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The regular season for many conferences has come to an end, and all eyes turn to conference tournaments. However, there were several outstanding performances over the final week of February. The five nominees for Women’s Player of the Week are the following: Kiyah Lewis (Central Connecticut), Brooklyn Meyer (South Dakota State), Mia Nicastro (Western Illinois), […]
Before the Coastal Athletic Association madness starts at CareFirst Arena in Washington, D.C., one final round of regular season games needed to be completed on Tuesday night to set the matchups for the upcoming CAA tournament. With everyone but the second-seeded Charleston Cougars (21-10, 14-4 CAA) in action that meant a final attempt for others […]
The 2026 Southern Conference Tournament commences this week in Asheville, and it’s been awhile since we’ve seen a league dominated by a mix of youth and veteran leadership that has been prevalent at most programs. The youth could impact this tournament more than any in recent memory, with eight of the 10 league programs having […]
“Javion, make sure you remember that doctor’s appointment.” To start off the time I spent with Central Arkansas head coach John Shulman and Javion Guy-King, the 2025-26 Atlantic Sun Coach of the Year made sure to take care of a reminder with his starting guard. But, the truth is, Guy-King had not always been the […]
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – Kevair Kennedy first started playing basketball at six years old. His father, Kevin, put the ball in his hands on local courts in Philadelphia’s Hunting Park neighborhood and quickly signed him up to play his first organized games. Instead of playing in his own age division, Kevin signed Kennedy up to […]
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — There may not be a single conference in the country where the top two teams are as far ahead of the rest of the pack as they are in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. For the second straight year, Quinnipiac and Fairfield are the clear favorites heading into Atlantic City. Over […]
If you’re new here from following just the men’s side, you didn’t read that wrong. On the women’s side, the Summit League is threatening for multiple bids – and it’s not the first time either. They sent multiple teams to the tournament in 2019 and 2021 – both times, it was South Dakota and South […]
It’s been a historic year in the Atlantic Sun Conference. Central Arkansas is in the midst of its best season yet since arriving at the Division I level. Austin Peay secured its first-ever ASUN title with a co-regular-season championship. Queens is in search of its first NCAA Tournament bid since becoming postseason-eligible, while West Georgia […]
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — You’re going to show up bruised. You’re going to show up battered. But you’d better show up desperate. No excuses. No second chances. No margin for error. We’ve played the non-conference slate. We’ve played 20 regular-season conference games. That’s your margin for error. There’s where your excuses will land. Now? Nobody […]
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Carly Thibault-DuDonis talks the talk. She has consistently stated that she wants to turn Fairfield into not just one of the best mid-major women’s basketball programs in the country, but one of the premier programs at any level. She’s accomplished the first part, as the Stags are an incredible 64-2 in […]
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Brendan Coyle is too young to have fond memories of Siena’s last MAAC Tournament Championship. Fran McCaffery completed a three-peat in 2010 following a 17-1 MAAC record on the backs of some of the MAAC’s all-time great players. In the few years after, Coyle, from nearby Niskayuna, began attending games at […]
Relative newcomers enter the tournament as the top seeds with Western Illinois, Lindenwood and Southern Indiana sitting first, second and third. The Lions and Screaming Eagles are eying their first crowns at the Division-I level. The tourney tips off on Wednesday, March 4 as only the top eight teams in the standings qualified. First Round […]
With Richmond on the NCAA Tournament bubble’s First Four Out, and every other program looking to ruin the Spiders’ plans, the Atlantic 10 Championship tips off in Henric, Va. on March 4. Here’s a little bit to know about each team: No. 1 Rhode Island (16-2, 25-4 overall) Brooklyn Gray, Ines Debroise, Palmire Mbu and […]
Happy tourney season! Let’s run down the Ohio Valley Conference men’s bracket. Ohio Valley Conference Tournament schedule First Round – Wednesday, March 4Game 1 – #5 SIUE vs. #8 Eastern Illinois, 6:00 p.m. (ESPN+)Game 2 – #6 Lindenwood vs. #7 Little Rock, 8:30 p.m. (ESPN+) Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 5Game 3 – #4 UT Martin vs. Winner of Game 1, 6:00 p.m. (ESPN+)Game […]
We must start the NEC Tournament preview with a moment of silence for the fallen Division I basketball fate of Saint Francis University. By finishing 10th in the league, SFU did not qualify for the NEC Tournament in its final season before dropping to Division III. We thank the Red Flash for the memories. They […]
High Point is the class of the Big South once again. The Panthers clinched their third consecutive regular season title. HPU won the championship for the second time in five seasons last year and has finished .500 or better in the league 15 straight years. The question is: can HPU punch its third ever trip […]
While I’d typically have my AmEast Recap from the weekend that was, I decided to skip that process this Monday, considering we have four more games on Tuesday to decide the AmEast Tournament seeding. Instead, I thought I’d talk about the four games on Tuesday, in the larger context of what will happen in the […]
The road to the NCAA Tournament typically ran through the sleepy upstate New York town of Hamilton. Matt Langel had a stranglehold on the conference for years, but his perch atop the Patriot League came to an unceremonious end as American ended Colgate’s season in the semifinals last year in Washington, D.C. It advanced the […]
Princeton spent eight weeks as the No. 1 team in the Women’s Other Top 25 through the months of December and January, and now the Tigers are back atop the poll as the calendar has flipped to March. Carla Berube’s team has won its last four games to improve to 23-3 overall and 11-2 in […]
The Miami (OH) RedHawks are the No. 1 team in the Men’s Other Top 25 for a second straight week. Travis Steele’s team is 29-0 and is two wins away from an undefeated regular season. It is up to No. 19 in the AP Top 25 as well. Miami swept the Michigan trip this past […]
The Sun Belt Women’s Basketball Tournament will get underway on March 3, 2026, at the Pensacola Bay Center when No. 12 seed South Alabama (12-17, 5-13 SBC) takes on No. 13 seed Appalachian State (11-18, 4-14 SBC) at 12:30 p.m. EST. The second game of the opening day doubleheader will see No. 11 Georgia State […]
The Summit League men’s tournament is starting on Wednesday, and it should be a fun one! This year, two teams stood out, and surprisingly(!), neither one was perennial powerhouse South Dakota State. Instead, it was rival North Dakota State that exceeded expectations to win the league outright by two games. Their primary adversaries appear to […]
High Point had struggled for more than two decades to get to the Big Dance before finally breaking through last year. As the Big South Men’s Tournament descends on Johnson City, Tennessee, High P looks like the favorites again, having dropped just four games all year and one game in conference. That loss was to […]
The 2026 Sun Belt Men’s Conference Tournament is set to get underway in beautiful Pensacola, Florida, this week, with one of its unique features being the “ladder format,” as the tourney will get underway on Tuesday, March 3, on both the women’s and men’s sides, respectively. The Sun Belt Conference is truly the wild, wild west […]
The Horizon League women’s tournament bracket is officially here, with Green Bay once again earning the No. 1 seed. The Phoenix has been beaten three times in the closing weeks of the regular season, making for an enticing challenge for the league’s auto-bid. Here’s a little bit to know about each team heading into tournament […]