Southern Indiana won the Ohio Valley Conference championship on Saturday, but Tennessee-Martin is headed to the NCAA tournament despite losing the matchup, 81-53.
The Screaming Eagles are in the second year of the four-year reclassification to Division I and are ineligible to play in the NCAA tournament. They will take a 10-game winning streak into the WNIT.each scored 14 points for Southern Indiana , which won the OVC by six games at 17-1 after going 6-12 in its first season.In coach Rick Stein's 25 years, the Screaming Eagles made eight NCAA Division II Tournament appearances, reaching the Elite Eight in 2001.
"So proud, so happy. We worked so hard, it's fun to see the smiles on their faces," Stein said."And to be able to celebrate in front of our home crowd. Amazing." UT Martin is going to the Big Dance for the first time since a four-year run through 2014 despite falling to 4-9 in OVC title games. Short-handed all year, coach Kevin McMillan elected to rest four starters, and leave the minutes to his other six players, including two freshmen who did not score all season.playing in just her seventh game, poured in 26 points in 31 minutes as the only nonstarter for the Skyhawks.
Southern Indiana used a 9-0 run early and led 17-8 after one quarter. A 7-0 run in the second quarter helped push the lead to 36-23.had 3-pointers as the Screaming Eagles broke the game open by scoring the first 10 points of the second half for a 46-23 lead.
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