Oh, Manchester, So Much To Answer For

It's crunch time in Championship Week, as we're down to the last two days of action. A whopping 15 Dance cards get punched in the next 32 hours - 10 today, the final 5 tomorrow - as conferences crown their tournament champs ahead of the announcement of the brackets Sunday night at 6pm (CBS - regarding whose selection show, USA Today's Rudy Martzke has some fine ideas). Here's the rundown, in chronological order for your viewing pleasure (conference tournament seedings in parentheses):

Saturday March 13
+Conference USA (a/k/a C-USA, (1) DePaul vs. (3) Cincinnati, 1130am, CBS)
+America East ((2) Vermont vs. (4) Maine, 1130am, ESPN)
+Mid-Eastern Athletic (a/k/a MEAC, (2) Coppin State vs. (5) Florida A&M, 12 noon, ESPN2)
+Pac-10 ((1) Stanford vs. (2) Washington, 6pm, CBS)
+Atlantic 10 (a/k/a A-10, (W1) Dayton vs. (W4) Xavier, 6pm, ESPN)
+Mid-American (a/k/a MAC, (1) Western Michigan vs. (2) Kent State, 7pm, ESPN2)
+Big East ((1) Pittsburgh vs. (2) Connecticut, 8pm, ESPN)
+Western Athletic (a/k/a WAC, (1) Nevada vs. (2) Texas-El Paso, 9pm, ESPN2)
+Mountain West (a/k/a MWC, (3) Utah vs. (4) UNLV, 10pm, ESPN)
+Big West ((2) Pacific vs. (6) Cal State-Northridge, 12 midnight, ESPN)

Sunday, March 14
+Patriot League ((1) Lehigh vs. (2) American, 12 noon, ESPN2)
+Southeastern (a/k/a SEC, Kentucky/South Carolina vs. Florida/Vanderbilt, 1pm, CBS)
+Atlantic Coast (a/k/a ACC, Duke/Georgia Tech vs. North Carolina State/Maryland, 1pm, ESPN)
+Big 12 (Oklahoma State/Texas Tech vs. Texas/Kansas, 3pm, ESPN)
And as always, the last one (and how prophetic that sounds after this season) is
+Big Ten (Illinois/Michigan vs. Wisconsin/Michigan State, 330pm, CBS)

It's called one-stop tournament championship shopping, folks. Enjoy the games. Updates... you know the deal.