March 14-16 at Chicago State. All-kenpom: Chris Flores, NJIT (kPOY); Ben Aird, Utah Valley; Art Bernardi, Houston Baptist; Brandon Provost, UT Pan American; Nick Thompson, Utah Valley. Realignment has taken many great rivalries from us, but none more memorable than Utah Valley and Houston Baptist. The two will lock up in the play-in of the […]

March 14-17. All games at Brooklyn, N.Y. All-kenpom: Dwayne Evans, Saint Louis (kPOY); Khalif Wyatt, Temple; Treveon Graham, VCU; Ramon Galloway, La Salle; Juvonte Reddic, VCU. Dayton has to be among the best 12-seeds in a conference tournament. Keep in mind the A-10 has 16 teams, and there isn’t usually going to be much difference […]

March 13-16 at Nashville, Tenn. All-kenpom: Patric Young, Florida (kPOY); Erik Murphy, Florida; Kenny Boynton, Florida; Mike Rosario, Florida; Scottie Wilbekin, Florida. Florida hacked the kPOY formula by its scoring-margin domination of the conference, but seriously, you find a player on another team that put up decent numbers. (The real all-SEC team, all seven players […]

March 14-16 at Montana All-kenpom: Davion Berry, Weber State (kPOY); Kareem Jamar, Montana; Kyle Tresnak, Weber State; Scott Bamforth, Weber State; Joel Bolomboy, Weber State. Montana and Weber State have combined to go 64-2 against other Big Sky foes the last two seasons. It shouldn’t be a surprise then that these two teams account for […]

March 13-16 at Katy, Texas. All-kenpom: Taylor Smith, Stephen F. Austin (kPOY); Damen Bell-Holter, Oral Roberts; DeQuan Hicks, Northwestern State; Hal Bateman, Stephen F. Austin; Warren Niles, Oral Roberts. Stephen F. Austin is the favorite here behind the incredible work of 6-7 center Taylor Smith and statistical splits that Kevin O’Neill would be proud of. […]

March 14-16 at Anaheim, Ca. All-kenpom: James Ennis, Long Beach State (kPOY); Alan Williams, UC Santa Barbara; Chris Eversley, Cal Poly; Corey Hawkins, UC Davis; Kwame Vaughn, Cal St. Fullerton. The second-semester additions of Keala King and Tony Freeland gave Long Beach State a boost. Enough of one to propel them to a regular-season title. […]

March 13-16. All games at Tulsa, Okla. All-kenpom: Joe Jackson, Memphis (kPOY); Dwayne Davis, Southern Miss; Josh Davis, Tulane; Isaiah Sykes, UCF; Maurice Kemp, East Carolina. Memphis rolled to a 16-0 record in C-USA play and Rice struggled to a 1-15 mark, validating the preseason poll.  What happened in between didn’t go accoring to plan, […]

March 13-16. All games at Kansas City, Mo. All-kenpom: Marcus Smart, Oklahoma State (kPOY); Jeff Withey, Kansas; Ben McLemore, Kansas; Pierre Jackson, Baylor; Romero Osby, Oklahoma. As is customary in this event, Kansas is a convincing favorite. The Jayhawks have won five tournaments during the previous eight years of sharing or outright winning the regular-season […]

March 13-16. All games at Las Vegas, Nev. All-kenpom: Dwight Powell, Stanford (kPOY); Allen Crabbe, Cal; Spencer Dinwiddie, Colorado; Brock Motum, Washington State; Mark Lyons, Arizona. Like the Mountain West, the Pac-12 featured a lot of parity at the top of the league. Arizona was a half-step ahead of everyone else, but there’s not much […]

March 12-13, 15-16 at UNLV. All-kenpom: Jamaal Franklin, San Diego State (kPOY); Colton Iverson, Colorado State; Anthony Bennett, UNLV; Derrick Marks, Boise State; Alex Kirk, New Mexico. With four fairly equal teams at the top of the Mountain West, this is the kind of tournament where the magical hand of home-court advantage can make a […]