2014 NCAA DIVISION II TOURNAMENT CAPSULES

NCAA Elite Eight Semifinal Game #1
March 27, 2014 at Ford Center, Evansville, Ind.
6 p.m., Central time

#1 Metropolitan State (South Central Regional champion) vs.
# 20 Central Missouri (Central Regional champion)

About the teams

Metropolitan State Roadrunners
Head Coach: Derrick Clark (3rd season at Metro State)  
Records: 32-1, 22-0 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (1st)
NCAA bid: Automatic (RMAC Tournament champions)
NCAA record: 42-15 (18th appearance; most recent 2013 -- lost to Drury 74-73 in national championship game); 8th Elite Eight appearance, first since 2013.
vs. Top 25: 4-1
2014 Tournament results: def. Colorado-Colorado Springs 76-72, Colorado School of Mines 86-82 and Midwestern State 78-56 to win South Central Regional; def. Tuskegee 106-87 in quarterfinals.
vs. NCAA Field: 9-1
Probable Starters:
PPG
RPG
#1 Jamal McClerkin, 6-2, Sr.
7.3
3.0
#2 Will Sinclair, 6-9, Jr.
4.3
4.2
#3 Brandon Jefferson, 5-9, Sr.
21.6
3.2
#4 Nicholas Kay, 6-9, Jr.
15.8
7.4
#10 Mitch McCarron, 6-3, Jr.
16.1
7.5
Central Missouri Mules
Head Coach: Kim Anderson (12th season at Central Missouri)  
Records: 28-5, 16-3 Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (Tie--1st)
NCAA bid: At-Large
NCAA record: 34-21 (22nd appearance; most recent 2013 -- lost to Harding 75-71 in Central Regional quarterfinals. 5th Elite Eight appearance, first since 2009.
vs. Top 25: 6-1
2014 Tournament results: def. Arkansas Tech 56-44, Missouri Southern 94-84 and Northwest Missouri State 60-59 (OT) to win Central Regional; def. Southern Connecticut State 98-88 in quarterfinals..
vs. NCAA Field: 8-2
Probable Starters:
PPG
RPG
#4 Preston Brunz, 6-1, Jr.
5.2
1.4
#11 Daylen Robinson, 6-0, Sr.
12.9
3.8
#21 Jon Gilliam, 6-2, Sr.
6.2
1.8
#22 Charles Hammork, 6-6, Sr.
12.8
5.7
#24 Dillon Deck, 6-9, Jr.
13.8
5.4

Team Notes:

Series tied 1-1. The teams met at UCM on Dec. 21, 1988 with Central winning 96-80, while Metro State won 78-68 in Denver on Dec. 9, 1991.

Metropolitan State, in the Elite Eight for the third consecutive year, won its quarterfinal game for the second straight time with a 106-87 win over Tuskegee Wednesday. Metro State's 106 points marked the first time in this year's NCAA Tournament that a team has scored 100 points in a contest ... Brandon Jefferson led the Roadrunners with 26 points in the victory, his 19th game this year with at least 20 points and third in four national tournament contests ... Metro State went 27-0 against teams from the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference this season (22-0 regular season, 3-0 in RMAC tournament, 2-0 in South Central Regional), is 4-1 in its five prior semifinal contests at the Elite Eight. The only loss, however, came in the only previous Elite Eight in which the Roadrunners entered as the nation's top-ranked team (2004, an 83-81 loss to Southern Indiana) ... The Roadrunners were the top-ranked team in the pre-season and after suffering their only loss of the year on Nov. 30 at Western Washington to fall out of the top spot, moved back to No. 1 and stayed there for the final six weeks of the season ... Brandon Jefferson, Metro State's leading scorer with an average of 21.5 points per game, is the leading scorer during the NCAA Tournament among the teams still playing as he has averaged 27.5 points in the first four contests. He is also the top active scorer in NCAA Division II among the players still in action with a career total of 1,914 points and also ranks fourth in free throw percentage at 91.9 percent; his 228 made free throws rank third nationally ... Only two teams in Division II have made more free throws than the 714 Metro State has connected on this season, including the 34 made in Wednesday's win ... The Roadrunners are also getting 16.1 points a game from Mitch McCarron and 15.8 from Nicholas Kay; McCarron and Kay were among four players in this year's Elite Eight named to the Capital One Academic All-America team (both second-team selections from the only school with two players named to the men's NCAA Division II squad) ... Metro State, who lost by a point to Drury in the national championship game, won its last national title in Evansville the last time the tournament was held there in 2002.

METROPOLITAN STATE VITALS:
Scoring Offense: 81.7 (51st in Division II)
Scoring Defense: 67.0 (26th)
Scoring Margin: +14.7 (8th)
Rebounding Margin: +4.3 (52nd)
Assist to Turnover Ratio: 1.18:1 (80th)
Longest Winning Streak: 29 games (Dec. 7-present)
Leading Scorer: Brandon Jefferson, 21.6 ppg
Leading Rebounder: Mitch McCarron, 7.5 rpg

Central Missouri makes ifs fourth appearance in the national semifinals and first since 2009 after its semifinal victory over fourth-ranked Southern Connecticut State. The Mules shot 63.3 percent in the second half and got 28 points from Daylen Robinson, the most by a UCM player in an NCAA Tournament game since Sanijay Watts scored 29 in the South Central Regional championship game against Midwestern State in 2010 ... The quarterfinal victory over SCSU marked the first time in this year's NCAA Tournament that the Mules had more assists (14) than turnovers (six) ... Central played in the only overtime game in the regional championship round, outlasting Northwest Missouri State 60-59 as Robinson made a free throw with two seconds left in the overtime period ... The Mules, ranked 20th in the final NABC/Division II rankings, shared the regular season title with Northwest in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association and was the sixth MIAA title under head coach Kim Anderson. The six conference titles and 272 wins Anderson has accumulated at UCM are the most by any head coach in the history of the program ... Robinson comes into the Elite Eight ranked 14th nationally in assists with 178, while Dillon Deck is shooting 62.4 percent from the field, the 16th-best mark in Division II. As a team, UCM is shooting 49.5 percent from the floor, the 16th-best average in Division II ... Central's three opponents in the tournament have shot just 37.7 percent from the field ... The Mules have won one national championship previously, doing so in 1984.

CENTRAL MISSOURI VITALS:
Scoring Offense: 80.8 (67th in Division II)
Scoring Defense: 68.2 (39th)
Scoring Margin: +12.6 (12th)
Rebounding Margin: +5.4 (31st)
Assist to Turnover Ratio: 1.28:1 (43rd)
Longest Winning Streak: 10 games (Jan. 22-March 1)
Leading Scorer: Dillon Deck, 13.8 ppg
Leading Rebounder: Charles Hammork, 5.7 rpg

2013-14 Results

Metropolitan State Roadrunners
Date Opponent  
  Record(s)
11/15 Texas A&M-Kingsville (@Pueblo)
W
73-44
1-0
11/16 West Texas A&M (@Pueblo)
W
65-50
2-0
11/29 Saint Martin's (@W. Wash.)
W
94-77
3-0
11/30 @#7 Western Washington
L
69-72
3-1
12/7 @Regis
*
W
71-55
4-1, 1-0
12/13 COLO.-COLORADO SPRINGS
*
W
95-59
5-1, 2-0
12/14 COLORADO STATE-PUEBLO
*
W
94-92
6-1, 3-0
12/20 @Black Hills State
*
W
80-67
7-1, 4-0
12/21 @Chadron State
*
W
83-71
8-1, 5-0
1/3 @New Mexico Highlands
*
W
86-55
9-1, 6-0
1/4 @Western New Mexico
*
W
93-54
10-1, 7-0
1/10 COLORADO CHRISTIAN
*
W
95-61
11-1, 8-0
1/11 #11 COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES
*
W
86-75
12-1, 9-0
1/17 @Adams State
*
W
88-77
13-1, 10-0
1/18 @Fort Lewis
*
W
78-65
14-1, 11-0
1/24 COLORADO MESA
*
W
86-76
15-1, 12-0
1/25 WESTERN STATE COLORADO
*
W
86-73
16-1, 13-0
1/31 CHADRON STATE
*
W
73-56
17-1, 14-0
2/1 BLACK HILLS STATE
*
W
62-57
18-1, 15-0
2/7 @#11 Colorado School of Mines
*
W
57-54
19-1, 16-0
2/8 @Colorado Christian
*
W
66-61
20-1, 17-0
2/15 REGIS
*
W
80-65
21-1, 18-0
2/21 FORT LEWIS
*
W
103-72
22-1, 19-0
2/22 ADAMS STATE
*
W
90-64
23-1, 20-0
2/28 @Colorado State-Pueblo
*
W
77-67
24-1, 21-0
3/1 @Colorado-Colorado Springs
*
W
83-77
25-1, 22-0
3/4 COLORADO MESA
C
W
83-74
26-1
3/7 Fort Lewis
C
W
77-73
27-1
3/8 COLORADO-COLORADO SPRINGS
C
W
77-71
28-1
3/15 COLORADO-COLORADO SPRINGS
R
W
76-72
29-1
3/16 #13 COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES
R
W
86-82
30-1
3/18 #23 MIDWESTERN STATE
R
W
78-56
31-1
3/26 Tuskegee
QF
W
106-87
32-1
3/27 #20 Central Missouri
SF
 
   
 
Central Missouri Mules
Date Opponent  
  Record(s)
11/9 Northern State (@Sioux Falls)
W
66-65
1-0
11/10 Augustana (@Sioux Falls)
W
75-63
2-0
11/13 TABOR
W
87-51
3-0
11/16 BAKER
W
87-59
4-0
11/23 @Quincy
W
79-78
5-0
11/29 @St. Mary's
L
78-81
OT
 5-1
11/30 Southeastern Okla. St. (@St. Mary's)
W
75-66
6-1
12/5 #15 FORT HAYS STATE
*
W
93-85
OT
 7-1, 1-0
12/8 MACMURRAY
W
88-58
8-1
12/16 CULVER-STOCKTON
W
106-74
9-1
12/19 @Central Oklahoma
*
W
72-70
10-1, 2-0
12/21 @Northeastern State
*
L
71-72
10-2, 2-1
1/4 NEBRASKA-KEARNEY
*
W
85-65
11-2, 3-1
1/6 WASHBURN
*
W
77-63
12-2, 4-1
1/9 @Pittsburg State
*
W
88-62
13-2, 5-1
1/11 @Emporia State
*
L
77-95
13-3, 5-2
1/15 MISSOURI WESTERN
*
W
81-63
14-3, 6-2
1/18 @Northwest Missouri State
*
L
68-80
14-4, 6-3
1/22 @Lincoln (Mo.)
*
W
89-61
15-4, 7-3
1/25 LINDENWOOD
*
W
77-58
16-4, 8-3
2/1 MISSOURI SOUTHERN
*
W
75-62
17-4, 9-3
2/6 SOUTHWEST BAPTIST
*
W
69-56
18-4, 10-3
2/8 @Missouri Southern
*
W
97-92
19-4, 11-3
2/12 LINCOLN (MO.)
*
W
92-50
20-4, 12-3
2/15 @Lindenwood
*
W
82-76
21-4, 13-3
2/22 @Southwest Baptist
*
W
85-67
22-4, 14-3
2/26 @Missouri Western
*
W
80-57
23-4, 15-3
3/1 NORTHWEST MISSOURI ST.
*
W
76-64
24-4, 16-3
3/7 Northeastern State
C
L
82-84
24-5
3/15 Arkansas Tech
R
W
56-44
25-5
3/16 #19 Missouri Southern
R
W
94-84
26-5
3/18 Northwest Missouri State
R
W
60-59
OT
 27-5
3/26 #4 Southern Connecticut State
QF
W
98-88
28-5
3/27 #1 Metropolitan State
SF
 
   
 

 

 

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