The top four seeds have survived, some literally, to fight today for a berth in the 2014 Atlantic 10 Women's Basketball Tournament Championship Game.
Game one at just after 11AM ET features two-time defending regular season champion, and #1 seed, Dayton, who trailed VCU for 39 minutes yesterday, leading in the first minute and the final seconds for a 62-61 win. They must face the last team to beat them, #4 seed George Washington. The Colonials knocked off the Flyers 88-79 a week ago today in the regular season finale for both teams.
Look for Jonquel Jones to have a busy day down low for GW. The Colonials' leading scorer at 15.3 points per game will have to deal with the "Tall Trees of Dayton", as the Flyers rotate three players at 6'3" and taller, plus have two more on the bench at the ready.
One of them, Ally Malott, had a monster second half Friday sparking the Flyers' comeback, coupled with the outside floor general work of freshman guard Celeste Edwards.
Then, at approximately 1:30, the #2 and #3 seeds will do battle as St. Bonaventure takes on Fordham. Both teams are coming off grinding, low-scoring victories, as the Bonnies eliminated La Salle 54-42 while the Rams outlasted the Duquesne Dukes, 45-41.
In their lone meeting of the season, St. Bonaventure defeated Fordham 74-67 in Olean, New York five weeks ago on February 1st.
NOTE: Games can be seen LIVE on CBS Sports Network, FiOS 94, Comcast 854 (HD), DirecTV 221.
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