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 […]

Big South Conference March 3-6. All games at Campbell. kPOY: John Brown, High Point. Big South action gets underway Thursday at Buies Creek, N.C, population 2,215. The Big South has moved its tournament from the beaches of South Carolina to central North Carolina, thereby giving home court advantage to the 11-seed for this event. The […]

Ohio Valley Conference March 2-5. All games at Nashville. kPOY: Evan Bradds, Belmont. The OVC tournament gets underway Wednesday with two first round games in Nashville. The OVC still clings to a divisional format, presumably to not hurt feelings. The conference then gives the division winners the top two seeds and seeds the rest of […]

Northeast Conference March 2, 5, 8. All games at higher seed. kPOY: Michael Carey, Wagner. The NEC tournament starts Wednesday night with home court action at four locations. The NEC is one of the few conferences that restricts its field. The ten-team league only invites its top eight to the post-season festivities. That ratio is […]

America East March 2, 7, 12. All games at higher seed. kPOY: Jameel Warney, Stony Brook. America East action gets started Wednesday night at four different locations. America East employs a twist which I think makes sense for all conferences using the pure home court format. It reseeds the semi-finals. If you’re going to give […]

Patriot League March 1, 3, 6, 9. All games at higher seed. kPOY: Tim Kempton, Lehigh. The Patriot League tournament gets started Tuesday night with first round action at Navy and Loyola. Bucknell and Lehigh destroyed the conventional wisdom that a difficult non-conference schedule can crush a team’s mental fortitude. The two teams went a […]