Championship Week 2021 Thread

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Starting this as the Horizon League started their conference tournament tonight with the teams seeded 5-12 playing first round games at campus sites. The quarterfinals will also be played at campus sites on Tuesday before the 4 remaining teams move on to the Indiana Farmers Coliseum in Indianapolis where the semifinals and finals will be played March 8 and 9. Many of the low and mid-major conference tournaments will start the middle of next week.
 
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10 seed Purdue Fort Wayne ended up being the only lower seed to win in the Horizon League tournament tonight, upsetting 7 seed Green Bay 89-84 in 2OT. The Mastodons travel to 1 seed Cleveland State on Tuesday night.
 
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Tejon Lucas drops 22, 5, 5 for UW Milwaukee tonight, they get the W.
Honestly never understood why he transferred since we needed a good pass-first PG during Underwood's first couple years. Not mad though lol
 
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Starting this as the Horizon League started their conference tournament tonight with the teams seeded 5-12 playing first round games at campus sites. The quarterfinals will also be played at campus sites on Tuesday before the 4 remaining teams move on to the Indiana Farmers Coliseum in Indianapolis where the semifinals and finals will be played March 8 and 9. Many of the low and mid-major conference tournaments will start the middle of next week.

Isn't that one of the NCAA tournament sites? Could be a small advantage if a Horizon League team plays there.
 
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Tejon Lucas drops 22, 5, 5 for UW Milwaukee tonight, they get the W.

I will definitely be rooting for Tejon and Tev Jones to make the dance. Would also be cool to see Alan Griffin have some big games in the tourney (as long as it's not against us), but Syracuse might not make it.

Any other former Illini playing out there?
 
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America East tournament begins today. The conference changed around how tournament runs this year. With Maine opting out a couple weeks ago, the conference tournament will only have 9 teams. For what they're calling "pod play" (which begins today) and the quarterfinals, the games will be played at either New Hampshire or Hartford. The semifinals and finals will be played at the higher seeded schools.
 
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One big upset by seed in the America East with 6 seed UMass Lowell winning at 3 seed New Hampshire today. The River Hawks will now play at top seeded UMBC on Saturday. UMass Lowell has only been a D-I school since the 2013-14 season and has only been eligible for postseason since the 2017-18 season.
 
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Horizon League chaos has returned. 1 seed Cleveland State had to go to Triple OT to defeat upset minded 10 seed Purdue Fort Wayne tonight. 8 seed Milwaukee upset 2 seed Wright State. 3 seed Oakland at 11-17 on the season defeated 6 seeded and 15-12 Youngstown State. 4 seed Northern Kentucky edged 5 seed Detroit Mercy as well. All games were decided by 4 or fewer points and the Northern Kentucky-Detroit Mercy game was the only one not to go into OT.

The Horizon League re-seeds after the first round and quarterfinals so here are the match-ups set for Monday in Indianapolis:

(1) Cleveland State vs. (8) Milwaukee
(3) Oakland vs. (4) Northern Kentucky
 
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Really? They're sitting in second place in the conference. Winning the MAC tournament doesn't seem like a long shot.
Guess you missed last night’s game. The Zips are in 4th place in the conference after their loss to Buffalo last night. Barttorvik gives them only an 8% shot of winning the MAC tournament. Zip-a-dee-doo-dah!
 
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Many of the lower and mid-major tournaments start up today or tomorrow with the OVC, ASUN, and Atlantic 10 starting today and the Missouri Valley starting tomorrow. In addition, the Big South semifinals will be held tomorrow. In the Big South, only one lower seed has defeated a higher seed thus far and that was 5 seed Longwood winning at 4 seed UNC Asheville on Monday.

The Big South semifinals will be Longwood at 1 seed Winthrop and 3 seed Campbell at 2 seed Radford.
 
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