Results matching “conference preview”
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Dates: 3/10-3/13 Location: Greensboro Coliseum; Greensboro, N.C. Championship Game: March 13, 1 p.m., ESPN Outlook: You know what’s really funny about how the ACC regular season concluded? Technically, its second best team was Duke, but that was supposed to be the team everyone was chasing. Not so fast my friend. Too many pros on North…
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Dates: March 9-12 Location: Las Vegas Championship game: March 12, 10:00 pm, ESPN2 Outlook: Utah State. I mean, that’s all you really need to know, right? The Aggies are far and away the best team in the WAC. In fact, the league is so down that Utah State has found themselves in a situation where…
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Dates: March 9-12 Location: Staples Center, Los Angeles Championship Game: March 12th, 3:10 p.m. on CBS Outlook: Don’t expect things to go as planned. The regular-season Pac-10 champ hasn’t won the tournament since ’08 and only twice since 2003. The tournament’s up for grabs, but only among a handful of teams — Arizona (25-6), UCLA…
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Dates: March 9-12 Location: Thomas and Mack Center, Las Vegas Championship Game: March 12th, 4 p.m. on Versus Outlook: There’s more than just Jimmer to watch in Vegas. And I’m not talking about the Strip, either. San Diego State could still grab a No. 2 seed in the NCAA tournament, UNLV is trying to bolster…
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Dates: March 9-12 Location: Garland, TX Championship Game: March 12th, 7:30 pm, ESPNU Outlook: Life ain’t easy for the good folks of the SWAC. They spend the first month and a half of the season on the road, trading 40 point beatdowns for five and six figure checks that subsidize the school’s athletics department. Then…
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Dates: March 9-12 Location: Sprint Center, Kansas City, Mo. Championship game: Saturday, 5 p.m. on ESPN Outlook: This tournament revolves around three thing: Big 12 bubble teams, Texas and the Sunflower State. The league has five teams – Kansas, Texas, Texas A&M, Missouri and Kansas State – that seem to safely be included in the…
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Dates: March 8, 10-12 Location: Cleveland, OH Championship Game: March 12th, 6:00 pm, ESPN2 Outlook: You want to try to predict the MAC tournament champion? Here’s my advice — pick up a pair of dice and start rolling. The MAC is an example of mid-major parity at its finest. Kent State won the league’s regular…
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Dates: March 8 – 12 Site: Winston-Salem, NC Outlook:. Let’s not sugar-coat this, the winner of this year’s MEAC Conference Tournament will likely be on the next flight to Dayton, Ohio to participate in the inaugural First Four. While the quality of play won’t be exceptional, the competition may be, as #1 seed Bethune-Cookman posted…
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Dates: March 8, 11-13 Location: Campus sites, Atlantic City Championship Game: March 13th, 1:00 pm, CBS Outlook: Xavier was supposed to be down this season. They lost Jason Love and Jordan Crawford, they had all of their perimeter depth disappear due to injuries and ineligibility, and they struggled during the non-conference portion of their schedule.…
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Dates: 3/8-3/12 Location: Madison Square Garden Championship Game: March 12th, 9:00 pm, ESPN Outlook: If there is anything you need to know about the Big East Tournament this season, it’s this: UConn and Villanova are the 9th and 10th seeds, meaning that two of the conference’s flagship programs, who have both spent the majority of…
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Dates: March 5-9 Site: Campus sites (higher seed is home); semifinals, championship in Greeley, Colo. Championship game: Wednesday, 9 p.m. ET (ESPNP2) Outlook: Six of the league’s nine teams enter the Big Sky tournament, giving the top two byes into the semifinals. In this case, that’s Northern Colorado (19-10, 13-3) and Montana (20-9, 12-4), leaving…
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With the conference tournaments starting this week and the regular season winding down on Sunday, this will be the last installment of our weekend previews. We won’t be addressing the conference tournaments in this post (all of that can be found here and here). UPSET ALERT Sat. 8:00 pm: No. 5 Duke @ No. 13…
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Dates: March 5-8 Site: Sioux Falls, SD Outlook: Oakland. That’s really all you need to say about the Summit League this season. The Golden Grizzlies, led by a potential first round pick in 6’11″ center Keith Benson, rolled to a 17-1 record in conference play, their lone loss coming to IUPUI on a night when…
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Dates: March 4-7 Site: Richmond, Va. Championship game: Monday, 7 p.m. ET on ESPN Outlook: The CAA’s angling for multiple bids. And if life’s even a little bit fair, it’ll get ‘em. With George Mason (25-5, 16-2), Old Dominion (24-6, 14-4), Virginia Commonwealth (21-10, 12-6) and Hofstra (20-10, 14-4) as the league’s top teams, the…
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Dates: March 3, 5-6, 12 Site: Hartford’s Chase Arena; championship at highest remaining seed Championship game: March 12, 12:02 p.m. on ESPN Here’s another conference tournament that looks to be a two-team race, so let’s cover the longshots first. Maine (15-14, 9-7) was once atop the conferencd, but lost seven of its last eight. Albany…
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Dates: March 3-6 Site: St. Louis, MO Outlook: The Missouri Valley turned into a two-team race by the end of the season, as both Wichita State and Missouri State pulled away from the pack. In fact, the way the schedule ended up working out, the Bears beat the Shockers on the last day of the…
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Dates: March 2, 6, and 11 Site: Campus sites; higher seed hosts Outlook: The Patriot League turned into a two team race this year. Bucknell, a traditional power in the Patriot, rolled through the league, their only loss coming when they stumbled at Army, the league’s bottom-feeder, in a head-scratching 20 point loss. Bucknell is…
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Dates: March 2-5 Site: Nashville, TN Outlook: Coming into the season, Murray State (23-7, 14-4) and Morehead State (22-9, 13-5) were the hands-down favorites in the OVC. With Kenny Faried coming back for the Golden Eagles and the majority of the Racer’s rotation returning, they were obvious picks. So it shouldn’t shock you to find…
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Dates: March 2-5 Site: University Center (Macon, Ga) Championship game: Saturday, 6 p.m. on ESPN Outlook: This thing’s a two-team race between Belmont and East Tennessee State. Sure, Mercer might pull off an upset like it did last year, but it’ll go down as a huge surprise if anyone but the top two teams play…
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Dates: March 1, 3, 5 Site: Quarters at top four seeds, semis at Coastal Carolina, Finals at highest remaining seed Outlook: Two weeks ago, Coastal Carolina was a lock to win the Big South tournament. It was riding a 22-game win streak, hadn’t lost a conference game and was even in the mix for an…
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Dates: March 1, 4-5, 8 Site: Milwaukee, Wisc. Outlook: Talk about your tight league races. The Horizon League had it, and then some. Milwaukee (never Wisconsin-Milwaukee; sorry, old habits die hard) won nine of its last 10 and claimed the regular-season title thanks to tiebreakers on Butler and Cleveland State. It got quite the prize…
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UPSET ALERT Sat. 12:00 pm: No. 21 Missouri @ Kansas State: This is it. This is the game where Kansas State, the preseason top five team that was, at one point, 4-6 in the Big 12, can officially punch their ticket to the NCAA Tournament. On paper, this doesn’t look like the best matchup for…
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UPSET ALERT Sat. 12:00 pm: No. 4 Pitt @ St. John’s: The Big East is a heaping pile of similarity this season. Pitt has a two-game lead on Notre Dame, who holds a two-game cushion in second place. After that? There are eight — yes, eight! — teams with five or six losses, all fighting to…
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UPSET SPECIAL Sat. 2:00 pm: No. 1 Ohio State @ No. 14 Wisconsin: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. A Wisconsin win on their home court may not even be qualified to be considered an upset, even if the opponent is the undefeated and No. 1 Ohio State Buckeyes. But since Wisconsin is ranked 14th and…
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UPSET SPECIAL Sat. 4:00 pm: UNLV @ No. 9 BYU: You want to get a feel for how good Jimmer Fredette has been this season? His past two games, he’s scored 32 points and 26 points against New Mexico and Wyoming, respectively, and people are talking about the fact that he has played poorly. Yes,…
