Monthly Archives: March 2012

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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CTC Day Ten Preview: MEAC Quarterfinals…Well, Half of Them At Least

After the MEAC squeezed five games into a single day in Winston-Salem yesterday, they figured they would only go with two quarterfinals today, and just do the other two tomorrow. #1 Savannah St. vs. #8 Hampton One of the two … Continue reading

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CTC Day Ten Preview: Big East Second Round

After a solid four games yesterday at the World’s Most Famous Arena, we’ve got four more today, as the four winners from yesterday take on the next four teams to enter the tourney. #8 West Virginia vs. #9 Connecticut Everyone … Continue reading

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CTC Day Ten Preview: Here We Go…

The time is now.  Here we go… Championship Patriot NEC Big Sky Second Round Double-Header MAC Second-Round Quadruple-Header Big East Opening Round Doubleheader Big XII Opening Round Quadruple-Header Pac-12 Conf USA Quarterfinal Doubleheader MEAC Quarterfinal Quadruple-Header Southland Quarterfinal Doubleheader SWAC

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CTC Day Nine Standings: Gross Has a Monster Day, Moves Into Second Place; Scoring Correction Put Lohse in First Coming into the Day and He Remains There at the End of the Day

(NOTE: Due to a glitch in the scoring system, upset points were not being fully counted, so there were some minor changes to the scores.  J actually won Day 8, and Lohse ended Day 8 in the lead.) Day Nine … Continue reading

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