2015 NCAA Tournament, NIT, CBI, CIT, WNIT, WBI: 3/19 TV Schedule and Wednesday results

Last Night:

Oh, things happened.

Robert Morris advanced after a terribly fun game with the Birds of Trey, otherwise known as the North Florida Ospreys. Dayton and Boise State followed with a game which had periods of ugly basketball from both teams, periods where one team was on fire while the other was dead, and in the end... about five minutes of awesome. Dayton came out on top, and heads to Columbus for the main event.

Before we get into the other tournaments, though... stop complaining about Dayton playing at home. This is not new. What are the two main benefits a team receives from playing at home? One, being close to home. (Duh.) Two, having an arena full of your screaming fans.

So how is this any different from Kansas or Kansas State playing in Kansas City? From Duke playing in Greensboro? From Maryland playing in Washington DC? It's not, but those things have not only happened, they've happened frequently. The fact that the game was played in Dayton's own arena is a red herring. Heck, they didn't even get to play on their own floor, so even that potential benefit was gone. Yeah, the crowd was loud and clearly pro-Dayton. God forbid Butler make the Final Four again.

Anyway.

In the NIT, things mostly went to form, though a couple of five seeds knocked off fours. But out in Fort Collins, the eighth-seeded South Dakota State Jackrabbits ejected Colorado State from the proceedings, continuing the Mountain West's ugly post-season curse. As a result, Stanford now has home-court advantage for the quarterfinals, assuming they get past Rhode Island next week.

The only major school in the CBI advanced, as Colorado had a relatively easy time with Gardner-Webb. Mercer won a thriller over Stony Brook, while on the other end of the spectrum Seattle destroyed Pepperdine. There weren't any very close contests in the CIT, but you'll probably be disappointed to know that Dunk City crashed out.

The big loser on the day: the West Coast Conference. After losing BYU last night, the conference saw Saint Mary's, Pepperdine, and Portland all go home. Gonzaga's now the only WCC team left standing.

The full results from last night, with Green linked recaps courtesy our friends around the SB Nation college network:

Today:

Here we go. Now, we don't want to suggest you should pretend to be sick today or anything, but at the very least you're going to want to be in front of a television by 2:00 so you can catch SMU-UCLA. This evening, there's even more big action -- with Utah vs Stephen F. Austin highlighting the evening.

Last night:

The women's post-season got underway, with only one real upset: the Big Sky's Eastern Washington Eagles knocked off Washington State from the Pac-12 in first round WNIT action, despite a 31-point performance from Cougar guard Lia Galderia.

Tonight:

A massive day of WNIT action runs up against the first day of the main men's NCAA draw. Both K-State and Stephen F. Austin are in action, so you may want to keep half an eye out there.