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Circle of March: Vol. III

rtmsf — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 17:01:33 +0000

Championship Fortnight got under way last night as the Atlantic Sun, Horizon League and Patriot League tipped off their postseason tournaments. Seven more teams were eliminated from contention for the 2015 National Championship, with Army, Jacksonville, Kennesaw State, Loyola (Maryland), Stetson, Wright State and Youngstown State riding off into the basketball sunset. Those three conferences will take a break tonight, but the starts of the America East, Big South, Northeast and Ohio Valley Tournaments will keep us engaged as another group of eliminations are scheduled. As of this morning, there are still 320 schools eligible for the ring. Note that [...]

Summer Updates Wrap-Up

rtmsf — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:48:57 +0000

Now that we’ve spent the last six weeks reviewing most of the Division I conferences, let’s take a look back at the entire list with the summer #1 power ranking for each as we head into the fall… [ed note: to see all of the Summer Updates in order of release, click here]

ACC (Matt Patton) – #1 North Carolina America East (John Templon) – #1 Boston University Atlantic 10 (Joe Dzuback) – #1 Xavier Big East (Brian Otskey) – #1 Syracuse Big South (Mark Bryant) – #1 UNC-Asheville Big Ten (Will Green) – #1 Ohio State Big 12 (Evan Pfaff) – #1 Baylor Conference USA [...]

ATB: Mid-Major Tourney Sunday

rtmsf — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:44:50 +0000

Conference Tourneys. Given the propensity of conference tournaments this weekend, we’ve divided up the ATB this weekend so that this post will cover only the eleven mid-major tourneys that were in action today, while our other ATB post will discuss the end of the regular season for the major conferences.

Missouri Valley Championship – Northern Iowa 67, Wichita State 52. When Northern Iowa held Drake without a field goal for 28 minutes during their quarterfinal matchup on Friday, many people on press row who were unfamiliar with their stingy defense dismissed it as a statistical anomaly made [...]

Thus Begins Championship Fortnight…

rtmsf — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:18:09 +0000

You know why we don’t need NCAA Tournament expansion to 96 teams? The are a lot of other good reasons, but the simplest reason is that we already have it. In fact, about 300 of the 347 Division I teams have an opportunity starting tonight to ‘play their way into’ the NCAA Tournament. It’s easy — survive and advance. As long as you win, you’re still alive. And if you win three or four games in (mostly) consecutive days, you’ll see Greg Gumbel reading your name off the Big Board on Selection Sunday. Keep winning beyond that and [...]

A Brief Conference Primer Interlude…

rtmsf — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:43:31 +0000

We’ve made it through eighteen of our thirty-one season conference primers so far, and our correspondents continue to top each other with their breadth of knowledge and coverage of the one-bid leagues. So we want to thank them and once again highlight their fantastic work over the past few weeks by anchoring their primers in one post here, so that you (and we) can easily access them. Going forward, we’ll primarily be dealing with the traditional multiple-bid conferences or conferences that should expect to see multiple bids this season. Conference #13 will go up tonight, and we’ll be counting down to tipoff [...]

Conference Primers: Single Bid Conference Recap

rtmsf — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:20:14 +0000

So we figure we’ll be done with these conference primers by Christmas 2008 Thanksgiving, which is about the time most people start keeping an eye on college hoops anyway. In the meantime, we thought we’d take a moment to recap the seventeen single bid conferences we’ve already reviewed. Keep in mind, our definition of a single bid league is a conference that does not regularly compete for multiple NCAA bids (even if they occasionally get multiple bids).

31. SWAC 30. MEAC 29. Northeast 28. Atlantic Sun 27. Ohio Valley 26. Southland 25. America East 24. Big South 23. MAAC 22. Ivy 21. Patriot 20. Sun Belt 19. Big Sky 18. Summit 17. Southern 16. [...]