The Guru’s March Madness Local/National Day 8 Report: Lehigh Upsets Navy in Patriot Semifinals and Holy Cross Downs Army; Stephen F. Austin Upsets McNeese for Southland Crown

By Mel Greenberg @winhoopsgurux

The military 1-2 punch in the Patriot League most of the season got taken down in the semifinals Thursday night by the duo which had been the recent reps to the NCAA tournament.

Fourth seed Lehigh (17-13), the defending champions and one of the Guru locals still in play to join Villanova, considered a lock, stunned top-seed Navy 81-76 in overtime on the road in the Midshipmen’s home court Alumni Hall in Annapolis, Md., while second seed Holy Cross (22-9) edged third seed Army 61-55 on the winning Crusaders’ home court in Worcester, Mass.

Holy Cross and Army (24-7) tied for second behind Navy (22-8) but Holy Cross had the tiebreaker and as a result of the victory will host Lehigh Sunday at noon (CBSSN) for the NCAA automatic qualifier several hours before the 68-team national bracket is revealed at 8 p.m. on ESPN.

As the No. 1 seed Navy is entitled to join the WBIT whose field will be announced later Sunday.

Lehigh is coached by former Princeton standout Addie Micir, while in 2023 and 2024 former coach Maureen Magarity guided Holy Cross to titles. The Mountain Hawks under former coach Sue Troyan pulled a series of upsets in 2021 when the entire NCAA tourney was held in San Antonio, Texas, because of the Covid pandemic.

In the win over Navy, Leia Edwards had a career-high 25 points, shooting 6-12 from the field, including 5-7 from deep, and also grabbed a personal best 16 rebounds while Belle Bramer also set a career best with 22 points and had seven rebounds.

The career-night parade for the Mountain Hawks also included a matching 19 points from Gracyn Lovette, who was 7-for-11 while also equaling her best on 3-pointers shooting 4-8 beyond the arc.

Lehigh was nearly perfect from distance shooting 13-for-14 just one off the season high on makes which occurred several times.

“We reminded Belle that if they were going to leave her open, shoot it, and she took that to heart,” said Micir, whose father Pancho played quarterback at Penn in football.

“We just said, keep defending, keep rebounding, and let our offense flow. I thought we did a good job with that.”

There were 11 lead changes.

Zanai Barnett-Gay, the Patriot player of the year, led Navy with 29 points, nine rebounds and seven assists while Zoe Mesuch had 18 points propelled by five makes from distance.

The home team built a 21-15 lead after the first quarter but trailing 31-22 with five minutes till the half Lehigh erupted on a 15-5 run to go in front 37-36 at the break.

Whitney Lind had 14 points for the visitors.

Lehigh, whose men’s team won the Patriot League, was poised to take it in regulation, overcoming what became 22 turnovers in the game and leading 72-65 with 3:30 left but Navy launched a 7-0 rally with Barnett-Gay finishing with a layup to send it into overtime.

Her score with 1:26 left in the extra period put the Mids up but Edwards nailed a long shot from the corner to put the Mountain Hawks up 78-76 and they held on to complete the upset.

“We showed so much toughness, heart and grit out there tonight,” said Navy coach Tim Taylor, a former assistant at Virginia. “This is such a resilient bunch of kids 3 right now, it's really hard.

“The regular season title wasn't our goal, this team wanted to get to the NCAA tournament, and they wanted to do it for the seniors. Hats off to Lehigh, they played a great game and made the shots when they had to.”

During the season, Lehigh forfeited the game at Navy due to illnesses and won the game at Stabler Arena in Bethlehem, Pa.  The Mountain Hawks swept the series with the Crusaders.

In the win over Army at the Hart Center, Mary-Elizabeth Donnelly had a game-high 17 points, propelled by 3-for-4 from deep, while Plymouth Whitemarsh grad Kaitlyn Flanagan had eight of her 13 points in the first half, including a buzzer-beater before the break for a six point lead.

Meg Cahalan added 11 points with six assists.

Camryn Tade scored 13 points for the visiting Black Knights, under first-year coach Katie Kuester, a former Saint Joseph’s star and associate head coach.

Hawks head coach Cindy Griffin’s daughter Hannah, who had a 3-pointer shooting 1-2 from distance plays for Holy Cross.

Drexel to Face Elon in CAA Quarterfinals

The third-seeded Dragons, who had a double-bye, learned of who they’ll play at 8:30 p.m. Friday night when Elon (16-15) rallied from a ten-point deficit in the fourth quarter Thursday in Round 2 of the Coastal Athletic Association tourney in Washington, D.C., at CareFirst Arena, home of the WNBA Washington Mystics, to beat Hampton, 67-62, behind Quinizia Fulmore’s game-high 22 points.

“We fought through a lot of adversity to come back and I’m really proud of our inside play,” said Elon coach Charlotte Smith, a former North Carolina star. “We felt like we had an advantage in the paint.”

In the three other games, eight-seed William & Mary beat nine-seed North Carolina A&T 61-58 and will play top-seed Charleston at noon; fifth-seed Monmouth won 72-61 over 13th seed UNCW and will play four-seed Stony Brook at 2:30 p.m.; and 10th seed Hofstra nipped seventh seed Towson 72-71 and will play second seed Campbell at 6 p.m., all games on FloCollege.

No. 23 Princeton Readies for Ivy Madness

Riding a five-game win streak Princeton nipped Columbia, which swept the Tigers, for first when the Lions fell last Saturday to Harvard, who they’ll face again at 7:30 p.m. Friday after Princeton faces four-seed Brown at 4:30 p.m., both games on ESPN+.

The winners meet Saturday at 5:30 p.m. and bubble teams are focused here because Princeton winning would preclude another Ivy and prevent a bid steal.

The National Scene Upset in the Southland While America East on the Line

The slick move McNeese pulled after last season landed just short of its objective Thursday when three seed Stephen F. Austin pulled a 71-59 upset to claim the Southland crown and NCAA automatic qualifier.

In the Southland at Lake Charles, La., at Townsley Law Arena, Myka Perry had 21 points for SFA to be named most outstanding player.

McNeese is the ninth No. 1 to fail to win its conference tourney though its moot where South Carolina and TCU are concerned since both are locks for at-large NCAA bids.

Teams holding No. 1 not making the NCAA get automatic placement in the 24-team WBIT, also run by the NCAA.

The WNIT gives auto bids to the highest conference seed not taken by the other two tourneys except the Ivies, who decline to send a representative.

Having last appeared in the NCAA 14 years ago, in the offseason McNeese hired Ayla Guzzardo, the coach from Southeastern, the 2025 Southland regular season champs who were 19-1 in league play and she brought eight players through the portal, and her new team went 21-1in league play (Southeastern was 4-18) including a third best 21 straight nationally behind unbeaten UConn and No. 2 UCLA.

Navy, mentioned at the top of this post, North Dakota in the Summit Conference, San Diego State in the Mountain West and Chattanooga in the Southern are No. 1s going elsewhere and in the Atlantic 10 defending tournament champ George Mason tied for first but was a No. 2 losing to No. 1 Rhode Island but likely to be bypassed by preseason favorite Richmond.

The list could grow considering 13 conferences the next three days have to crown champs, beginning Friday when top seed Vermont hosts second seed Maine and the remainder still have their No. 1s alive.

No.1s in semifinals Friday has Rice meeting North Texas in the American; UC Irvine meeting Hawaii in the Big West; La Tech meeting Liberty in CUSA; Howard meeting Coppin State in the MEAC; Murray State meeting Indiana State in the Missouri Valley; Alabama A&M playing Southern in the SWAC; and Cal Baptist playing Tarleton in the WAC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guru’s March Madness Report - Day 7: Temple Eliminated in American 59-51 by UTSA; Delaware Falls in CUSA to Top Seed La Tech; Idaho Wins Big Sky

 By Mel Greenberg @womhoopsgurux

 Poor shooting led to Temple’s demise in round two of the American Conference Tournament in Birmingham, Ala., the seventh-seed Owls (15-17) losing 59-51 Wednesday afternoon to sixth seed UTSA (15-15) and with a sub .500 record besides elimination from a shot at the automatic qualifier to the NCAA tournament that comes with the conference championship, invites to the WBIT and WNIT are also off the table.

Unlike the last two seasons where Temple had strong finishes and advanced to the conference semifinals giving hope of something to build on next time around turnovers were a major obstacle down the stretch to drag the Owls to a lower seed.

UTSA in Thursday’s quarterfinals will face preseason favorite South Florida which is seeded third.

Holding a one-point lead at the half Temple suffered a major collapse in the third quarter shooting 14.3 percent from the field that included six blanks from distance.

The Owls also suffered on the boards, UTSA dominating 44-27.

“It’s a tough way to lose our game and end our season,” said Temple coach Diane Richardson. “There were some things we pointed out in the locker room, and it was a tough loss, tough loss for us. And we’ll go back and go home and get ready for the next one.”

Back in the opening weeks of the season Richardson was upbeat over a challenging non-conference schedule to prepare her team for a deep run knowing the American is a one-bid situation regarding the NCAA tournament.

One positive is there are no seniors which improves the experience factor if no key players enter the portal or suffer injuries over the summer.

“I think we still have a very talented team,” Richardson said. “We’ve had some ups and downs, and we’ve had some injuries this year, but I stand by my team.

“I know we didn’t have any seniors, so the experience portion of it, but I still stand by my kids and I think we have a very good team, and we’ll be ready for next year.”

Eight seed Delaware (13-19) went down quickly in round two of Conference USA in Huntsville, Ala., in its debut season playing top seed Louisiana Tech (25-5), suffering lopsided scoring to the opposition the first three quarters and ultimately a 72-43 wipeout.

No one scored in double figures for the Fighting Blue Hens, Trinity Vance and Ande’a Cherisier just missing with nine points each.

In the Guru’s group of 13 locals, Villanova, despite its blowout loss to No. 1 UConn in the Big East championship, is considered a lock to have its name called Sunday night when the 68-team NCAA field is announced at 8 p.m. on ESPN.

Drexel, the third seed in the Coastal Athletic Association tourney in Washington, has a double bye into Friday night’s quarterfinals, playing the fourth and last game at 8:30 p.m. against an opponent to be determined Thursday between Hampton and Elon.

The Dragons, if they don’t earn an NCAA automatic bid, could land in the WNIT.

No. 23 Princeton, the top seed in the Ivy League, plays four-seed Brown Friday at Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y., and advancing to Saturday’s title game against Columbia or Harvard should be enough to gain an at large bid if the Tigers don’t win another title.

In the Patriot League semifinals Thursday night, Lehigh is at Navy while Army is at Holy Cross with the highest surviving seed hosting Sunday’s noon championship.

Saint Joseph’s is under consideration from both the WBIT and WNIT while La Salle is under consideration by the WNIT.

On Wednesday, top seed Idaho beat Montana State 60-57 to win the Big Sky title, on Thursday Stephen F. Austin and McNeese will play for the Southland crown, and on Friday Maine and host Vermont will vie for the America East title bringing the total to 19 champions securing NCAA bids.

On Saturday eight more conferences will crown champions leaving the remaining four to do so Sunday afternoon.

The Guru’s March Madness Report: Temple Recovers in OT From Huge Blown Lead in American Opener While Delaware Takes CUSA Opener; NCAA Tickets Punched in Horizon, Mountain West and West Coast Conferences

 By Mel Greenberg @womhoopsgurux

If you missed the Temple regular season, the seventh seeded Owls (15-16) opened play Tuesday in Game 2 of the American Conference tournament in Birmingham, Ala., spending what became 45 minutes showing all the beauty and warts of the past four months morphing between a looming Cinderella and ugly stepsister dominating and blowing leads until living up to the survive and advance mantra spoken in time with an 86-77 victory over 10 seed Tulane (11-20) in overtime.

Next up is a Wednesday afternoon date at 3 p.m. (ESPN+) with No. 6 UTSA (14-15).

Game 1 before the Owls took the floor saw ninth seed Florida Atlantic also ride overtime to beat No. 8 Charlotte 74-70 and earn a round two date with No. 5 North Texas at 1 p.m.

In an adventure of highlights and lowlights Temple spent the first ten minutes showing the recent rock bottom trip experience at South Florida shooting shooting 15 percent but managing to keep the Green Wave at low tide for a 10-8 lead.

Then coach Diane Richardson’s squad switched costumes looking like the team that handled the home finale against FAU Saturday to erupt to a 14-point lead at the half off a 25-13 second quarter shooting 50 percent from the field including 75 percent from deep.

The margin grew to 17 and as the loyalists began to allow themselves the Green Wave launched a tsunami while the Owls suffered the worst Big Five postseason meltdown since Penn died against Texas A&M in an NCAA opener going scoreless the last 3:38 and making the evaporation complete when Tulane’s Kanija Daniel nailed a 3-pointer with ten seconds left to send the game into overtime.

Paced by a pair of threes and ten points overall in the extended period from Kaylah Turner, who finished with 31, the Owls went back to Cinderella mode trailing by four with an 11-0 run to live one more day.

Saniyah Craig added to the double-digit performance from Turner with 14 points.

Tulane’s comeback was paced by their conference’s freshman of the year Mecailin Marshall with 21 of her 25 points in the second half leading three other teammates also in double figures.

“It was a hard-fought game, and we just had to do what we do (in overtime),” Richardson said though many times this season the doing has been committing large amounts of costly turnovers.

“We got this, don’t let the turnovers before dictate the rest of the game,” Turner said of the attitude heading into the extra five minutes.

“I just wanted to win, my coaches told me to keep shooting,” Turner said of her game.

Additionally, Jaleesa Molina had 10 points and nine boards and Tristen Taylor scored 14.

Richardson never lost faith despite the second half collapse in the game at Legacy Arena dat the BJCC.

In recent years after UConn went back to the Big East the tournament moved from the Mohegan Sun to Fort Worth, Texas.

“We worked so hard in the game, let them come back, so I knew we had the resilience to bounce back and come back and play hard, so they did,” Richardson said.”

The two games mentioned are the only two Wednesday ahead of Thursday’s quarterfinal round.

Delaware Takes CUSA Opener

Ande’a Cherisier matched a career high with 24 points to lead the 8th seed Fighting Blue Hens (13-18) to a 66-47 win over ninth seed Kennesaw State (13-17) in a first round game of the Conference USA tournament Tuesday in Huntsville, Ala.

The road gets much tougher Wednesday afternoon at 12:30 p.m. (ESPN+) when Delaware faces Louisiana Tech, the No. 1 seed.

Ella Wanzer was 5-for-10 beyond the arc to propel her 17-point performance while Lay Fantroy grabbed 10 boards and Trinity Vance dealt a career-high six assists, one better than her previous best in the regular season ender at Liberty.

Delaware held the Owls to four points in the third quarter while scoring 22.

“I’m really excited and proud of our girls,” said Delaware coach Sarah Jenkins. “They came out and competed. We've had a tough stretch of games, and I'm really glad how they came out and competed today.”

In another CUSA game Tuesday 7 seed Jacksonville State (16-15) in the first tourney double overtime game since 2021 won 82-77 over 10 seed UTEP (13-17) at Propst Arena at the cVon Braun Center to advance against No. 2 FIU at 3 p.m. Wednesday.

The Gamecocks trailed by 10 in the third period

Brooklyn McDaniel connected from the line to send the game into double overtime  and she finished with 17 points and ten boards. Mya Barnes had nine of her 17 points in the extra periods.

“It wasn’t one person who carried us today, it was truly a team effort,” said Jacksonville State cosch Rick Pietri.

The two quarterfinal games are the only two Wednesday with two more Thursday.

The National Scene: Three More Tickets Punched

A trio of championships Tuesday grew the list of NCAA automatic qualifiers to 16 just over half the overall total of 31.

In the West Coast Conference in Las Vegas combo freshman and player of the year Lauren Whittaker out of New Zealand scored 26 points and grabbed nine boards to earn Most Outstanding Player honors leading Gonzaga to a 76-66 victory over Oregon State (23-11) at Orleans Arena.

Both teams and Washington State are headed to the re-organized PAC-12 next season.

Gonzaga (24-9) ended a four-year drought from the NCAA tournament.

In the Mountain West, third-seeded Colorado State (27-7) took its first conference title with a 56-42 victory at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas to end the Cinderella run of Air Force (16-18), which advanced to its first championship game having made top seed San Diego State one of the Falcons’ upset victims along the way.

Brooke Carlson scored 17 points, Madelynn Bragg scored 15, and Kloe Froebe had nine points and 10 boards.

In the Horizon at Corteva Coliseum in Indianapolis Green Bay (25-8) won 57-49 over Youngstown State (24-9) as Jenna Guyer scored 21 points.

On Wednesday, at 5 p.m., on ESPNU, Montana State and Idaho play for the Big Sky crown at

Idaho Central Arena in Boise while the Southland winner gets determined Thursday at Townsley Law Arena in Lake Charles, La.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guru’s March Madness Local/National Report: Villanova Routed by No. UConn in Big East Title Game; Rutgers Makes Hire; Fairfield Edges Quinnipiac for MAAC Crown Three-Peat

 By Mel Greenberg @womhoopsgurux

On Monday afternoon, No. 1 UConn (34-0) became the second team in the 50-year history of the Associated Press women’s poll to reach 600 appearances in the top ten, joining Tennessee, which had nearly a decade and a half of excellence ahead of the Huskies becoming a national force.

A few hours later, having been in a league of its own all season, UConn and Hall of Fame coach Geno Auriemma, who now top almost every category in the poll, including 269 appearances at No. 1, demolished Villanova, the champion of the rest of the Big East, 91-50, at the Mohegan Sun to earn its 24th title playing in the conference.

The Huskies, going unbeaten for the 11th time into the NCAA tournament, also won all seven of their American Conference crowns the years they played following a Big East departure and later return.

Azzi Fudd scored 19 points and Sarah Strong scored 18 points in the rout of the Wildcats (25-7), whose consolation is they’ll likely be included as an at-large team when the 68-field NCAA is announced at 8 p.m. Sunday night on ESPN.

“I think it’s a great accomplishment what we’ve been able to achieve so far this year,” Fudd said. “We’ll have a couple of days off and our work isn’t done yet… Being Big East champion won’t really matter in a couple of weeks.”

UConn has won 50 straight since a loss late season to Tennessee, which in the last month has lost a program record seven straight losses, including a quick exit in the Southeastern Conference tournament and dropped from the AP rankings.

Six more wins and the Huskies, expected to be a No. 1 seed, perhaps the overall No. 1, will have to update their extended record of 12 NCAA titles, reached last season, to 13.

Villanova recently showed improvement playing UConn from the Wildcats’ earlier contest, taking a halftime lead at home, but the Huskies made sure of no repeat occurrence.

Strong, the tournament MVP, led the charge early to a 23-11 lead at the end of the first quarter and it only got worse for the Wildcats as play continued, trailing 49-23 at the half.

“We can’t let them get going, just try to play our defense,” Strong said. “Speed them up and get them out of their rhythm.”

Villanova’s Jasmine Bascoe scored 14 points for the second-seeded Wildcats.

Coach Denise Dillon, whose team has not been in the NCAAs since 2023, when program scoring leader Maddy Siegriest led them to a Sweet 16 appearance, said Villanova’s resume speaks for itself.

“We did what we needed to do to to build that resume,” she said. “Look at our record, 25-7,  three of those losses coming to the No. 1 team in the nation… Excited for next Sunday to see where we’re getting sent.”

Villanova also has wins off West Virginia and James Madison, which became upset winners of the Big 12 and Sun Belt conferences, respectively.

The Wildcats have played UConn several times in Big East title games, notably pulling a 2003 upset that ended what was then an NCAA record 70-win streak from which the Huskies recovered to add to the trophy case in what was then the Diana Taurasi era.

They avoided a dubious distinction in this one, scoring a 3-pointer from reserve Iowa State transfer Kelsey Joens to avoid becoming suffering the worst loss in Big East title game history, at 42 points held by Boston College.

The Other Locals

Of local teams still alive and taking part in tournaments this week, Temple will hope to carry momentum from Saturday’s regular season ending win over FAU when the seventh seeded Owls Tuesday open play in the American Conference tournament, which has moved from Fort Worth, Texas, to Birmingham, Ala.

They meet they meet Tulane at 3 p.m. (ESPN+), the second of two games after Florida Atlantic opens against Charlotte, and the Temple winner advances to meet sixth seeded UTSA.

Delaware, in the Blue Hens’ season debut in Conference USA, opens the entire tournament Tuesday in Huntsville, Ala., as the eighth seed playing Kennesaw State, the winner advancing to play top seed Louisiana Tech Wednesday.

Drexel as the third seed in the Coastal Athletic Association has a double bye into Friday’s quarterfinals, playing the fourth of four games Friday against Hampton or Elon at 8:30 p.m. in Washington at the WNBA Mystics’ CareFirst Arena.

No. 23 Princeton, the only other ranked team after UConn playing this week, the rest out of the Power 4 Conferences concluded prior to Monday, opens as the No. 1 seed in the four-team Ivy Madness at Cornell’s Newman Arena in Ithaca, N.Y., Friday meeting 4th seed Brown, which edged Penn for the last spot.

The Tigers are the only Ivy team this season considered capable of an at-large bid, but they can dispense of that route by winning Friday and then beating Columbia or defending tournament champion Harvard in Saturday’s championship.

In the Patriot League, in quarterfinal play Monday night, Lehigh, the fourth seed joining the other top seeds above, beat Loyola of Maryland 68-54 at home in Stabler Arena in Bethlehem, Pa., winning all three games over the Greyhounds.

Sixth seeded Lafayette chased third seed and host Army until late in the game at West Point, N.Y., when the third-seeded Black Knights moved on for a 65-57 victory led by Kya Smith with 20 points and 20 rebounds.

In the other two games, Meg Cahalan had 21 points, 10 in the first quarter, to lead No. 2 seed Holy Cross at home in Worcester, Mass., to a lopsided 72-36 win over 10th-seed Colgate, while top seeded Navy at home at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., was challenged most of the night by eighth seeded Boston U. until gaining a 76-66 victory as conference rookie of the year Zoe Mesuch scored 31 points and set a league mark with eight makes from deep.

In Thursday’s semifinals, Navy hosts Lehigh at 7 p.m. while Holy Cross hosts Army at 6 p.m., both on ESPN+

The latter game has interesting local ties because in addition to Plymouth Whitemarsh grad Kate Flanagan on Holy Cross, the Crusaders roster holds one of Saint Joseph’s coach Cindy Griffin’s daughters, while Army is under first-year coach Katie Kuester, a Hawks grad who was an associate head coach on the staff prior to landing the hire after last season.

Rutgers Hire

A week after Rutgers, which finished last in the Big Ten and missed the conference tournament, fired Coquese Washington, the Scarlet Knights announced the hire of Gary Redus II, an assistant the last four seasons under Kim Mulkey at LSU.

Both athletic director Keli Zinn, a recent hire, and as well as relatively new president William F. Tate have ties to LSU, Tate having been president at the school in Baton Rouge.

Penn State is also opened after also not making a high enough appearance in the standings to qualify in the Big Ten tournament in Indianapolis won by No. 2 UCLA, which has a chance to be overall No. 1 seed Sunday, pending which philosophy the committee leans on in assigning the slots from the S curve rankings.

The National Scene

Several other conferences Monday joined the crowd from Sunday locking up automatic qualifiers from their tournaments, notably down in Atlantic City, N.J., at Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall where in a thriller Fairfield held off Quinnipiac for the second straight season, winning 51-44 to become the fourth MAAC team to three-peat.

The teams during the season won at each other’s arena and were tied for first heading into the tournament.

The winning Stags were led by Jillian Huerter with 16 points while Cyanne Coe scored 15 points with 10 rebounds.

Anna Foley scored 17 for the Bobcats and Ella Ryan added 14 points.

Earlier in the day, fourth seed James Madison won 69-52 over second seed Troy in the Sun Belt tourney in Pensacola, Fla.

Peyton McDaniel had 28 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Dukes, while Ashanti Barnes scored 19 points with 12 rebounds.

JMU, a former member of the CAA, was ousted in overtime games the last two seasons after entering the conference.

In the Atlantic Sun, Jacksonville in overtime edged Austin Peay 66-63 as Priscilla Williams had 16 points and 13 rebounds, Carmaya Bowman and Comari Mitchell each scored 10 points.

On Tuesday, the Mountain West final in Las Vegas will be contested by Cinderella Air Force, which ousted top seed San Diego State and Boise State, and Colorado State.

The Horizon final will be decided between Green Bay and Youngstown State, while Gonzaga and Oregon State will contest the West Conference title game in Las Vegas.

That will bring the total to 16 with the winners previously claimed through Monday from the ACC (Duke), Big Ten (UCLA), Big 12 (West Virginia), SEC (Texas), Ohio Valley (Western Illinois), Big East (UConn), A-10 (Rhode Island), MAAC (Fairfield), ASun (Jacksonville), Big South (High Point), Southern (Samford), Summit (South Dakota State), and Sun Belt (James Madison).

The 15 left through the weekend are American (Sat), America East (Fri), Big Sky (Wed), Big West (Sat), CAA (Sun), Conference USA (Sat), Ivy (Sat), Mid-American (Sat), MEAC (Sat), Missouri Valley (Sun), Northeast (Sun), Patriot (Sun), Southland (Thurs), SWAC (Sat), and Western Athletic (Sat).