CHARLOTTE, N.C. — There’s a new king in the Big South.
The Winthrop men’s basketball team, a group that has been on the Big South championship stage three times in as many years and has owned the league it’s resided in for the last two decades, was dethroned by a hungry and disciplined Longwood team 79-58 on Sunday afternoon in front of an ESPN2 audience.
With the win, Longwood earned its first Big South title in school history and punched its ticket to its first NCAA tournament. It also spoiled Winthrop’s chances for a third-straight NCAA tournament bid — the dominant win casting the Eagles aside as if they were scant debris on Longwood’s path to history.
