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College Basketball Championship Week: March 4 results, March 5 schedule

Austin Peay continues their miracle run. Today, it either ends... or results in an NCAA bid.

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These guys look a little excited.
These guys look a little excited.
Jim Brown-USA TODAY Sports

Every year, we're teased by this sort of thing. It's almost like Lucy telling Charlie Brown she really truly won't yank the ball away this time. But sometimes, you really just seem to feel it. That may be the case for the Governors of Austin Peay, led by a blossoming talent and playing for the cancer-ridden granddaughter of their venerable head coach.

Chris Horton continued to emerge from his cocoon, erupting for 30 points to lead the Governors to an overtime upset of the Ohio Valley's number one seed. Belmont's one of those mid-majors you're just used to seeing in the NCAA tournament, but now they're probably looking at the NIT.

Isn't college basketball great?

Meanwhile, another of the Forgotten Five will remain there another year. The Citadel fell to the SoCon's top seed, Mercer, by failing to hit the final shot.

Isn't college basketball horrible?

Yesterday's Men's Results

Friday was actually a quiet night on the upset front, with Austin Peay scoring the only major surprise. Indiana State, the sixth seed in the Missouri Valley, did get past third-seeded Illinois State, and another 6-3 upset occurred in the Big South with Gardner-Webb beating Coastal Carolina (and officially sending the Chanticleers off to the Sun Belt). The only other "upset" was Drexel over Elon, and an 8-9 upset isn't really much of one.

Full results:

BIG SOUTH MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND RESULT HIGH SCORER
QF (1) High Point 89, (8) Longwood 78 Lotanna Nwogbo (LNG), 24
QF (4) North Carolina-Asheville 80, (5) Liberty 49 Ahmad Thomas (UNCA), 27
QF (2) Winthrop 67, (10) Presbyterian 53 DeSean Murray (PRES), 24
QF (6) Gardner-Webb 69, (3) Coastal Carolina 65 Tyrell Nelson (GWU), 21
COLONIAL MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND RESULT HIGH SCORER
R1 (9) Drexel 57, (8) Elon 56 Tavon Allen (DREX), 17
R1 (7) College of Charleston 67, (10) Delaware 63 Kory Holden (DEL), 30
METRO ATLANTIC MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND RESULT HIGH SCORER
QF (1) Monmouth (NJ) 59, (8) Rider 48 Micah Seaborn (MON), 14
Xavier Lundy (RID), 14
QF (2) Iona 73, (7) Canisius 55 A.J. English (IONA), 20
MISSOURI VALLEY MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND RESULT HIGH SCORER
QF (1) Wichita State 66, (8) Loyola (IL) 58 Ron Baker (WSU), 25
QF (4) Northern Iowa 66, (5) Southern Illinois 60 Jeremy Morgan (UNI), 18
QF (2) Evansville 66, (7) Missouri State 56 Camyn Boone (MSU), 26
QF (6) Indiana State 65, (3) Illinois State 57 MiKyle McIntosh (ILST), 17
OHIO VALLEY MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND RESULT HIGH SCORER
SF (8) Austin Peay 97, (1) Belmont 96 (OT) Evan Bradds (BEL), 32
SF (2) Tennessee-Martin 83, (3) Morehead State 70 Jacolby Mobley (UTM), 22
SOCON MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND RESULT HIGH SCORER
SF (8) Samford 92, (9) Virginia Military 85 (OT) Q.J. Peterson (VMI), 27
SF (7) Mercer 71, (10) The Citadel 69 Demetre Rivers (MER), 16
Derrick Henry (CIT), 16
WEST COAST MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND RESULT HIGH SCORER
SF (8) Loyola Marymount 64, (9) San Diego 61 Brandon Brown (LMU), 20
Olin Carter III (USD), 20
Duda Sanadze (USD), 20

Yesterday's Women's Results

It was a busy, busy day on the women's side, as most of the major conferences saw quarterfinal action and several other conferences got underway. Among the big results: 12th-seeded Northwestern shocked fourth seed Indiana in the Big Ten, the Pac-12 will have a ten-seed in the semifinals after California knocked off the second-seeded Sun Devils, Tennessee got past Texas A&M in a 2-7 game in the SEC, and both games in the Big 12 were upsets last night.

That's right, Kansas finally beat a Big 12 team. Yay, Kansas! Grape job!

Kelsey Mitchell set a Big 10 Tournament record with her 43 points in Ohio State's rout of Rutgers, and Murray State had to deal with the indignity of being clowned by an opposing player named Murray. Shameekia Murray dropped 24 on the Racers as Eastern Kentucky advanced to the Ohio Valley semifinals.

Results (links in green are to our sister SB Nation sites):

AMERICAN WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND RESULT HIGH SCORER
R1 (8) East Carolina 70, (9) Cincinnati 61 Jada Payne (ECU), 26
R1 (7) Southern Methodist 83, (10) Central Florida 74 (OT) Aliyah Gregory (UCF), 22
R1 (6) Tulsa 76, (11) Houston 38 Kelsee Grovey (TUL), 17
ACC WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND RESULT HIGH SCORER
QF (1) Notre Dame 83, (8) Duke 54 Azura Stevens (DUKE), 19
QF (5) Miami (FL) 74, (4) Florida State 56 Jessica Thomas (MIA), 21
QF (2) Louisville 60, (7) Georgia Tech 50 Myisha Hines-Allen (LOU), 22
QF (3) Syracuse 80, (6) North Carolina State 61 Miah Spencer (NCSU), 22
ATLANTIC SUN WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND RESULT HIGH SCORER
QF (1) Florida Gulf Coast 60, (8) New Jersey Tech 31 Tayler Goodall (FGCU), 11
QF (4) Stetson 74, (5) Kennesaw State 56 Brianti Saunders (STET), 25
QF (3) South Carolina-Upstate 76, (6) North Florida 50 Raven Jefferson (USCU), 23
QF (2) Jacksonville 80, (7) Lipscomb 51 Brandi Buie (JU), 20
ATLANTIC TEN WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND RESULT HIGH SCORER
QF (1) George Washington 78, (9) George Mason 48 Caira Washington (GWU), 16
QF (5) Virginia Commonwealth 59, (4) Saint Bonaventure 50 Miranda Drummond (VCU), 13
QF (2) Saint Louis 70, (10) Rhode Island 59 Jackie Kemph (SLU), 18
Charise Wilson (URI), 18
QF (3) Duquesne 70, (6) Fordham 65 Deva'Nyar Workman (DUQ), 20
Samantha Clark (FOR), 20
BIG TEN WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND RESULT HIGH SCORER
QF (1) Maryland 75, (9) Iowa 55 Brionna Jones (UMD), 23
Shatori Walker-Kimbrough (UMD), 23
QF (12) Northwestern 79, (4) Indiana 73 Nia Coffey (NU), 26
QF (2) Ohio State 73, (10) Rutgers 58 Kelsey Mitchell (OSU), 43
QF (3) Michigan State 65, (6) Purdue 64 Aerial Powers (MSU), 26
BIG 12 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND RESULT HIGH SCORER
R1 (9) Texas Tech 89, (8) Iowa State 84 Japreece Dean (TTU), 28
Seanna Johnson (ISU), 28
R1 (10) Kansas 81, (7) Texas Christian 64 Lauren Aldridge (KU), 23
METRO ATLANTIC WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND RESULT HIGH SCORER
QF (1) Quinnipiac 74, (9) Niagara 51 Sarah Shewan (QU), 24
QF (2) Iona 64, (7) Siena 47 Joy Adams (IONA), 20
OHIO VALLEY WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND RESULT HIGH SCORER
QF (4) Eastern Kentucky 63, (8) Murray State 52 Shameekia Murray (EKU), 24
QF (2) Belmont 92, (3) Southern Illinois-Edwardsville 68 Sally McCabe (BEL), 21
PAC-12 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND RESULT HIGH SCORER
QF (10) California 75, (2) Arizona State 64 Kristine Anigwe (CAL), 24
QF (3) UCLA 72, (11) Arizona 51 Monique Billings (UCLA), 18
QF (1) Oregon State 63, (8) Southern California 53 Jamie Weisner (OSU), 20
QF (5) Washington 73, (4) Stanford 65 Kelsey Plum (UW), 29
SEC WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND RESULT HIGH SCORER
QF (1) South Carolina 57, (9) Auburn 48 Brandy Montgomery (AUB), 18
QF (5) Kentucky 92, (4) Florida 69 Makayla Epps (UK), 22
QF (7) Tennessee 70, (2) Texas A&M 60 Diamond DeShields (UT), 21
QF (3) Mississippi State 63, (11) Vanderbilt 46 Dominique Dillingham (MSU), 12
SOCON WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND RESULT HIGH SCORER
QF (1) Mercer 64, (5) Furman 50 Sydni Means (MER), 25
QF (2) Tennessee-Chattanooga 49, (3) Samford 41 Kassidy Blevins (SAM), 18
WEST COAST WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND RESULT HIGH SCORER
QF (1) Brigham Young 72, (9) Pepperdine 59 Lexi Eaton Rydalch (BYU), 28
QF (2) Saint Mary's (CA) 85, (7) Loyola Marymount 71 Lauren Nicholson (SMC), 24

Today's Men's Schedule

We welcome the Horizon League and Summit League to the party today, and we'll also learn the identity of this season's first -- or second, if Yale wins today -- automatic bid holder when Austin Peay faces Tennessee-Martin for the OVC title. (You should probably be aware that our own Luke Thompson used to be the beat writer at Peay, so he might be a little excited tonight.)

The most interesting game on the slate tonight otherwise is probably Wichita State-Northern Iowa in the Missouri Valley. Of course, most folks will be more concerned with the end of the regular season in the big conferences -- including the Big 12. The schedule:

BIG SOUTH MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
SF noon (4) North Carolina-Asheville (1) High Point Buies Creek NC ESPN3
SF 2:00pm (6) Gardner-Webb (2) Winthrop
COLONIAL MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
QF 11:00am (9) Drexel (1) Hofstra Baltimore MD Comcast SN
QF 1:30pm (5) William & Mary (4) James Madison
QF 5:00pm (7) College of Charleston (2) North Carolina-Wilmington
QF 7:30pm (6) Northeastern (3) Towson
HORIZON LEAGUE MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
R1 11:00am (9) Cleveland State (4) Wisconsin-Green Bay Detroit MI ESPN3
R1 1:30pm (8) Northern Kentucky (5) Wisconsin-Milwaukee
R1 4:00pm (10) Illinois-Chicago (3) Wright State
R1 6:30pm (7) Youngstown State (6) Detroit
METRO ATLANTIC MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
QF 6:00pm (6) Manhattan (3) Siena Albany NY ESPN3
QF 8:30pm (5) Fairfield (4) Saint Peter's
MISSOURI VALLEY MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
SF 1:35pm (4) Northern Iowa (1) Wichita State Saint Louis MO CBSSN
SF 4:05pm (6) Indiana State (2) Evansville
NORTHEAST CONFERENCE MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
SF 1:00pm (5) Mount Saint Mary's (2) Fairleigh Dickinson Hackensack NJ FOX College
SF 3:00pm (6) Long Island-Brooklyn (1) Wagner Staten Island NY
OHIO VALLEY MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
FINAL 5:00pm (8) Austin Peay (2) Tennessee-Martin Nashville TN ESPN
SOCON MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
QF 11:00am (8) Samford (1) Tennessee-Chattanooga Asheville NC ESPN3
QF 1:30pm (5) Western Carolina (4) Wofford
QF 5:00pm (7) Mercer (2) East Tennessee State
QF 7:30pm (6) North Carolina-Greensboro (3) Furman
SUMMIT LEAGUE MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
QF 6:00pm (8) South Dakota (1) IUPU-Fort Wayne Sioux Falls SD ESPN3
QF 8:30pm (7) Oral Roberts (2) South Dakota State
WEST COAST MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
QF 3:00pm (6) Santa Clara (3) Brigham Young Paradise NV BYU TV
QF 5:00pm (5) Pepperdine (4) San Francisco
QF 9:00pm (8) Loyola Marymount (1) Saint Mary's (CA) ESPN2
QF 11:00pm (7) Portland (2) Gonzaga

Today's Women's Schedule

The America East, Big East, and Summit get underway today, while most of the conferences which are already playing have their semifinal rounds. Most importantly for us, K-State takes on West Virginia tonight in the Big 12 quarterfinals. The full schedule:

AMERICA EAST WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
QF 11:00am (8) Vermont (1) Albany Binghamton NY ESPN3
QF 1:15pm (5) Binghamton (4) Maryland-Baltimore County
QF 5:00pm (7) New Hampshire (2) Maine
QF 7:15pm (6) Hartford (3) Stony Brook
AMERICAN WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
QF 11:00am (5) Tulane (4) Memphis Uncasville CT ESPN3
QF 1:00pm (8) East Carolina (1) Connecticut
QF 5:00pm (7) Southern Methodist (2) South Florida
QF 7:00pm (6) Tulsa (3) Temple
ACC WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
SF 11:00am (5) Miami (FL) (1) Notre Dame Greensboro NC ESPNU
SF 1:30pm (3) Syracuse (2) Louisville
ATLANTIC 10 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
SF 10:00am (5) Virginia Commonwealth (1) George Washington Richmond VA CBSSN
SF 12:30pm (3) Duquesne (2) Saint Louis
BIG EAST WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
R1 2:00pm (10) Providence (7) Creighton Chicago IL FOX Sports GO (free)
R1 4:30pm (9) Butler (8) Xavier
BIG TEN WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
SF 2:00pm (12) Northwestern (1) Maryland Indianapolis IN BTN
SF 4:30pm (3) Michigan State (2) Ohio State
BIG 12 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
QF 11:00am (5) Oklahoma (4) Oklahoma State Oklahoma City OK FSN
QF 1:30pm (9) Texas Tech (1) Baylor
QF 6:00pm (10) Kansas (2) Texas
QF 8:30pm (6) Kansas State (3) West Virginia
METRO ATLANTIC WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
QF 11:00am (6) Manhattan (3) Marist Albany NY none
QF 1:30pm (5) Monmouth (NJ) (4) Fairfield
OHIO VALLEY WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
FINAL 11:00am (4) Eastern Kentucky (2) Belmont Nashville TN ESPN3
PAC-12 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
SF 8:00pm (10) California (3) UCLA Seattle WA Pac-12
SF 10:30pm (5) Washington (1) Oregon State
PATRIOT LEAGUE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
R1 1:00pm (10) Boston University (7) American Washington DC PLN
R1 3:00pm (9) Lafayette (8) Colgate Hamilton NY
SEC WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
SF 4:00pm (5) Kentucky (1) South Carolina Jacksonville FL ESPNU
SF 6:30pm (7) Tennessee (3) Mississippi State
SOCON WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
FINAL noon (2) Tennessee-Chattanooga (1) Mercer Asheville NC ESPN3
SUMMIT LEAGUE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ROUND TIME (CT) TEAM - TEAM LOCATION NETWORK
QF noon (8) Denver (1) South Dakota Sioux Falls SD ESPN3
QF 1:30pm (7) IUPU-Fort Wayne (2) South Dakota State