UB Men's Basketball Tabbed As Number Three Seed In 2018 NCAA Division II East Regional To Be Hosted By LeMoyne College
Purple Knights Are Making NCAA Trip Number 22 In Program History
Bridgeport, Conn.-For the tenth time under the direction of 18th-year head coach Mike Ruane and the 22nd time in school history, the University of Bridgeport men's basketball team will participate in the 64-team, NCAA Division II National Championship Tournament. Bridgeport will head to the 2018 NCAA Division II East Regional with a 25-5 overall record after winning the East Coast Conference regular season title and falling to St. Thomas Aquinas in Sunday's ECC Championship Tournament Final which snapped UB's school-record 16-game winning streak. The Purple Knights will be the number three seed at the regional, and they will face the number six seed, Merrimack College Warriors, out of the Northeast-10 Conference on Saturday, March 10, 2018. All games in the 2018 NCAA Division II East Regional will be played in Syracuse, New York on the campus of LeMoyne College. Game time for the UB/Merrimack game is slated tentatively for 12:00 p.m. The two teams met during the regular season on a neutral floor at LIU Post on November 19, 2017, and the Purple Knights defeated the Warriors, 98-79.
Seeding for the 2018 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball East Regional is as follows:
# 1- LeMoyne # 2 St. Thomas Aquinas # 3-Bridgeport # 4-St. Anselm # 5- St. Rose # 6 Merrimack # 7 Bloomfield # 8 Jefferson
Saturday, March 10, Division II Men's Basketball East Regional Quarterfinal Match-ups:
(times are tentative)
# 3 Bridgeport (25-5) vs. # 6 Merrimack (19-11)-12 noon
# 2 St. Thomas Aquinas (26-6) vs. # 7 Bloomfield (22-7)-2:30 pm
# 1 LeMoyne (24-6) vs. # 8 Jefferson (21-14)-5:00 pm
# 4 St. Anselm (22-8) vs. # 5 St. Rose (20-9)-7:30 p.m.
The 2018 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball East Regional semifinals will be played on Sunday March 11th, and the regional final will be held on Tuesday, March 13th.
The University of Bridgeport men's basketball team has advanced to the NCAA Division II Tournament in the following years: 1968-72-73-76-77-78-79-85-89-90-91-92-2003-04-06-07-09-10-13-14-15-18.
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