Aaron Brock scored 29 points on 8-for-11 shooting, including 4-for-5 from three-point range, as Wabash shocked Wooster 87-63 in the North Coast Athletic Conference semifinals. The win puts Wooster into Pool C consideration, likely pops someone's bubble, and extends Wabash coach Mac Petty's 32nd season at the Little Giant helm. Brock was also a perfect 9-for-9 from the line.
Mississippi College is out, Brockport State is out, DePauw is likely out and Stevens may be out as well based on the returns from the final regular-season Friday night in Division III men's basketball. Randolph-Macon and Occidental hit the bubble. Friday's men's scores. Scroll down for women's coverage.
&&g-boxl&&The Choctaws, who had played in the previous nine American Southwest Conference title games, failed to get out of the first quarterfinal game of the day, as Howard Payne beat Mississippi College 94-90 in overtime. Mississippi College falls to 19-6 overall, 16-6 in region. DePauw's stay at the SCAC men's tournament was only five minutes longer as the Tigers lost to Trinity's Tigers 82-77. DePauw had an apparent game-winning three-pointer in regulation waved off by its own timeout. &&teaser&&
Immaculata became the second men's team to clinch a bid to the NCAA Tournament, pulling away from Gwynedd-Mercy at the end of the Pennsylvania Athletic Conference title game for an 85-68 win. Pool B teams got a reprieve when Nebraska Wesleyan lost to UC Santa Cruz 68-62 on a neutral floor. UC Santa Cruz improved to 3-22, snapping an 18-game losing streak. Maryville (Tenn.) and Aurora have two of the four Pool B bids well in hand.
A pair of 13-14 teams will play for the USA South title, after fifth-seeded Averett and sixth-seeded Greensboro won their semifinals. No. 3 and No. 4 seeds will play for the SCIAC and Empire 8 titles, as Claremont-Mudd-Scripps held off Occidental 66-62 and Pomona-Pitzer beat Cal Lutheran 54-44.
Hampden-Sydney rallied from a 19-point second half deficit and got a Troy Kaase putback with three seconds left to knock off archrival Randolph-Macon 69-67 in the quarterfinals of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference tournament. Kaase finished with 22 points and 15 rebounds. Carroll advanced to the Midwest Conference championship game for the fourth time in five years as Nate Zimmerman's tip-in led the Pioneers past the other Pioneers -- Grinnell -- 124-122. Zimmerman put back a miss by John Hoch, who had a career high 34 points and 13 assists. Kent Raymond hit three three-pointers in the final minute but couldn't bring the Thunder back as they fell to Illinois Wesleyan 81-78 in the CCIW semifinals. Raymond, who scored 34 points, is a senior but has a year of eligibility, should he choose to use it. IWU will face top-seeded Augustana, which survived Elmhurst 74-73 in overtime. Chandlor Collins scored 16 to lead four Vikings in double figures.
Calvin knocked No. 25 Albion out of the MIAA tournament with a 75-58 victory, ending the Britons' 13-game win streak. Calvin will meet archrival Hope for the title. Corey McAdam was a rebound shy of a triple-double for Nazareth but the Golden Flyers finally finished off Stevens, 81-70. Nazareth, which plays St. John Fisher, lost leads late in two regular-season defeats by the Ducks. Capital and Heidelberg advanced to the Ohio Athletic Conference final after splitting the regular-season series.