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Friday, March 10, 2006

2006 Conference USA Men's Basketball Championship - Semifinals

2006 Conference USA Men's Basketball Championship - Semifinals


Darius Washington, Jr.

March 10, 2006

The 2006 Conference USA Men's Basketbal Championship presented by Aeropostale has reached the semifinal round and all four tops seed advanced through Thursday's quarterfinals. Friday's action marks the first time since the 2001 season that the higher seeds all advanced through the quarterfinals as top-seed Memphis and fourth-seed Houston open things up at 3:30 p.m. CT That match-up will be followed by second-seed UAB and third-seed UTEP at 6 p.m. Both contests can be seen live on CSTV. Each team won its respective quarterfinal match-up by more than double digits and the last three games were all decided by 19 points. 2006 CONFERENCE USA CHAMPIONSHIP
Presented by Aeropostale
FedExForum, Memphis, Tenn.

First Round, Wednesday, March 8
(10) SMU 61, (7) Rice 59
(11) Southern Miss 66, (6) Tulsa 61
(8) Tulane 64, (9) Marshall 58
(5) UCF 65, (12) East Carolina 52


Quarterfinals, Thursday, March 9
(2) UAB 69, (10) SMU 55
(3) UTEP 66, (11) Southern Miss 47
(1) Memphis 75, (8) Tulane 56
(4) Houston 71, (5) UCF 52


Semifinals, Friday, March 10
Houston vs. Memphis 3:30p
UTEP vs. UAB 6:00p


Saturday, March 11
Championship Game 10:35a

All Times Central

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