Final Week of Regular Season:

Mon 4: Big Sky
Tue 5: America East
Wed 6: Southland
Thu 7: MEAC
Fri 8: MAC
Sat 9: A-10, ACC, Big XII, Big East, Big West, CUSA, Ivy, MAAC, MWC, PAC-12, SEC, SWAC, WAC
Sun 10: AAC, B1G

First Week of Conference Tournaments:

Mon 4: ASUN
Tue 5: Horizon, Patriot, Sun Belt
Wed 6: Big South, NEC, OVC
Thu 7: MVC, WCC
Fri 8: CAA, SoCon, Summit
Sat 9: Am East, Big Sky

Current Winning Streaks:

14 South Florida: (5) Tulane; (9) @Tulsa
10 James Madison: (9) SBC QF; (10?) SBC SF
10 Tarleton State: (7) Utah Valley; (9) Seattle
9 Charleston: (10) CAA QF
9 Little Rock: (9) OVC SF; (10?) OVC Final
8 Princeton: (9) @Penn
8 Gonzaga: Idle, WCC triple bye
7 Houston: (6) @UCF; (9) Kansas
7 McNeese: (4) @Houston Christian; (6) @New Orleans
7 App State: (9) SBC QF; (10?) SBC SF
7 UT-Martin: (8) OVC SF; (9?) OVC Final

6 Abilene Christian, Alcorn State, Kansas City, Rider, Tennessee, Vermont
5 A&M-Corpus Christi, Boise State, Boston U, Brown, Louisiana Tech, Nevada, Richmond, Sam Houston, South Dakota State, St. Peter's, UT-Arlington

Oops, didn't realize there was a thread already for the final week of the regular season and they start of conference tournaments in a number of leagues.

Queens beat Florida Gulf Coast for the 2nd straight year on a neutral floor in the first round of the A-Sun tournament. Their reward is a game on the same floor against 2nd seeded Stetson tomorrow night.

A decade after the Sweet 16, Florida Gulf Coast is losing to Queens in an ASUN play-in round.

Huge upset in the Atlantic Sun quarterfinals tonight as #10 seeded Jacksonville knock off top seed Eastern Kentucky 67-65. They now make the trip to DeLand to take on 2nd seeded Stetson on Thursday.

Dolphins did not win a road game in the conference play regular season but they came up with the goods tonight.

UNLV are currently the hottest team in the Mountain West. They've won 10 of their last 11 after defeating #21 San Diego State on senior night. After Nevada's win at Boise tonight the Runnin' Rebels have equaled the number of wins with three other teams at the top of the conference.

Remember the MW Conference tournament is at the Thomas & Mack Center their home arena. Its not beyond the realms of possibility they could win the conference tournament and put the MW in the conversation amazingly for 7 bids.

Congrats to Le Moyne for defeating Fairleigh Dickinson 82-61 in their first ever conference tournament game at the D1 level. By far the most convincing winner on the night. They travel to Amherst now to face the #2 seed Merrimack in the NEC semifinals on Saturday.

https://twitter.com/LeMoyneMBB/status/17...1755463971

UMass holds on to beat Fordham in our last game of the regular season...to get us to the 20 win mark for the first time in a decade (and the first time since our last NCAA squad). We need to keep this rolling and not lose momentum when we move to the MAC.

Coogs lock up a share of the Big 12 title in year 1.

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(03-06-2024 09:18 PM)Mid-Major Hoops Enthusiast Wrote:  Congrats to Le Moyne for defeating Fairleigh Dickinson 82-61 in their first ever conference tournament game at the D1 level. By far the most convincing winner on the night. They travel to Amherst now to face the #2 seed Merrimack in the NEC semifinals on Saturday.

https://twitter.com/LeMoyneMBB/status/17...1755463971

Sadly this year's Fairleigh Dickinson will not be Fairleigh Dickinson...

C'est la vie for the low-major (or as I've recently begun to call the very lowest, non-major) that can't keep their coaches, attract players with even mediocre facilities among other things (including NIL) and now lose their best players in the transfer portal.

Can't say it wasn't expected though, neither St. Peter's nor UMBC (among many, many others) really built upon their one shining moment and FDU likely won't either.

Turned on Arizona vs UCLA, and Arizona is winning in a rout. But I wanted to hear Bill Walton and his stream of consciousness in the last days of the Conference of Champions. Dave Pasch is there, but Richard Jefferson is doing color. Where's Bill?

Most satisfying win I may have ever experienced as a UH fan, aside from the 2010 C-USA Tournament championship game. Big 12, we have arrived.

First year review from the Big 12: the gap between P5/G5 football is as big as advertised (maybe bigger), the gap between Major/Mid-Major basketball is not.

(03-09-2024 07:11 PM)WhoseHouse? Wrote:  First year review from the Big 12: the gap between P5/G5 football is as big as advertised (maybe bigger), the gap between Major/Mid-Major basketball is not.

Cincinnati and UCF may not agree with you. Houston is just an exceptional team.

On the other hand, BYU did very well in its first season of men's basketball too. In the WCC, BYU made the NCAA 4 times in 11 tries. They went from 7-9 in the WCC to 9-8 in the Big 12 with a home game vs 4-13 Oklahoma State left.

(03-09-2024 07:39 PM)schmolik Wrote:  

(03-09-2024 07:11 PM)WhoseHouse? Wrote:  First year review from the Big 12: the gap between P5/G5 football is as big as advertised (maybe bigger), the gap between Major/Mid-Major basketball is not.

Cincinnati and UCF may not agree with you. Houston is just an exceptional team.

On the other hand, BYU did very well in its first season of men's basketball too. In the WCC, BYU made the NCAA 4 times in 11 tries. They went from 7-9 in the WCC to 9-8 in the Big 12 with a home game vs 4-13 Oklahoma State left.

UCF went 8-10 last year in the American and was picked dead last in the Big 12 this year. They went a respectable 7-11 this year with wins over KU, UT, OU, TTU, and TCU (all of whom are projected to make the tourney). That’s way better than most people expected. BYU was picked to finish 2nd to last and will finish 5th with a win over Oklahoma St. tonight. Even Cincy was very competitive in Big 12 play. They just weren’t very good at defending their home court this year or they’d have made the tourney in year 1.

I mean, technically Kansas whipped us too but but I have long term memory loss.