Daily Archives: March 4, 2012

CTC Day Seven Preview: The Other Two Summit Quarters

After the top two seeds (and dominant teams this year) won their quarterfinal games yesterday, the Summit is ready to pick up with the other two games today. #3 Oakland vs. #6 S. Utah The Golden Grizzlies of Oakland are … Continue reading

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CTC Day Seven Preview: The Sun Belt Quarters

After three decently interesting games yesterday, the Sun Belt picks up with a quarterfinal quadruple-header today. #1 Middle Tennessee vs. #9 Arkansas St. The Red Wolves knocked off FL-Atlantic by 15 yesterday and looked real good in doing it.  Middle … Continue reading

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CTC Day Seven Preview: The MAAC Semis

After a long quarterfinal day in Springfield, the MAAC will pick it up and just play two today. #1 Iona vs. #4 Fairfield The Gaels turned it on in the second half yesterday against Marist, while Fairfield barely survived against … Continue reading

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CTC Day Seven Preview: America East Semifinals

The America East completed their quadruple-header of bad basketball yesterday, and now we only have to sit through two bad games today. #1 Stony Brook vs. #4 Albany SB struggled mightily with 2-win Binghamton, while Albany pounded New Hampshire.  They … Continue reading

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CTC Day Seven Preview: Back to the Northeast

The NEC tournament had its quarterfinals on Thursday night and will pick up with the semis today. #1 Long Island vs. #5 Quinnipiac The only road team to pull off the quarterfinal upset, Quinnipiac (who beat St. Francis 80-72), gets … Continue reading

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CTC Day Seven Preview: The Missouri Valley Championship

Bubble teams beware.  Another bid thief may be among us, as Illinois St. is primed and ready to steal one.  Quite possibly the best season in MVC history is down to two teams for the tournament title. #2 Creighton vs. … Continue reading

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CTC Day Seven Preview: The SoCon Semis

This has been a crazy SoCon tournament, and now we’re down to our final three games.  The Southern Division absolutely dominated the Northern Division all year and now there are three Northern Division teams in the Final Four. #1 Davidson … Continue reading

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CTC Day Seven Preview: The Dream Final Four in the CAA

What a tournament, and what a Final Four this is going to be.  This was the dream scenario.  We got the four big boys, all ready to go in Richmond.  No time for conversation, let’s lace ’em up and play … Continue reading

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CTC Day Six Standings: Scoot Wins the Biggest Day Yet, but Lohse and Stri Continue to Pull Away From the Field

Scoot comes up big in the night games and steals a very nice victory in Day Six, grabbing 333 points on the day alone.  But, the real story continues to be the continued dominance of Lohse and, to a lesser … Continue reading

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CTC Atlantic Sun Recap: The Ever-Popular Eight-Way Tie

RDoc seemed in control of the A-Sun, but Mercer lost on its home court, opening up the title to a slew of people, if Belmont could pull out the title game on Saturday.  Well, they did, and now 8 people … Continue reading

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