INDIANAPOLIS -- For the third straight year and seventh time in the last nine, America East will send multiple men's basketball teams to the postseason as Boston University and Vermont received their respective draws Sunday night.
The Terriers won the league's automatic NCAA bid by winning the conference title game yesterday while the Catamounts received an invitation to NIT by winning the league's regular-season title.
Boston U. (21-13), which captured its first league title since 2002 with a 56-54 victory over Stony Brook Saturday, earned a No. 16 seed for the NCAA tournament and will face Kansas, a No. 1 seed, on Friday in Tulsa, Okla. at 6:50 p.m. on TBS with Marv Albert and Steve Kerr on the call. The Terriers, winners of 11 straight games, stormed back from 15 points down to knock off the Seawolves and claim their sixth league title saturday. Boston U. fell to Cincinnati in its last NCAA appearance in 2002.
Vermont (23-8), the America East regular-season champion, is seeded seventh for the NIT and will play at second-seeded Cleveland State Tuesday at 7 p.m. on ESPN3. The Catamounts ran off 10 straight wins before dropping three of their last five games, including a 69-47 loss to Stony Brook in the conference semifinals last week. Vermont, which reached the NCAA tournament a year ago, is making its third straight postseason appearance and seventh in the last nine years.
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