Friday was a fun day of eliminations, with several good games involving a couple of buzzer-beaters, one step closer for #cheerfortheears, and the NCAA Tournament’s first automatic bid (Harvard). All told, 16 teams lost games and were removed from the Circle of March, with two more tournaments on tap to begin today (America East and The Summit). That leaves us with 282 “eligible” teams, but keep in mind that in order to respect the integrity of the regular season, we will not remove teams until their schedules are finished regardless of their current status. This means that the five other already-eliminated Ivy League teams, each of which concludes their seasons tonight, will come off the CoM on Sunday (Penn and Princeton, the two other Ivies, will be removed after their Tuesday night finale).
- Murray State
- Appalachian State
- High Point
- Evansville
- Furman
- Radford
- Illinois State
- UNC Greensboro
- Charleston Southern
- UNC Wilmington
- Oakland
- Loyola (Chicago)
- Morehead State
- Gardner-Webb
- Valparaiso
- Northern Iowa