Wednesday's Madness

Seeing as championship week has officially started, we are going to be doing a new daily madness segment. Here, you can find the daily scores and schedules for every conference tournament game that day as Trizzle will once again be taking over BIAH. For a full schedule of the conference tournaments and a listing of the automatic bids, click here.

With the Big East Tournament underway, we can officially proclaim Championship Week to be in full effect. We had a mid-major game-winner, a bracket-buster upset, and an OT thriller last night.

GAME OF THE DAY: Akron 93, Toledo 92 OT

March Madness was defined for this game. Seriously. Akron was down 62-50 with 5:00 left (after not making a field goal for 15 minutes) in the game and 70-63 with 2:00 left, but the Zips used a ridiculous run to tie the game at 78 and force OT on an Anthony Hitchens three. After making just seven free throws in the previous 15 minutes, the Zips scored 28 points in the last five minutes, 13 of which came from Nate Linhart. In the OT, the two teams went back and forth, before a Hitchens turnover with 17 seconds remained gave Toledo the ball down 91-90. Clayton Sterling drove to the rim, and hit a tough scoop shot in the lane with six seconds left. But the Zips came right back, and after the ball was knocked out of bounds, they diagramed up a ridiclous play at the buzzer (there are three plays in the video - Hitchens' three, Sterling's runner, and Chris McKnight's game-winning basket):



PLAYER OF THE DAY: Ben Woodside, North Dakota State

The first time Trizzle Took Over, I got to mention NDSU's Ben Woodside, because he was in the midst of a ridiculous scoring streak of 26, 24, 28, 28, 30. I get to talk bout him again because he hit a running jumper in the lane with six seconds left to win the Summit Tournament Championship. Oakland held Woodside to five in the first half, but he broke off for 12 in the second, and led a rally in the game's last five minutes. Michael Tveidt led NDSU with 21 points, and Woodside, the Summit POY, added 17. Oakland actually got a good shot off at the buzzer but the long 3-pointer by Oakland's Johnathon Jones at the final horn bounced out. Erik Kangas and Will Hudson each had 16 points for the Grizzles. Jones added 15 and Keith Benson had 14.



They were good too: Paris Horne, St. John's - 23 pts, 5 rbs; Jonathon Amos, Toledo - 24 pts, 9 rbs, 5 stls; DeAndre Coleman, South Alabama - 27 pts, 9 rbs; Cedric Jackson, Cleveland State - 19 pts, 7 rbs, 8 asts, 3 stls

TEAM OF THE DAY: DePaul Blue Demons

Why have a 16 team Big East Tournament? The Blue Demons won no regular season games, and probably shouldn't have been playing today. Well, they did and they registered their first Big East win of the season, upsetting Cincinnati 67-57 and thus ending any chances the Bearcats had at getting an at-large bid. The "Human Youtube Video" Dar Tucker had 17 (all in the second half) and Mac Koshwal added 12 points and nine rebounds, ending the Demons 18-game losing streak. Could this be the beginning of a miraculous 5-day run for DePaul at the Big East crown? I don't think so, but its good to see them get off the schnide (ED. Note: Trizzle is a horrible speller, but somehow he managed to spell schnide correctly).

Mac Kowshal emphatically scoring two of his twelve points.
(photo credit: Frank Franklin III)

Tuesday's Results

CHAMPIONSHIPS

Horizon Final (Indianapolis, IN)
- #3 Cleveland St. 57, #1 Butler 54

Summit Final (Sioux Falls, SD)
- #1 North Dakota St. 66, #3 Oakland 64

Sun Belt Final (Hot Springs, AR)
- #1 Western Kentucky 64, #6 Southern Alabama 56

Big East First Round (New York City, NY)
- #16 DePaul 67, #9 Cincinatti 57
- #13 St. Johns 64, #12 Georgetown 49
- #10 Notre Dame 61, #15 Rutgers 50
- #11 Seton Hall 68, #14 South Florida 54

Big Sky Semis (Ogden, UT)
- #2 Portland St. 61, #4 Idaho St 53
- #6 Montana St. 70, #1 Weber St. 61

MEAC First Round (Winston-Salem, NC)
- #7 Hampton 51, #10 Delawere St. 32
- #8 Florida A&M 71, # 9 Howard 58

Western Athletic Opening Round (Reno, NV)
- #9 Fresno St. 62, #8 Hawaii 58


Wednesday's Games
Wednesday features the full day of major conference tournaments with only the Big 10 and ACC left to start their post season. Based on the level of play that has occured thus far, I'd say that we are in for a boatload of great games and exciting finishes tonight. This whole week has given fans a March Madness warm-up with many buzzer-beaters and great finishes. AND WE ARE'NT EVEN HALFWAY TO SELECTION SUNDAY!
CHAMPIONSHIPS

Big Sky Final (Ogden, UT)
= 10:00PM: #2 Portland St. vs. #6 Montana St.

Northeast Final (Campus Site)
- 8:00PM: #2 Mt. St. Marys @ #1 Robert Morris

Atlantic 10 First Round (Atlantic City, NJ)
- NOON: #8 LaSalle vs. #9 St. Louis
- 2:30PM: #5 St. Joesephs vs. #12 Charlotte
- 6:30PM: #7 Duquesne vs. #10 Massachusetts
- 9:00PM:#6 Richmond vs. #8 St. Bonaventures

Big East Second Round (New York City, NY)
- NOON: #8 Providence vs. #16 DePaul
- 2:00PM: #5 Marquette vs. #12 St. Johns
- 7:00PM: #7 West Virginia vs. #10 Notre Dame
- 9:00PM: #6 Syracuse vs. #11 Seton Hall

Big 12 First Round (Oklahoma City, OK)
- 12:30PM: #8 Nebraska vs. #9 Baylor
- 3:00PM: #5 Texas vs. #12 Colorado
- 7:00PM: #7 Oklahoma St. vs. #12 Iowa St.
- 9:30PM: #6 Texas A&M vs. #11 Texas Tech

Big West First Round (Anahiem, CA)
- 9:00PM: #5 UC-Irvine vs. #8 UC-Davis
- 11:30PM: #6 UC-Riverside vs. #7 Cal State Fullerton

Conference USA First Round (Memphis, TN)
- 1:00PM: #7 Marshall vs. #10 Rice
- 3:30PM: #6 UCF vs. #11 Southern Mississippi
- 7:00PM: #8 Tulane vs. #9 East Carolina
- 9:30PM: #5 Houston vs. #12 SMU

MEAC Quarterfinals (Winston-Salem, NC)
- 3:00PM: #6 Bethune Cookman vs. # 11 MD-Eastern Shore
- 7:00PM: #1 Morgan St. vs. #7 Hampton
- 9:30PM: #2 South Carolina St. vs. #8 Florida A&M

Mountain West First Round (Las Vegas, NV)
- 5:00PM: #8 Colorado St. vs. #9 Air Force

Pac-10 First Round (Los Angeles, CA)
- 9:00PM: #8 Oregon St. vs. #9 Stanford
- 11:30PM: #7 Washington St. vs. #10 Oregon

SWAC Quarterfinals (Birmingham, AL)
- 3:30PM: #2 Jackson St. vs. #7 Texas Southern
- 9:00PM: #1 Alabama St. vs. #8 Alabama A&M