2026 NCAA Tournament

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Should have combined it with bowling. The PBA was in Fort Wayne this week for the Indiana Classic. The televised finals are tomorrow and I bet that will have at least 200-300 in attendance.

[Greek Tragedy]

The numbers are disappointing, but not surprising. I don't know what the Thursday numbers were last year, though.

I was disappointed in Chicago's numbers. 3 hours away? You could literally leave after work and make the game. Not sure about Spring Break etc. Outside of IWU, everyone else was pretty far away. I'm not sure if Fort Wayne is a basketball town, but not too many folk on the opposite side of the team fans either.

Obviously Wisconsin is more out of the way, but the Fox Valley seems to be a basketball hot bed, an hour from Milwaukee, an hour from Green Bay. Oshkosh Arena, where the Wisconsin Herd play (Bucks G-League affiliate) would be a perfect spot. Seats about 4,500. I know I've mentioned this before.

Anyway, hopefully a move to Pittsburgh will attract more of the East Coast fans if their team qualifies. I'll be real hard pressed to drive 9 hours to Pittsburgh unless Point is in it. As a fan, I'll never like this Thursday/Saturday format.

I enjoyed this year's Elite 8, some really good games, but I didn't have any interest staying two more nights to see 2 games today. But that's just me.

[mailsy]

Mary Washington wins. On to the final. This is the second trip to a national championship for Marcus Kahn. He takes his second different school to a national championship game. I saw that a couple other coaches took 2 different teams to a final four. How many have taken 2 teams to a final? Congrats to Mary Washington and Coach Kahn.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Mary Washington wins. On to the final. This is the second trip to a national championship for Marcus Kahn. He takes his second different school to a national championship game. I saw that a couple other coaches took 2 different teams to a final four. How many have taken 2 teams to a final? Congrats to Mary Washington and Coach Kahn.

None others.  He's the first.

[y_jack_lok]

For the Chinese it's the year of the Horse. For D3 hoops it's the year of the Eagles.

[Greek Tragedy]

The margins of victory were 3, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 14.

Pretty impressive weekend. I don't regret leaving Friday, but I definitely missed 2 great games last night.

Good luck to Emory and Mary Washington.

[CNU85]

Time to become a Mary Wash fan for 1 game!  Congrats to the Eagles.

CNU hung tough for most of the game and just didn't have enough in the tank for the last few minutes. Emory is too good of a team to mount a comeback.

We will be back.

[BaboNation]

Time to become a Mary Wash fan for 1 game!  Congrats to the Eagles.

CNU hung tough for most of the game and just didn't have enough in the tank for the last few minutes. Emory is too good of a team to mount a comeback.

We will be back.

I would think (before seeing final rosters) CNU would be preseason top 3.

[mailsy]

The last time Coach Kahn took his team to a final Cabrini was ranked no.5 and this Mary Washington team was also ranked 5th at the end of the regular season. This time his team is ranked behind their opponent(Emory no.2 vs Whitewater no.8) in 2012 Final.

Rooting for Marcus and UMW to win it all!

[GusD]

If you will be rooting for the 🦅 Eagles 🦅 in the National Championship game, you're guaranteed to be a winner! 😉