The first night of Championship Fortnight went off without a hitch, as the Big South Tournament began its opening round Monday with Radford and Gardner-Webb the first victims of elimination through tournament action (grayed out below). Four more teams will be knocked out tonight as the Horizon League tips off its tournament at various home sites.
One programming note since we received a methodology question yesterday. Since Cornell, Columbia, Brown and Dartmouth were already mathematically eliminated from the Ivy League’s regular season “tournament,” those four teams were excluded originally along with several other ineligible schools (due to APR, transitional, etc.). With no automatic bid to the NCAA in place, we decided to provide the remaining Great West Conference schools and Independent teams the courtesy of staying in the CoM until their regular seasons were complete. As such, we also eliminated Cal State Bakersfield in this version.
