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Peers and Seers

Atlantic Sun  Missouri Valley  Northeast  Patriot League  Sun Belt  Army Black Knights  Belmont Bruins  Bucknell Bison  Campbell Fighting Camels  Central Connecticut State Blue Devils  Colgate Red Raiders  Denver Pioneers  Drake Bulldogs  East Tennessee State Buccaneers  Evansville Aces  Florida Atlantic Owls  Florida International Golden Panthers  Gardner-Webb Bulldogs  High Point Panthers  Holy Cross Crusaders  Illinois State Redbirds  Indiana State Sycamores  Jacksonville Dolphins  Lafayette Leopards  Lehigh Mountain Hawks  Liberty Flames  Lipscomb Bisons  Long Island Blackbirds  Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin` Cajuns  Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks  Mercer Bears  Monmouth Hawks  Navy Midshipmen  New Orleans Privateers  North Carolina-Asheville Bulldogs  North Texas Mean Green  Quinnipiac Bobcats  Robert Morris Colonials  Sacred Heart Pioneers  Missouri State Bears  Stetson Hatters  Troy Trojans  Wagner Seahawks  Wichita State Shockers  Winthrop Eagles  Big South  

Bullet Points

• All four Patriot League quarters were decided by three points or less, and the round featured two upsets as No. 7 Bucknell and No. 5 Army advanced. Bucknell beat No. 2 Navy 87-86 on a John Griffin 40-foot buzzer-beater in triple overtime.
  
• In the Sun Belt, the campus-site first round produced a 12-over-5 upset, as Troy won at Louisiana-Lafayette.
  
• Atlantic Sun top seeds Belmont and Jacksonville advanced to Friday's semifinal round.
  
• Two tourneys get under way tonight: the Missouri Valley holds its first round in St. Louis, while the Northeast Conference quarterfinals get going at campus sites.
  

Brackets

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

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