The NCAA DivisionI Basketball Tournament continues in college athletics in the USA. Today is the second and last day of Round II,which will narrow the field of 32 to 16, who will head into round three andfour next weekend. Today the PurdueBoilermakers will take on the Butler Bulldogs in Detroit. Purdue lost a keyplayer in the first round, but the Boilermakers will certainly play hardagainst the big city team from their state's capital. The Bulldogs will certainly respond inkind. Another state rivalry will becarried out in far away San Diego,between the Marshall Bisons and the West Virginia Mountaineers. They used to play annually on a neutralcourt, but West Virginia pulled out of that arrangement a few years ago. This should prove an exciting game as therivalry reignites. The National InvitationalTournament also continues in the USA. Several decades ago, this was considered a primo and distinguishedtournament, surpassing even the NCAA tourney in importance. This shifted sometime in the 1970's, but theNIT trundles along, providing some good basketball, usually played by teamsfrom challenging conferences, whose member teams cannot all be invited to theNCAA. So, yesterday's surprise 73-63 winby Penn State over Notre Dame, while indeed astounding, fits within the frameworkof the quality basketball the NIT tries to provide. On tapSunday are games between Baylor and Mississippi State, Marquette and Oregon,and between Louisville and Middle Tennessee. -- Posted By Rex to SR at 3/18/2018 12:23:00 AM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "omnisport" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/omnisport. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
