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mbb regional rankings feb 21 2018

Men's Basketball By Mike Miranto, Sr. Associate A.D. for External Operations & Communications

Men's Basketball Moves To 8th In NCAA East Region Rankings

Indianapolis, Ind. - The Daemen College men's basketball team is ranked eighth in the latest NCAA Division II East Region rankings, as announced today by the NCAA Men's Basketball Regional Advisory Committee, moving up one spot after debuting at No. 9 last week.

The East Region of NCAA Division II is comprised of teams from the East Coast Conference, the Northeast-10 Conference and the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference. The NCAA announces the 10-team regional rankings each of the three Wednesdays prior to the NCAA Championships selection announcement, which will be made this year on Sunday, March 4. Subsequent rankings will be announced on February 28. The eight-team NCAA Championships East Regional will consist of three automatic berths and five at-large selections.

Daemen (19-7, 13-3 ECC) has won 14 of their last 15 games, and the Wildcats have already clinched their third straight East Coast Conference Tournament berth. Daemen can finish no worse than third in the ECC standings, and they presently sit just half a game behind second-place Saint Thomas Aquinas College (23-6, 14-3 ECC) which is ranked third in the regional rankings. Daemen's only recent loss came on January 28 against East Coast Conference-leading University of Bridgeport (22-4, 15-1 ECC) which is ranked second. The rankings are topped by Northeast-10 Conference affiliate Le Moyne College (21-6, 18-2 NE-10). 

Also included in the rankings are: No. 4 College of Saint Rose (18-7, 13-4 NE-10), No. 5 Bloomfield College (21-5, 16-1 CACC), No. 6 Saint Anselm College (20-7, 15-6 NE-10), No. 7 Dominican College (19-7, 13-4 CACC), No. 9 Merrimack College (18-10, 14-7 NE-10) and No. 10 University of New Haven (17-9, 13-7 NE-10).

Daemen holds a 2-3 record this season against teams included in the regional rankings. Both Daemen wins came on the road as they defeated Saint Rose 68-60 on December 31, and Saint Thomas Aquinas 73-66 on February 2. The New Year's Eve win snapped Saint Rose's 14-game home winning streak, and the latter victory over STAC snapped the Spartans' region-best 19-game home winning streak, as well as a 20-game home conference winning streak.

The Wildcats are coming off a pair of home wins this past weekend, defeating Molloy College (102-98, 2OT) and Queens College (69-57) in East Coast Conference matchups which ran their home record to 11-3 on the season. Sunday's win over Queens also clinched the team's seventh straight season with at least 19 wins.

Coach Mike MacDonald's Wildcats will close the regular season with road games at Long Island University Post (Friday, February 23) and New York Institute of Technology (Sunday, February 25) this weekend. The ECC Tournament begins with first round games on Wednesday, February 28. The tournament semifinals (Saturday, March 3) and finals (Sunday, March 4) will be held at the Voller Athletic Center on the campus of Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester. 

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