More basketball to come!

In just a few hours, conference championship basketball play will resume. Several conferences will be handing out their conference championships today and tomorrow. Along with that hardware, the teams will be taking back home with them, an automatic bid to be one of the 64 teams in the NCAA tournament. Conference championships that will be played out today include:

American East - University of Vermont vs. Boston University
Big 12 - Kansas vs. Kansas St.
Big East - Georgetown vs. Marquette
Big West - UC Santa Barbara vs. Long Beach State
Conference USA - UTEP vs. Houston
Mid-American - Akron vs. Ohio
MEAC - Morgan State vs. South Carolina State
Mountain West - San Diego State vs. UNLV
PAC-10 - California vs. Washington
Southland - Stephen F. Austin vs. Sam Houston State
SWAC - Texas Southern vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff
WAC - Utah State vs. New Mexico State

Numerous conference championships have already been played out. Those teams with a ticket already punched to the NCAA tournament are: East Tennessee State (Atlantic Sun), Montana (Big Sky), Winthrop (Big South), Old Dominion (Colonial), Butler (Horizon), Cornell (Ivy League), Sienna (MAAC), Northern Iowa (Missouri Valley), Robert Morris (Northeast), Murray State (OVC), Lehigh (Patriot), Wofford (Southern), Oakland (Summit), North Texas (Sun Belt), Saint Mary's (West Coast).

Best luck to all the teams that play today! Especially to UK who plays in the SEC semifinals against Tennessee. It's going to be a tough, hard fought game.

More later!

- b