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• Here we go again: it's Championship Fortnight. Three leagues kick off with campus-site first rounds: the Horizon League, Ohio Valley, and Big South.



• There are 12 games on tap this evening.

On Tap Tonight

Big South



Radford will begin its quest for its first championship since 1998 (which so happens to be the season before the Big South's Winthrop era began) against High Point, which hasn't been seeded this low since 2003. Winthrop, a school with a history of bucking the odds and making the Dance, will begin its conference tourney title defense on the road in a rematch of 2008's title game. Newest member Gardner-Webb, the addition of which caused one school (Charleston Southern) to be left at home, received the same seed number that it did last season in the A-Sun, and the Runnin' Bulldogs will play at Liberty on a court where they won just under a month ago. And as a reward for VMI's best season in three decades, the Keydets will face a dangerous No. 7 seed in Coastal Carolina, a team that beat them by two points on aggregate in the season series.

7:00 pm ET - [6] Gardner-Webb 13-16 (9-9) at [3] Liberty 21-10 (12-6) | Preview
Recent: 02/04/2009 LIB 90 @GWB 95 12/06/2008 GWB 59 @LIB 68

7:00 pm ET - [5] Winthrop 11-18 (9-9) at [4] North Carolina-Asheville 14-15 (10-8) | Preview
Recent: 01/28/2009 WINT 56 @UNCA 49 01/17/2009 UNCA 67 @WINT 87

7:00 pm ET - [8] High Point 9-20 (4-14) at [1] Radford 18-11 (15-3) | Preview
Recent: 02/25/2009 HP 64 @RAD 69 01/17/2009 RAD 65 @HP 52

7:00 pm ET - [7] Coastal Carolina 11-19 (5-13) at [2] Virginia Military Institute 22-7 (13-5) | Preview
Recent: 02/14/2009 VMI 97 @CCU 100 01/10/2009 CCU 102 @VMI 103



Horizon League



The top two seeds, Butler and Green Bay, receive byes all the way to the semifinals (held on Butler's home court) while the low seeds sort themselves out. All higher seeds tonight swept season series with their first-round partners, so the evening shouldn't yield any major surprises. But this could be the last stand for a couple of once-proud seasons. Loyola made an early statement by destroying Georgia in the NIT Season Tip-Off, then later put a dent in Butler's record. UIC beat Vanderbilt and Missouri Valley No. 1 seed Northern Iowa in an impressive 7-3 nonconference start, but the defense collapsed once the calendar turned.

7:00 pm ET - [10] Detroit 7-22 (2-16) at [3] Cleveland State 21-10 (12-6) | Preview
Recent: 01/29/2009 UDM 49 @CLST 66 01/03/2009 CLST 53 @UDM 44

7:00 pm ET - [7] Illinois-Chicago 15-14 (7-11) at [6] Youngstown State 11-18 (7-11) | Preview
Recent: 02/07/2009 YSU 68 @UIC 60 01/08/2009 UIC 70 @YSU 80

7:00 pm ET - [9] Valparaiso 9-21 (5-13) at [4] Wright State 18-12 (12-6) | Preview
Recent: 02/05/2009 VALP 58 @WRIG 68 01/10/2009 WRIG 64 @VALP 48

8:00 pm ET - [8] Loyola (Ill.) 14-17 (6-12) at [5] Wisconsin-Milwaukee 16-13 (11-7) | Preview
Recent: 01/28/2009 LOYO 58 @UWM 72 01/03/2009 UWM 80 @LOYO 66



Ohio Valley



Tennessee-Martin, behind national second-leading scorer and future NBA pick Lester "Done Ruthless" Hudson, won its first OVC regular-season championship. The Skyhawks are considerably more than Hudson, however; Marquis Weddle, who scored 30 in the title clincher against Morehead State, is a great scoring foil and makes this team an intriguing low-seed upset possibility if it can survive three games on its own home court. Lurking behind is Austin Peay, double-titlists of 2008, which dug out of a late January swoon to capture the No. 2 seed. Tennessee State, which fired coach Cy Alexander in mid-season, received the same No. 6 seed as last year... remember that the Tigers struck all the way to the title game. Eastern Illinois looked to be a strong contender for a high seed with an 8-4 start, but six straight OVC losses doomed the Panthers to another steep tourney challenge.

7:30 pm ET - [5] Eastern Kentucky 18-12 (10-8) at [4] Morehead State 16-15 (12-6) | Preview
Recent: 02/18/2009 MORE 70 @EKU 74 01/24/2009 EKU 64 @MORE 68

8:00 pm ET - [8] Tennessee Tech 12-17 (6-12) at [1] Tennessee-Martin 21-8 (14-4) | Preview
Recent: 02/14/2009 TNT 62 @UTM 71 01/15/2009 UTM 83 @TNT 72

8:00 pm ET - [7] Eastern Illinois 12-17 (8-10) at [2] Austin Peay 17-12 (13-5) | Preview
Recent: 02/26/2009 EIU 54 @APSU 69 12/06/2008 APSU 81 @EIU 73

8:30 pm ET - [6] Tennessee State 12-17 (9-9) at [3] Murray State 18-11 (13-5) | Preview
Recent: 02/04/2009 MURR 88 @TSU 58 01/08/2009 TSU 71 @MURR 75

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