CHAMP WEEK 2025

[loca2874]

Champ Week Has started today. This will be the only champ week post except for the AAC tournament as that will be separate.

The Atlantic Sun starts everything off with two play in games at the campus of the number 1 and 2 teams as that is who they will play tomorrow. Stetson and Central Arkansas are playing at Lipscomb. Austin Peay and North Florida are at North Alabama. Winners will play the site hosts tomorrow.

Atlantic Sun – Campus Sites March 2-3, 6, 9
Stetson	351	vs	Central Arkansas	348	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Austin Peay	285	vs	North Florida	246	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+

 

[loca2874]

NIT has new selection criteria. They have now what is called the KNIT. This is a rating that comes up with an average of the BPI, KPI, NET, KenPom, SOR, Torvik and WAB rankings. If you are a Regular Season Conference Champion and you finish the regular season with a KNIT of 125 or better then you automatically qualify for the NIT if you are not selected on Selection Sunday by the NCAA tournament.

Those that have qualified for the NIT already are

Lipscomb
High Point
Chattanooga

 

[loca2874]

Schedules will be posted the night before and the NET will reflect the day before and not the day of.

I didn’t post todays games as I was too late. The only tournament going was the A Sun Quarter Finals. The semis will be on March 6th.

North Alabama over Austin Peay
Queens over FGCU
Jacksonville over Eastern Kentucky
Lipscomb over Central Arkansas

Day 3 Begins the Sun Belt Conference whose tournament mimicks the WCC. Kinda dumb. This tournament is held in Pensacola. The Horizon League begins at Campus sites with the Semis and Finals in Indianapolis.

Sun Belt – Pensacola, FL. March 4-10 (First Round)
Southern Miss	298	vs	Coastal Carolina	327	4:00 p.m.	ESPN+
ULM	349	vs	Louisiana	312	6:30 p.m.	ESPN+
Horizon League – Campus Sites and Indianapolis, IN. March 4, 6, 10-11
Oakland	218	at	Green Bay	334	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Northern KY	234	At	Detroit Mercy	328	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Wright St.	216	At	IU Indianapolis	317	7:00 p.m.	ESPN+

 

[nevadanatural]

Whenever I see FGCU I think of “dunk city”, that was one of the most entertaining teams to watch in recent years, although I guess it’s not all that recent anymore. Getting older sure does mess with your sense of time.

 

[loca2874]

Whenever I see FGCU I think of “dunk city”, that was one of the most entertaining teams to watch in recent years, although I guess it’s not all that recent anymore. Getting older sure does mess with your sense of time.

2012 - 2013 is when they made that run. That was 12 years ago and I was in Afghanistan. 5 years after that UMBC knocked of Virginia. It wasn’t too long ago but long enough.

I can still feel the rush of both of those games. FGCU taking down #2 Georgetown and UMBC taking down Virginia.

 

[I.I.]

Watch Arkansas State and Samford. And maybe Troy.

 

[loca2874]

I missed it last night so sue me. Here are the games today

Ohio Valley – Evansville, IN March 5-8 (First Round
Tennessee Tech	294	vs	UT Martin	297	6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Lindenwood	316	vs	Morehead St.	312	8:30 p.m.	ESPN+
Sun Belt – Pensacola, FL. March 4-10 (First Round)
Southern Miss	295	vs	Georgia Southern	254	GAS 78 USM 64	ESPN+
Old Dominion	319	vs	Louisiana	310	7:30 p.m.	ESPN+
Big South – Johnson City, TN March 5, 7-9 (first Round)
Gardner Webb	264	vs	USC Upstate	346	7:30 p.m.	ESPN+
Summit League – Sioux Falls, SD March 5-9 (First Round)
Kansas City	241	vs	Oral Roberts	331	7:00 p.m.	SL Net
Northeast Conference – Campus Sites March 5, 8, 11 (Quarterfinals)
Le Moyne	350	at	Central Conn.	156	7:00 p.m.	NEC Net
Stonehill	303	at	FDU	313	7:00 p.m.	NEC Net
Wagner	340	at	St. Francis (PA)	315	7:00 p.m.	NEC Net
Chicago St.	359	at	Long Island	278	7:00 p.m.	NEC Net

 

[TU1NNJ]

2012 - 2013 is when they made that run. That was 12 years ago and I was in Afghanistan. 5 years after that UMBC knocked of Virginia. It wasn’t too long ago but long enough.

I can still feel the rush of both of those games. FGCU taking down #2 Georgetown and UMBC taking down Virginia.

Seeing UBMC take down UVa is the most satisfying non-TU game in basketball that i have watched. Nothing against UVa, I liked Bennett as a coach, but seeing the little guy have a chance and then finally winning was very exciting. That is what the people outside of the the losing school want to see but unfortunately that is what the big conferences don’t want to see and are trying to structure things to keep it from occurring.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

but unfortunately that is what the big conferences don’t want to see and are trying to structure things to keep it from occurring.

They are stupid. That is half the joy of the tourney, seeing Cinderella's upset the big boys. If they take that away then people like me and a lot of others won't watch it as much.

 

[I.I.]

Watch Arkansas State and Samford. And maybe Troy.

And High Point...............

 

[loca2874]

Day 4

Ohio Valley – Evansville, IN March 5-8 (First Round
UT Martin		vs	Little Rock		6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Lindenwood		vs	Tennessee St.		8:30 p.m.	ESPN+
Sun Belt – Pensacola, FL. March 4-10 (Second Round)
Georgia St.		vs	Georgia Southern		5:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Old Dominion		vs	Texas St.		7:30 p.m.	ESPN+
Summit League – Sioux Falls, SD March 5-9 (Second Round)
Kansas City	241	vs	Omaha	331	7:00 p.m.	SL Net
Denver		Vs	St. Thomas (MN)		9:30 p.m.	SL Net
Missouri Valley – St. Louis, MO March 6-9 (First Round)
Southern Illinois		vs	Indiana St.		11:00 a.m.	ESPN+
Illinois St.		vs	Missouri St.		1:30 p.m.	ESPN+
Murray St.		vs	Evansville		5:00 p.m.	ESPN+
UIC		vs	Valpo		7:30 p.m.	ESPN+
Atlantic Sun – Campus Sites March 2-3, 6, 9 (Semi Finals)
Jacksonvilld		at	North Alabama		6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Queens		at	Lipscomb		8:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Horizon – Campus Sites March 4, 6, 10-11 (Second Round)
Purdue FW		at	Youngstown St.		6:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Oakland		at	Milwaukee		7:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Wright St.		at	Robert Morris		7:00 p.m.	ESPN+
Northern KY		at	Cleveland St.		7:00 p.m.	ESPN+
West Coast Conf – Las Vegas March 6-11 (First Round)
San Diego		at	Pacific		4:30 p.m.	ESPN+