INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - Southern Collegiate
Athletic Conference (SCAC) champion Trinity University as well as
SCAC semifinalist Birmingham-Southern College, earned bids to the
2012 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Championship. Interactive Bracket
Trinity earned the league's automatic bid to the NCAA playoffs
after the Tigers' 61-50 win over Centre College in the SCAC
championship game yesterday afternoon. The win earned Trinity its
eighth NCAA postseason appearance and its first since 2009.
The SCAC placed two teams in the NCAA tournament for the first
time since 2009. It also marks the fifth time in the last seven
years that the league placed two or more teams in the tournament
and the eighth time since 1995 (1995-1996, 1998, 2006-2009,
2012).
The Trinity Tigers (20-8) will travel to Belton, Texas to square
off against the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor (25-2). The game
date/time will be announced later today.
The No. 5 ranked Cru earned an at-large bid to the field of 62
teams after they lost to eventual American Southwest Conference
champion McMurry in the ASC semifinals.
The Trinity vs. Mary Hardin-Baylor winner will meet the Whitworth
(24-3) vs. McMurry (20-8) winner in the second round.
Birmingham-Southern, in its first year as a full-time member of
Division III, earned an at-large bid to the NCAA championship after
the Panthers (25-2) were upset in the SCAC semifinals by
Centre.
Ninth-ranked Birmingham-Southern will travel to Lexington, Ky. to
play 17th-ranked Wittenberg University (21-6) at Transylvania
University. The WU Tigers lost in the North Coast Athletic
Conference semifinals to NCAC runner-up Denison University.
The game date/time for the Birmingham-Southern/Wittenberg game
will be determined later today. The Birmingham-Southern vs.
Wittenberg winner will meet the No. 16 Transylvania (23-4) vs.
Carroll University (16-9) winner.