Metro State, Fort Lewis Receive Bids to 2009 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - The 2009 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Shootout tournament championships, Metro State, and Fort Lewis College, the tournament runner-up, received a bid to the NCAA Tournament, as announced Sunday night on www.ncaa.com.
The Roadrunners, who were also the 2009 RMAC regular season champions, enter the tournament with a 27-3 record. It is their 13th NCAA men's basketball tournament bid and their 11th in the last 12 years. MSCD is the No. 3 seed in the tournament and will face sixth seed Winona State at 12 p.m.
Fort Lewis (24-9), seeded No. 5 in the tournament, will be looking for their first ever NCAA playoff win on Saturday when they face Minnesota State-Mankato at 8:30 p.m. This will be the Skyhawks sixth NCAA playoff tournament.
NCAA II
Central Regional Championship Schedule, Marshall, Minn. (March
14-15 & 17)
Saturday, March 14
Game #1 12 p.m. (No. 3 Metro State vs. No. 6
Winona State)
Game #2 2:30 p.m. (No. 2 St. Cloud State vs. No.
7 Augustana)
Game #3 6 p.m. (No. 1 Southwest Minnesota State
vs. No. 8 Northern State)
Game #4 8:30 p.m. (No. 4 Minnesota State,
Mankato vs. No. 5 Ft. Lewis (Colo.)
Sunday, March
15
Game #5 5 p.m. (Winner of Game #1 vs. Winner of
Game #2)
Game #6 7:30 p.m. (Winner of Game #3 vs. Winner
of Game #4)
Tuesday, March
17
Game #7 7 p.m. (NCAA Central Regional
Championship Game)
