The phrase
"conference tourney" is short for conference tournament, which is a competition where teams from the same conference compete against each other to determine the champion of that conference.
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New Mexico State: The top seed prevailed in the WAC Tournament, beating Grand Canyon in Saturday's
conference tourney final.
Would you want to be the 4th or 5th most prestigious team in a 1 bid league knowing you have to win
your conference tourney to get in?
There's a difference between a conference that gets 3 + bids annually to the NCAA Tourney than a conference that, as a general rule, gets
the conference tourney champ in and that's it.
The Shockers were upset in
their conference tourney but I would look for them to get back on track against the Hoosiers.
They won
their conference tourney and have every right to lose to Kentucky by 30.
The B1G made a point of starting
their conference tourney early this season, they snuck a few conference games in during December
And
a conference tourney event like this might just be enough to start serious discussions about renovating the inside of The RAC post tourney.
David McFarland added 15 points and six boards and Christian Ellis scored 11 for SIU - Edwardsville, which sits a game out of the eighth and final seed for
the conference tourney with one game left.
While most fans will focus on the field of 68 in the NCAA Tournament,
conference tourneys have already begun and can offer a great deal of value for sharp bettors.
one win in
the conference tourney gets them to 19 wins total.
But maybe your team has already been bounced from
your conference tourney.
Kansas was also taken down in
their conference tourney game against TCU.
The argument can be made that the Golden Eagles were a lucky bounce here or there away from
a conference tourney spot in 2016.