This Week in Mid-Major: Bids, anyone? It’s conference tournament time
New York TimesMarch is here, and so is the first batch of conference tournament madness. TWMM pick: Liberty Spoiler: Lipscomb Big South The bracket Title game: Sunday at highest remaining seed The skinny: Radford and Winthrop tied for the regular-season crown, but Radford won the tiebreaker for the No. TWMM pick: Belmont Spoiler: Eastern Illinois Northeast The bracket Title game: March 10 at highest remaining seed The skinny: The league champ won’t be here; Merrimack went 14-4 and took the regular-season title despite being in its first transition year into Division I. Robert Morris claimed the tiebreaker with St. Francis to grab the No. TWMM pick: St. Francis Spoiler: Bryant Patriot The bracket Title game: March 11 at highest remaining seed The skinny: Defending champion Colgate, which threw a scare into Tennessee last year in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, looked for most of the season like a lock to repeat. TWMM pick: North Dakota State Spoiler: Oral Roberts West Coast The bracket Title game: March 10 in Las Vegas The skinny: The WCC is arguably deeper this year than it has ever been, with three teams likely to get NCAA berths.
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