41.   Had Seton Hall lost, Rutgers could have made the conference tournament by winning Saturday.

42.   He was referring to lower-rated conference tournaments in which regular-season champions with strong records lose to weaker teams.

43.   I postseason, CSUN, the defending Big Sky Conference champion, holds the fifth position for the six-team conference tournament with eight matches left.

44.   If a team with a conference tournament makes it to the NCAA Final Four, it would have had to survive five weeks of intense competition.

45.   In fact, conference tournaments might exhaust teams mentally and physically.

46.   In the grand ancient tradition of conference tournaments, only one team was going anywhere important.

47.   In the conference tournament, Georgia was eliminated in the quarterfinals, and Tennessee and Alabama in the semifinals.

48.   In tying Syracuse for the Big East regular-season title, Miami will be seeded second in the conference tournament at Madison Square Garden.

49.   Iowa coach Tom Davis has been a supporter of a conference tournament.

50.   It bypassed Louisiana State, which upset Georgia in the conference post-season tournament.