MEC Wipeout.

As has been well chronicled in the past few days, it has been a rough season for the Mountain East Conference this year. That came to a conclusion over the weekend when the only two teams who made the NCAA Atlantic Region in fourth seeded West Liberty and third seeded Wheeling Jesuit were both bounced from the region in the opening round. Third seeded Wheeling took a five point halftime lead, but was outscored 46-36 in the second stanza in a 82-77 loss to sixth seeded West Chester. The Cardinals magic ran out after making a run to the MEC title in Charleston a week earlier. That left regular season Champ West Liberty as the only hope for the conference to get anyone to the NCAA Elite Eight in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The fourth seeded Hilltoppers who were 26-3 on the year and only had one loss in league play before falling in overtime to host Charleston in the MEC Semis. West Liberty was run out of the gym 98-66 by fifth seeded Shippensburg. Shippensburg advances to take on East Stroudsburg in Tuesday night's Atlantic Regional Final.
Here are the results thus far:
3/10 (All games played At Virginia State:)
#1 Virginia State 81 #8 Virginia Union 76
#5 Shippensburg 98 #4 West Liberty 66
#2 East Stroudsburg 78 #7 Gannon 69
#6 West Chester 82 #3 Wheeling Jesuit 77
Sunday 3/11:
# 2 East Stroudsburg 90 #6 West Chester 76
#5 Shippenburg 77 # 1 Virginia Union 58
Tuesday 3/13 (NCAA Atlantic Region Championship Game- Winner Advances to Elite Eight:)
#2 East Stroudsburg vs #5 Shippensburg