ORU Headed to NCAA Tournament

As the NCAA Basketball Tournament invites continue to get handed out during Champs Week, Oral Roberts University locked up an automatic bid last night in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  In an apparent battle for gilded namesake, the ORU Golden Eagles beat the Oakland Golden Grizzlies 71-67 in the Mid-Continent Conference Championship game.
 

ORU came into the conference tournament as the top seed at 23-10, but will undoubtedly draw a tough opponent in the fist round of the NCAA Tournament.
 

Not but a couple of years ago, Oakland and Oral Roberts met in the Mid-Con championship, with the Golden Grizzlies winning and advancing to March Madness.  
 

This goes against every thing I’ve ever been taught.  When I was a school boy, “Oral” Roberts always got asked to the Dance.  
 

There’s still plenty of great champs week games.  If you want to see some of the action, get NCAA basketball tickets at your source for March Madness, StubHub.com.
 

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The Wright Stuff Wins Horizon, Moves on to NCAAs

Wright State received an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament last night with their Horizon League Tournament Championship game victory.  The Raiders took down No. 17 ranked Butler on their way to the Dance, their first trip in almost 20 years.
 

Butler is expected to also receive an at large bid to the tourney, but will have to sit and wait for official word.  The Bulldogs have never played well at the Nutter Center, Wright State’s home arena.  They have lost six of their last seven games in Fairborn. 
 

Whined Butler’s humorously named coach Todd Lickliter, “This was not neutral.” 
 

No, and neither will the arena you play in the NCAA Tournament, so you had better get used to it, and quick.  NCAA basketball  tickets to see teams in unfamiliar arenas will be available at StubHub.com, your source for teams that don’t need constant reassurance.    
 

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