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Mar 5, 2009

NEWMAC Teams Prepare for NCAA Tournament Play

BABSON PARK, Mass. - A trio of teams from the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) will be competing in the opening rounds of the NCAA Division III Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments this weekend. NEWMAC champions Babson and MIT earned the conference's automatic bids to the Women's and Men's Tournaments, respectively. Men's Regular season champion, WPI, will also join MIT in the bracket.  

The Babson women will travel to Amherst College to face the Lady Jeffs in a first round match-up on Friday, March 6 at 6:00 p.m. Amherst earned an at-large bid to the tournament after falling to Bowdoin College in the NESCAC Championship. The winner of that game will move on to face the winner of Emmanuel and Southern Maine on Saturday evening. 

Video of Babson's game can be found at https://www.amherst.edu/athletics/jeffcast.
In addition, live stats are offered at http://www3.amherst.edu/~sports/tas/xlive.htm.

Also on Friday, the MIT men's basketball team play at Rhode Island College (RIC) at 6:00 p.m. The Engineers are making their first appearance in the NCAA Tournament in program history, spanning over 100 years. RIC had won 14 straight games before falling to UMass-Dartmouth in the Little East Championship last weekend. The winner on Friday night will advance to face the winner of the match-up between Farmingdale State and the University of New England on Saturday.

Video of the MIT game can be seen at http://ricollege.ezstream.com/play/index.cfm?id=121FA01A9A.
Live stats for the game will be posted at http://www.goanchormen.com/livestatsbb/XLIVE.HTM.

WPI is the final NEWMAC team competing in NCAA Tournament action this weekend. The Engineers will host First and Second Round games at the Harrington Auditorium. WPI welcomes Husson, the champions of the NAC, on Friday at 6:00 p.m. That game is followed by UMass-Dartmouth versus Baruch, with the winners of Friday's contests meeting Saturday night. Husson earned an automatic bid to the Tournament after defeating Thomas in the NAC championship. 

Audio coverage of the games at WPI can be heard at http://www.ustream.tv/flash/live/1/530565.
Live stats can be found at http://livestats.prestosports.com/wpi/.