Newspapers and media around the country continue to tell the story of the Belmont Bruins and their first trip to the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Here are the latest…
Bid is music to their ears – Orlando Sentinel
Herndon always had NCAAs in his sight – The Tennessean
‘Country Music U.’ ready for closeup – Associated Press
Belmont Deals with the Big Time – WKRN
Belmont earns national attention with NCAA bid – WSMV (Video pop-up)
Top Ten Signs You Have March Madness – KFMB San Diego CBS affiliate
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Bruins Head West To Meet UCLA
The NCAA Tournament-bound Belmont Bruins men’s basketball team headed west today to San Diego, where they’ll play the UCLA Bruins in a first-round game Thursday afternoon. A large crowd gathered to send the Bruins off to “the Big Dance” in style.
Belmont (20-10, 15-5 Atlantic Sun) – winners of the Atlantic Sun Championship – received a 15 seed in the Oakland regional, and will play the Pac-10 Champion Bruins in San Diego Thursday at 3:55pm CT. The game will be televised in Nashville on the local CBS affiliate. CBS SportsLine has a game preview. To purchase official Belmont Bruins merchandise, visit the Belmont Bookstore online. Photos by university staff photographer Michael Krouskop, click images to enlarge.
Women to Face Tennessee Tech in NIT First Round Wednesday
Belmont’s women’s basketball team, winners of the Atlantic-Sun Conference regular season title, has been invited to be one of the 40 teams to play in the Women’s NIT. The team will travel to Cookeville to face Tennessee Tech in the first round. The game will be at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday. Tennessee Tech holds a 19-12 advantage in the all-time series, but the teams have not met since 1984. Bruins Online will have updates as the Bruins continue their stellar season in the NIT. The Bruins won the A-Sun regular season title outright, earning them an automatic bid to the NIT if they didn’t qualify for the NCAA tournament by winning the A-Sun Tournament. The Bruins lost to Gardner-Webb in the semifinal game of the A-Sun tournament.
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Journalists Discuss Ethics Issues at Belmont
Al Tompkins, Broadcast/Online Supervisor at the prestigious Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Fla, and a member of Belmont University’s New Century Journalism Advisory Board addressed legal and ethical issues facing journalists during Monday’s meeting of Professor Thom Storey’s First Amendment Law class. Tompkins was joined on the panel by two other members of the program’s advisory board – Lorrie Grant, senior retail and business reporter for USA Today (center), and Michelle Williams, Executive Director for the Texas Associate Press. (Click image to expand photo.)
Bruins Are Unfamiliar With Kin – Los Angeles Times
UCLA has the same nickname as its first opponent in the NCAA tournament, Belmont, but that’s where the similarities end, say the Los Angeles Times, looking at the upcoming Belmont vs. UCLA men’s basketball game in the opening round of the NCAA tournament through UCLA’s eyes.
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Small school finally able to sing new song – USA Today
USA Today features Belmont on its front page today, with a look at how Belmont’s first NCAA men’s basketball appearance “validates the bold and expensive step the 4,300-student private institution took in 1996, when it jumped from the low-profile NAIA to the NCAA.”
Fans Revel, Coach Reflects as Bruins to Play Bruins of UCLA
Belmont men’s basketball players and fans react as their first-round opponent in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament was announced Sunday. Photo by Belmont University staff photographer Michael Krouskop.
Belmont’s opponent in the the opening round of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament was announced Sunday. The Belmont Bruins (20-10, 15-5 Atlantic Sun) – winners of the Atlantic Sun Championship – received a 15 seed in the Oakland regional, and will play the Pac-10 Champion Bruins in San Diego Thursday. The Tennessean covers the scene at Curb Event Center when the announcement was made and also has more here on the coach leading the Bruins to their first-ever NCAA tournament. The Nashville City Paper has coverage too. Bruins Online will have updates and ticket information.
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Women Fall in Semis
Belmont University’s women’s basketball team lost to Gardner-Webb University in the semifinals of the Atlantic Sun Conference tournament in Dothan, Ala., Friday night. Check Bruins Online for the details.
Belmont Staff Present at Technology Conference
Three Belmont Univeristy staff members from Administrative Computing and Instructional Technology presented at the 2006 Southeast SCT Education Technology Association conference held in Nashville.
Kevin McClung presented two sessions: “Online Course / Instructor Evaluations in Banner” and “Adirondack’s Housing Module and the Student Web Interface.”
Kelly Moreland Jones presented “Managing Banner 7 Training.”
Claudia Myrick and Jones co-presented “Creating Computer Based Training with Captivate.”
Bruins eagerly anticipate Selection Sunday – Nashville City Paper
Minutes after Belmont won the Atlantic Sun Tournament last Saturday, clinching its first ever NCAA Tournament berth, Coach Rick Byrd said the magnitude of the victory hadn’t sunk in yet. Now Byrd has had almost a week to reflect on his Bruins’ history-making win. He’s spent that time doing interviews with various national media outlets, paying close attention to other mid-major conference tournaments and accepting congratulations from all across the country. “I’m grateful for what this win does, in terms of giving attention to Belmont,” Byrd said. “I’ve received so many calls from all over. That’s been the part I had no idea would happen, how many people would call to say, ‘Good job.’”
Now Byrd and his players, who returned from spring break Thursday, turn their attention to the NCAA Tournament Selection Show, which airs Sunday at 5 p.m. on CBS (WTVF-Ch. 5). Belmont will host a viewing party from 4-7 p.m. at the Beaman Student Life Center inside the Curb Event Center. – From today’s Nashville City Paper.
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