March Madness - Conference Tournament Thread

[TwinTownBisonFan]

MAAC
Iona destroys Rider 83-59

CAA
Old Dominion beats Hofstra 77-69

America East
Stony Brook upsets top-seeded Vermont 69-47 (97 - was it really that lopsided?! I thought Vermont was a lock)
Boston U beats Hartford 55-49

Patriot League
Lafayette upsets top seeded American 73-71 in double overtime
Bucknell beats Lehigh 66-64, preventing the Lehigh-Lafayette final that would have been fun

SoCon
Wofford beats W. Carolina 86-72
Charleston over Furman 63-58

Sun Belt
WKU beats UL Lafayette 81-76
North Texas upsets top-seeded FAU 78-64
UALR upsets Arkansas St 59-52
Middle Tennessee St wallops FIU 73-38

Summit League
SDSU upsets IPFW 85-75
IUPUI over UMKC 79-55

WCC
St. Mary's beats Santa Clara 73-64
Gonzaga hangs on against San Francisco 71-67

[TwinTownBisonFan]

Mondays games:

Sun Belt
Semifinals
Western Kentucky and North Texas
Middle Tennessee and UA-LR

Summit League
Semifinals
Oakland and South Dakota St
Oral Roberts and IUPUI

Colonial
Finals
Old Dominion and VCU

MAAC
Finals
Iona and St. Peter's

WCC
Finals
Gonzaga and St. Mary's

[Ivytalk]

Mondays games:

Sun Belt
Semifinals
Western Kentucky and North Texas
Middle Tennessee and UA-LR

Summit League
Semifinals
Oakland and South Dakota St
Oral Roberts and IUPUI

Colonial
Finals
Old Dominion and VCU

MAAC
Finals
Iona and St. Peter's

WCC
Finals
Gonzaga and St. Mary's

Ah, the Zags against the Gaels ... always a good West-Coast slugfest!

[TwinTownBisonFan]

Sun Belt
North Texas eliminates WKU 81-62

Summit League
Oakland and SDSU opt not to play defense... 110-90 Oakland in a walk

[TwinTownBisonFan]

MAAC
St. Peter's goes dancing 62-57 over Iona

CAA
Old Dominion impresses with a gutty win over VCU 70-65 (somewhere a bubble team breathes a sigh of relief)

Socon
Wofford wins the Socon bid defeating Charleston 77-67

WCC
Gonzaga wins a brutal game with St. Mary's and earns a bid in tournament 75-63

I didn't realize that SMC has a game with Weber St on the 11th... wtf is that about? didn't even know that was within the rules...

[Mvemjsunpx]

I didn't realize that SMC has a game with Weber St on the 11th... wtf is that about? didn't even know that was within the rules...

Weber's star player suffered a season-ending injury in December & they needed to schedule an extra game to guarantee a medical redshirt.

It is within the rules. St. Mary's also scheduled EWU around the same time a year or two ago because they needed a tune-up after their star player returned from injury.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

thanks for the clarification...

Summit League
IUPUI falls to Oral Roberts 83-77

Sun Belt
UALR's Cinderella run continues with win over Middle Tennessee 65-56

[TwinTownBisonFan]

Tuesdays games - including the opening of the Big East tournament, and the punching of at least three more tickets - and maybe four

Atlantic 10
Opening round
LaSalle and St. Bonnaventure
St. Joseph's and George Washington
St. Louis and Rhode Island
Dayton and UMass

Big East
Opening round
DePaul and UConn
Rutgers and Seton Hall
Villanova and South Florida
Providence and Marquette

Big Sky
Semifinals
Montana and Weber St
Northern Arizona and Northern Colorado

Horizon League
Championship
Butler and Milwaukee

MAC
Opening round
Bowling Green and Northern Illinois
Ohio and Toledo
Akron and Eastern Michigan
Buffalo and Central Michigan

MEAC
Opening round
Florida A&M and Maryland Eastern Shore
Delaware St and South Carolina St

Summit League
Finals
Oral Roberts and Oakland

Sun Belt
Finals
Arkansas-Little Rock and North Texas

Non-tournament game with implications
Princeton and Penn (a win for Penn and Harvard goes dancing, a win for the Tigers and we'll have a play-in game on Friday)

[Ivytalk]

Non-tournament game with implications
Princeton and Penn (a win for Penn and Harvard goes dancing, a win for the Tigers and we'll have a play-in game on Friday)

Now it looks like it would be Saturday afternoon AT YALE!!

[TwinTownBisonFan]

Non-tournament game with implications
Princeton and Penn (a win for Penn and Harvard goes dancing, a win for the Tigers and we'll have a play-in game on Friday)

Now it looks like it would be Saturday afternoon AT YALE!!

i suppose that's equidistant... but i can just imagine the reaction of either team having such a big moment on Yale's floor...

wow...

[Ivytalk]

Now it looks like it would be Saturday afternoon AT YALE!!

i suppose that's equidistant... but i can just imagine the reaction of either team having such a big moment on Yale's floor...

wow...

I actually think it favors Harvard a bit. A game at Penn would have helped P'ton pack the stands. Yale, not so much. Of course, we hope Penn comes through at home tonight and makes it a moot point!

[tampajag]

UCONN defeats DePaul 97-71 big surprise

[TwinTownBisonFan]

Big East
Rutgers over Seton Hall in overtime

[tampajag]

USF tries to win their second game all year away from home against Villanova

[Ivytalk]

USF tries to win their second game all year away from home against Villanova

The way Nova's been playing the past month, my money's on USF.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

A-10
LaSalle beats St. Bonaventure 75-73 in two overtimes
Rhode Island over St. Louis 70-61

MAC
Bowling Green big over Northern Illinois 74-54
Akron easily over Eastern Michigan 67-53
Buffalo over Central Michigan 64-50
Ohio over Toledo 74-57

Sun Belt
An amazing late 3 pointer puts UA-LR in the tournament after a stunning Cinderella run... beating North Texas 64-63

Ivy League
Princeton forces the playoff beating a very game Penn team 70-58

[dbackjon]

A-10
LaSalle beats St. Bonaventure 75-73 in two overtimes
Rhode Island over St. Louis 70-61

MAC
Bowling Green big over Northern Illinois 74-54
Akron easily over Eastern Michigan 67-53
Buffalo over Central Michigan 64-50
Ohio over Toledo 74-57

Sun Belt
An amazing late 3 pointer puts UA-LR in the tournament after a stunning Cinderella run... beating North Texas 64-63

Ivy League
Princeton forces the playoff beating a very game Penn team 70-58

Welcome to a play in game, UALR

[TwinTownBisonFan]

Nova and USF in a dandy

and yeah - UALR will almost certainly be in Dayton...

WOW!

Welcome to the bubble Villanova...

64-63 USF WINS.

[Skjellyfetti]

Wow. That USF - Nova game was awesome.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

MEAC
UM-ES over FAMU 87-85 in two OT's

Big East
USF stuns Villanova 70-69

A-10
St. Joe's with an upset over George Washington 71-59 in overtime... (wow - that's a one-sided OT period)

[dbackjon]

Princeton wins, setting up one game playoff for Ivy League title.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

Big Sky
Montana, down 22-12 at halftime rally to beat Weber St. 57-40... (they outscored Weber 45-18 in the second half... wow... musta been one hell of a halftime adjustment)

[Ivytalk]

Princeton wins, setting up one game playoff for Ivy League title.

Thanks for nothing, Quackers!

We'll just have to take care of bidniss ourselves.

[tampajag]

USF has been so close in most of their games, glad to see them get this one.

[93henfan]

Big East
USF stuns Villanova 70-69

FUCKING. AWESOME.