The bloodbath has begun. We entered yesterday with 203 teams still eligible for the 2015 National Championship; we ended the night with 170. A single-day total of 33 teams fell off the Circle of March and we’re all better people for it. Today could be even worse with over 60 games involving a whole bunch of bad and mediocre teams playing in 18 different tournaments. We have to get to 68 over the next 80 hours somehow. On the automatic qualifier front, there was only one champion crowned last night — congratulations to the Patriot League’s Lafayette — but today and tomorrow are all about eliminations. Here’s today’s CoM.

 Eliminations (03.11.15)

• Alcorn State
• American
• Arizona State
• Boston College
• Bowling Green
• Charlotte
• Clemson
• Coppin State
• DePaul
• George Mason
• Kansas State
• Marshall
• Mississippi State
• Mississippi Valley State
• Missouri
• Nebraska
• Nevada
• New Mexico
• Nicholls State
• North Texas
• Oregon State
• Pittsburgh
• Rutgers
• Saint Louis
• Seton Hall
• South Carolina State
• Southeastern Louisiana
• Texas Tech
• UT-San Antonio
• Virginia Tech
• Washington
• Washington State
• Western Michigan

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