Championship Week Video Notebook: Thursday, March 3rd

-In the America East, Stony Brook survived a scare from UMBC.  To give you an idea of how big of an upset this would have been, Stony Brook’s RPI is 65, and UMBC comes in at 336.  That’s a much bigger gap than what we generally see when a #1 seed faces a #16 seed in the NCAA Tournament, and on top of that, Stony Brook was at home, where they had only lost once all season.

Whereas Stony Brook avoided a big upset, Albany, who had not lost a single regular season game at home, did not.  They fell to Hartford in what is the biggest upset in Championship week so far.

-In the Northeast Conference, we saw four pretty good games, the most exciting being Fairleigh Dickinson’s win against Saint Francis PA, but all the games were good.

-The OVC also got underway tonight.  We discuss all the action, and then preview tomorrow’s games. (recorded late Wednesday night (Mar 2nd)

And for all you radio lovers, there is an mp3 version of the show at the bottom of the page

TODAY’S CHAMPIONSHIP WEEK ACTION

ATLANTIC SUN
Semifinals
7:00 PM – (7) Stetson at (6) Lipscomb, espn3
7:30 PM – (4) Florida Gulf Coast at (1) North Florida, espn3

BIG SOUTH
First Round
2:00 PM – (8) Longwood vs (9) Charleston Southern, bigsouthsports.com
4:30 PM – (7) Radford vs (10) Presbyterian, bigsouthsports.com
7:00 PM – (6) Gardner-Webb vs (11) Campbell, bigsouthsports.com

METRO ATLANTIC
First Round
5:00 PM – (8) Rider vs (9) Quinnipiac, No live video
7:30 PM – (7) Canisius vs (10) Niagara, No live video
10:00 PM – (6) Manhattan vs (11) Marist, No live video

MISSOURI VALLEY
First Round
7:00 PM – (8) Loyola-Chicago vs (9) Bradley, Regional TV/espn3
9:30 PM – (7) Missouri State vs (10) Drake, Regional TV/espn3

OHIO VALLEY
Quarterfinals
7:00 PM – (4) Tennessee State vs (8) Austin Peay, ovcsports.com
9:30 PM – (3) Morehead State vs (6) Murray State, ovcsports.com

PATRIOT LEAGUE
Quarterfinals
7:00 PM – (9) Holy Cross at (1) Bucknell, patriotleague.tv
7:00 PM – (5) Colgate at (4) Army West Point, patriotleague.tv
7:00 PM – (7) Navy at (2) Lehigh, patriotleague.tv
7:00 PM – (6) American at (3) Boston University, patriotleague.tv