College Basketball Championship Week: March 2 results, March 3 schedule

Before we get to last night's results and today's schedule, we're going to take a moment to answer a mailbag question. Feel free to tweet at us if you've got any questions -- whether they're arcane questions only your living, breathing sports google could possibly answer or just basic opinion questions. We're not choosy.

@jonfmorse Have there been equivalents to Boston College's (potential) 0 wins in football and men's basketball in lower NCAA divisions?

— Bill G. (@PensBeerGeek) March 3, 2016

Bill is referring to the very real possibility of Boston College going winless in conference play, not overall. The Eagles got stunned last night, losing on a buzzer-beater to North Carolina State which dropped Boston College go 0-17 in ACC play. Saturday, the Eagles host Clemson, and they're not looking like they'll avoid going 0-18.

The answer to Bill's question, which we're assuming only applies to this year: no. First, neither of the two FCS teams which were winless in conference play (Missouri State and Lafayette) repeated the result in basketball. For the lower divisions, as it's a lot easier to list all the basketball teams which stunk up the joint than football -- after all, it's harder to go 0-18 or thereabouts than go 0-8 -- we'll just go over the depths of basketball here.

Not a single Division II men's basketball team went winless in conference play this year, but two teams in Division III went 0-fer. Wisconsin-Stout was 0-14 in the WIAC, but they were not the WIAC team which went winless in football in 2015; that dubious distinction belonged to Wisconsin-Eau Claire. In the Commonwealth Coast Conference, Curry went 0-18, but (a) Curry was not winless in conference play and (b) the CCC doesn't do football. So even if Curry had been winless in the New England Football Conference we'd have to apply an asterisk here.

In NAIA Division I, Saint Louis College of Pharmacy went 0-22 in the American Midwest Conference, but they don't play football. In Division II, Mount Marty was 0-20 in the Great Plains Athletic Conference; they also don't have a football team.

So unless Boston College can overcome Clemson on Saturday, they will complete a monumentally horrific achievement. Not sure whether we should root for or against the Eagles this weekend.

Wednesday Men's Results

Austin Peay didn't actually score the biggest upset of the night. That honor belongs to Hartford, which dumped three-time defending America East tournament champion Albany behind the efforts of the wonderfully-named Pancake Thomas. Albany, the second seed, will now probably find themselves in the CIT.

Long Island also rang the bell last night, avenging two regular-season losses to NEC third seed Sacred Heart. In doing so, the Blackbirds overcame a strong performance by SHU's Cane Broome (another great name), who poured in 35 in a losing effort.

The full table:

Wednesday Women's Results

The women, of course, did most of their work before dinner time. There were a few mild upsets in the major conference ranks as 11th seed Virginia Tech fell in the ACC tournament to 14th seed Boston College (HEYO), 13th seed LSU knocked off 12th seed Alabama in the SEC, and in the Atlantic 10 Richmond came out on top of Davidson in another 13-12 upset.

But for the big one, we go back to the Ohio Valley again, where the eight seed, Murray State, edged top-seeded Tennessee-Martin 78-76. Second-seeded Belmont avoided the same fate, giving the Bruins a wide-open path to the NCAA Tournament. Full results:

Today's Men's Schedule

The two conferences which kicked things off Tuesday night -- the Atlantic Sun and Patriot -- return to action tonight, and one of the three which played last night -- the Ohio Valley -- continues. The Big South gets underway, as do two other conferences whose tournaments are almost guaranteed to be lit: the Missouri Valley, whose Arch Madness is an annual party, and the Metro Atlantic, which is usually far more entertaining than the league's profile would indicate. And this year, we're faced with the delicious possibility of a Monmouth-Iona final which will be appointment television.

Sadly, the first round of the MAAC tourney isn't even available via streaming. That's a crying shame, because they play some fun hoops in that league. (Don't worry, later rounds will be on ESPN3.)

The most intriguing and potentially watchable matchup of the day is in the Atlantic Sun, where #DunkCity will try and derail The OSPREYS' bid for a second-straight NCAA Tournament appearance. If there's one game you're going to stream tonight, that should be it. The schedule:

Today's Women's Schedule

We are already underway this morning, as was the case yesterday. One game's already a final, as Niagara knocked off Canisius in an 8:30am CT tipoff in the MAAC.

The five conferences which got started yesterday continue on to the next round; they're joined by the Metro Atlantic, Pac-12, Southern, and West Coast conferences. There are no typos in the schedule for the WCC, by the by; they're playing their two first-round games and the two quarterfinals into which those two games do not feed today.

By tomorrow, we'll have all the major conferences in action except the Big East, and that includes the Big 12 (where K-State is the sixth seed, and won't play tomorrow). For now, we wade through a forest of games today in which upsets should be few and far between as the larger conferences cull the herd. The schedule: