March Madness - Conference Tournament Thread

[jcmanson]

Yeah I don't know what was with the students this year. When Curry was here we averaged 5-6k per game. In the 2 years since he left we've been around 2-3k. You would have thought this year, with the success in conference we had, those numbers would be higher.

Our fans, students in particular, our fickled.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

We've tipped off for the day:

What to watch for today:

A-Sun
Quarters wrap up with
Jacksonville and North Florida in cross-town matchup
Lipscomb and Mercer in what should be a good one

Big South
the semifinals
upset minded High Point against UNC-Asheville
Costal (top seed) against VMI

NEC
starts tonight with the quarters
CCSU and St. Francis (NY)
LIU and St. Francis (PA)
Qunnipiac and Mount St. Mary's
Robert Morris and Wagner

LIU is the top seed

OVC
quarterfinals tonight
Tenn Tech and Tenn-Martin (winners in an upset in the opening round)
Austin Peay and SEMO (also upset winners)

Missouri Valley (Arch Madness)
opening round
Southern Illinois and Illinois St
Drake and Bradley

America East
what amounts to a play-in game
UMBC and Binghamton

Regular season with implications

MEAC
Maryland Eastern Shore plays Delaware St
and
Howard plays Hampton

if one wins and the other loses - loser doesn't make the MEAC tournament - if they both win or lose UMES is in.

Big West
UC Davis against CS Northridge

a Davis loss eliminates them from the tournament

SWAC

Southern against TX Southern
and
Alcorn St against Prairie View

If Southern loses or if Prairie View beats Alcorn St - they are out of the SWAC tournament

If PV beats Alcorn - that also eliminates Alcorn.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

another upset - North Florida beats Jacksonville 68-64.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

Asheville beats High Point

[TwinTownBisonFan]

Results

NEC

CCSU beats St. Francis 64-62
LIU whips St. Francis 90-75
Quinnipiac beats Mount St. Mary's 78-59
Robert Morris survives Wagner 78-74 (boo... the Hurley brothers are out)

MVC
Southern Illinois holds on to beat Illinois St 57-54

OVC
Tenn Tech wallops UT-Martin 83-59

[TwinTownBisonFan]

More results

UMES beats Delaware St 60-50
Howard loses to Hampton 83-72

Howard won't play in the MEAC tournament.

Big South

Coastal beats VMI 89-81

CCU vs. UNC-Asheville for the right to dance.

America East
Binghamton crushes UMBC 91-65... wow

SWAC
Southern had a good first half, but lose to TX Southern 71-63 and will not make the SWAC tournament.
Prairie View beats up Alcorn St 96-78 - Alcorn will not make the SWAC tournament.

Atlantic Sun
Mercer over Lipscomb 73-63

OVC
Austin Peay over SEMO 76-60

MVC
Bradley runs Drake out of the gym 63-48

[tampajag]

SWAC is almost set with one game to go, there's a battle for the 2nd seed and one for the 6th seed.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

SWAC is almost set with one game to go, there's a battle for the 2nd seed and one for the 6th seed.

Jags looked like they were having a good first half... what happened? TX South just remember who was the top of the conference? foul trouble?

[TwinTownBisonFan]

the Friday slate - now we're gettin' in to it...

A-Sun
Semi's
ETSU and North Florida

CAA
opening round at Richmond
James Madison and William & Mary
Delaware and Northeastern
UNC-Wilmington and Georgia St
Drexel and woeful Towson

Horizon
2nd round
Cleveland St and Wright St
Valpo and Detroit

MAAC
1st round
Niagara and Marist
Siena and Manhattan

Missouri Valley
quarterfinals
Missouri St and Southern Illinois
Northern Iowa and Creighton
Indiana St and Evansville
Wichita St and Bradley

OVC
semis
Murray St and Tennessee Tech
Morehead St and Austin Peay

Southern
opening round in Nooga
Davidson and UNC Greensboro
App. St and Georgia Southern
Furman and Samford
Elon and The Citadel

West Coast
opening round
Portland and Loyola Marymount
Pepperdine and San Diego

[CatMom]

SLC is next week, March 8-12. 1 more game to go for each. Right now the teams in are:

McNeese 10-5 (tiebreaker)
TXST 10-5
NWS 9-6
SFA 9-6
SAM 9-6
NSU 8-7
SELU 8-7
UTSA 8-7

OUT
UTA 7-8
UCA
Lamar 7-8
TAMUCC

Winner gets the higher seed:
NSU @ SELU
SFA @ NWS

Meaningful:
Lamar @ McNeese (Lamar taking McNeese and TXST winning would give the 'cats the 1 seed)
TXST @ SAM - Cats need to win to hold out a chance for #1 seed

TAMUCC @ UCA - no bearing

UTSA @ UTA - UTSA has to win to stay in the tourney mix. A UTA win would make these teams even @ 8-8 and UTA would hold the tiebreaker.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

SLC is next week, March 8-12. 1 more game to go for each. Right now the teams in are:

McNeese 10-5 (tiebreaker)
TXST 10-5
NWS 9-6
SFA 9-6
SAM 9-6
NSU 8-7
SELU 8-7
UTSA 8-7

OUT
UTA 7-8
UCA
Lamar 7-8
TAMUCC

Winner gets the higher seed:
NSU @ SELU
SFA @ NWS

Meaningful:
Lamar @ McNeese (Lamar taking McNeese and TXST winning would give the 'cats the 1 seed)
TXST @ SAM - Cats need to win to hold out a chance for #1 seed

TAMUCC @ UCA - no bearing

UTSA @ UTA - UTSA has to win to stay in the tourney mix. A UTA win would make these teams even @ 8-8 and UTA would hold the tiebreaker.

so other than corpus and central... are either arlington or lamar mathematically out of it yet?

[tampajag]

tampajag wrote:
SWAC is almost set with one game to go, there's a battle for the 2nd seed and one for the 6th seed.

Jags looked like they were having a good first half... what happened? TX South just remember who was the top of the conference? foul trouble?

That's basically how the whole season went. They either play great early and lose (vs. TSU and MVSU) or they fall behind early and make a late run and lose (every other game but Jackson St). TSU beat us in OT at the begining of the season. The team lacks a go to scorer and a solid PG.

On a positive note our women won their 2nd straight SWAC title.

[CatMom]

SLC is next week, March 8-12. 1 more game to go for each. Right now the teams in are:

McNeese 10-5 (tiebreaker)
TXST 10-5
NWS 9-6
SFA 9-6
SAM 9-6
NSU 8-7
SELU 8-7
UTSA 8-7

OUT
UTA 7-8
UCA
Lamar 7-8
TAMUCC

Winner gets the higher seed:
NSU @ SELU
SFA @ NWS

Meaningful:
Lamar @ McNeese (Lamar taking McNeese and TXST winning would give the 'cats the 1 seed)
TXST @ SAM - Cats need to win to hold out a chance for #1 seed

TAMUCC @ UCA - no bearing

UTSA @ UTA - UTSA has to win to stay in the tourney mix. A UTA win would make these teams even @ 8-8 and UTA would hold the tiebreaker.

so other than corpus and central... are either arlington or lamar mathematically out of it yet?

No, at this point in time they are out but not mathematically eliminated.
I just put how it stands before the last game. To be honest - there are about 20 scenarios and TXST could be anywhere from the 1st to 4th seed, according to how things go Saturday. To be #1 we have to win and MSU lose. If we lose, well, it's a big jumbled mess. Someone posted all the scenarios on BobcatReport. I got dizzy reading it all.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

results:

MVC
Southern Illinois nearly shocks the college basketball world - but with 1.4 seconds left Missouri St takes the lead and gets the win...58-56

CAA
UNC Wilmington falls to Georgia St 58-52

MVC
Creighton holds on over UNI 60-57

Socon
UNC-Greensboro upsets Davidson 71-64

CAA
Hapless Towson gives Drexel a game - but the Dragons win 75-69

Socon
App St survives a challenge from Georgia Southern 65-57

Horizon
Wright St gets blown out by Cleveland St 73-59

CAA
UD beats a very game Northeastern 60-58

[TwinTownBisonFan]

evening results

A-Sun
Belmont beats Mercer 80-72

SoCon
Furman over Samford 61-48

MVC
Wichita St gets by Bradley 70-56

MAAC
Marist over Niagara 73-61

[FargoBison]

#1 seed in the OVC Murray State goes down to Tennessee Tech 64-59. TTU's first OVC title game ever.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

First #1 seed goes down.

OVC top seed Murray State falls to Tennessee Tech 64-59

[Ivytalk]

Man, I love this time of year. Just no 12-17 teams in the Big Dance, please!

[TwinTownBisonFan]

CAA
William and Mary upset James Madison 72-68

Horizon
Valpo holds serve beating Detroit 88-78

WCC
Loyola Marymount with an upset of Portland 72-68

A-Sun
North Florida upsets 2 seed ETSU 59-55 (north florida reaches their first conf. title game ever)

Socon
Elon over El Cid 85-74

MAAC
Siena and Manhattan go to OT - Sienna wins 68-66

WCC
Pepperdine over San Diego 84-81

OVC
Morehead St over Austin Peay in a terrible game 68-49 - seriously AP went down 13 with 10 to play and just flat quit... it was was lame.

[CatMom]

FWIW - here's the SLC tournament scenarios before tomorrow's games

http://www.southland.org/fls/18400/pdf/ ... M_ID=18400

[TwinTownBisonFan]

Epic Saturday of tournament hoops!

103 games in all being played (the big boys aren't in their tourneys yet - but these are their last regular season games)

America East
Quarterfinals
Albany and Stony Brook
top seed Vermont and Binghamton
Boston U and UNH
Maine and Hartford

Big Sky
Quarterfinals
NAU and Montana St
Weber St and EWU

Big South
Championship - our first ticket gets punched
CCU and UNC Asheville

CAA
Quarterfinals
George Mason and Georgia St
VCU and Drexel
ODU and Delaware
Hofstra and William & Mary

Horizon
Semifinals
Butler and Cleveland St (should be a good game - could be a bubble buster)
Milwaukee and Valpo

MAAC
Quarterfinals
St. Peter's and Loyola
Fairfield and Marist
Rider and Cansius
Iona and Siena

Missouri Valley
Semifinals
Missouri St and Creighton
Indiana St and Wichita St

SoCon
W. Carolina and UNC-Greensboro
Wofford and App St (ESPN has this as Georgia Southern)
Chattanooga and Furman
Charleston and Elon

Summit League
Quarterfinals
Oakland and Southern Utah
North Dakota State and Oral Roberts

Sun Belt
1st Round
North Texas and Troy
WKU and LA-Monroe
Denver and FIU
South Alabama and UALR

Non-tournament games that have impact

A-10
St. Joe's and Charlotte play what amounts to a play-in game

Big West
UC Davis and CS Fullerton - Aggies need a win and
UC Riverside and UC Irvine - a Riverside loss to make the BW tournament

Ivy
Harvard and Princeton for what amounts to all the marbles (not really - but the scenarios are a mess)

Southland
a real mess - see Cat Mom's post for details

[CatMom]

Today's match-ups
Nicholls @ SELU - noon CST (SLC TV)
SFA @ NWS - 2 PM CST
Lamar @ McNeese - 3PM CST
TXST @ SAM 7 PM CST
UTSA @ UTA - 7 PM CST - loser is out

nobody cares game (this is usually us)
TAMUCC @ UCA 4PM CST

[tampajag]

Important SWAC games for seeding:
AAMU at JSU
Alabama St at Grambling

MVSU and UAPB the other two teams involved in the battle for 2nd and 6th are finished with their seasons.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

CAA
Georgia St falls to George Mason 68-45 (the Panthers score 12 points in the final 27 minutes... wow)

America East
Stony Brook with a minor upset of Albany 67-61

[Seawolf97]

StonyBrook defeated Albany this afternoon 67-61 in a America East quarter final matchup. The Semi -Final is tomorrow.