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Saturday, February 25, 2006
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American at Lafayette, 1 p.m.: A preview of next week's quarterfinal game, with the winner here getting the No. 4 seed and the right to wear home whites when these two meet again Friday in Lewisburg. Officially, a Lafayette win would force the tiebreaker to the RPI. According to Ken Pomeroy's calculations, the two teams are 238 (AU) and 239 in those rankings. While that might vary slightly from the official RPI used by the NCAA, Pomeroy's numbers are never off by much. Suffice to say, the winner will have the higher RPI after this one is played.

The league resumes of these two are nearly identical. Both have been swept by the big three, swept Colgate and Army and split with Navy, both winning at home. About the only difference has been that American has stayed within single digits of the big three at home and owns the homecourt win ovber Lafayette from their previous meeting.

American shot 56 percent in that one, while holding Lafayette to a 40-percent night. The Leopards are a much better at home, especially on offense. In six home league games, the Leopards are averaging 67.7 points per game. In seven conference road games, they are scoring 60.4 per game.
AU notes | Lafayette notes | USA Today matchup | Gametracker | AU radio

Colgate at Navy, 3 p.m.: The winner gets the No. 6 seed and a neutral court matchup with the loser of Sunday's Holy Cross-Lehigh game. The loser gets the winner of that game on the winner's floor.

Colgate won by three in Hamilton when these two met last week. That was Colgate's only win over a team not named Army since the new year. That win ended a four-game losing streak for the Raiders, who promptly started a new slide when they lost at home to Holy Cross Wednesday.

It's almost hard to remember that Colgate, which is 1-11 this season on opponents' floors, started the season 4-3. Since then, the Raiders have won only four more games against Division I opponents, only one against a non-service academy school.
Navy notes | Colgate notes | USA Today matchup | Livestats | 'Gate radio | Navy radio

Army at Bucknell, 7 p.m. Bucknell looks to become the first team in league history to go through the conference season unbeaten in another preview of a first round matchup. Tarik Viaer-McClymont and Holland Mack will get their first, and only, career starts in the senior night matchup in Sojka.

Bucknell had to rally to beat Army when the two met in West Point. That was in no small part because the Black Knights shot 51.2 percent from the field. Army is the only Patriot League team to shoot over 50 percent against Bucknell all season (and one of only four teams to do it all year against BU). Between that and the chance to finish unbeaten in the conference, Bucknell should have no trouble getting up for a game that otherwise has ho-hum written all over it.
Bucknell notes | Army notes | Eric Thomas preview | Daily Item preview | USA Today matchup | Bucknell Radio
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