Game 150 - (3) Morehead State vs. (2) UT-Martin

Ohio Valley semifinals
March 4 at Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, TN
ESPNU

This Ohio Valley Tournament is what makes college basketball, and in particular this part of the college basketball season, so fantastic.

With UT-Martin's 83-70 victory, the Skyhawks are in the OVC final for the first time in the program's Division 1 history. That's a history that began in 1992 and before coach Heath Schroyer arrived last season, there had only been three winning seasons. Shroyer is 2-for-2 in that department and UT-Martin can go its first-ever NCAA Tournament with a win in Saturday's final.

As for the other finalist, Austin Peay won a thriller, 97-96 in overtime over top seed Belmont.

The Governors, 14-17 coming into the tournament (now 17-17), are the first No. 8 seed to advance to the OVC title game. The Clarksville, Tennessee school is trying to reach the NCAAs for the first time since 2007-2008.

Now, to the nonsense

Rick Hollenberg and Mark Adams are enthusiastic announcers who both seem to love not just the sport of basketball, but in particular college basketball, especially Adams. I love that in an announcing team.

They also are prone to silliness.

* Adams said "the miracle on Martin" six different times, but thankfully only once said "he was a manimal!"

* Hollenberg: "Cinderella lives in Nash Vegas!"

I don't have any idea what/where Nash Vegas means/is.

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