Saturday, March 08, 2003
ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present to you troy state, the first team to punch their ticket to the 2003 ncaa men's division one college basketball tournament. they just defeated central florida 80-69 in the atlantic sun tournament championship to get their first ever trip to the big dance - and let me tell you, this will not be an easy first-round opponent. tsu is very capable of getting as high as a 14th seed, with a 26-5 mark and an rpi of 71 - not to mention that they're hot like fire, coming in to the dance winners of 14 of their last 15.
next ticket to be punched will be from the big south, where unc-asheville and radford, both major upsetters last night, are on the hardwood right now (live on espn2). in fact, you could do worse than to simply set up camp in front of the deuce all day - at 4pm (est), it's the ohio valley championship game pitting tennessee tech against austin peay, followed by the southern title tip, in which tennessee-chattanooga takes on east tennessee state (who upset college of charleston last night - yep, they are '03's ball state! enjoy that nit game, kids).
oh yes, it's the most wonderful time of the year... can't you just hear andy williams? there's the big dance, and preceding it there's championship week, and then there's everything else.
next ticket to be punched will be from the big south, where unc-asheville and radford, both major upsetters last night, are on the hardwood right now (live on espn2). in fact, you could do worse than to simply set up camp in front of the deuce all day - at 4pm (est), it's the ohio valley championship game pitting tennessee tech against austin peay, followed by the southern title tip, in which tennessee-chattanooga takes on east tennessee state (who upset college of charleston last night - yep, they are '03's ball state! enjoy that nit game, kids).
oh yes, it's the most wonderful time of the year... can't you just hear andy williams? there's the big dance, and preceding it there's championship week, and then there's everything else.
# posted by Thomas : 11:25 AM
