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 […]

Atlantic Sun March 1, 3, 6. All games at higher seed. kPOY: Dallas Moore, North Florida. The Atlantic Sun gets conference tournament play started on Tuesday night, with simultaneous action at four different locations. Rarely does a year go by where there’s not some sort of membership change in the A-Sun. This season, the league […]

Conference tournament season is upon us and it is the best part of the basketball season. Oh, the NCAA tournament is pretty cool, too. It’s like when somebody says so-and-so is a “great coach, better person”. If you wanted to be a jerk you could rephrase that to say “really fantastic person, worse coach”. What […]

Here are the most extreme things to happen in college basketball between Friday, February 19th and Thursday, February 25th… Biggest upsets 3) #246 UNC Greensboro 79, #71 Chattanooga 64 [63] (8%), Saturday. Chattanooga might have the best profile for a team that has never been mentioned in the same sentence as “at-large” this season. They’ve […]