2009-2010 GNAC Women's Basketball Tournament Bracket

GNAC Women's Basketball Playoff Schedule Announced

The 2009-2010 GNAC Women's Basketball Playoff pairings are now available. The reigning 2009 GNAC tournament and regular-season champions Emmanuel College Saints are seeded first.

The Saints clinched first place with an outstanding conference record of 10-2 and 19-5 overall record. The two losses the Saints had were to Emerson College and St. Joseph's College (ME).  Coming in second place is Norwich with a conference record of 10-2, with their only losses to the Saints and Rivier College who is seeded 8^th in the tournament. Albertus (8-4, 12-13) earned their third place seeding with a big win on the road against 6th placed Suffolk (7-5, 14-11) today. Emerson (8-4, 13-12) took fourth place today finishing out the top four home seeded teams in the tournament bracket.

Rounding out the final four spots in the GNAC tournament are #5 Simmons (8-4, 16-8), #6 Suffolk, #7 Johnson & Wales (7-5, 11-13) and #8 Rivier (7-5, 15-9).

2010 GNAC Women's Basketball Playoff Schedule

Tuesday, February 23, 2010-Quarterfinal Round

Game 1: #8 Rivier College (60)     @ #1 Emmanuel College (68)   7:00pm

Game 2: #5 Simmons College (85) @ #4 Emerson College (68)    5:30pm     

Game 3: #6 Suffolk University (81) @ #3 Albertus Magnus (82)    5:00pm

Game 4: #7 Johnson & Wales (62) @ #2 Norwich University (80)  7:00pm

Thursday, February 25, 2010 @ Highest Remaining Seeds

Game 5: #5 Simmons College (50) @ #1 Emmanuel College (80)  7:00pm

Game 6: #3 Albertus Magnus (57) @ #2 Norwich University (80)  7:00pm

Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ High Remaining Seed

Game 7: #2 Norwich University (61) @ #1 Emmanuel College (75)

              1:00pm