Tracking the postseason picture

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 | Print Entry

Posted by Joe Lunardi

Believe it or not, conference tournaments begin tonight with early-round action in the Ohio Valley, Horizon League and Big South. The two games of greatest impact involve regular-season champions Tennessee-Martin (hosting Tennessee Tech in the OVC) and Radford (hosting High Point in the Big South).

This is the third year in which automatic NIT bids are awarded to regular-season conference champions who do not advance to the NCAAs. As such, NIT bubble teams -- yes, there is also an NIT "bubble" -- are rooting hard for the likes of Tennessee-Martin and Radford.

The current list of regular-season champions is as follows:  
 

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  • Fran Fraschilla Doug Gottlieb Joe Lunardi Jay Williams

     

     

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    Fran Fraschilla (top left), a college basketball analyst for ESPN, is a regular contributor to Insider.

    Doug Gottlieb (top right) is a college basketball analyst for ESPN and host of the Doug Gottlieb Show on ESPN Radio.

    Joe Lunardi (bottom left) is the resident bracketologist for ESPN.

    Jay Williams (bottom right) is a college basketball analyst for ESPN and was the 2002 National Player of the Year at Duke.


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