{"id":16244,"date":"2013-02-28T08:36:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T13:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=16244"},"modified":"2013-03-04T10:13:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T15:13:42","slug":"tickets-available-for-emu-ncaa-tournament-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2013\/tickets-available-for-emu-ncaa-tournament-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Tickets Available for EMU NCAA Tournament Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EMU basketball women received an at-large bid to the 2013 NCAA Division-III National Tournament, earning just the program&#8217;s second-ever trip the national tourney.\u00a0 The Royals, 21-6 overall, will play 23-4 Marymount (VA) Friday, March 1, 2013 in a first round game hosted by Christopher Newport University (CNU) in Newport News, Va.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will take on either host CNU (26-2) or Guilford (23-4) on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals and Saints will play at 5 p.m. on Friday at the <a href=\"http:\/\/freemancenter.cnu.edu\/\">Freeman Center<\/a>, preceding the CNU\/Guilford contest at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>To purchase tickets, call the CNU Ticket Office at 757-594-7880.\u00a0 Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Thursday, and until 5 p.m. on Friday.\u00a0 Phone purchases will require a credit card.\u00a0 Tickets are $8 for reserved (chairback) seats, $6 for general admission (bleachers) and $3 for students, senior citizens and faculty\/staff (w\/ ID).\u00a0 All reserved seats are $8 regardless of age.\u00a0 There will only be one session Friday night, so one ticket will get fans into both women&#8217;s games.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of Friday night&#8217;s first round games will play Saturday evening at 7 p.m.\u00a0 That game follows a CNU men&#8217;s game at 4 p.m., where the Captains host Rutgers-Newark in an NCAA Tournament First Round contest.\u00a0 Saturday will be two separate sessions, so separate tickets would have to be purchased for the women&#8217;s game and men&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p>Marymount is led by one of the nation&#8217;s top three-point shooters, Katelyn Fischer, who is hitting 43 percent of her tries from long range.<\/p>\n<p>Top-seeded Eastern Mennonite lost to Guilford 61-59 in the ODAC Championship game on Sunday, but the national selection committee decided the women had done enough during the regular season, especially with their tough non-conference schedule, to earn a trip.\u00a0 The women were fifth in the South Region rankings at the end of the season, after going 17-3 against in-region opponents.\u00a0 EMU, 15-1 in the ODAC during the regular season, also had a program-best 14-game winning streak snapped by the Quakers in the title game.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals&#8217; only previous trip to the NCAA Tournament was after the 2003-04 season.\u00a0 They hosted a three-game bracket in Harrisonburg and beat Christopher Newport, 63-62, in the second round game.\u00a0 EMU then lost to Hardin-Simmons in the Sweet 16.<\/p>\n<p>Live stats will be available for all games at CNU, as will live video webcasts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/interactive-bracket\/basketball-women\/d3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for an interactive tournament bracket.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EMU basketball women received an at-large bid to the 2013 NCAA Division-III National Tournament, earning just the program&#8217;s second-ever trip the national tourney.\u00a0 The Royals, 21-6 overall, will play <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2013\/tickets-available-for-emu-ncaa-tournament-game\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Tickets Available for EMU NCAA Tournament Game<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":16246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4516,5173],"tags":[6153],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-16244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-womens-basketball","tag-ncaa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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