| Ithaca point guard Sean Rossi
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Sean Rossi had a game-high 12 assists as Ithaca defeated Nazareth 76-69. Rossi tied Ramapo's Tennyson Whitted for first-place atop the all-time assists list for men's basketball with 917, entering the Empire 8 conference tournament.
Ithaca and St. John Fisher will face each other in the conference semifinals, giving Rossi a chance to hold the record by himself.
Barry Flynn scored a game-high 21 points on 7-for-12 shooting to lead DePauw past No. 9 Wooster 68-52. The win allowed the Tigers to remain in a tie for third place in the NCAC tournament, with tiebreakers to come. Wooster already had the top seed in the conference tournament locked up. The win gets DePauw a quarterfinal home game.
Fourth-ranked Illinois Wesleyan is one game from history as the Titans defeated Millikin 68-54. A game at No. 8 North Central stands between them and the first undefeated CCIW season since 1973.
Zach Karalis scored a career-high 25 to help WPI claim a share of its eighth NEWMAC regular in the last 10 years as the Engineers defeated crosstown rival Clark 66-51. With the win, WPI (23-2, 10-2) claims the top seed in next week's NEWMAC tournament due to the third tiebreaker -- record vs. common opponents outside the conference. WPI went 3-0 against the common group of Curry, Rhode Island College and Salem State while MIT was 1-2.
No. 15 UW-Stevens Point wrapped up the top seed in the WIAC tournament, doubling up UW-Eau Claire 68-34 behind 15 from Trevor Hass. Under its third coach in three years, Eau Claire ends its season at 10-15, 4-12.
Virginia Wesleyan wrapped up the top seed in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference tournament, rallying from a halftime deficit to defeat Lynchburg 71-54. The Marlins won the tiebreaker against Hampden-Sydney with their head-to-head win in the teams' only meeting. Full pairings.
Grinnell lost 114-106 at Lawrence and St. Norbert won at Illinois College, giving St. Norbert the top seed in the Midwest Conference tournament. Conor Klusendorf scored 21 and Tyler Mazur added 20 off the bench for Lawrence, which shot 10-for-21 from 3-point range.
St. John Fisher handed No. 24 Stevens a loss that doesn't hurt the Ducks' conference tournament chances but could hurt their shot at an at-large bid. Stevens is the top seed in the Empire 8 despite the 82-73 loss.
Salisbury needed two overtimes, but pulled away in the second one to beat its Route 13 rival, No. 25 Wesley, 83-78. Tim Harwood scored 30 points and Travon Vann, who came off the bench but played 47 of the 50 minutes, had 21 points and a game-high 18 rebounds. No. 7 St. Mary's (Md.) secured the top seed in the CAC with an 89-80 win against Mary Washington.
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Morgan Lee came off the bench to score a game-high 14 as Franklin and Marshall secured the top seed in the Centennial Conference with a 64-34 win in front of a crowd of 3,127 at the Mayser Center.
Mary Hardin-Baylor finished the regular season 21-4 and 17-2 in the American Southwest Conference, defeating Sul Ross State 87-61. Texas-Dallas, the ASC East Division champ, hosts the tournament, with UMHB the top seed in the West. Rose-Hulman wrapped up the top seed in the HCAC as Julian Strickland was a perfect 9-for-9 from the field en route to 26 points in a 59-57 win at Hanover.
Kevin Krakowiak scored 25 points and made five 3-pointers as Baldwin Wallace defeated Muskingum 89-58 in its final game of the season. Baldwin Wallace is 19-6 overall and 14-4 in the Ohio Athletic Conference, but is ineligible for the conference tournament thanks to a decision by the school's president covering all sports. Capital is the tournament's top seed.
Sage spoiled SUNY-Old Westbury's perfect run in the Skyline Conference, edging the Panthers 98-96 in double overtime. St. Vincent beat Thomas More 88-79 in overtime to nab the top seed in the Presidents' Athletic Conference tournament. Thomas More falls to the second seed. Isaac Turner led the victorious Bearcats with 23 points.
Top 10 teams Amherst, Middlebury and Williams each advanced in the NESCAC quarterfinals on Saturday afternoon. Tufts joins the three in the semifinals next Saturday after an 82-71 win against Bowdoin. William Paterson defeated Rowan 71-56 to advance in the first round of the NJAC tournament, earning a trip to Ramapo, whom the Pioneers have swept this season. Richard Stockton ended New Jersey City's run, defeating the Gothic Knights 55-51 in the other first-round game. Rutgers-Newark gets the winner.
Franciscan fell 67-52 at Pitt-Bradford to finish the season winless at 0-25. Principia, which lost to Eureka to fall to 0-23, has games on Monday and Tuesday with a chance to avoid the same fate. Piedmont, which cancelled its season at 0-7 and let its coach go earlier this month, also finishes the season without a win.