ESPN may not be touting “Championship Week” just yet, but three conference tournaments are now underway: the Big South, Horizon League and Ohio Valley. Kyle Whelliston has the lowdown on those leagues. Scoreboard of all of tonight’s games here.
Meanwhile, SI’s designated bubble-watcher, Stewart Mandel, says this weekend’s Missouri Valley Conference tournament — which Becky and I will be at — has massive nationwide implications. Cool. :)
P.S. A pet peeve: when ESPN is showing conference-tournament scores on the scrolling scoreboard thingy at the bottom of the screen, would it kill them to include the seed numbers? Because pardon my ignorance, but I don’t know, off the top of my head, whether it’s surprising that Coastal Carolina beat UNC Asheville (no) or that Tennessee State is hanging with Samford (yes). Seeds would help.
What’s the PSAC? Why, the Pennsylvania State Atheletic Conference, of course!
Unfortunately, IUP was bounced in the first round in Shippensburg in a nailbiter. That stinks. I doubt IUP gets an at large bid - I think they would have had to win the PSAC’s automatic bid, or at least get to the final with a strong showing to get in.
Unlike D-I playoffs, both the conference tourneys and the first few rounds of the playoffs are played at the better team’s home court. (The NCAA regionals are still named East Regional, West Regional, etc - and Eastern teams actually play in the East regional - IUP has never played in any other bracket than the East Regional. What a concept!) Thus, the men’s team had to go to the Red Raiders home court.
The IUP women’s team, on the other hand, hosted the Edinboro Fighting Scots, and they lost as well. Not a good day for Indians fans, though the women’s squad still has a shot at the tourney based on their pre-conference championship status. We’ll find out this Sunday (D-II’s selection sunday). Will we be in the field of 64? That’d be nice.
Dang. Going to IUP.edu stank tonight. I had figured the women would have won, at least.
On a more serious note… when there are a dozen or two dozen or five dozen conference tourney games happening at once, all involving no-name teams, then yes, it actually is too much work to look up every single one on the Internet, just to find out whether any of them are upsets. I mean, if the theory is, “go look it up on the Internet,” why bother to have a scrolling scoreboard thingy at all? On the other hand, if they had the seeds on their scoreboard thingy, I could quickly hone in on which games are worth further investigation (”a 7-seed is beating a 2-seed? whoa!”) and then go look those up on the Internet… er, excuse me, the Ether Space.
Heh. It’s become a running joke between Becky and me that, it seems like every basketball game we watch, no matter who is playing, J.J. Redick gets mentioned at some point. When we were watching the Olympic figure skating, we were surprised Dick Button didn’t interrupt Sasha Cohen’s routine to say, “In other news, J.J. Redick is awesome.” :)
my favorite part is Billy Packer. He hates Uconn so much it’s not even funny. Hilton Armstrong had a crazy block, and billy packer was like” wow was that a spin move or what to get open for the shot”
My Favorite was when Georgetown upset Duke this year, The fans storm the court, great scene, Georetown players jumping around.Billy Packer first comment was about Coach K and howDuke will rebound.
February 28th, 2006 at 10:04:21 pm
Yeah cause its so much work to look it up on the internet ;-)
February 28th, 2006 at 10:59:38 pm
The PSAC tourney is tonight too.
What’s the PSAC? Why, the Pennsylvania State Atheletic Conference, of course!
Unfortunately, IUP was bounced in the first round in Shippensburg in a nailbiter. That stinks. I doubt IUP gets an at large bid - I think they would have had to win the PSAC’s automatic bid, or at least get to the final with a strong showing to get in.
Unlike D-I playoffs, both the conference tourneys and the first few rounds of the playoffs are played at the better team’s home court. (The NCAA regionals are still named East Regional, West Regional, etc - and Eastern teams actually play in the East regional - IUP has never played in any other bracket than the East Regional. What a concept!) Thus, the men’s team had to go to the Red Raiders home court.
The IUP women’s team, on the other hand, hosted the Edinboro Fighting Scots, and they lost as well. Not a good day for Indians fans, though the women’s squad still has a shot at the tourney based on their pre-conference championship status. We’ll find out this Sunday (D-II’s selection sunday). Will we be in the field of 64? That’d be nice.
Dang. Going to IUP.edu stank tonight. I had figured the women would have won, at least.
February 28th, 2006 at 11:00:24 pm
(At least both games were good games, though.)
February 28th, 2006 at 11:18:59 pm
Yeah cause its so much work to look it up on the internet
When my computer is in other room downloading massive amounts of files from Charles’s server using wget, yes it is! :)
February 28th, 2006 at 11:23:53 pm
On a more serious note… when there are a dozen or two dozen or five dozen conference tourney games happening at once, all involving no-name teams, then yes, it actually is too much work to look up every single one on the Internet, just to find out whether any of them are upsets. I mean, if the theory is, “go look it up on the Internet,” why bother to have a scrolling scoreboard thingy at all? On the other hand, if they had the seeds on their scoreboard thingy, I could quickly hone in on which games are worth further investigation (”a 7-seed is beating a 2-seed? whoa!”) and then go look those up on the Internet… er, excuse me, the Ether Space.
February 28th, 2006 at 11:33:01 pm
ESPN doesn’t care about these schools, because there not Duke.
March 1st, 2006 at 1:29:08 am
Heh. It’s become a running joke between Becky and me that, it seems like every basketball game we watch, no matter who is playing, J.J. Redick gets mentioned at some point. When we were watching the Olympic figure skating, we were surprised Dick Button didn’t interrupt Sasha Cohen’s routine to say, “In other news, J.J. Redick is awesome.” :)
March 1st, 2006 at 8:00:10 am
my favorite part is Billy Packer. He hates Uconn so much it’s not even funny. Hilton Armstrong had a crazy block, and billy packer was like” wow was that a spin move or what to get open for the shot”
March 1st, 2006 at 8:55:05 am
My Favorite was when Georgetown upset Duke this year, The fans storm the court, great scene, Georetown players jumping around.Billy Packer first comment was about Coach K and howDuke will rebound.
March 1st, 2006 at 8:56:01 am
BMinich, you go to IUP? I live 20 mins from there.
March 1st, 2006 at 11:24:28 am
I went there. Class of ‘04. :D
Grew up there too, though now I live in the DC area.