Anybody confused as to why Wright State’s Dashaun Wood was named Horizon League Player of the Year found out Tuesday night in his team’s biggest game.The senior guard ended the game with 27 points, nine rebounds and made the two crucial plays that allowed the Raiders to earn their second-ever NCAA Tournament berth by beating [...]

#1 Gonzaga 77, #2 Santa Clara 68
For the ninth consecutive year, the Gonzaga Bulldogs (23-10, 11-3) are dancing into the NCAA Tournament after defeating Santa Clara 77-68 in the West Coast Conference Tournament final Monday night.
Gonzaga, the WCC regular season champion, has persevered through early-season injuries and an indefinite suspension of star forward Josh Heyvelt [...]

#1 VCU 65, #6 George Mason 59
And exhale.
George Mason won’t even make the 2007 NCAA Tournament but Jim Larranaga’s team found a way to scare about 20 BCS conference bubble teams into holding their breaths.
Virginia Commonwealth guard Eric Maynor was the catalyst for his team’s comeback 65-59 win Monday evening.
“For about 36 minutes, we were [...]

#2 Belmont (22-9) at #1 East Tennessee State (23-8)
284 miles separates the two schools that will decide a conference tournament championship and an NCAA Tournament bid Saturday afternoon. Needless to say both programs know each other well and understand what a win would mean.
“We talk about it all the time but 40 minutes [times] five [...]

#6 VMI (14-18) at #1 Winthrop (27-4)
ESPN had better make sure their camera people can follow the ball in the Big South Tournament championship game, because the pace will be nonstop action.
Normally, top-seed and highly favored Winthrop (27-4, 14-0) likes to play at an up-tempo, 94-foot style that forces its opponent to test its own [...]

#2 Eastern Kentucky 63, #1 Austin Peay 62
Championship games allow for anonymous players to become stars at least for a single day.
Down by one with six seconds left in the game and a NCAA Tournament berth on the line, Eastern Kentucky (21-11) got the ball to a freshman [...]

For the last decade, the Big Dance has been all about four letters. No, not N-C-A-A. I mean D-U-K-E. When Duke showed up in a schools bracket, several other four-letter words were uttered by fans. Some have even gone so far as to joke its first two games in the last decade were the Durham [...]

Bracketography was not in the Eagles’ locker room, but allow us to speculate about the bullet points Winthrop head coach Greg Marshall listed on his pre-game blackboard:

Shoot over 50 percent
Make open threes
Find No. 15 (Missouri State guard Blake Ahearn) at all times
Take care of the ball

Check, check, check and check.
The Eagles [...]

The Hofstra Pride (20-8, 12-4) rode its tremendous trio of guards to victory once again. With 1.7 seconds on the clock, senior guard Carlos Rivera toed the line and knocked down two free throws to defeat the Holy Cross Crusaders 65-64 on BracketBuster Saturday. The victory gave Tom Pecora and the Pride their third consecutive [...]

Much like Old Dominion, New Mexico State couldn’t have asked for a worse matchup. Ohio isn’t even ranked in the RPI’s Top 100, and the Bobcats just suffered a brutal home loss to previously 4-17 Northern Illinois.Rick Pitino disciple Reggie Theus has done a remarkable job turning this program around after the somewhat disappointing tenure [...]