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Eagles receive at-large bid to NCAA II regional

03/12/2019

The University of Southern Indiana men’s basketball team received an at-large bid to the NCAA Division II Tournament and will play in the Midwest Regional, which is scheduled for March 16-19 in Romeoville, Illinois. The regional is being hosted by 15th-ranked and top-seeded Lewis University.Â Ticket pricesÂ and game information will be released on Monday.

The Screaming Eagles (22-8) return to the NCAA Division II Tournament for the first time since 2017 and are making their 21stÂ regional appearance in the last 27 seasons. USI, the 1995 NCAA II National Champion, has appeared in the NCAA II Tournament 26 times in the history of the program and has a record of 31-28 in tournament play.

The Eagles are the fourth seed in the regional and start national tournament action Saturday when they take on Ashland University (23-6). USI has never played Ashland in the NCAA II Midwest Regional, but leads the all-time series, 20-13.

In addition to the USI-Ashland match-up, the top half of the bracket features Lewis University (24-5) against eighth-seeded Grand Valley State University (19-12). GVSU is the winner of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

The other half of the regional bracket includes second-seeded and 11th-ranked Bellarmine University (26-4), the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament champion taking on seventh-seeded Walsh University (24-7), the Great Midwest Athletic Conference champion. The final match-up features third-seeded and sixth-ranked University of Findlay (27-4) battles sixth-seeded Drury University.

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