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April 7, 2012 · 12:21 am

NAIA BASKETBALL PLAYER WINS ESPN’S DUNK CONTEST

 The NAIA’s James Justice, a senior basketball player for the Martin Methodist College RedHawks (logo at left) won ESPN’s live dunk contest, beating out NCAA Division 1 players like Auburn’s Kenny Gabriel, Miami’s Dequan Jones and Clemson’s Bryan Narcisse in the semifinals.

In its usual style, ESPN virtually never even mentions NAIA college sports. That’s because the behemoth outfit is geared purely toward hyping its own programming, not actual sports journalism. Since ESPN doesn’t broadcast NAIA games they pretend their football, basketball and baseball teams don’t even exist. It’s similar to Continue reading →

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March 26, 2012 · 8:48 pm

2012 COLLEGE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS

 All the championship games in the divisions of college basketball covered by Balladeer’s Blog are over now. Here’s a final round of congratulations to this year’s champs and the teams they faced in those title games.

NAIA Division 1 – CONCORDIA (CA) EAGLES (def the Oklahoma Baptist University Bison)

NAIA Division 2 – OREGON TECH HUSTLIN’ OWLS (def the Continue reading →

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March 24, 2012 · 5:16 pm

NCAA DIVISION 2 AND NJCAA BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES TODAY

 Today ends the 2011-2012 college basketball season for the divisions covered by Balladeer’s Blog. The final two championship games take place this afternoon and evening.

First up, the Western Washington University Vikings (logo above left) play the Montevallo Falcons at 1pm ET for the D2 title. Tonight at 9pm ET the NJCAA championship game features the South Plains College Texans taking on the NW Florida Raiders. The Continue reading →

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March 23, 2012 · 9:23 pm

NJCAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT FINAL FOUR: MARCH 23RD

 Tonight the South Plains College Texans (logo at right), the Eastern Oklahoma Mountaineers, the Seward Saints and the NW Florida Raiders battle for the right to advance to tomorrow’s NJCAA Championship Game. Consolation games continue today and tomorrow featuring teams like the Monroe College Tribunes and the Otero Rattlers. The NCAA Division 2 Championship Game will Continue reading →

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March 22, 2012 · 12:03 am

NJCAA COLLEGE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT AND THE D2 FINAL FOUR: MARCH 22ND

 All you varmints can get ready for more college hoops action today as the NJCAA tournament continues and the NCAA Division 2 Final Four will play tonight to see who advances to the championship game this Saturday! Will Bellarmine get back to the title game? Find out!  

The Three Rivers Raiders (logo at left, believe it or not, with Rocky the Raider) take on the defending champs of NJCAA basketball, the College of Southern Idaho Golden Eagles at Continue reading →

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March 20, 2012 · 12:44 am

NAIA COLLEGE BASKETBALL TITLE GAME TONIGHT; NJCAA TOURNAMENT ROUND ONE ALL DAY LONG

 The NAIA championship game will be played tonight at 8pm ET on the cable channel called CBS Sports Network, the new home of Jim Rome. The (2) Oklahoma Baptist University Bison take on the (4) Concordia (CA) Eagles (who I still say should change their name to the Condors).  

One tournament ends, but another begins! The NJCAA tournament tips off at 11am ET today. The Monroe College Tribunes (logo at left), the Gordon College Highlanders and Continue reading →

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March 19, 2012 · 8:18 pm

NAIA FINAL FOUR PLAY TONIGHT MARCH 19TH (SCORES HERE)

 The NAIA Final Four play tonight in their semifinals. The (2) Oklahoma Baptist University Bison (logo at left) take on the Cinderella team, the (11) Mountain State Cougars while the top- seeded Shorter Hawks clash with the (4) Concordia (CA) Eagles. Game One (Hawks vs Eagles) tips off at 7pm ET. 

Tomorrow at 10am ET the NJCAA tournament begins, with the opening game pitting the South Plains College Texans against the Continue reading →

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March 17, 2012 · 4:25 pm

MARCH 17TH’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT SCORES: NAIA AND NJCAA

 The LSU- Shreveport Pilots (logo at left) are part of the NAIA’s Elite Eight teams that will be playing today. Meanwhile the NJCAA3 Championship Game will pit the Sandhills Flyers against the Cedar Valley College Suns. The NCAA D3 title game features the Whitewater Warhawks (current D3 football champs) vs the Cabrini Cavaliers.

Four double- digit seeds advanced with upset wins yesterday. The Pilots (as in riverboat pilots) won a 12 over 5 matchup over Southern Polytechnic, Biola won a 10-7 game against Our Lady of the Lake University and 11th- seeded Mountain State upset 6th- seeded Martin Methodist. Here are scores for Continue reading →

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March 16, 2012 · 1:51 pm

NAIA AND NJCAA3 BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT SCORES MARCH 16TH

 If you missed it in the NAIA’s late game last night the unseeded SUNO Knights upset the 3rd- seeded Robert Morris (IL) Eagles 94-92! Trailing by 11 points with just 9 minutes left the Knights, playing in their first tournament since 2004, stayed focused and Kevin Dukes drove home a fadeaway jumper with just 3.9 seconds left in the game to give SUNO (Southern University at New Orleans) the win. Congratulations to the Knights for the upset of the tournament so far!

Meanwhile round two tips off this morning at 10am ET with the Evangel Crusaders (logo above left) taking on the Rogers State University Hillcats. All this plus the semifinals in the NJCAA3 tournament.

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March 15, 2012 · 1:51 pm

MARCH 15TH’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT SCORES FOR THE NAIA AND THE NJCAA

 The NJCAA3 basketball tournament tips off today at Noon ET! The opening game features the Milwaukee Tech Stormers (logo at left) taking on the Cedar Valley College Suns. Also seeing action today will be the Brookdale College Jersey Blues, the Sandhills Flyers and many others. Stay tuned to Balladeer’s Blog for score updates.

Plus this morning at 10 ET the NAIA’s Division One basketball tournament resumes with game one pitting the Xavier (LA) Gold Rush against the LSU- Shreveport Pilots (as in riverboat pilots). Yesterday already saw 2 NAIA teams score over 100 points in their games. For updated Continue reading →

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