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Still perfect The 2008 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament will have at least two undefeated teams. No. 1 Hope upped its record to 27-0 with a 70-59 victory over Albion, clinching the MIAA's automatic bid. No. 3 Thomas More beat Westminster (Pa.) 65-58 in the Presidents' Athletic Conference title and will also enter the NCAA Tournament unbeaten. No. 2 Howard Payne moved one step closer to finishing a perfect regular season by beating Hardin-Simmons 83-67 in the ASC semifinals. The Yellow Jackets will meet No. 9 McMurry, 59-56 winners over Mary Hardin-Baylor, in tomorrow's ASC final. Saturday's women's games. No. 13 Southern Maine, who hadn't lost a home game in more than four seasons, dropped its second straight contest in Gorham to Eastern Connecticut State. The Warriors picked off the Huskies 65-60 in overtime in the Little East Conference final, forcing Southern Maine to rely on an at-large bid to get into the NCAA tournament. St. Lawrence also scored an upset, beating No. 17 William Smith 62-53 behind Jamie Wolff's 23 points. No. 21 Lake Forest will also need an at-large bid to make the playoffs. St. Norbert reserve Denise Heuser scored 20 points in the first half as the Green Knights dumped the Foresters 83-64. With the at-large pool getting crowded, a host of ranked teams took care of business by winning their conference's automatic bid convincingly. No. 6 Mary Washington, No. 9 Illinois Wesleyan, No. 10 Simpson, No. 11 Baldwin-Wallace and No. 16 Medaille all won conference tournament finals by double-digit margins. Both sides of the MAC went according to form. No. 23 DeSales captured the Freedom's automatic bid 75-60 over FDU-Florham. No. 5 Messiah beat Lebanon Valley 54-47 for its fourth consecutive Commonwealth title. Other women's teams who have punched their ticket to the NCAA tournament include Becker, Bridgewater State, Brockport State, Cabrini, Carleton, Colby-Sawyer, D'Youville, Emmanuel, Fontbonne, Greensboro, La Verne, Manchester, Mount St. Mary and Utica. | ||
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Is Bowdoin a bubble burster? Thanks to Bowdoin, someone's NCAA playoff bubble somewhere may have popped. The Polar Bears surprised No. 1 Amherst 65-64 in the NESCAC semifinal, pushing the Lord Jeffs into Pool C where they are a lock for an at-large bid into the national playoffs. Bowdoin will face Trinity (Conn.) in Sunday's NESCAC final. Bowdoin was No. 5 in the Northeast Region entering the week, already ahead of Trinity and Middlebury. If Bowdoin wins the title Sunday and three teams go from the NESCAC, then nothing will likely have changed. Saturday's men's scoreboard. Scroll down for women's coverage. Augustana center Dain Swetalla couldn't play because of a wrist injury but Justin Bertrand came off the bench with 13 points and 11 rebounds to help the Vikings put away Illinois Wesleyan 71-60. Loras ended the game on a 21-8 run to defeat Buena Vista 77-69. Heidelberg beat Capital for the second time in the past two weeks as Chad Szalay and Andrew Lemmon each scored 19 in an 83-75 win. Heidelberg avoided the bubble and put Capital there, likely ahead of Wooster. Myles McKay and Kori Vernon scored 20 points each as UW-Whitewater outlasted UW-Stevens Point 75-71 for the WIAC title. No. 16 Lawrence completed its strong regular season with a 98-95 win over Carroll and the MWC's automatic bid. Pomona-Pitzer survived a late rally and regulation buzzer-beater by archrival Claremont-Mudd-Scripps and held on to win the SCIAC automatic bid, 55-53 in overtime. Ohio Wesleyan ended Wabash's NCAC run, beating the Little Giants 89-72 for the title. Jon Greene hit the tying and winning free throws with 12.7 seconds left to lift Richard Stockton past William Paterson 67-66 and into the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1999, while Joe Canori made two free throws with 1:45 left to give Nazareth a 64-63 lead over St. John Fisher and neither team scored again. It's Nazareth's first appearance since 1998. St. Mary's (Md.) will make its first-ever NCAA appearance after pulling out to a big lead at Mary Washington and hanging on for an 82-72 victory in the Capital Athletic Conference title game. Clarkson, who will also make its NCAA tournament debut, completed its surprising run through the Liberty League tournament with a 58-53 win over Hamilton, improving to 11-16. The Emerson men may have had their season come to an end on Saturday, or at least their NCAA hopes with an 86-72 loss to Lasell in the GNAC title game. Other teams who have clinched automatic bids include Averett, Baptist Bible, Curry, Elms, Farmingdale State, Fontbonne, Hope, King's, Penn State-Behrend, Plattsburgh State, Salem State, St. Thomas and Widener. The full list of who's in. Virginia Wesleyan preserved someone's at-large bid, ending the game on a 32-11 run to beat Hampden-Sydney 68-55. The Marlins will play Guilford tomorrow for the ODAC automatic bid. No. 21 Millsaps gets its rematch with No. 2 Centre after each won SCAC semifinals. Rochester maintained its at-large candidacy with a 74-67 win at Carnegie Mellon. If your team didn't win its conference title, will it still get an at-large bid? Who will host next week's tournament games? Talk it up on our message boards. | ||
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GSAC favorites hot but the food is not By Marcus Fitzsimmons Special to D3hoops DEMOREST, Ga. – Last year Maryville (Tenn.) gave coach Randy Lambert win No. 500 taking the Great South Athletic Conference title game. This year they gave the 28-year head coach win No. 525 in a hard-fought 90-79 victory over Piedmont in the Lions' den. MC (24-2) took its sixth title and third in a row behind 22 points from tourney MVP Eryk Watson. The scoring point guard became the first freshman to win the honor in tourney history. Piedmont (14-13) rallied back from 16 down in the first and 15 in the second twice making it a three-point contest with nine minutes to play. Watson proved too much scoring nine consecutive Scot points pushing the lead to 87-76 with 2:20 to play. Senior Alex Bowers (18) finished the Lions from the line. "We called a time there just to clear out for him and for everyone to understand that's what we were doing," said Lambert. "It's not something we usually do but he came through for us." National scoring champion Jake Baldwin finished with 18 but it was the 7-for-13 3-point shooting that led the comeback charge. Michael Rubio (3-for-9) and Branden Mayweather (5-for-6) combined for 33 points for Piedmont. MC appears to be a lock for a Pool B Invite to the dance, which would be the Scots 10th consecutive dance card. Maryville owns the NCAA record with nine consecutive appearances with at least one win. "I think there's still a chance we could host, but it depends on what happens in other tournaments tonight and Sunday," Lambert said. "I know they'll be projecting and speculating Sunday night on Hoopsville but we'll see what happens Monday at noon." Women: Top-seeded Piedmont took its second consecutive GSAC title and accompanying automatic qualifier downing Maryville, 89-73. Though leading at half by three Piedmont (24-3) couldn't get any separation from MC (15-12) until Laura Simmons took over scoring three consecutive baskets in a 62 second span to push the Lady Lion lead to 80-70 with 1:12 remaining. The only two teams to win a GSAC title traded big basket for big basket through the second half with Maryville's Natalie Munday (10 points) and Katie Saxe (22) working a scoring race against a precise high screen game that fueled a largely perimeter attack until Simmons (15) took things into the paint for Piedmont. Former Tennessee softball outfielder Alicia Brown (16) connected on 4-of-5 treys for MC but the Lady Lions were 9-for-14 (64 percent) from beyond the arc with Nikki Sosebee (16) and Beth Adcock (20) both 3-for-5 from long distance. "Our shots just started falling for us," Adcock said. "We were looking for Laura late because Munday was on her with four fouls. She just came open a few times when they started pressuring the ball." Maryville was forced to manage a growing foul problem early. Leading 14-10 the Scots surrendered the lead at the line with Piedmont shooting the plus-one bonus just 7:53 into the contest and mounting an 8-0 run. PC finished 32-of-43 from the charity line on 31 fouls. Maryville was 15-of-21 at the line. With the win Piedmont owns both AQs that the GSAC has given in women's basketball. "I don't care where we go as long as it close enough for a short drive or far enough we get to fly," said Adcock of waiting for Monday's brackets. Maryville meanwhile will begin the search for a new head coach. Interim coach Brian Fowler, who replaced Jeff Pardue for medical reasons in early January, confirmed he will apply for the position. MUSINGS: Get up early and enjoy the scenic beauty offered around Piedmont College because after the sun goes down so does the town. Following Friday's semifinals in the Great South Athletic Conference Tournament even finding food, much less a wind down adult beverage, proved a real challenge. Picking up Maryville College book guardian Jack Roberts from the other hotel we find MC women's interim head coach Brian Fowler wandering the halls with junior Natalie Munday in tow, a mound of clothes in their arms as the pair searched for the laundry room. The little challenges of the postseason in Division III that would be unimaginable to the big money brethren. I can't imagine Coach K or Vivian Stringer wandering through the hotel lobby with a mound of sweaty uniforms and a box of Tide the night before the conference championship games. Piling in with Roberts and WBCR (Maryville, Tenn.) announcer George DeBaby -- the voice of the Scots – we set out on a frustrating tour of a series of attractive looking restaurants that all featured closed at 10 p.m. signs on the darkened front doors. Finally our somewhat still happy trio surrendered the quest and resigned ourselves to the Waffle House. Pulling in a familiar "MURVUL" vanity plate greeted us in the parking lot and sure enough MC men's coach Randy Lambert was also relegated into the scattered and smothered haven. Lambert waved a hand interrupting a hoops hashing hash brown strategy session with assistant Kendall Wallace. The Scots' braintrust chatted scores as news of Mississippi College's loss as part of the West-sweeps-East movement in the ASC unfolded. It's a peaceful night but the teenagers playing in the high school golf tournament bring me awake early to the rattling of golf bags being marshaled down the hall. There's plenty of free time before the finals start so I take advantage to spend the morning flirting with girlfriend, who is also working this Saturday, via texts. DeBaby is bored so I ride along on a brief tour of the surrounding towns. Helen is impressive for its strict Alpine theme that goes so far as to put an unusual motif on the Huddle House. Circling back through Cleveland it’s time for coffee before a nap to get back the hour stolen by the teenagers ungodly early rush to chase a white ball through Georgia's grass and pines. A bite to eat, not from the House of Heartburn but the hospitality room, and it's time for championships. The attendance is good despite Piedmont starting spring break on Friday. And outside of an announcer that is apparently four tones more deaf than I am judging by his volume control of lack thereof it's a great environment. Things break as predicted, the 20-plus win favorites taking victories and awaiting news of where bracketology will send them. Over the last four seasons I've been to all the GSAC's coed member schools for the tourney with Demorest being the last of these. Each has been a unique trip that has left me on the drive home thankful for the character and diversity of D-III. | ||
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