Never mind that this is a HUGE day for the major conference teams who won't be starting their conference tourneys for another four or five days--this is also the first day of Championship Week in which tickets to The Dance will be purchased*!!
* Granted, the first ticket was actually punched yesterday, when Cornell clinched the Ivy...
Big South Finals (at Radford)
1 Radford v. 2 VMI (3:00 pm on ESPN2 and ATDHE.net)
Atlantic Sun Finals (in Nashville)
1 Jacksonville v. 2 East Tennessee State (5:00 pm on ESPN2 and ATDHE.net)
Ohio Valley Finals (in Nashville)
2 Austin Peay v. 4 Morehead State (7:00 pm on ESPN2 and ATDHE.net)
Horizon League Semifinals (at Butler)
1 Butler v. 4 Wright State (6:00 pm on ESPNU)
2 UW-Green Bay v. 3 Cleveland State (8:00 pm on ESPNU)
Missouri Valley Semifinals (in StL)
1 Northern Iowa v. 4 Bradley (1:35 pm on FSN)
2 Creighton v. 3 Illinois State (4:05 pm on FSN)
Summit Quarterfinals (in Sioux Falls)
1 North Dakota State v. 8 Centenary (6:00 pm)
2 Oral Roberts v. 7 South Dakota State (8:30 pm)
America East Quarterfinals (in Albany)
2 Vermont v. 7 Albany (11:00 am)
3 Boston U. v. 6 UM-Baltimore County (1:30 pm)
1 Binghamton v. 9 Hartford (5:00 pm)
4 New Hampshire v. 5 Stony Brook (7:30 pm)
Big Sky Quarterfinals
6 Montana State at 3 Montana (8:05 pm)
5 Northern Colorado at 4 Idaho State (8:05 pm)
Colonial Quarterfinals (in Richmond)
1 VCU v. 8 Georgia State (11:00 am on ESPN360)
4 Old Dominion v. 5 Hofstra (1:30 pm)
2 George Mason v. 7 James Madison (5:00 pm on ESPN360)
3 Northeastern v. 11 Towson (7:30 pm on ESPN 360)
MAAC Quarterfinals (in Albany)
5 Fairfield v. 4 Manhattan (1:30 pm)
9 Canisius v. 1 Siena (4:00 pm on ESPN360)
10 Marist v. 2 Niagara (6:30 pm on ESPN360)
6 St. Peter's v. 3 Rider (8:30 pm on ESPN360)
Southern Conference Quarterfinals (in Chattanooga)
N4 Appalachian State v. S1 Davidson (1:00 pm)
S3 College of Charleston v. N2 Western Carolina (3:30 pm)
N5 Elon v. N1 Chattanooga (6:00 pm)
N3 Samford v. S2 The Citadel (8:30 pm)
West Coast Quarterfinals (in Vegas)
4 Santa Clara v. 5 San Diego (8:00 pm)
3 Portland v. 6 Pepperdine (10:30 pm)
Games of the Day
Radford v. VMI, Jacksonville v. East Tennessee State, Austin Peay v. Morehead State
Clearly. Winner dances.
Butler v. Wright State
Because if Wright State wins, there's one less bubble slot.
Creighton v. Illinois State
The Missouri Valley is so strange...all four higher seeds actually won last night, but it took last-second heroics for the #1 (UNI) and #2 (Creighton) to move on...especially Creighton. Meanwhile, #3 and #4 won easily. I think Creighton has an NCAA bid in their hands right now as long as they make the tourney finals...which means this is a pseudo win-and-in game for the Jays.