The Mount Saint Mary women's basketball team will be the No. 3 seed in this week's Skyline Conference tournament.
The Knights concluded the regular season on Feb. 21 with a 75-64 loss at Manhattanville, which earned the Valiants the Skyline tourney top seed with the victory - it snapped a five-game win streak by the Mount.
The Knights - long the dominant team in the Skyline - had already wrapped up the No. 3 seed, and will host No. 6 Sarah Lawrence in a quarterfinal playoff game on Wednesday, Feb. 25. The Mount swept Sarah Lawrence twice this season, 85-58 on Nov. 22 in Newburgh and 76-60 on Jan. 24 in Bronxville.
The winner of that playoff will travel to No. 2 U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (21-4, 18-2) for a semifinal on Friday, Feb. 27.
Mount Saint Mary has dropped two Skyline games to Manhattanville and Farmingdale State and once to U.S. Merchant Marine.
The semifinal winners will play at the highest remaining seed on Sunday, March 1.
The Mount Saint Mary men failed to qualify for the Skyline tournament for the third season in a row, finishing 0-16 in league play and 2-23 overall. No Knights team in recorded history (back to 1986-87) had posted fewer than seven overall wins or three Skyline wins.
Both the Skyline women's and men's tournament schedules have been shifted by one day due to the expected impacts of the early week blizzard: the quarterfinals will be played Wednesday, Feb. 25; the semifinals on Friday, Feb. 27; and, the finals on Sunday, March 1).
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Skyline women's tournament
Quarterfinals (moved to Wednesday, Feb. 25): No. 6 Sarah Lawrence (14-11, 11-9) at No. 3 Mount Saint Mary (16-9, 15-5); No. 5 Saint Joseph's Patchogue (15-10, 11-9) at No. 4 Farmingdale State (14-11, 12-8)
Semifinals (moved to Friday, Feb. 27): St. Joe's-Farmingdale winner at No. 1 Manhattanville (20-5, 18-2); Sarah Lawrence-Mount winner at No. 2 U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (21-4, 18-2)
Finals (move to Sunday, March 1): Semifinal winners at highest seed
Skyline men's tournament
Quarterfinals (moved to Wednesday, Feb. 25): No. 8 SUNY Old Westbury at No 1 Yeshiva, 8 p.m.; No. 7 St. Joseph's Patchogue at No. 2 Farmingdale State, 7:30 p.m.; No. 5 Purchase at No. 4 SUNY Maritime, 7 p.m.; No. 6 Manhattanville at No. 3 Sarah Lawrence, 7 p.m.
Semifinals (moved to Friday, Feb. 26): TBD
Finals (moved to Sunday, March 1): Semifinal winners at highest seed, 2 p.m.
Varsity 845/Mid-Hudson Skyline qualifiers
SUNY Maritime - Men: Jake Devaney, Soph., F (Washingtonville, NY/N.Y. Military Academy)
U.S. Merchant Marine - Women: Emily Grasseler, Jr., F (Millbrook)
Sarah Lawrence - Men: Derek Hickman, Sr., F (Pine Bush)
Purchase - Men: Reid Berean, Fr., G (Highland)
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