Jan 29, 2009

Men’s Basketball Earns #4 Seed in First Regional Rankings

NORTH ANDOVER, MA. – The Merrimack men’s basketball team is ranked fourth in the east region in the debut of the 2008-09 NCAA Division II Men’s Basketball Regional Rankings.

The top eight teams in each region will qualify for the NCAA Tournament when the final rankings are released on March 8. The regional rankings will come out every Thursday.

The Warriors, tied for first place in the Northeast-10 with Stonehill, Bentley, and UMass Lowell, earned the fourth seed behind top-seed and unbeaten C.W. Post and conference foes Stonehill and Bentley. Lowell was ranked fifth, with Assumption, Bloomfield and Adelphi rounding out the top eight.

Last season, Merrimack qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the first time since the 1999-00 season, earning the eighth seed.

The Warriors (15-4, 11-3 NE-10) visit Bentley on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. in a first-place showdown at the Dana Center in Waltham.


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