It’s Conference Tournament Time
February 26, 2009 by Kevin Hunter
Filed under Basketball
I am not a big fan of conference tournaments. All they do is give underachieving slobs a second chance to redeem themselves and sneak into the Big Dance.
These same teams manage to get in with a sub-par record as a 15 or 16 seed and are gone before we knew they were in there.
Meanwhile, some poor deserving team that did what it was supposed to do during the regular season – win its games, is left for dead or the NIT (aren’t the two one and the same?).
There are so many of these conference tournaments that they look like college football bowl games – too many to count!
The first in this seemingly endless array of tournaments is the Division II Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association or CIAA for all you acronym junkies.
Actually, the tournament got underway last night in Hampton, VA, but it slipped my mind, because I was too busy getting things ready for the wife’s return from a long trip out of the country.
Oh well, better late than never.
Number seven Virginia State defeated No. 10. St. Paul’s College 76-67. No. 9 Fayetteville State edged No. 8 Livingstone 70-67.
Here’s the schedule of games being played today through Saturday. ESPN2 will televise.
Thursday, February 26
#4 Bowie State vs #5 St. Augustine’s, 1:00pm
#2 Elizabeth City State vs #7 Virginia State, 3:00pm
#3 Johnson C. Smith vs #6 Shaw, 7:00pm
#1 Virginia Union vs #9 Fayetteville, 9:00pm
Friday, February 27
Semifinal Game 1, 7:00pm
Semifinal Game 2, 9:00pm
Saturday, February 28
Food Lion Women’s Championship Game, 5:00pm
Ford Men’s Championship Game, 8:00pm
