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NCAA & NIT TOURNEY RECAPS

NCAA DIV. I - Minneapolis Region Play-In (Men)
MONMOUTH 71, HAMPTON 49

MEAC Tournament champion Hampton (16-16), playing its fifth game in eight days, shot just 30% from the field and 53% from the line to fall to Monmouth (19-14) in the NCAA Tournament Play-In game Tuesday in Dayton. The Pirates, who had to win four games in four days to take the MEAC title, shot just 23% (7 of 30) in the first half to go down 35-20 at the break and never got untracked against Monmouth's match-up zone. Rashad West had 14 points and Jaz Cowan 12 to lead the Pirates.

NCAA DIV. I - Atlanta Region (Men)
DUKE 70, SOUTHERN 54

SWAC champion Southern gave ACC champion and NCAA top seed Duke (31-3) fits for about 30 minutes before a flurry of missed shots opened the door for a Duke win. The Jags (19-13), who surrendered 29 points each to all-Americans J.J. Redick and Shelden Williams but held the rest of the Duke team to 12 points, led twice in the first half and went into halftime trailing just 39-30. They opened the second half with an 8-1 run that caused Duke to call a time out with 16:20 to play with the score at 40-37. Duke responded with a 13-1 run, all by Redick and Williams over the next six minutes, to get their first double-digit leads of the game. Southern scored on three straight possessions to cut the lead to 11 at 58-47 with 7:52 left but that was as close as they would come. Chris Alexander led Southern with 19 points. Deforrest Riley-Smith added 13 points while Peter Cipriano had 12 and a team-high 10 rebounds.

NCAA DIV. I - Bridgeport Region (Women)
CONNECTICUT 77, COPPIN STATE 54

MEAC champion Coppin State threw a scare into No. 2 seed Connecticut, leading early in the game before the talent and speed of the national powers came to the fore and ended the Lady Eagles' 21-game win streak. Coppin State (22-9), defending the talented Lady Huskies well, led 25-21 on a Sherrie Tucker basket with about five minutes left in the first half but UConn ended the half on a 15-2 run to lead 36-27 at the break. Coppin State stayed within striking distance over the first four minutes of the second half and was only down ten, at 44-34 with 13:52 left. A 16-4 UConn over the next eight minutes widened the gap. Rashida Suber and Shalamar Oakley led the Lady Eagles with 16 points while Sherrie Tucker added 10.

NCAA DIV. I - Bridgeport Region (Women)
DUKE 96, SOUTHERN 27

SWAC women's champion Southern laid an ugly egg in their first round matchup with No. 1 seed Duke. The Lady Jaguars (20-11) shot 18.3% (11 of 60) for the game, had 26 turnovers and were outrebounded 60-28 in setting a new NCAA Tournament record for scoring futility. Southern had scoring droughts of eight minutes in the first half, five minutes to open the second half and nine minutes against Duke's reserves. "We were so out of sync the whole game and their size and defensive pressure caused us problems," said Southern coach Sandy Pugh. "But, when you give up 60 rebounds, you're just not giving the effort." No Southern player scored in double figures. Tiffany Jones led Southern with seven points. SWAC player of the year Rolanda Monroe shot 2-for-7 and scored five, but Pugh said Monroe wasn't feeling well and her illness hurt the Jaguars.

NCAA DIV. II - South Atlantic Regional (Men)
VIRGINIA UNION 76, Ga. Coll. & State 73

Defending NCAA Div. II national champion Virginia Union (28-3) got great play from its trio of stars, Darius Hargrove, Duan Crockett and Chris Greene to beat back a determined effort from Georgia College and State and repeat as South Atlantic Region champs and earn a repeat trip to the Elite Eight national quarterfinals to be held in Springfield, Mass. this week. The Panthers trailed 22-10 in the early going but fought back to take a 39-34 halftime lead. The Bobcats tied the game at 57 with 6:42 left. There were four ties and six lead changes to the finish. VUU took its final lead at 66-65 with 1:45 remaining and got key contributions from each of the trio to ice the game. GCSU came out in a triangle-and-two defense to try and bottle up Crockett and Hargrove but it opened things up for Greene who finished with a career-high 26 points and 14 rebounds. He was named the tournament's most valuable player. Hargrove had 19 and Crockett 18.

NIT - First Round (Men)
DELAWARE STATE 58, NORTHERN ARIZONA 53

MEAC regular season champ Delaware State got its first-ever post season win as it travelled to Flagstaff, Arizona and knocked off the Big Sky regular season champs. MEAC Player of the Year Jahsha Bluntt rebounded from a poor MEAC tounament final to score 23 points, 17 and all four of his three-pointers after halftime, to led the Hornets (21-13) to the victory. The win set a new school record for victories in a season. Darrin Shine added 16 points and six assists and Tracy Worley had 12.

NIT - Second Round (Men)
LOUISVILLE 71, DELAWARE STATE 54

DelState (21-14) could not slow down the uptempo attack of Louisville and saw its season end come to an end Friday before 14,132 hostile fans at legendary Freedom Hall in Louisville. Tracy Worley had 18 points off the bench to pace the Hornets. Jahsha Bluntt had 12 points but was just 4 of 14 from the field.

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