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College Basketball Championship Week: March 1 results, March 2 schedule

Your ultimate guide to the college basketball post-season begins.

Last year, darlings. This year? The first victim.
Last year, darlings. This year? The first victim.
Mark Zerof-USA TODAY Sports

It sneaks up on you so fast, doesn't it? Last night, the first post-season action of the 2015-16 Division I basketball season began, which means it's time for our daily guide to everything that happened, and everything that's going to happen. Because we're completely insane, we're beginning now, with the conference tournaments, rather than waiting until after Selection Sunday.

Isn't that swell?

We're dispensing with the announcer listings until the national tournaments begin, because trying to fit those in here would be insane. You'll survive, we're sure.

Tuesday Men's Results

Last night, two conference tournaments got underway, with a total of six games in the Atlantic Sun and Patriot. Each tournament had one upset; a mild one in the Patriot with Holy Cross getting past Lafayette, and a rather large one in the A-Sun as Stetson stunned second-seeded NJIT. As a result of the action in the A-Sun last night, a twenty-loss team will be playing for the conference championship... one way or another.

ATLANTIC SUN MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND RESULT HIGH SCORER
QF (6) Lipscomb 92, (3) Jacksonville 89 (OT) J.C. Hampton (LIP), 35
QF (4) Florida Gulf Coast 74, (5) Kennesaw State 64 Yonel Brown (KSU), 19
QF (7) Stetson 82, (2) New Jersey Tech 67 Derick Newton (SU), 28
QF (1) North Florida 92, (8) USC-Upstate 69 Dallas Moore (UNF), 22
PATRIOT LEAGUE MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND RESULT HIGH SCORER
R1 (7) Navy 78, (10) Lafayette 70 Bryce Scott (LAF), 29
R1 (9) Holy Cross 72, (8) Loyola (MD) 67 Malachi Alexander (CHC), 24

Wednesday Men's Schedule

The two conferences which got us started last night take the day off, while three more conferences begin their knockouts. It's full quarterfinal action in the America East and NEC, while the bottom half of the Ohio Valley takes the court in their "protect the top seeds" bracket; Belmont and UT-Martin get byes into the semifinals.

AMERICA EAST MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
QF 6:00pm (6) Maine at (3) Vermont Burlington VT ESPN3
QF 6:00pm (7) Hartford at (2) Albany Albany NY ESPN3
QF 6:00pm (8) UMBC at (1) Stony Brook Stony Brook NY ESPN3
QF 6:30pm (5) Binghamton at (4) New Hampshire Durham NH ESPN3
NORTHEAST CONFERENCE MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
QF 6:00pm (6) LIU-Brooklyn at (3) Sacred Heart Fairfield CT FCS Atlantic/NEC TV
QF 6:00pm (7) Saint Francis (PA) at (2) Fairleigh Dickinson Teaneck NJ NEC TV
QF 6:00pm (8) Robert Morris (PA) at (1) Wagner Staten Island NY NEC TV
QF 8:00pm (5) Mount Saint Mary's at (4) Saint Francis (NY) Loretto PA FCS Atlantic/NEC TV
OHIO VALLEY MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
R1 6:00pm (8) Austin Peay vs (5) Tennessee Tech Nashville TN OVC Network
R1 8:00pm (7) Eastern Illinois vs (6) Murray State

Wednesday Women's Schedule

As is customary, the order of conference tournaments is effectively reversed for the women, for the most part. The Ohio Valley, getting underway with half its field today, is an exception. But some big conference get underway today as the ACC, A-10, Big Ten, and SEC dive into the fray with mostly daytime action. (In fact, the LSU-Alabama game is already over, but we'll deal with that tomorrow.)

Those big conferences, however, all feature soft opening-round contests today; the big guns are waiting for their byes to expire.

ACC WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
R1 noon (13) North Carolina (12) Pittsburgh Greensboro NC ESPN3
R1 2:30pm (15) Clemson (10) Wake Forest
R1 4:30pm (14) Boston College (11) Virginia Tech
ATLANTIC 10 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
R1 3:30pm (13) Richmond (12) Davidson Richmond VA A-10 Network
R1 5:00pm (14) La Salle (11) Massachusetts
BIG TEN WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
R1 12:30pm (13) Wisconsin (12) Northwestern Indianapolis IN BTN
R1 2:55pm (7) Illinois (6) Penn State
OHIO VALLEY WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
QF noon (8) Murray State (1) Tennessee-Martin Nashville TN OVC Network
QF 2:00pm (7) Tennessee State (6) Belmont
SEC WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
R1 10am (13) Louisiana State (12) Alabama Jacksonville FL SECN
R1 noon (14) Mississippi (11) Vanderbilt