March Madness - Conference Tournament Thread

[TwinTownBisonFan]

Big West
UCSB over Pacific 79-67

Poor SH. This was their year to win it all, too.

clearly, it was going to be them and Liberty in the finals...

[tampajag]

Alabama St beats AAMU 81-61

[TwinTownBisonFan]

WAC
San Diego St beats Utah 64-50

MEAC
Morgan St over NC A&T 77-59

PAC-10
Oregon with a stunning upset of UCLA 76-59

Big West
UC Riverside takes out Cal Poly 70-66

ACC
Va Tech disposes of Ga Tech 59-43

Big East
Marquette goes down like a slutty cheerleader to Louisville 81-56

Big 12
TAMU over Mizzou 86-71

Southland
McNeese over Texas St 91-83 (sorry catmom)

SEC
Vandy over LSU 62-50

[CatMom]

TTBF,

No need. Our guys were a mess. They looked lost out there. D was bad all night. Rebounding sucked and they missed too many easy shots.

It was a good run but we will lose 6 seniors. Back to mediocrity, I guess.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

late score updates

Pac-10
Washington slips past Washington St 89-87

MWC
UNLV over Air Force 69-53

Big West
CS Northridge big over CS Fullerton 75-54

[TwinTownBisonFan]

Friday - the big guys enter the quarters and semi's - and we punch another ticket - this one from the Patriot League

A-10
Quarterfinals
Xavier and Dayton (should be a great game)
Temple and LaSalle
Duquesne and St. Joseph's
Richmond and Rhode Island

ACC
Quarterfinals
Duke and Maryland
North Carolina and Miami
Clemson and Boston College
Florida St and Virginia Tech (a BIG bubble game)

Big 12
Semifinals
Kansas and Colorado
Texas and Texas A&M

Big East
Semifinals
Notre Dame and Louisville
Syracuse and UConn

Big Ten
Quarterfinals
Ohio St and Northwestern
Purdue and Michigan St
Wisconsin and Penn St
Michigan and Illinois

Big West
Semifinals
CS Northridge and UC Riverside
Long Beach St and UC Santa Barbara

Conference USA
Semifinals
Memphis and ECU
Tulsa and UTEP

MAC
Semifinals
W. Michigan and Akron
Ball St and Kent St

MEAC
Hampton and Norfolk St
Bethune-Cookman and Morgan St

MWC
Semifinals
UNLV and San Diego St
BYU and New Mexico (these should be great games)

Pac 10
Semifinals
Arizona and USC
Washington and Oregon

Patriot League
Finals
Bucknell and Lafayette

SEC
Quarterfinals
Florida and Tennessee
Kentucky and Ole Miss
Miss. St and Vanderbilt
Alabama and Georgia (bubble team brawl)

SWAC
Semifinals
Jackson St and Grambling St
Texas Southern and Alabama St

WAC
Semifinals
Utah St and San Jose St
Boise St and New Mexico St

St. Mary's and Weber St. play a non-conference regular season game - trying to put one more win on the books for the committee

[FargoBison]

Tar Heels beat Miami at the buzzer 61-59!

UNC only led for the final .2 seconds of the game.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

looks like i missed some good games today...

Big 10
Ohio St needs overtime to survive Northwestern 67-61
Michigan helps their at-large bid beating Illinois 60-55

ACC
UNC clips Miami 61-59 in a dandy - given Miami's comeback yesterday... amazing
Clemson pummels Boston College 70-47 not a good loss for a bubble team like BC

A-10
Dayton clips Xavier 68-67 (and throws the A-10 in to chaos)
St. Joe's glass slipper still fits - they beat Duquesne 93-90

SEC
Alabama makes their case for an at-large beating fellow bubble team Georgia 65-59 in OT
Kentucky beats Ole Miss 75-66

SWAC
Grambling St. upsets Jackson St. 81-75 in OT

[tampajag]

Grambling is one step closer to their first tourney apperance

[TwinTownBisonFan]

C-USA
UTEP over Tulsa 66-54

Patriot League
Bucknell punches their ticket over 6 seed Lafayette 72-57

Big 12
Kansas over Colorado 90-83
Texas over TAMU 70-58

ACC
Duke over Maryland 87-71
Virginia Tech likely cinches their at-large bid, beating Florida St. 52-51

Big 10
Michigan St likely seals an at-large bid beating Purdue convincingly 74-56
Penn St over Wisconsin in boring ass game 36-33

Big East
UConn beats Syracuse in OT (of course) 76-71 (luckily only one overtime this year)
Louisville over Notre Dame in OT 83-77 - Ben Hansbrough looked like a child in the woods...

SEC
Florida beats Tennessee 85-74
Vandy knocks off Miss St. 87-81

A-10
Temple over LaSalle 96-76
Richmond over Rhoady 55-45

C-USA
Memphis routs ECU 76-56

MAC
Akron beats W. Michigan 79-68
Kent St over Ball St 79-68

MWC
BYU behind 52 from Jimmer avenge their regular season loss to New Mexico winning 87-76

WAC
Utah St survives San Jose St 58-54

MEAC
Hampton disposes of Norfolk St 85-61

Big West
Long Beach St over UC Riverside 74-63

SWAC
Alabama St upsets Texas Southern 73-68

WAC
Boise St over NM St 81-63

Big West
CS Northridge falls to UCSB 83-63

MWC
San Diego St. holds off a very game UNLV squad to win 74-72

Pac 10
Washington pops Oregon 69-51

[TwinTownBisonFan]

Big Saturday - 13 tickets are punched... everyone else has semifinals. special mention of the ivy leagues one-game playoff... should be an epic day

America East
Finals
Boston U and Stony Brook

A-10
Semifinals
Temple and Richmond
Dayton and St. Joseph's

ACC
Semifinals
Duke and Virginia Tech
North Carolina and Clemson

Big 12
Finals
Kansas and Texas

Big East
Finals
UConn and Louisville

Big 10
Semifinals
Ohio St and Michigan (Go Blue!)
Penn St and Michigan St

Big West
Finals
Long Beach St and UCSB

C-USA
Memphis and UTEP

Ivy League
Play-in game
Harvard and Princeton

MAC
Finals
Kent St and Akron (a great rivalry game)

MEAC
Hampton and Morgan St

Mountain West
Finals
BYU and San Diego St (should be a great game)

PAC-10
Finals
Washington and Arizona

SEC
Semifinals
Florida and Vanderbilt
Alabama and Kentucky

Southland
Finals
McNeese St and UT-SA

SWAC
Finals
Alabama St and Grambling St (Grambling going for it's first appearance ever)

WAC
Finals
Utah St and Boise St

[TwinTownBisonFan]

Todays first title game produces a stunning result

C-USA
after trailing ALL game, the Memphis Tigers go up by 1 with 7 seconds to and beat UTEP 67-66

America East
the beginning of a trend? trailing ALL game Boston U hits two free throws with 2.4 seconds left and a heave by Stony Brook goes back iron 56 54 BU is dancing.

SEC
Kentucky rolls past bubble team Alabama 72-58

A-10
Dayton ends the Cinderella run of St. Joseph's 64-61

Big 10
Ohio St dispatches Michigan 68-61 (and it wasn't that close)

ACC
North Carolina needs overtime to shake off a very game Clemson 92-87

[Seawolf97]

StonyBrook lost in the AE Championship this afternoon to Boston Univ. Final Boston 56 SBU 54.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

that was a tough one 97...

SEC
Florida beats Vandy 77-66

A-10
BID THEFT. Richmond upsets Temple 58-54. The winner of tomorrow's Dayton-Richmond game will steal a bid - and force a bubble team out.

MEAC
Hampton punches their ticket bucking the trend by stopping a late rally by Morgan St 60-55

Ivy League
WHAT A GAME. Princeton hits a dagger at the buzzer and Harvard will now take their place near the bubble 63-62.

[bonarae]

Ivy League playoff results:

Harvard led by 7 at the half but Princeton steamrolled again and we lost 63-62.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

sorry Harvard... what a great season... they have an outside shot at an at-large bid...

[TwinTownBisonFan]

Southland
UT-SA heads to the dance beating McNeese St 75-72

ACC
Duke heads for a showdown with UNC beating Va Tech 77-63

[tampajag]

Kansas beats Texas to win the Big 12

[TwinTownBisonFan]

SWAC
Grambling St comes up short in their bid to make their first tournament - falling to Alabama St 65-48

Big West
UCSB upsets top-seed Long Beach St 64-56

MAC
Overtime - of course - finds Akron upsetting Kent St 66-65

Big East
Another classic - UConn completes an amazing run, beating Louisville as a late 3 goes back rim 69-66

MWC
BYU gets run out of the gym by SDSU 72-54

Pac 10
Washington upsets Arizona in overtime 77-75

[Ivytalk]

sorry Harvard... what a great season... they have an outside shot at an at-large bid...

I think we'll have to settle for the NITs. I don't see the NCAA taking 2 Ivy teams.

[bonarae]

I think we'll have to settle for the NITs. I don't see the NCAA taking 2 Ivy teams.

Sad reality for us being a mid-major conference.