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Lipscomb-UTEP
Press Notes
The Bisons, regular season
champions in the Atlantic Sun Conference, are seeded No. 10 in their first ever
trip to national postseason play on the NCAA Division I level. The Bisons are 21-10 this season. Texas-El Paso from Conference
El Paso
The Miners have not played in the NIT since 2001, when
they defeated
lost at
round. Lipscomb, formerly an NAIA school, is making
its first national post-season basketball appearance. The Bisons
won seven of their final nine games, losing in overtime to
in the Atlantic Sun Conference tournament championship game. UTEP is excited to play … not happy about getting a poor
seed. Lipscomb is excited to play … not so happy about the location.
”They said we were going to play in our geographical area,” Lipscomb coach
Scott Sanderson told the school’s web site. “I guess they meant the
States
Miami
Press Notes
The Bulldogs (19-12) finished runner-up in the Horizon
League regular season race and then fell in the championship game of the
Horizon League tournament to UW-Milwaukee.
(18-10) tied for second place in the East Division of the Mid-American
Conference.
first postseason tournament appearance since 2003, when the Bulldogs advanced
to the “Sweet 16” of the NCAA Division I Championship.
The Bulldogs have been in postseason play in eight of the past 10 years,
including bids to the NIT in 1999 and 2002.
will make its eighth NIT postseason appearance overall.
Stanford-Virginia
Press Notes
The Cardinal are 3-1 against
in the series and have won the last two. Stanford is 2-0 versus the Cavaliers
at home.
Times Dispatch
That first-year coach Dave Leitao’s
team would have to head west on such short notice surprised U.Va.
officials, who didn’t learn of the matchup until the
tournament draw was posted on the NIT’s Web site
around
Stanford haven’t met since
1994
leads the series 3-1. For U.Va., this will be its fifth trip to the NIT in the past seven
seasons. The Wahoos returned to
on Saturday from
where, as the ACC tournament’s seventh-seeded team, they beat 10th-seeded
Virginia Tech in the first round and then lost to second-seeded
Carolina
Akron-Temple
Press Notes
the tournament with a 17-14 record. The
Owls advanced to the Atlantic 10 Tournament semifinals with wins over
eighth-seeded
(74-45) and top-seeded and sixth-ranked George Washington (68-53).
ended
championship with a 73-59 win in the semifinal round.
enters the NIT with a 22-9 record, finishing second in the MAC East Division with
a 14-4 record. Junior forward Romeo
Travis leads a balanced attack with a 13.5 scoring average.
is making its first postseason appearance since a NIT invite in 1989.
Farleigh Dickinson-Manhattan
Press Notes
The Knights are 20-11, and won the Northeast Conference
Regular Season Championship with a 14-4 NEC record. FDU
and the Jaspers have four common opponents this season, with the Knights
posting wins over Canisius and St. Francis-N.Y. but
losing to Seton Hall and Saint Peter’s.
beat St. Francis-N.Y., split the season series with
Canisius, took two of three meetings with Saint Peter’s, and lost to Seton
Hall. This is the second NIT appearance the for the Jaspers under 2006 MAAC Coach of the Year Bobby Gonzalez, and the fourth
postseason appearance in his seven years at the helm of the Kelly Green.
lost to Villanova in the 2002 NIT in the Jaspers’ last appearance. The Jaspers
are making their 18th overall NIT appearance. The game will mark the
24th meeting between the two programs, with the last meeting taking
place six games into the Bobby Gonzalez era at
a 74-70 FDU win at Draddy
Gym. The Jaspers hold a 15-8 advantage in the overall series, with the Knights
having won the last six meetings.
GA Southern-Charlotte
Columbus
Southern is the only men’s team in the state to make the postseason, receiving
a spot in the National Invitation Tournament on Sunday night. The Eagles (20-9)
will open the 40-team tournament at
(18-12) on Tuesday.
Southern had the best record in the Southern Conference during the regular
season, but lost to Appalachian State 74-61 in the opening round of the league
tournament.
Rutgers-Penn State
Newark
announced his resignation two weeks ago effective at the end of the season,
will officially step down with the Knights’ next loss. Rutgers could get a
boost for the game, with Waters saying he will know today whether promising
freshman forward JR Inman, out since Feb. 5 with a broken bone in his leg, will
be available to return. The extra game also gives Quincy Douby,
the Big East’s leading scorer at 25.1 ppg, a chance to break the school’s
single-season scoring record of 807 held by Bob Lloyd. The junior guard has 777
points this year.