basketball team was crushed by Chattanooga Lady Mocs in the first round of the SoCon tournament Thursday, March 2, at the US Cellular Center in Asheville. The final score of the game 85-41. The game started out competitive, but soon the Lady Mocs went full-throttle and scored 30 points in the first quarter. […]

WCU Men’s Basketball SoCon tournament performance in review

Chad Grant contributed to this story. The Western Carolina University Men’s Basketball Team made it to the semifinals of the Southern Conference tournament before losing to the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. Seniors Mike Brown, Torrion Brummitt, Rhett Harrelson and Justin Browning did not end their careers before beating the Wofford Terriers on Saturday, March 5. […]

Catamounts beat Terriers in double-overtime thriller

Calvin Inman contributed to this story   The Western Carolina University men’s basketball team defeated the Wofford Terriers 88 to 83 in double-overtime, Saturday, March 5, in the U.S. Cellular Center, in front of a crowd of 5,667 at the SoCon Basketball Championships in Asheville, NC.   The critical moment in the game came with […]