Sunday, February 27, 2005
Seeds
ANNOUNCED
for 2005
Food Lion
SAC Basketball Tournament
#3
seed Blue Hose Men’s team to host Mars Hill on March 2 at
7:00 pm
ROCK
HILL, SC. –
The Wingate University women and the Catawba College men, who
both played in the championship game of last year’s
tournament, earned the top seeds for the 2005 Food Lion South
Atlantic Conference basketball tournament, league officials
announced today.
The
Catawba men finished 12-2 in conference play to capture the
top seed. The Indians, who won the tournament title last year
as the seventh seed, will host eighth seed Newberry College in
the tournament quarterfinals on Wednesday at 8 p.m.
Lenoir-Rhyne College is the second seed. The Bears finished 9-5 in
conference play and will host seventh seed Wingate University
at 8 p.m. on Wednesday.
Presbyterian College and Tusculum College finished tied for third
with 8-6 records. The Presbyterian swept Tusculum during the
regular season, giving the Blue Hose the third seed.
Presbyterian will host sixth seed Mars Hill on Wednesday at 7
p.m.
Tusculum, the fourth seed, will host fifth seed Carson-Newman on
Wednesday at 7 p.m.
The men’s championship game will tip off at 4 p.m. Tickets for
the tournament are $6 per day for adults, $3 per day for
children and students, and $2 per day for college students
with ID. The men’s and women’s winners of the tournament
will earn automatic bids to the NCAA Division II playoffs.
| MEN |
Wednesday,
March 2 |
|
Food Lion SAC Tournament, Quarterfinals, Home of Higher Seed |
| No. 8 Newberry at No. 1 Catawba |
8 pm |
| No. 7 Wingate at No. 2 Lenoir-Rhyne |
8 pm |
| No. 6 Mars Hill at No. 3 Presbyterian |
7 pm |
| No. 5 Carson-Newman at No. 4 Tusculum |
7 pm |
| Saturday,
March 5 |
|
|
Food Lion SAC Tournament, Semifinals, CVCC Arena, Hickory, NC |
| NC/CAT winner vs. CN/TC winner |
4 pm |
| WU/L-R winner vs. MHC/PC winner |
8 pm |
| Sunday,
March 6 |
|
|
Food Lion SAC Tournament, Finals, CVCC Arena, Hickory, NC |
| Championship |
4 pm |
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