SFA draws UMass in NIT
SFA (26-5) will play Massachusetts at 5 p.m. Tuesday night in Amherst, Mass.
SFA is the No. 7 seed in the bracket. UMass is No. 2.
The Minutemen of the Atlantic 10 Conference are 21-1. The lost to Charlotte 69-65 in the Atlantic 10 Tournament Thursday.
SFA players and coaches learned of their destination and opponent while watching the NIT selection show on ESPN2 Sunday.
SFA head coach Danny Kaspar told players to go pack their bags and prepare for travel.
“We’re going to Boston,” the coach said. “This is really a rush job. I have no complaints, other than we’re playing Tuesday.
“I wish we had another day, especially since we’re traveling.”
Massachusetts won six straight games going into the Atlantic 10 Tournament before losing to Charlotte, when it was outrebounded 44-27 and hit just 7-of-17 free throws.
The Minutemen led 36-19 at halftime before being outscored 50-29 in the second half.
Massachusetts is coached by Travis Ford, who played basketball at Kentucky for Rick Pitino.
“I just know he played for Pitino, so they’ll probably pressure us with a full-court press,” Kaspar said.
A win by SFA will put it in a game against the winner between Florida State and Akron.
Tags: northwestern, state
March 17th, 2008 at 9:00 am
Hillary just tells nursing homes that there is going to be a party. Shows up at the nursing home with coffee, cookies, and a bus. thats how she gets votes
March 17th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Let’s be honest, there are only 4,200 Paul supporters. They just travel a lot when they’re not repeatedly voting on Internet polls.
March 17th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Lots of people haven’t heard of any of the candidates. Stop pretending like Paul is being singled out all the time.
March 17th, 2008 at 11:32 am
MINNEAPOLIS!!! Ahh I love my town.
March 17th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
It says that some who have heard of him are impressed. Most, it seems, are not. The only issue he has traction on is the War.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
I’m as big a Ron Paul fan as anyone out there, but, please, get a grip. The man isn’t going to get elected. Hell, even Obama isn’t going to get elected. Hillary is taking most of the delegates today. There are so many hoops impeding the election of a serviceable candidate. One of them is Diebold. Another is the MSM. And let’s not forget the gullibility of the average person–probably the biggest hoop of all.”Think about how stupid the average person is; now realize half of them are dumber than that.” - George Carlin
March 17th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Bitter old women don’t bother to go to rallys, they go out to vote with the rest of the nursing home.
March 17th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
NEWS FLASH: Ron Paul receives more VOTES in the republican primary than Hillary did! Take that, MSM!
March 17th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Who is this Ron Paul everyone speaks of?
March 17th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
I doubt that…Minneapolis is pretty full of radicals. Everyone I know here has heard of Ron Paul.
March 17th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Why am I getting downmodded for this? Is Minneapolis, like, not cool on Reddit?
March 17th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Yeah, lotsa people are but this meme still has legs. This crap is font page, no?.The history of the whole Ron Paul phenomenon is baffling. Long ago, a post appeared that was along the lines of “ZOMG! There is a Republican running who is against the war!”. Paul’s apparent infallibility with regard to fiscal and social policy, derived from his particular/peculiar take on constitutional issues, made him a favorite amongst political n00bs. Even after it comes out that he is anti-choice, anti-civil-rights, anti-evolution, and his stance against the war is more related to the financial (rather than human) cost his popularity continues.
March 17th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
I think they vote from their iPhones while traveling.
March 17th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Maybe he should have chosen to be a democrat, oh well, too late now.
March 17th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
That and religion bashing.