Category Archives: Conference Tourney Challenge

CTC Conference Recap: The NEC

Another great season in the NEC is in the books, and it culminated with a solid tournament and the crowning of a rather undisputed champion tonight. Lil Lohse, Mac, Primm, and Rikey all complete perfect NEC brackets in impressive fashion.  … Continue reading

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CTC Day Ten Preview: Pac-12 Opening Round

Here’s a question for you:  How does a conference that is so clearly a one-bid league improve to a league that might get as many as FOUR bids, without playing anyone outside of said league?  I can’t stand it.  After … Continue reading

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CTC Day Ten Preview: Big XII Opening Round

Is this the best conference in the country?  This is one of only two conferences that I will even entertain that notion, but I think I would take the Big Ten…though it’s really close.  The 10-team Big 12 opens tonight … Continue reading

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CTC Day Ten Preview: Conf USA Opening Round

It seems like once we all kind of jointly decided that Conference USA wasn’t a very good league, it immediately got a lot more interesting – in more of a mid-major kind of a way.  And, this year was no … Continue reading

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CTC Day Ten Preview: Southland Quarterfinals

The Southland and the SWAC used to really bother me.  Who do they think they are with their meaningless tournaments in the second week?  But, either I’ve mellowed with age or I realize that it really doesn’t matter because these … Continue reading

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CTC Day Ten Preview: SWAC Quarters, Take One

SWAC finals are basically the First Four semifinals, as the winner of this dreadful conference always ends up there.  It would have been interesting to see what they would have done with Mississippi Valley St. if they had gone undefeated … Continue reading

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CTC Day Ten Preview: Big Sky Championship

All year, the other 7 Big Sky teams have just been playing for third place, as the top two teams were so far ahead of the rest of the league, it seemed a foregone conclusion that this day would come.  … Continue reading

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CTC Day Ten Preview: NEC Final

The great NEC is ready to crown another champion, and this game should be fantastic, just like the rest of the tournament has been. No matter what happens, we are not going to have an outright champion this year.  The … Continue reading

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CTC Day Ten Preview: Patriot Championship

When the Patriot League tournament began, the CTC leader was Lohse with 99 points.  Now that Lohse is over 1,000 points, we are ready for this tournament to crown its champion. Mac has navigated this tournament perfectly thus far, and … Continue reading

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CTC Day Ten Preview: MAC Second Round

So, the new school MAC tournament took a day off to travel to beautiful Cleveland, where the rest of this tournament will take place.  This second round still does not include the top four teams in the conference, as we’ve … Continue reading

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