Eagle basketball teams heading to NCAA tournament

Katie Hensgen (#24)

INDIANAPOLIS (Feb. 27, 2005) – The NCAA Division III men’s and women’s basketball committees announced Sunday the pairings for the 2005 championships. First round action will begin on the women’s side with Edgewood College (21-7) traveling to UW-Stout (22-6) on Wednesday, Mar. 2. The Eagle men (17-9) are headed to Buena Vista University (25-3) for a first-round contest on Thursday, Mar. 3.

Game time for the women’s matchup at Johnson Fieldhouse, located on the campus of UW-Stout in Menomonie, Wis., has yet to be determined. The men are scheduled for a 7 p.m. tip-off at Siebens Fieldhouse in Storm Lake, Iowa.

Both the Edgewood College men’s and women’s basketball teams earned automatic bids into the national tournament by winning their respective Lake Michigan Conference (LMC) Tournament championships on Saturday, Feb. 26.

The Eagle women defeated Lakeland College, 72-64, in the LMC title game to garner their first-ever NCAA Division III tournament berth. UW-Stout received an automatic bid into the women’s 50-team national field by winning the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Tournament title. The Blue Devils are making their seventh trip to the NCAA tourney.

Greg Blaska (#42)

The winner of the UW-Stout/Edgewood game will face the winner of Ripon College/Rockford College (Ill.) in a second round matchup on Saturday, March 5 at a site to be announced.

On the men’s side, 48 teams will be competing for the national championship. Edgewood is advancing to its second NCAA tournament (2002) following a 79-71 win over Concordia University (Wis.) in the LMC title game. Buena Vista earned an automatic bid to the “Big Dance” by virtue of winning the Iowa Conference championship.

The winner of Edgewood/Buena Vista will travel to the Univ. of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash. for a second round game versus the Loggers, who received a first-round bye as the top seed in the west region.

Links associated with this release:
Link to NCAA Championship
UW-Stout Athletics
Univ. of Buena Vista Athletics
Edgewood College Athletics

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