Big Sky Conference March 8, 10-12. All games at Reno. kPOY: Joel Bolomboy, Weber State. Big Sky action gets underway on Tuesday with four first-round games at the Reno Events Center. Tournament play is a conflict between fairness and fun and the Big Sky has elected to go in the fun direction this season. The […]

Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference March 7-11. All games at Norfolk. kPOY: James Daniel, Howard. The MEAC gets underway with two quarterfinal games Monday evening at the Scope. For the first time since 2003, the MEAC is the worst-rated conference in the land. I am fairly sure the conference went 0-for-whatever against all Tier A and B […]

Mid-American Conference March 7,10-12. First round at higher seed, remaining games at Cleveland. kPOY: Nathan Boothe, Toledo. The MAC gets underway on Monday evening with four first round games at campus sites. Akron won the league by two games and is the favorite to win in Cleveland. But as usual, there are plenty of MAC […]

Horizon League March 5-8. All games at Detroit. kPOY: Kay Felder, Oakland. The Horizon League tournament begins on Saturday with four first-round games at Joe Louis Arena. The most famous basketball game in the history of Joe Louis Arena was when the Knicks upset the Pistons 127-123 in a thrilling fifth and deciding game of […]

Summit League March 5-8. All games at Sioux Falls. kPOY: Mike Daum, South Dakota State. The Summit League gets underway on Saturday with two quarterfinal games at the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center. The top two seeds both finished with 12-4 conference records this season, but IPFW won the tiebreaker by sweeping Omaha. However, the ratings […]

West Coast Conference March 4,5,7,8. All games at Las Vegas. kPOY: Domantas Sabonis, Gonzaga. The WCC gets underway Friday evening with a first round game at the Orleans Arena. No team has dominated its conference this millennium like Gonzaga. Not only has it won at least a share of the WCC regular-season every season but […]

Colonial Athletic Association March 4-7. All games at Baltimore. kPOY: Juan’ya Green, Hofstra. The CAA tournament begins Friday evening with two first round games in Baltimore. Hooray for the CAA! That is the theme of this year’s tournament. Actually if the tournament logo is any indication, the theme involves a crab in some way. But […]

Southern Conference March 4-7. All games at Asheville. kPOY: Stephen Croone, Furman. The SoCon gets underway on Friday with two first-round games in Asheville. The Southern Conference ranked as the 20th-best in the country, which was its best ranking since 2011 when the league was home to Charleston and Davidson. Chattanooga won the league by […]

MIssouri Valley Conference March 3-6. All games at St. Louis. kPOY: Ron Baker, Wichita State. Arch Madness gets underway with two first-round games on Thursday evening. Wichita State dominated the Valley like no other team this side of Nacogdoches. Conference scoring margin, 2016 Stephen F. Austin 22.3 Wichita State 19.1 Gonzaga 14.8 Valparaiso 14.7 Stony […]

Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference March 3-7. All games at Siena. kPOY: Justin Robinson, Monmouth. The MAAC tips off with three games in Albany on Thursday. Monmouth has won 25 games, four more than any previous Monmouth season. But the Hawks are far from a lock to win the MAAC tournament. Part of that is the […]