St. Joseph's and Temple's Roads Cross

Both Saint Joseph's and Temple win their A-10 semi-final match-ups to set up an all-Philly final. The all-Philly final guarantees that a Big-5 team will make the NCAA tournament for the 31st straight year. The two teams will play tomorrow in Atlantic City at 6 pm.

Saint Joseph's beat Xavier 61-53 for the second time in eight days. Temple beat up on Charlotte 60-45.

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March Madness - Conference Tournaments Semi-Finals

Two big 5 teams advanced today and 1 NCAA Tourney bubble may have been popped.

Big East Tournament
Villanova 63, Georgetown 82 - Villanova really needed the win today to virtually punch their ticket to the tournament, but now they'll have to keep their fingers crossed as they watch Selection Sunday. Will the NCAA give them the pity addition to the tournament because officials blatantly cost them two possible wins?

Atlantic Ten Tournament
Saint Joseph's 61, Richmond 47 - After struggling down the stretch of the regular season, St. Joe's beat Richmond in dominating fashion to advance to Semi-Finals in the A-10 tournament where they'll play a nationally, ranked Xavier team they beat a few weeks ago.

Temple 84, La Salle 75 - Second-seeded Temple will advance to the semi-finals to play the winner of Charlotte and Massachusetts.

Tomorrow's semi-final games will start @ 6:30 in Atlantic City. I am thinking about going down to see the games. If you of anyone giving away tickets or has a way to get them discounted, let me know.

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College Basketball Round-Up

Conference Tournmanet time is here, or in the past for one City 6 School.

Drexel - Lost in the first round of the CAA tournament to Delaware. They finished the year 12-20.
Penn - No tournament. Will likely finish third in the Ivy League. It was their worst season in awhile.
Villanova - Will play Syracuse in the first round of the conference tournament on Wednesday at 12:00 p.m. as the #9 seed. The winner will face top-seed, Georgetown, on Thursday. Finished 19-11 in the regular season.
Temple - Temple earned the second seed in the A-10 tournament and will have a first round bye. They will play Thursday at 6:30 against the winner of #7 La Salle and #10 Duquesne. They finished the regular season 18-12.
La Salle - Will play Duquesne Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. Finished the regular season 14-16.
Saint Joseph's - Earned the 5th seed and will play #12 seed Fordham. If the Hawks win, they will play #4 seed, Richmond. St. Joe's finished the regular season 18-11.

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