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Men�s Basketball
Team to Host NCAA Sectional
NCAA Sectional Tournament
Four teams from across the country will compete at
the Quandt Fieldhouse in Stevens Point for a spot in the NCAA Division III
final four as UW-Stevens Point will host a sectional tournament this
weekend.
UW-Stevens Point will host the University of Puget
Sound of Tacoma, Wash. on Friday at 8 p.m. Hanover College of Hanover, Ind.
meets Trinity University of San Antonio, Texas in the first game at 6 p.m.
The winners play Saturday at 7 p.m.
All tickets for the tournament are reserved seats
and will go on sale Monday at the University Center. UW-Stevens Point is
allocated half of the available tickets with the remaining tickets being
split among the other three participating teams.
It marks the first time UW-Stevens Point has
hosted a men�s sectional tournament. The Pointers are playing in their
fourth sectional in nine years. They won last year�s event in Tacoma, Wash.
and lost in the title games in 2000 in Storm Lake, Iowa and 1997 in Lincoln,
Neb. The winner of the sectional will advance to Salem, Va. for the final
four on March 18-19. UW-Stevens Point has hosted women�s basketball
sectionals two of the past three years.
The Pointers also played Puget
Sound in last year's sectional semifinal and defeated the Loggers 100-79. |
