Games 735-736: Tuesday doubleheader

736 - (10) NC Asheville at (7) Presbyterian
Big South first round
March 5 at Templeton Center in Clinton, SC
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The host Blue Hose hit 21 (!) 3-pointers and cruised to a 106-59 victory to set up a quarterfinal match up with No. 2 seed and defending league champion Radford.

JC Younger was an incredible 8-of-14 from behind the arc for all of his 24 points to lead Presbyterian, while Romeo Crouch added 22 points on 7-of-10 shooting.

Radford and Presbyterian played just once during the regular season and the Highlanders escaped with a 79-77 win on January 12.

735 - (13) LaSalle women at (4) Dayton
Atlantic 10 first round
March 5 at University of Dayton Arena in Dayton, OH
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Phenomenal defensive effort by Dayton, which held the visitors to under 40 points (the final was 65-38) and just 27% (13-of-47) shooting to set up a quarterfinal match up with No. 5 seed Davidson.

Eleven different players scored for the host Flyers, led by Lauren Cannatelli's 13 points. The Flyers (16-12), top-65 nationally in scoring defense, held their 12th opponent to 55 points or less.

Also, let's welcome the newest member of the Scoochie Smith All Stars, and our second member of the LaSalle womens team, coach Mountain Macgillivray.

We'll take/need the offseason to decide whether to rename the team The Mountain Macgillivray All Stars.

Game 336 - (7) Campbell vs. (2) NC-Asheville

Big South quarterfinals
March 2 at Winthrop Coliseum in Rock Hill, SC
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If Campbell was to pull off the quarterfinal upset of the co-regular season champions, it figured it would need a big day from Chris Clemons.

But this was just ridiculous.

Clemons scored a conference and school record 51 points and the Camels stunned the defending tournament champions, 81-79 for the first major upset of the postseason.

Clemons, a sophomore guard, came into the night fifth nationally in scoring at 23.2 points, but he equaled that mark with five minutes still to go in the first half, scoring 23 of Campbell's first 25. He broke the Big South Tournament record when he reached the 37-point plateau on a second-half 3-pointer (Clemons was 8-of-14 from behind the arc).

He made a great spin move at the three-point line, and drove for a difficult finish at the rim, which turned into a three-point play and tied the game at 67-67 with six minutes left. Clemons' three with 4:27 left gave the Camels the lead for good.

Clemons made a tournament-record 18 field goals in 32 attempts.

Asheville led by as much as 14 points in the opening half as Campbell struggled to find an offensive compliment to its first-team all-Big South performer. The Bulldogs built a six-point lead on Ahmad Thomas' jumper at the 7-minute mark of the second, but Clemons followed by scoring nine straight Campbell points.

Big South freshman of the year Macio Teague played really well and finished with a team-high 22 points to pace five Bulldogs in double figures. Also for Asheville, Alec Wnuk was excellent off the bench (13 points on 6-of-10 shooting, nine rebounds and three assists with no turnovers).

Games 155-156 - NCAA bids

156
Big South championship
(4) NC Asheville vs. (2) Winthrop
March 6 at Gore Arena in Buies Creek, NC
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155
Southern championship
(2) Mercer women vs. (1) Chattanooga (2)
March 6 at Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, TN
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