The 9th- seeded Rogers State University Hillcats (logo at left) tipped off the NAIA Division 1 basketball tournament at 10am ET today. The Point Loma Nazarene University Sea Lions, the Life University Running Eagles and the top- seeded Shorter Hawks have also seen action so far.
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The Florida Christian College Suns (logo at left) came into the NCCAA tournament seeded 4th, but unfortunately had a rough time of it, losing both their opening round game and also the consolation bracket game. The Suns are definitely up and coming, however, and have added baseball recently, with swirling rumors about a possible football program as well.
In the USCAA tournament the 8th seeded Berkeley College Knights are THE story, having put together three upsets three days in a row to advance to today’s championship game against the Andrews Cardinals. Meanwhile the NAIA Continue reading
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The Indiana University Southeast Grenadiers (logo at left) were among the teams winning in yesterday’s NAIA2 tournament. In the USCAA2 tournament the top- seeded Central Penn Silver Knights were upset by 8th- seeded Berkeley College and 2nd- seeded Beaver (PA) fell to the 7 seeds, the College of St Joe Fighting Saints.
Cool-named teams falling yesterday were the Lourdes University Gray Wolves, the St Mary Spires, the Jamestown College Jimmies and the St Ambrose Fighting Bees.
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*** UPDATE – Both the NAIA2 and USCAA1 defending champs fell today. First the 7th seeded Oakwood Ambassadors provided the upset of the day by bringing down the 2nd seeded SVU Knights. On the NAIA2 side Cornerstone ended their already inglorious defense of their title, falling to Northwest (WA)***
Today at 9:30am ET the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics national tournament tips off! The Northwood (FL) Seahawks are the top seed in this 32 team tournament and will play in the Continue reading
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The Pikeville College Bears, who last night defeated the 3rd- seeded Mountain State Cougars in overtime 83-76, were the story of the tournament on the men’s side. Anyone outside of Pikeville’s immediate fan base who says they Continue reading
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Well, the NAIA tournament, the OLDEST college basketball tournament in the world, resumes today with the quarter finals pitting the teams of the Elite 8 against each other for the opportunity to move on. Readers of Balladeer’s Blog always Continue reading
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The Cornerstone University Golden Eagles won their 2nd National Championship in basketball last night by taking down the defending champions, the St Francis (IN) Cougars 80-71. I’ve been getting e-mails from dogs who are pleased that a cat nicknamed team did not win it all after the way feline nicknames dominated the Continue reading
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The frisky feline delivering a Xena-kick to the face of the cute little pooch in this picture is Littlegirl The Spoiled from the famous cat-lover’s blog Life With 4 Cats at http://lifewith4cats.com/
Littlegirl is here to gloat over the way the cat- nicknamed teams crushed the dog- nicknamed teams in the NAIA Division 2 basketball tournament over the past week. Cat teams won Continue reading
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The Oklahoma Baptist Bison, the defending champions in the First Division of NAIA basketball, will play in the national tournament’s tip-off game this coming Wednesday at 9am against the Pikeville Bears. For people unfamiliar with the NAIA tournament, all the games are played at the Continue reading
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Well the quarterfinals in this NAIA college basketball tournament tipped off at 2pm ET, 1pm in Point Lookout, MO, the site of the event. As an added bonus for pet owners I’ll continue looking at how cat nicknames and dog nicknames are doing.
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