Table is set for MACJC Basketball Tournament at ICC
After a wild conclusion to the regular season, the table is finally set for the 2016 Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges (MACJC) Basketball Tournament to be held February 22-25 at the Davis Event Center on the Fulton Campus of Itawamba Community College.
Table is set for MACJC Basketball Tournament at ICC
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FULTON, MS – After a wild conclusion to the regular season, the table is finally set for the 2016 Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges (MACJC) Basketball Tournament to be held February 22-25 at the Davis Event Center on the Fulton Campus of Itawamba Community College.
Itawamba Community College earned the hosting rights of the tournament after the Lady Indians (18-5, 10-2 MACJC North) earned their third North Division crown under the director of Coach Nanci Gray.
Joining the Lady Indians as North Division representatives will be No. 2 seed Northwest Mississippi Community College (16-4, 9-3 MACJC North); No. 3 seed Holmes Community College (17-6, 8-4 MACJC North); and East Mississippi Community College (13-8, 7-5 MACJC North).
Nationally-ranked East Central Community College (21-2, 13-1 MACJC South) earned the No. 1 seed out of the South Division.
Joining the #23 Lady Warriors as South Division participants will be No. 2 seed Jones County Junior College (18-5, 11-3 MACJC South); No. 3 seed Copiah-Lincoln Community College (20-3, 11-3 MACJC South); and No. 4 seed Southwest Mississippi Community College (17-6, 9-5 MACJC South).
It took overtime, but Holmes Community College (18-5, 9-3 MACJC North) defeated Northeast Mississippi Community College (15-8, 7-5 MACJC North) in Booneville to earn its second-straight North Division title.
Joining the Bulldogs as North Division representatives will be No. 2 seed Northwest Mississippi Community College (16-7, 8-4 MACJC North); Northeast Mississippi Community College (15-8, 7-5 MACJC North); and East Mississippi (17-6, 6-6 MACJC North) earned the No. 4 seed in North by holding the head-to-head tiebreaker over Itawamba Community College (13-10, 6-6 MACJC North).
The South Division had five team vying for four spots in the MACJC Tournament. When the dust finally settled, Pearl River Community College (16-7, 10-4 MACJC South) earned the South Division championship by holding the tiebreaker over No. 2 seed Jones County Junior College (15-6, 10-4).
Southwest Mississippi Community College (14-8, 9-5) defeated East Central Community College (13-10, 9-5) in overtime on Thursday to punch its ticket into postseason play while Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (18-5, 9-5) held the tiebreaker over East Central to grab the final spot in the tournament.
The men open tournament play on Monday starting with Northwest and Southwest at 1:00 p.m. while the women will start at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday with Northwest and Co-Lin squaring off at the Davis Event Center. The semifinals will start at 1:00 on Wednesday and the championship games will begin at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday.
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