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Colgate at American, 2:30 p.m.: Two teams with a total of five conference wins between them meet in what is a surprisingly big game. If you are not Bucknell, Lehigh or Holy Cross, your chances of winning a first round game in the tournament pretty much seem to depend on being able to finish fourth or fifth in the standings. Those two will meet in the first round. Everybody else will meet one of the top three, two of them will do so on one of the powers' home floors.

With Lafayette's loss Saturday to Navy, three teams -- Lafayette, American and Navy -- are within one-game of each other in the battle for those two spots. Colgate, which has yet to beat anybody not named Army in conference play, still has a shot, a game and a half back of fourth-place Lafayette. With a home-and-home against Navy counting for two of the Raiders four games that will remain after today, they still have a shot at one of those spots if they win at AU. A loss, with games at Lehigh and at home against Holy Cross, also left, and Colgate can pencil in a first round game at the second seed.

American, with a win, would be even with Lafayette, with a favorable remaining schedule -- Navy and Holy Cross at home, road games at Army and Lafayette. A loss would leave AU tied with Navy and Colgate in the standings, all three at 3-7, a game behind Lafayette (4-6).

Lafayette still has a home date with Bucknell and a visit to Lehigh, before finishing the regular season with Army and AU, both in Easton. Navy has three of four on the road down the stretch, at Holy Cross, Colgate and American, before hosting Colgate in its final regular season game.
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