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2008 Southland Conference Basketball Tournament Returns to Houston Area
Courtesy: Southland.org
Release: 08/30/2007
Courtesy: Southland.org
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FRISCO, Texas -- The 2008 Southland Conference Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments will return to the greater Houston area on March 12-16, as the 16-team event will be held at the Leonard E. Merrell Center in suburban Katy, league commissioner Tom Burnett announced this week.
The top eight men’s and women’s regular season finishers will meet at the Merrell Center, playing 14 games over five days. The men’s and women’s bracket winners will earn automatic qualification into the 2008 NCAA Tournaments. In 2007, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi won the Southland men’s tournament and Texas-Arlington took the women’s event at the Campbell Center in north Houston, the league’s first neutral site tourney since 2001...