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Lipscomb-UTEP
Press Notes
The Bisons, regular season champions in the Atlantic Sun Conference, are seeded No. 10 in their first ever trip to national postseason play on the NCAA Division I level. The Bisons are 21-10 this season. Texas-El Paso from Conference USA, is 20-9, including a 14-2 home record.
El Paso Times
The Miners have not played in the NIT since 2001, when they defeated McNeese State at home in the opener and lost at Memphis in the second round. Lipscomb, formerly an NAIA school, is making its first national post-season basketball appearance. The Bisons won seven of their final nine games, losing in overtime to Belmont in the Atlantic Sun Conference tournament championship game. UTEP is excited to play ... not happy about getting a poor seed. Lipscomb is excited to play ... not so happy about the location.
”They said we were going to play in our geographical area,” Lipscomb coach Scott Sanderson told the school’s web site. “I guess they meant the United States.”
Miami Oh-Butler
Press Notes
The Bulldogs (19-12) finished runner-up in the Horizon League regular season race and then fell in the championship game of the Horizon League tournament to UW-Milwaukee. Miami (18-10) tied for second place in the East Division of the Mid-American Conference. Butler is making its first postseason tournament appearance since 2003, when the Bulldogs advanced to the “Sweet 16” of the NCAA Division I Championship. The Bulldogs have been in postseason play in eight of the past 10 years, including bids to the NIT in 1999 and 2002. Butler will make its eighth NIT postseason appearance overall.
Stanford-Virginia
Press Notes
The Cardinal are 3-1 against Virginia in the series and have won the last two. Stanford is 2-0 versus the Cavaliers at home.
Times Dispatch
That first-year coach Dave Leitao’s team would have to head west on such short notice surprised U.Va. officials, who didn’t learn of the matchup until the tournament draw was posted on the NIT’s Web site around 9:30 last night. Virginia and Stanford haven’t met since Dec. 22, 1994, when the Cardinal won 64-60 at University Hall. Stanford leads the series 3-1. For U.Va., this will be its fifth trip to the NIT in the past seven seasons. The Wahoos returned to Charlottesville on Saturday from Greensboro, N.C., where, as the ACC tournament’s seventh-seeded team, they beat 10th-seeded Virginia Tech in the first round and then lost to second-seeded North Carolina in the quarterfinals.
Akron-Temple
Press Notes
Temple enters the tournament with a 17-14 record. The Owls advanced to the Atlantic 10 Tournament semifinals with wins over eighth-seeded Rhode Island (74-45) and top-seeded and sixth-ranked George Washington (68-53). Saint Joseph’s ended Temple’s run to the championship with a 73-59 win in the semifinal round. Akron enters the NIT with a 22-9 record, finishing second in the MAC East Division with a 14-4 record. Junior forward Romeo Travis leads a balanced attack with a 13.5 scoring average. Akron is making its first postseason appearance since a NIT invite in 1989.
Farleigh Dickinson-Manhattan
Press Notes
The Knights are 20-11, and won the Northeast Conference Regular Season Championship with a 14-4 NEC record. FDU and the Jaspers have four common opponents this season, with the Knights posting wins over Canisius and St. Francis-N.Y. but losing to Seton Hall and Saint Peter’s. Manhattan beat St. Francis-N.Y., split the season series with Canisius, took two of three meetings with Saint Peter’s, and lost to Seton Hall. This is the second NIT appearance the for the Jaspers under 2006 MAAC Coach of the Year Bobby Gonzalez, and the fourth postseason appearance in his seven years at the helm of the Kelly Green. Manhattan lost to Villanova in the 2002 NIT in the Jaspers’ last appearance. The Jaspers are making their 18th overall NIT appearance. The game will mark the 24th meeting between the two programs, with the last meeting taking place six games into the Bobby Gonzalez era at Manhattan, a 74-70 FDU win at Draddy Gym. The Jaspers hold a 15-8 advantage in the overall series, with the Knights having won the last six meetings.
GA Southern-Charlotte
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Georgia Southern is the only men’s team in the state to make the postseason, receiving a spot in the National Invitation Tournament on Sunday night. The Eagles (20-9) will open the 40-team tournament at Charlotte (18-12) on Tuesday. Georgia Southern had the best record in the Southern Conference during the regular season, but lost to Appalachian State 74-61 in the opening round of the league tournament.
Rutgers-Penn State
Newark Star Ledger
Rutgers coach Gary Waters, who announced his resignation two weeks ago effective at the end of the season, will officially step down with the Knights’ next loss. Rutgers could get a boost for the game, with Waters saying he will know today whether promising freshman forward JR Inman, out since Feb. 5 with a broken bone in his leg, will be available to return. The extra game also gives Quincy Douby, the Big East’s leading scorer at 25.1 ppg, a chance to break the school’s single-season scoring record of 807 held by Bob Lloyd. The junior guard has 777 points this year.
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