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  • 🐾 Panther’s Toothsayer: UNC Asheville Bulldogs

    Big South OpenerWed, Dec. 31 • Kimmel Arena • Asheville, NC 📍 Context & Stakes: The One Place That Still Bites Since the Huss and now Clayman era began, High Point Panthers have largely owned the Big South. But there is a consistent exception. The UNC Asheville Bulldogs. HPU is 2–2 against Asheville over the…

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  • 🐾 Panther’s Toothsayer: Pfeiffer Falcons

    Sun, Dec. 28 • Qubein Center • High Point, NC 📍 Context & Stakes: Closing the Book on 2025 This is the final chapter of High Point’s non-conference schedule—and the final game of 2025. It’s not a measuring-stick matchup in the traditional sense, but it is a tone-setter. High Point enters at 11–3, riding dominant…

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  • 🐾 Panther’s Toothsayer: La Salle Explorers

    Fri, Dec 19 • Qubein Center • High Point, NC 📍 Context & Stakes: Familiar Faces, Different Jerseys High Point returns home after a record-setting victory over Mary Baldwin, sitting at 9–3—a record that, oddly, still feels a bit hollow. For a roster this talented, losses to Southern Illinois and App State linger. Those were…

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  • 🐾 🏁 Panther’s Toothsayer: UIC Flames

    Thu, Nov 20 • Boardwalk Battle (Daytona Beach, FL) • 2:30 PM 📍🏝️ Series & Setting High Point heads to Daytona for a neutral-site matchup against UIC — the first meeting between the programs. The backdrop feels fitting: two teams that both prefer to push pace meeting in the shadow of Daytona’s speedway, where quick…

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  • 🐾 Panther’s Toothsayer: Canisius Golden Griffins

    Mon, Nov 17 • Qubein Center 📍 Series & Setting High Point and Canisius have met only once, a 78–70 Panther win in 2023 — and they enter Monday’s matchup carrying wildly different trajectories.  Canisius, the only Griffins in the D1 ranks, arrives from Buffalo at 2–2, picked last in the MAAC (13th of 13),…

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  • 🐾 Panther’s Toothsayer: North Carolina A&T Aggies

    📍 History Between the Programs High Point and North Carolina A&T may be neighbors, separated by just 18 miles, but they’ve rarely crossed paths. The Panthers are 4–1 all-time against the Aggies and have won the last three meetings in this US-29 Derby.  After more than 15 years without a matchup, the rivalry reignited in…

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  • 2025–26 High Point Panthers Season Preview: Reloaded and Ready to Roar

    High Point Panthers basketball is back and aiming even higher after a record-breaking 29-win season and the program’s first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance. With Flynn Clayman now promoted to head coach, a new era kicks off in 2025–26. Known for orchestrating one of the nation’s most explosive offenses last season, Clayman wasted no time retooling the…

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  • Huss Leaves but the Momentum Continues

    It’s been a while since our last post—but it’s time to get back in the game. In October 2023, this site called High Point a sleeping giant among mid-majors. Since then, there’s no doubt: the giant has awoken. Alan Huss came to HPU with a vision of taking the program to new heights, and there’s…

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  • Alan Huss to be named men’s basketball Head Coach

    It appears Dan Hauser has dialed up the Creighton to High Point pipeline once again. According to college basketball insider, Jeff Goodman, HPU is set to hire the Blue Jay’s assistant coach, Alan Huss, as their new head of the men’s program. Huss will be the program’s 6th head coach since moving up to Division…

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