Tourney Central 3/5/07

by Kyle Whelliston on March 5, 2007 8:01 AM • Permalink

Bullet Points

In Sunday's only championship game, Creighton beat Southern Illinois to win the Missouri Valley autobid.
Cinderella 2: Electric Boogaloo... George Mason upset Old Dominion in the CAA semis out of the No. 6 seed.
Siena upset Marist in a No.5-over-1 job in the Metro Atlantic semis, and Sun Belt No. 9 seed Middle Tennessee State advanced by knocking off defending champion and No. 1 seed South Alabama.

Title game matchups are set in the America East, CAA, Metro Atlantic, Northeast, Patriot and West Coast.

Tonight, we have three finals: the Colonial, Metro Atlantic and West Coast will crown champions. The Sun Belt and Mid-Continent stage semifinals.

New second-week blank brackets are available on the Bracket City page: the Big West, MAC, MEAC, WAC, Southland and SWAC pairings are now set.

Autobids: Pennsylvania, Winthrop, Eastern Kentucky, Davidson, Creighton.

NIT: Austin Peay, Marist, East Tennessee State, and Southern Illinois (SIU won't need it, though).

Brackets

(2) Creighton 67, (1) Southern Illinois 61 | GameFlo

(1) Albany 59, (3) Boston University 49 | GameFlo
(2) Vermont 72, (5) Maryland-Baltimore County 63 | GameFlo

(1) Virginia Commonwealth 63, (4) Drexel 56 | GameFlo
(6) George Mason 79, (2) Old Dominion 63 | GameFlo

(4) Siena 86, (1) Marist 78 | GameFlo
(2) Niagara 89, (3) Loyola (Md.) 79 | GameFlo

(1) Central Connecticut State 74, (5) Mount Saint Mary`s 68 | GameFlo
(2) Sacred Heart 83, (3) Quinnipiac 69 | GameFlo

(1) Holy Cross 55, (4) American 53 | GameFlo
(2) Bucknell 68, (6) Army 47 | GameFlo

(1) UMPFN 88, (5) San Diego 70 | GameFlo
(2) Santa Clara 63, (3) Saint Mary`s 47 | GameFlo

(4) North Texas 77, (4) Louisiana-Monroe 71 | GameFlo
(9) Middle Tennessee State 63, (1) South Alabama 60 | GameFlo
(2) Arkansas State 81, (7) New Orleans 74 | GameFlo
(3) Western Kentucky 86, (6) Florida Atlantic 81 | GameFlo

(1) IUPUI 71, (5) Southern Utah 59 | GameFlo
(6) Missouri-Kansas City 84, (3) Valparaiso 76 | GameFlo

Previews
Will turn into boxscores once play is compete.

Colonial Final
George Mason vs. Virginia Commonwealth

Metro Atlantic Final
Niagara vs. Siena

West Coast Final
Santa Clara vs. UMPFN

Mid-Continent Semifinals
IUPUI vs. Oral Roberts
Missouri-Kansas City vs. Oakland

Sun Belt Semifinals
Middle Tennessee State vs. North Texas
Arkansas State vs. Western Kentucky

Good Night

Oh, the basketball landscape is changing everyday, in every possible way. Though my dreams, it's never quite as it seems, and all these teams fade into the ether, perhaps haunted by the ear-splitting vocal histrionics of Dolores O'Riordan as they disappear. Good night, Southern Utah and Valparaiso and Boston University and UMBC and Loyola and Quinnipiac. Sweet dreams to Nicholls State, Texas-San Antonio, Texas State and Central Arkansas, who didn't qualify for the Southland tourney. Good night to American and Army, to San Diego and to both Mount Saint Mary's and Saint Mary's. You've all been dreams to me, dreams to me.