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Eagles, Lopers to meet in first round of RMAC Shootout

Feb 26, 2012

The University of Nebraska-Kearney men's basketball team will host Chadron State College in the first round of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Shootout Tuesday in Kearney. Tip-off is set for 6 p.m. (Mountain Time).

Tuesday's game will be the 175th meeting between the two schools.

Fans can watch the RMAC basketball tournament on America One. Season passes do not apply. Games are $9. The link is: http://www.b2livetv.com/partner_members.asp?id=67

Double Q Country will also broadcast the game.

The Eagles defeated UNK 75-73 on Saturday to close their regular season with a 13-13 record.

Both teams, along with Fort Lewis, ended the year with 13-9 league records. Thanks to a series of tiebreakers, UNK (15-11) got the four seed, Chadron (13-13) earned the fifth seed and FLC ended sixth.

The winner of Tuesday's game advances to the RMAC Shootout in Pueblo on March 2-3 where it'll play either top-seed Colorado School of Mines or eight-seed Western State.

—CSC Sports Information