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Until conference play starts, brutality can strike at any time.
Last night it reared its beautiful head twice while much of the college basketball world was preoccupied with the Champions Classic. On the season’s sixth day, we were right back at it:
Radford 73 East Carolina 66
East Carolina loses a buy game to Radford. The epitome of brutality.
— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) November 16, 2017
Radford led big early on, then used an 11-4 spurt with under four minutes to play to earn a win in Greenville. Ed Polite Jr. came off the bench to score 17 points to lead the 10 Highlander players who entered the scoring column.
The Highlanders led by 14 in the first half as five different players hit threes. But East Carolina clawed back to within seven at the break and finally took the lead on a three from Shawn Williams with just over 10 minutes to play.
The teams went back and forth from there, but a double technical on East Carolina’s Isaac Fleming and Radford’s Donald Hicks seemed to turn the momentum in the Highlanders’ favor. Christian Bradford hit a three a few second later and Radford made its free throws in the final seconds to secure the win.
That’s now two wins this season for the Big South on our BRUTALITY LEADERBOARD!
Brutality Leaderboard
| Conference | America East | Atlantic 10 | Atlantic Sun | Big Sky | Big South | Big West | Colonial | C-USA | Horizon | Ivy | MAAC | MAC | MEAC | Missouri Valley | Mountain West | NEC | Ohio Valley | Patriot | Southern | Southland | SWAC | Sun Belt | Summit | WCC | WAC |
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| Conference | America East | Atlantic 10 | Atlantic Sun | Big Sky | Big South | Big West | Colonial | C-USA | Horizon | Ivy | MAAC | MAC | MEAC | Missouri Valley | Mountain West | NEC | Ohio Valley | Patriot | Southern | Southland | SWAC | Sun Belt | Summit | WCC | WAC |
| Total Brutality | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Albany | Davidson | FGCU | E. Washington (1) | Campbell | Cal Poly | College of Charleston | UAB | Cleveland St. | Brown | Canisius | Akron | Coppin St. | Bradley | Air Force | Bryant | Austin Peay | American | Chattanooga | Abilene Christian | Alabama A&M | Appalachian St. | Denver | BYU | CSUB | |
| Binghamton | Dayton | Jackonsville | Idaho | Charleston Southern | Cal St. Fullerton | Delaware (1) | FAU | Detroit Mercy | Columbia | Fairfield | Bowling Green | Delaware St. | Drake | Boise St. | Central Conn. St. | Belmont | Army | Citadel | Central Arkansas | Alabam St. | Arkansas St. | Fort Wayne | Gonzaga | Chicago St. | |
| Hartford | Duquesne | Kennesaw St. | Idaho St. | Gardner-Webb | Cal St. Northridge | Drexel | FIU | Green Bay | Cornell | Iona | Buffalo | Hampton | Evansville | Fresno St. | Fairleigh Dickinson | Eastern Illinois | Boston | ETSU | Houston Baptist | Alcorn St. | Coastal Carolina | Nebraska Omaha | Loyola Marymount | Grand Canyon | |
| Maine | Fordham | Lipscomb | Montana (1) | High Point | Hawaii | Elon | Louisiana Tech | IUPUI | Dartmouth | Manhattan | Kent State | Howard | Illinois St. | Colorado St. | LIU Brooklyn | Eastern Kentucky | Bucknell | Furman | Incarnate Word | Jackson St. | Georgia Southern (1) | No. Dakota St. | Pacific | UMKC | |
| UMBC | George Mason | NJIT | Montana St. | Liberty (1) | Long Beach St. | Hofstra | Marshall | Milwaukee (1) | Harvard | Marist | Miami OH (1) | Maryland Eastern Shore | Indiana St. (1) | Nevada | Mount St. Mary's | Jacksonville St. (1) | Colgate | Mercer | Lamar (1) | Mississippi Valley St. | Georgia St. | Oral Roberts | Pepperdine | New Mexico St. | |
| UMass-Lowell | George Washington | North Florida | N. Dakota | Longwood | UC Davis | James Madison | MTSU | No. Kentucky | Penn | Monmouth | Ohio | Morgan St. (1) | Loyola (IL) | UNLV | Robert Morris | Morehead St. | Holy Cross | Samford | McNeese St. | Arkansas Pine Bluff | Little Rock | South Dakota | Portland | Seattle | |
| New Hampshire | La Salle | So. Car. Upstate | N. Arizona | Presbyterian | UC Irvine | Northeastern | Charlotte | Oakland | Princeton | Niagara | Ball State | Norfolk St. | Missouri St. | New Mexico | Sacred Heart | Murray St. | Lafayette | UNC Greensboro | New Orleans | Grambling St. | Louisiana Lafayette | S. Dakota St. | St. Mary's | UTRGV | |
| Stony Brook | UMass | Stetson | N. Colorado | Radford (1) | UC Riverside (1) | Towson | North Texas | UIC | Yale | Quinnipiac | Central Michigan | Bethune-Cookman | Northern Iowa | San Diego St. | St. Francis Brooklyn | SE Missouri St. | Lehigh | VMI | Nicholls St. | Prairie View A&M | Lousiana Monroe | Western Illinois | San Diego (1) | Utah Valley | |
| Vermont | Rhode Island | Portland St. | UNC Asheville | UC Santa Barbara | UNC Wilmington | Old Dominion | Wright St. | Rider | Eastern Michigan | Florida A&M | So. Illinois | San Jose St. | St. Francis | SIUE | Loyola (Maryland) | W. Carolina | Northwestern St. | Southern | So. Alabama | San Francisco | |||||
| Richmond | Sacramento St. | Winthrop | William & Mary | Rice | Youngstown St. | St. Peter's | Northern Illinois | NC A&T | Valparaiso | Utah St. | Wagner | Tennessee St. | Navy | Wofford | Sam Houston St. | Texas Southern | Texas St. | Santa Clara | |||||||
| St. Bonaventure | S. Utah | So. Miss | Siena | Toledo | Savannah St. | Wyoming | Tennessee Tech | SE Louisiana | UT Arlington | ||||||||||||||||
| St. Joseph's | Weber St. | UTEP | Western Michigan | So. Carolina St. | UT Martin | Stephen F. Austin | Troy | ||||||||||||||||||
| Saint Louis | UTSA | TAMU Corpus Christi | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| VCU | Western Kentucky |