Ferris To Face Findlay In GLIAC Semifinals: Ticket & Media Coverage Info Announced
Big Rapids, Mich. - Ticket information and local media coverage
for the Ferris State University men's basketball squad's
semifinal-round game against defending NCAA Division II National
Champion Findlay on Friday (March 5) in the Great Lakes
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Tournament have been
made available.
The fourth-seeded Bulldogs and top-seeded Oilers will square off
in the first men's semifinal at 6 p.m. (EST) on Friday inside UF's
Croy Gymnasium at Findlay, Ohio. Second-seeded Grand Valley State
will meet third-seeded Hillsdale in the 8 p.m. (EST) nightcap.
The two winners will meet in the GLIAC Tournament Championship
game on Saturday (March 6) with tipoff scheduled for 7 p.m. (EST)
at Croy Gymnasium. The eventual tournament champion receives the
league's automatic bid into the NCAA Division II Midwest Regional
Tournament slated for March 13-16 at a campus site to be
determined. Eight teams, including six at-large squads, will
participate in the regional with the official announcement set to
be released late Sunday (March 7) evening.
Tickets for the GLIAC Tournament will be availabe for purchase at
the door one hour prior to the start of each session. A limited
number of tickets will be held for Ferris State fans and those
interested are encouraged to contact the FSU Athletics Department
at (231) 591-2860. For more information, fans can also call the UF
Athletics Ticket Office at (419) 434-6684.
Ticket prices for the tournament will be $10 for reserved seats or
$8 for general admission seating inside Croy Gymnasium. College and
student tickets will be $5 per seat. No complimentary tickets will
be allowed for the tournament.
Local radio station WBRN (1460 AM & 107.7 FM) will broadcast
Friday's contest and Saturday's championship game if necessary live
from Croy Gymnasium. Rob Bentley will provide the play-by-play
coverage. A live audio webcast will also be available for each game
at www.ferrisstatebulldogs.com as well as live
twitter scoring updates.
Additionally, Findlay will provide live internet statistics for
all games along with a live audio and video pay-per-view webcast
via B2 Networks. All available links can be found online by
visiting the official FSU Athletics Website at
www.ferrisstatebulldogs.com and clicking on the
"Upcoming Events" tab. Complete links to available coverage are
also listed below.
Ferris State, which is currently 16-12 overall this campaign,
advanced to the GLIAC Tournament Semifinals for the first time
since the 2005-06 season with a 65-59 quarterfinal-round win over
Saginaw Valley State Tuesday (March 2) at SVSU's Ryder Center in
University Center, Mich.
The Bulldogs are currently midst their 11th overall conference
tournament appearance, including a fifth berth in the last six
years. Ferris captured its only league tourney title in the 1997-98
campaign.
In FSU's last visit to the conference semifinals in 2005-06
(3/3/06), the Bulldogs upset a nationally-ranked Findlay team by a
64-62 count in Allendale, Mich., before earning runner-up honors
after a loss to host Grand Valley State in the title game.
This season, the two teams split a pair of meetings with the
Oilers posting an impressive 90-62 home win at Croy Gymansium in
the first meeting (Dec. 10). FSU responded with a 86-77 victory at
Wink Arena in early February (Feb. 6) behind a personal career-high
35 points from junior forward/center Justin
Keenan.
This year's home win was only FSU's second against the Oilers in
the last 45 years as Ferris recorded its first victory over Findlay
since 1963-64 with the tournament semifinal win in 2006. FSU trails
the Oilers in the all-time series' by a 15-4 count heading into
Friday's matchup.
Findlay enters Friday's outing with a 22-6 overall record. The
Oilers captured last year's national title with a perfect 36-0
record and have the best winning percentage in NCAA Division II
competition during the decade. Since 2000, the Oilers have won 260
games and lost only 52 (83.3%). They've claimed nine of the last 13
GLIAC South Division titles and won the tournament title four times
in the last six years.
The Oilers have been particularly tough at Croy Gymnasium.
In the past seven years, the Oilers are a staggering 120-2 (.984)
at home and currently own an 89-game regular-season homecourt
winning streak. They have won 52 games overall in a row at home
counting tournament play heading into Friday's game.
For complete tournament information, please visit the GLIAC
Tournament website at this link:
www.gliac.org
Here is a listing of available media links for Friday's
game:
Friday, March
5
Men's Basketball at Findlay, 6 p.m.
Live Radio On WBRN 1460 AM & 107.7 FM
Live Twitter
Scoring Updates
Live FSU Audio
Webcast
Live Internet
Statistics
Live B2
Networks Video Webcast
