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SPARTANBURG, S.C. – The UNC Greensboro (UNCG) men's basketball team will enter the 2024 Southern Conference (SoCon) Men's Basketball Tournament as the No. 2 seed. The Tournament will take place in Asheville, North Carolina at Harrah's Cherokee Center.
The Spartans are set to play in a quarterfinal matchup on Saturday, March 9 at 2:30 p.m. against the winner of No. 7 ETSU and No. 10 VMI on ESPN+ and Nexstar affiliates.
The Bucs and Keydets face each other on Friday, March 8 at 7:30 p.m. on ESPN+.
The tournament begins Friday, March 8, with a pair of first-round games. Four quarterfinal games follow on Saturday, March 9, with the semifinals on Sunday, March 10, and the title game on Monday, March 11, at 7 p.m. The semifinals will air on ESPNU, while Monday's championship game will air live on ESPN or ESPN2. The other six games will air on ESPN+, with Saturday's quarterfinals also appearing on select Nexstar affiliates.
Samford locked up its first outright title and No. 1 seed since joining the SoCon in 2008 with an 87-71 win against ETSU on Feb. 24. The Bulldogs' win over the Buccaneers to clinch the regular-season crown was the team's 25th victory of the season, which established a new program record for wins in a season. Samford enters postseason play with a 26-5 overall record and a 15-3 mark in SoCon play, giving the Bulldogs 15 wins in conference play for the second straight season. Three wins in Asheville will give Samford its first SoCon Tournament title.
Samford opens play Saturday, March 9, at noon, where it will face either No. 8 seed Mercer or No. 9 seed The Citadel, who will square off in the first round on Friday at 5 p.m.
Friday's second contest will see No. 7 seed ETSU (16-15, 8-10) take on No. 10 seed VMI (4-27, 1-17) at 7: 30 p.m. The winner of that contest will advance to face No. 2 seed UNCG on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. The Spartans, who turned in their second straight 20-win season at 21-10 overall and 12-6 in SoCon play, split with their games during the season with ETSU and won both games versus VMI. UNCG will be looking for its first conference tournament title since 2021.
Saturday's third game will see No. 3 seed Chattanooga (20-11, 12-6) take on No. 6 seed Wofford (17-14, 10-8) at 6 p.m. No. 4 seed Western Carolina (22-9, 11-7), who are the fourth seed for the second season in a row, will take on No. 5 seed Furman (16-15, 10-8), the defending tournament champions, in the final quarterfinal game on Saturday at 8:30 p.m.
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2024 Ingles Southern Conference Men's Basketball Championship
Friday, March 8 (ESPN+)
Game 1 - (8) Mercer vs. (9) The Citadel, 5 p.m.
Game 2 - (7) ETSU vs. (10) VMI, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 9 (ESPN+/Nexstar)
Game 3 - (1) Samford vs. Game 1 winner, 12 p.m.
Game 4 - (2) UNCG vs. Game 2 winner, 2:30 p.m.
Game 5 - (3) Chattanooga vs. (6) Wofford, 6 p.m.
Game 6 - (4) Western Carolina vs. (5) Furman, 8:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 10 (ESPNU)
Game 7 - Game 3 winner vs. Game 6 winner, 4 p.m.
Game 8 - Game 4 winner vs. Game 5 winner, 6:30 p.m.
Monday, March 11 (ESPN or ESPN2)
Championship game, 7 p.m.
