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Conference tourney info for other conference tourneys by tf86

If anyone's interested. Old news, but maybe some missed it.

America East:

(4) UMass-Lowell vs. (1) Albany
(3) Vermont vs. (2) Stony Brook

Big East:

(4) Marquette vs. (1) Denver
(3) Villanova vs. (2) Georgetown

Big Ten:

(4) Rutgers vs. (1) Maryland
(3) Ohio State vs. (2) Johns Hopkins

CAA:

(4) Hofstra vs. (1) UMass
(3) Delaware vs. (2) Towson

Ivy:

(4) Penn vs. (1) Yale
(3) Brown vs. (2) Cornell

MAAC:

(4) Canisius vs. (1) Quinnipiac
(3) Monmouth vs. (2) Detroit-Mercy

Northeast:

(4) Sacred Heart vs. (1) St. Joe's
(3) Robert Morris vs. (2) Bryant

Southern:

(4) Furman vs. (1) Richmond
(3) Jacksonville vs. (2) High Point

All matchups are Thursday/Saturday, with the exception of the Ivy League tournament, which is Friday/Sunday.

I disagree, at least in part, with Inside Lacrosse's take that 32 teams are playing "elimination lacrosse." At least six of these teams -- Albany, Cornell, Denver, Johns Hopkins, Maryland and Yale -- appear to me to be locks for the NCAA tournament regardless of conference tournament outcomes. Further, an additional four teams -- Georgetown, Ohio State, Rutgers and Villanova -- potentially could make great strides toward securing a tournament bid with a first-round win, even if they were to lose the conference final later. Note that Georgetown-Villanova is a semifinal matchup, so that game also is a de facto elimination game in all likelihood. But the winner of that game may not need to win the Big East tourney to make the field, assuming that Denver beats Marquette and the America East and Big Ten tournaments play mainly to form.