— Missouri Valley tournament
Drake 100, Belmont 79
Bulldogs shot 76.9% inside arc, scored 1.39 ppp.
Drake was an 11-point underdog.
Bulldogs won last two nights, after losing last eight regular season games.
Belmont is first #1-seed in country to lose in its conference tournament.
Bradley 90, Valparaiso 84, 2OTs
Braves were +8 (19-11) in overtime.
Valparaiso led by 3 with 0:48 left in the first overtime.
Bradley is 4-1 in overtime games this season.
— Miami OH 110, Ohio 108, OT
Redhawks finish regular season 31-0, with nine wins by 1 or 2 points, or in OT.
Miami’s last three wins were all by two points.
Miami was 31-41 on foul line, Ohio was 20-25.
Redhawks shot 56.1% inside arc, scored 1.32 ppp.
— Akron 94, Northern Illinois 55
Very quietly, in Miami’s shadow, Zips have won seven in row, 16 of last 17 games.
Akron shot 18-27 on the arc, scored 1.36 ppp.
Zips are 26-5, have the #9 eFG% in the country.
— St John’s 72, Seton Hall 65
St John’s shot 59.4% inside the arc.
Seton Hall finishes 10-10 in the Big East.
Red Storm is 16-1 in last 17 games, clinched #1-seed in Big East tourney.
— Southern Conference tournament
Citadel 88, Chattanooga 85
Citadel shot 15-31 on arc, scored 1.39 ppp.
Chattanooga lost desire shooting 1.34 ppp.
— WCC tournament
Portland 74, Washington State 68
Wazzu led 29-25 at halftime.
This was Coogs’ last WCC game; they’re back in Pac-12 next year.
Pilots advance to play San Francisco Saturday.
— North Carolina star Caleb Wilson, who was already nursing a broken left hand, is now out for the year with a broken right thumb he suffered in practice this week. Wilson was averaging 19.8 ppg, grabbing 9.4 rebounds/game for the 24-6 Tar Heels.
— Famous birthdays, March 7th:
Pete Beathard, 84
Jeff Burroughs, 75
Lynn Swann, 74
Tommy Kramer, 71
Bryan Cranston, 70
Joe Carter, 66
Flipper Anderson, 61
Steve Beuerlein, 61
Ricky Proehl, 58
Jeff Kent, 58
Jenna Fischer, 52
Ian Clark, 35
Pharoh Cooper, 31
Michael Harris, 25
— VCU 68, Dayton 62
VCU shot 56.7% inside arc, had only 7 turnovers on 61 possessions.
Dayton shot 63.6% inside arc, only 4-22 outside arc.
Rams have won 13 of their last 14 games.
— San Diego State 89, UNLV 86
BJ Davis scored 30 points in 26:00 off San Diego State’s bench.
Aztecs led 42-39 at halftime.
Dravyn Gibbs-Lawhorn scored 32 points for UNLV.
— West Virginia 77, Central Florida 62
West Virginia shot 61.5% inside the arc.
Honor Huff was 10-10 on foul line; UCF’s whole team was 11-18.
Central Florida lost six of its last nine games.
— Patriot League tournament
Lehigh 69, Holy Cross 66
Forgot to mention this yesterday; kid on Lehigh nailed a half-court shot at the buzzer to win this game. Lehigh advances to play Colgate in the semi-finals Sunday.
— MAAC tournament:
Merrimack 70, Sacred Heart, 48
Top-seeded Warriors led 39-25 at halftime.
Merrimack has won 10 of its last 11 games.
Fairfield 74, Saint Peter’s 55
#7-seed Stags pull upset, after trailing 11-0 right off the bat.
Fairfield starts 4 freshmen; they’ve won 10 of their last 13 games.
— Sun Belt tournament:
Southern Miss 81, Texas State 77- Unusual game: there were 92 two-point shots taken in this game, only 14 three-point shots. Southern Miss was 28-37 on foul line.
Georgia Southern 94, South Alabama 85
#10-seed Eagles win for third day in a row, scoring 88-80-94 points.
Georgia Southern was 23-44 on 3-point shots, 6-8 on two-point shots.
