Catching up a bit

Life gets in the way of posting from time to time, but rest assured, jesuitHOOPS was following the action.

HOLY CROSS wins the Patriot League title and adds another Jesuit school to the tourney mix.
Bucknell was down by as much as 19, but the 'Cross was able to pull it out, thanks to a freaky good streak of free throw shooting toward the end of the game.

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3 Jesuits make it to A-10 Quarters, 2 to the semi's
As it turned out since the last time I posted- St. Joe's was soundly defeated by #3 GW.

In today's action, top-seeded Xavier was downed by #4 URI 79-71. Box Score
Barring a major upset, the Jesuit-heavy A-10 might be without a Jesuit Champion. GW plays #7 SLU tonight at 9p in Atlantic city- winner heading to the finals.

Boston College survives Miami
And survives might be the best word for it. Up by as much as 14, Miami had no answer to Tyrese Rice's career-high 32 points.

G'town vs. Notre Dame in progress
The Catholics are going at it now. Update soon.

STAY TUNED!

A-10 First-round action

So far so good for the Jesuits

Fordham 63 - Richmond 61
SLU 78 - Duquesne 77

And if St. Joe's holds serve we could be in for a real treat: a Jesuit rooting interest for each game of the second round of the tourney.

Upcoming Schedule
all games Thursday March 8
#1 Xavier vs #8 Dayton (12noon)
#5 Fordham vs # 4 URI (2:30p)
#7 SLU vs #2 UMass (6:30p)
winner of SJU/Temple game vs. #3 GWU

A Look at the Conference Tournaments

Taking a look at the remaining conference tournaments...

Atlantic 10
Xavier is the #1 seed and has a bye and will face the winner of the Dayton-Charlotte game on Wednesday night.

#5 Fordham plays #12 Richmond Wednesday afternoon.
# 7 St. Louis plays #10 Duquesne also on Wednesday night.
#6 St. Joe's plays #11 Temple Wednesday evening.
All games played in Atlantic City.

Big East
#1 Georgetown has a bye and will play the winner of the DePaul-Villanova game.

#6 Marquette plays #11 St. John's on Wednesday night. Like all of the Big East Tourney games, they are at MSG, televised on ESPN.


Patriot League
On Friday, #1 Holy Cross will host #2 Bucknell in Worcester for the Patriot League Championship and the Automatic NCAA birth. The game is at 4:30p on ESPN2


ACC
#4 Boston College has a bye for the first round and will play the winner of Maryland - Miami on Friday, March 9.

The Genesis

The genesis of jesuitHOOPS comes from an unlikely source: a commercial on ESPN for the WCC Tournament Final between Santa Clara and Gonzaga. Interesting I thought, that there would be two Jesuit schools competing for an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Who else might really care about this? Probably more than just me, and thus it begins.

Stay posted for everything college basketball - Jesuit style.