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#1 seed UCA opens play at 6pm on Tuesday vs #8 Nicholls State at Katy, Texas..

Conference championships are the primary goal and winning the tourney is the ticket to the next level. This what the SBs have been working for and now taking care of bsuiness will be the job ...rest assured the other teams will be hungry so each game has to be max effort.

Go SugarBears!!!!

JRK, you just answered my question. I was wondering why there was a tournament when there was already a conference champion.

Tournament Schedule


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Tuesday, March 6
Women's Quarterfinals
Session 1
Game 1: No. 2 McNeese St. vs. No. 7 Southeastern Louisiana, Noon
Game 2: No. 3 Sam Houston St. vs. No. 6 Texas St., 2:30 p.m.

Session 2
Game 3: No. 1 Central Arkansas vs. No. 8 Nicholls St., 6 p.m.
Game 4: No. 4 Stephen F. Austin vs. No. 5 Lamar, 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, March 7
Men's Quarterfinals
Session 3
Game 1: No. 2 Stephen F. Austin vs. No. 7 Sam Houston St, Noon
Game 2: No. 3 Lamar vs. No. 6 Northwestern St., 2:30 p.m.

Session 4
Game 3: No. 1 UT Arlington vs. No. 8 Nicholls St., 6 p.m.
Game 4: No. 4 McNeese St. vs. No. 5 UTSA, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday, March 8
Women's Semifinals - Session 5
Game 5: Game 1 Winner vs. Game 2 Winner, 12:05 p.m.
Game 6: Game 3 Winner vs. Game 4 Winner, 2:33 p.m.
Southland TV

Men's Semifinals - Session 6
Game 5: Game 1 Winner vs. Game 2 Winner, 6:05 p.m.
Game 6: Game 3 Winner vs. Game 4 Winner, 8:33 p.m.
Southland TV

Friday, March 9
Women's Championship Game
Game 7: Game 5 Winner vs. Game 6 Winner, 7 p.m.
Southland TV

Saturday, March 10
Men's Championship Game
Game 7: Game 5 Winner vs. Game 6 Winner, 2 p.m.
ESPN2




All games, with one exception, will be streamed live and for free on SLC NOW, available at Southland.org. SLC NOW will not be available for the men's championship game.

Scouting Report - Women's Tourney

Records, last 4 games

#1 UCA (14-2/24-5), 3-1...win over #8 and loss to #7
#2 McNeese (13-3/23-7), 4-0....wins over #5/#7/#8
#3 SHS (12-4/17-10), 4-0...wins over #4/#5/#6
#4 SFA (11-5/21-8), 3-1 ....wins over #5 and loss to #3
#5 Lamar (8-8/16-14), 1-3...win over #6 TSU and losses to #2,#3, #4
#6 TSU (8-8/16-13), 3-1...includes win over #3 SHS and #7 SELA
#7 SELA (7-9/12-17), 3-1...includes win over #1 UCA
#8 NSU (7-9/14-15), 1-3...losses to #1/#2/#7

Matchups:

UCA beat Nicholls twice....66-59 and 67-47
McNeese swept SELA by 60-36 and 68-53
Sam split with Texas State losing 53-66 and winning 68-54
SFA beat Lamar by 61-51

In the fwiw dept. - three of the ladies from the Alumni Assn. office got together Sunday morning to put some "goodie" bags together for the girls and staff to munch on during their trip to Katy. They did the same thing for the football team when they went to Montana.

Oh yeah, they were the only three people to show up to see the girls load up and leave.

and it was appreciated by us on the road!

Btw, the SBs had their practice at the Merrell Center an hour ago and they seemed like theyre ready to get back on the floor tomorrow night. Airtime for Tuesday night on The Bear 91.3 and UCAsports.com will be at 5:40 pm

Non-Sugarbear Update:

#2 McNeese vs #7 SELA

6:12 left in 1st SELA leads 21-15.

If SELA pulls this one out, I think they are the "underdog" team to beat. Talk about coming together at the right time.

HALFTIME

#2 McNeese 32
#7 SELA 27

McNeese was down 12-2 early on, but battled back and really took control the last few minutes of the half.

I know it technically hold as much water as a paper bag, but Charlie Creme's latest Bracketology has our girls bumped up to a 14 playing Miami in Tallahassee. At least someone it taking notice and these guys are usually close. Let's prove him right! Go Sugar Bears!

Could we get into the NCAA tourney without winning the SLC tournament?

I guess there is always the outside chance, but the SLC seems to be a 1-bid league.
Our RPI according the NCAA is 78, so it would pretty much take an act of Congress for us to get an at-large bid. In order for us to ever be considered for an at-large bid we will probably have to play an all DI schedule and keep winning. However, if we were to lose in the SLC Tournament, I imagine that we have a pretty good shot of getting into the WNIT (as opposed to the WBI like last season).

6:31 left

#2 McNeese 53
#7 SELA 46

FINAL

#2 McNeese 67
#7 SELA 55