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March 11, 2012 at 6:44 pm
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2012 NCAA Tournament

East region - Thursday in Albuquerque, NM

(12) Harvard vs. (5) Vanderbilt - 4:20 pm ET - TNT

Midwest region - Friday in Columbus, OH

(14) Belmont vs. (3) Georgetown - 3:00 pm ET - truTV

A printable NCAA Tournament bracket can be found here (.pdf).

2012 NIT Tournament

Tue. March 13 - Akron (5) vs. Northwestern (4) - 9:00 pm ET - ESPN2

A printable NIT Tournament bracket can be found here (.pdf).

2012 College Basketball Invitational

Tue. March 13 - Princeton vs. Evansville - 8:00 pm ET - HDNet
Wed. March 14 - Western Illinois vs. Oregon State - 10:00 pm ET - HDNet
Wed. March 14 - Quinnipiac vs. Penn - 7:30 pm ET

A printable CBI bracket can be found here (.pdf).

2012 College Insiders Tournament

Wed. March 14 - Yale vs. Fairfield - 7:00 pm ET

CIT first round pairings are available here.

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Stuart Schulman said,

March 11, 2012 @ 6:48 pm

Seton hall snubbed...can we dream for an in-state game at the Rock?

Jon Solomon said,

March 11, 2012 @ 6:59 pm

I would guess Seton Hall is either an NIT (1) or (2) seed. If the former, they'll play one of the auto qualifiers. I'm sticking with Big Apple Buckets' (3) St. Joe's hosting (6) Princeton. If not, the CBI.

Jon

TigerHeel said,

March 11, 2012 @ 9:15 pm

On to the CBI. Too bad. I thought the Tigers deserved an NIT bid. I suspect oen more win would have done the trick.

Jim Waltman said,

March 11, 2012 @ 9:24 pm

Drexel getting a lot of love from ESPN. Too bad that one slipped away.

George Clark said,

March 11, 2012 @ 9:40 pm

CIT teams include Yale and Fairfield, but not Penn or Princeton

Jon Solomon said,

March 11, 2012 @ 9:43 pm

There's a mad scramble by both tournaments to pick up "NIT bubble teams" right now.

CIT has more slots filled from teams who knew they weren't going to be playing in either of the other N tourneys.

They've also got more teams (32 vs. 16)...

david bennet said,

March 11, 2012 @ 10:27 pm

All that said, why were Yale, which finished behind the Ps, and Fairfield picked before the Ps for the CIT?

Jon Solomon said,

March 11, 2012 @ 10:30 pm

David,

The CIT is considered the fourth of the four tournaments. I'm guessing Yale accepted the bid because they weren't going to the NIT and the CBI was unlikely.

Coco said,

March 11, 2012 @ 10:52 pm

Am I the only one who wonders a bit about Harvard being awarded a 12 seed. Suspect their record plus quality wins over Florida State and Boston College no doubt boosted their appeal-- but they also struggled their last four games in the league.
Granted, this question is also influenced by all those years the Ivy champion was a 15-14- or 13. What was Cornell a few years back?

Jon Solomon said,

March 11, 2012 @ 10:54 pm

Most knowledgable people who make mock brackets as part of their living I spoke with projected Harvard as a 9-11, so a 12 is disappointing.

NCAA doesn't look at margin of victory, so the Crimson's struggling was actually a 3-1 record with their one loss to a Top 100 RPI team in Penn.

Cornell was a 12 seed in 2010.

Jon

Kevin Whitaker said,

March 11, 2012 @ 11:05 pm

Pretty hard to imagine how Colorado was ahead of Harvard on the s-curve...

david bennet said,

March 12, 2012 @ 8:10 am

It is great to see that the Ivys are represented by four teams in this year's post-season tournaments. It says much about the improved stength of the league.

It would be fun to see another Princeton-Penn match-up in the CBI. I imagine Penn's hosting of Quinnipiac is based upon the school's ability to draw a larger home crowd?

Jon Solomon said,

March 12, 2012 @ 8:51 am

It is based on Penn deciding they wanted to pay the $50K+ it costs to host a CBI home game, like Princeton did in 2010.

Adam Fox said,

March 12, 2012 @ 9:29 am

1) How are home games decided for later rounds of the CBI (is it guaranteed that Princeton won't have a home game, because we won't pay)?

2) I better get HDNet :-P

Jon Solomon said,

March 12, 2012 @ 9:33 am

I believe that teams pay to host each CBI round but I'd expect the likelihood of making that money back increases with the longer lead time for a second round game.

If Wofford wins at Pitt and Princeton wins at Evansville, I have no idea where the game would be.

If you don't get HDNet (not everyone does), it is available on DirecTV.

Jon

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