Virginia Wesleyan gets 6th seed in ODAC tourney
Virginia Wesleyan received the No. 6 seed and a Thursday game in the 10-team men’s Old Dominion Athletic Conference Tournament.
The Marlins will play at 8 p.m. Thursday against No. 3 Guilford in the last quarterfinal at Salem Civic Center.
Thursday will begin with top-seeded Randolph-Macon playing at noon against the victor of Monday’s game pitting No. 9 Lynchburg at No. 8 Shenandoah. No. 5 Roanoke will face No. 4 Washington & Lee at 2 p.m., followed by No. 2 Hampden-Sydney — which has spent time ranked first in Division III this season — in a 6 p.m. game against the winner of Monday’s clash of No. 10 Ferrum at No. 7 Bridgewater.
Apprentice seeded second in tourney at home: Apprentice School,
the host team for the New South Athletic Conference Tournament in Newport News, received the second seed and a first-round bye.
The tournament will begin March 1 with a 4 p.m. game between fifth-seeded Atlantis University of Miami and fourthseeded Mid-Atlantic Christian of Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
Third-seeded Blue Lights of Apex, North Carolina, will take on sixth-seeded Central International of Chester at 6 that night.
The semifinals will be March 2, with the Atlantis-MACU winner facing top-seeded Lighthouse Christian of Pensacola, Florida, at 2 p.m., then the defending champion Builders playing the Blue Lights-Central International winner at 4.
The championship game is set for 2 p.m. March 3.
UVA exits poll as UConn becomes unanimous No. 1: UConn became the first unanimous No. 1 in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll this season, earning all 62 votes from a national media panel. The Huskies picked up the 16 that went to Purdue last week after the Boilermakers lost to Ohio State.
Houston was second, with Purdue, Arizona and Tennessee rounding out the top five. San Diego State returned to the poll at No. 19 and Washington State entered at No. 21 to end a 302-week poll drought. Virginia fell out of the poll, thanks to a home loss to Pittsburgh, though the Cavaliers had more voting points (103) than any other team that missed the Top 25.
Colorado State, Texas Tech and Florida also entered the poll at the expense of UVA, Wisconsin, Florida Atlantic, Indiana State and Oklahoma.
Hokies’ women rise to No. 8, will host ‘College GameDay’: Virginia Tech (22-4) climbed from 12th to eighth in the AP women’s basketball poll, which South Carolina (25-0) unanimously led.
North Carolina State, featuring Virginia Beach’s Aziaha James, remained at No. 6 as the highest of five ACC squads in the Top 25.
West Virginia, led by Lake Taylor High graduate JJ Quinerly, jumped two positions to No. 22. ESPN announced that “College GameDay” will broadcast live from Cassell Coliseum on Sunday, Feb. 25, in advance of Virginia Tech’s game against North Carolina.
It marks the first time the iconic show will be ahead of a Hokies women’s game, making Tech the first ACC school to host College GameDay on the women’s side, and just the second time ever in Cassell (it was there before a men’s game on Feb. 26, 2011).