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The Big Ten Tournament: A History
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. - Marcus Aurelius When the first Big Ten Tournament took place in 1998, it left the Pac-10 and the Ivy League as the only conferences that still gave the automatic bid to the regular season...
Championship Festival Go-Round: March 13, 2011, Selection Sunday
We're up to 27 qualifiers now... Today, we'll find out who the remaining 41 are... On Saturday, 13 teams qualified for the NCAA Tournament. Here's a quick look of who did in order. Conference USA: Memphis all but assured C-USA would be a one-bid league...
Championship Festival Go-Round: March 12, 2011
Fourteen teams have booked their place... 13 more will join them today... Patriot League champion Bucknell Bison became the 14th team to book their place in the NCAA tournament with a 72-54 win over Lafayette in Friday's lone championship game. In terms of punching...
Championship Festival Go-Round: March 11, 2011
After a Thursday where no bids were handed out, Friday sees one awarded in the Patriot League. Patriot League Final No. 6 Lafayette Leopards at No. 1 Bucknell Bison, ESPN2 (4:45 p.m. ET) The regular season champion Bison will be heavily favored in this one, particularly since they beat the Leopards...
Championship Festival Go-Round: March 10, 2011
A lucky 13 are in.. Who will be the 55 who join them as championship games resume Friday? One of the most exciting Championship Festivals in recent memory kept up its momentum on Wednesday night, as Northeast regular season champion No. 1 Long Island earned the conference's...
Championship Festival Go-Round: March 9, 2011
Eleven tickets have been punched. 57 spots are open... The first of three bids handed out on Tuesday night was awarded in thrilling circumstances, as the four and five seeds out of the Sun Belt West division played all the way to the end in Hot Springs. Conference player of...
Championship Festival Go-Round: March 8, 2011
Eight is not yet enough... 60 spots remain to be filled... Monday night started with two epic championship games on the Eastern Seaboard. In the Metro Atlantic No. 4 St. Peter's Peacocks followed up their upset of top seed (and host) Fairfield by holding off No. 2 Iona, 62-57, to...
Championship Festival Go-Round: March 7, 2011
Four Teams Are In... 64 to go... Third seed Indiana State upset No. 1 Missouri State, 60-56, to claim the Missouri Valley Conference title in St. Louis. That's the first NCAA bid for the Sycamores since 2001. That squad earned a 13 seed and upset Oklahoma in the first round before...
Championship Festival Go-Round: March 6, 2011
Three are in. 65 spots are left to be filled. UNC Asheville clinched the first bid of the season, defeating Coastal Carolina, 60-47, in the Big South final in Conway, S.C. That's the second consecutive season the Chanticleers' NCAA dream died on their home floor. They'll advance to the...
Championship Festival Go-Round: March 5, 2011
On Friday night, I posted my regular Saturday viewing guide, but that post only covers regular season finales. I wanted to dedicate an entire post to the abundance of conference tournament action going on today, including the punching of the first tickets to the NCAA Tournament for ...
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