Tourney Central 3/6/2008 (Day 3)

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Patriot League

Bucknell was down by 17 before staging a comeback, then held on for three OT's before Griffin's prayer iced the upset. Army and Lehigh went one extra frame, and the No. 5 Black Knights prevailed. American survived the defending champions with a three-point play with 17 seconds left. Colgate built a big lead before a furious Leopard rally nearly forced a third upset of the night.

at [1] American 62, [8] Holy Cross 60 | GameFlo
at [3] Colgate 76, [6] Lafayette 74 | GameFlo
[5] Army 64, at [4] Lehigh 61 (OT) | GameFlo
[7] Bucknell 87, at [2] Navy 86 (3OT) | GameFlo

Atlantic Sun

In the first day of quarterfinals, the top two seeds didn't exactly cruise, but they did enough to advance. Belmont and Jacksonville will now get a day off while the other two quarters play out (see below).

[1] Belmont 75, [8] Campbell 66 | GameFlo
[2] Jacksonville 65, [7] Mercer 57 | GameFlo

Sun Belt

Troy outscored ULL 44-25 in the second half to bring Lafayette's season to an unexpected halt. Incidentally, Troy's women's team won an 11-over-6 road game at Louisiana-Monroe on the same night. The other four first-round games went as planned, and the Belt has now been tightened to an elite eight which will reconvene Sunday in Mobile.

[12] Troy 70, at [5] Louisiana-Lafayette 60 | GameFlo
at [4] Middle Tennessee State 74, [13] Louisiana-Monroe 69 | GameFlo
at [6] North Texas 85, [11] Arkansas State 63 | GameFlo
at [7] Florida Atlantic 91, [10] Florida International 64 | GameFlo
at [8] New Orleans 65, [9] Denver 60 | GameFlo

On Tap Tonight

Atlantic Sun

The winners of these two games will face the two well-rested top seeds tomorrow evening at Lipscomb University's Allen Arena.

[4] East Tennessee State 18-12 (11-5) vs. [5] Lipscomb 15-15 (9-7) | Preview
Recent: 02/16/2008 LIP 78 @ETSU 81 01/19/2008 ETSU 86 @LIP 81

[3] Stetson 16-15 (11-5) vs. [6] Gardner-Webb 15-15 (9-7) | Preview
Recent: 01/24/2008 STET 50 @GWEBB 55 02/10/2007 STET 48 @GWEBB 73

Big South

There's a bit of intrigue in tonight's semis, as both season series ended in splits. High Point's fans stormed the court in a regular season-opening win over defending champion Winthrop, and Asheville was throttled in its last meeting at No. 4 seeded Liberty.

[3] High Point 17-13 (8-6) vs. [2] Winthrop 20-11 (10-4) | Preview
Recent: 02/09/2008 HP 54 @WINT 62 01/12/2008 WINT 61 @HP 62

[4] Liberty 16-15 (7-7) at [1] North Carolina-Asheville 22-8 (10-4) | Preview
Recent: 02/09/2008 UNCA 54 @LIB 83 01/12/2008 LIB 70 @UNCA 74

Missouri Valley

It's the Valley's grand tradition of "Pillowfight Friday Thursday" (moved up a day since CBS opened a Sunday timeslot for the final), as the bottom four seeds battle it out for a chance to play either top seed Drake or No. 2 Illinois State tomorrow.

[7] Missouri State 16-15 (8-10) vs. [10] Evansville 9-20 (3-15) | Preview
Recent: 02/16/2008 EVAN 38 @MOST 76 01/26/2008 MOST 65 @EVAN 84

[8] Indiana State 14-15 (8-10) vs. [9] Wichita State 11-19 (4-14) | Preview
Recent: 02/19/2008 WICH 73 @INDST 83 02/09/2008 INDST 60 @WICH 65

Northeast

The NEC's campus-site quarters begin tonight across Connecticut, New York, Maryland and Pennsylvania. CCSU is a dangerous No. 6 seed, having beaten No. 3 Sacred Heart four days ago by 13 points.

[8] Monmouth 7-23 (4-14) at [1] Robert Morris 25-6 (16-2) | Preview
Recent: 01/31/2008 RMU 61 @MON 60 01/03/2008 MON 44 @RMU 59

[7] Long Island 15-14 (7-11) at [2] Wagner 22-7 (15-3) | Preview
Recent: 01/31/2008 LIUB 65 @WAG 68 01/17/2008 WAG 65 @LIUB 85

[6] Central Connecticut State 14-15 (10-8) at [3] Sacred Heart 16-13 (13-5) | Preview
Recent: 03/02/2008 CCSU 100 @SH 87 12/06/2007 SH 68 @CCSU 52

[5] Quinnipiac 15-14 (11-7) at [4] Mount Saint Mary's 15-14 (11-7) | Preview
Recent: 02/16/2008 QUIN 70 @MSM 77 01/10/2008 MSM 59 @QUIN 70