Punching Tickets: Championship Saturday in the NCAA
By Blake Lovell
We’re only one day away from Selection Sunday, and there are still plenty of tickets to be punched to this year’s NCAA Tournament. And well, if you’re a college basketball fan, you can pretty much watches games all day and night today.
Tickets will be handed out in the Big 12, Big East, Mountain West, Ivy, PAC-10, WAC, Conference USA, MEAC, Southland, MAC, America East, SWAC, and Big West conferences by the end of the night. So you’ve certainly got your options when it comes to watching some great basketball today. Plus, we’ve still got semifinal action in the Big Ten, ACC, and SEC.
So let’s look at the schedule for today’s games:
CONFERENCE USA CHAMPIONSHIP
Memphis vs. UTEP: 11:30 AM ET, CBS
AMERICA EAST CHAMPIONSHIP
Stony Brook vs. Boston University – 12:02 PM ET, ESPN2
MEAC CHAMPIONSHIP
Morgan State vs. Hampton – 2:00 PM ET, ESPN2
SOUTHLAND CHAMPIONSHIP
UTSA vs. McNeese State – 4:00 PM ET, ESPN2
IVY LEAGUE PLAYOFF
Harvard vs. Princeton – 4:00 PM ET, ESPN3
MAC CHAMPIONSHIP
Akron vs. Kent State – 6:00 PM ET, ESPN2
BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIP
Kansas vs. Texas – 6:00 PM ET, ESPN
PAC-10 CHAMPIONSHIP
Washington vs. Arizona – 6:00 PM ET, CBS
MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP
BYU vs. San Diego State – 7:00 PM ET, CBS College Sports
BIG WEST CHAMPIONSHIP
UC Santa Barbara vs. Long Beach State – 8:00 PM ET, ESPN2
SWAC CHAMPIONSHIP
Alabama State vs. Grambling State – 8:30 PM ET, ESPNU
BIG EAST CHAMPIONSHIP
Louisville vs. Connecticut – 9:00 PM ET, ESPN
WAC CHAMPIONSHIP
Boise State vs. Utah State – 10:00 PM ET, ESPN2
And there it is, my friends. Now you’ve got plenty of excuses to sit around and do absolutely nothing today. Except watch college basketball, of course.
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