15 conference tournaments kick off this week, including 3 tomorrow.
Every conference has a tournament, except for the Ivy League - Cornell won the regular season title and is officially the first team in the NCAA Tournament.
Here are the tournaments that start this week. Next to the conference's name, I've included the current first place teams:
Beginning March 4th
Big South (tie, N.C. Asheville & Winthrop)
Horizon (Butler)
Ohio Valley (Austin Peay)
Beginning March 5th
Atlantic Sun (Belmont)
Patriot (American)
Sun Belt (tie, South Alabama & Western Kentucky in the East; tie, AR Little Rock & LA Lafayette in the West)
Beginning March 6th
Missouri Valley (Drake)
Northeast (Robert Morris)
Beginning March 7th
America East (MD Baltimore Cty.)
Colonial (VCU)
MAAC (Rider)
Southern (tie, Chattanooga & Appalachian St. in the North; Davidson in the South)
West Coast (Gonzaga)
Beginning March 8th
Big Sky (Portland St.)
Summit (Oral Roberts)
Glancing through the names of the conference leaders, there are definitely a lot of familiar teams – Gonzaga, Butler, VCU, Drake, and Winthrop for example. Then there’s MD Baltimore Cty., which has never made it to the NCAA Tournament before. They went 13-3 in the America East Conference, which includes teams like Vermont and Albany.
1 comment:
Best tournament to bet on, if you were a betting man...HORIZON LEAGUE. This tournament traditionally sees the higher seed win each game. A couple of upsets in this could be Green Bay over Valparaiso...maybe, and a possible Wright St Cleveland St matchup in the semifinals could see Wright State winning. Otherwise I like Wright St over Detroit (easy) Milwaukee over Loyola, and UIC over Youngstown St then over Milwaukee (Wright St should win two in a row as well over Detroit, then either Valpo or GB)
My guess is a lot of these tournaments should see the higher seed advance, especially in round one when the higher seed is usually playing at home as is the case in the horizon league tourney.
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