2018 G-MAC Men's Basketball Tournament Webpage
Live Stats (this link applies to Thursday's quarterfinal game only)
Webcast (this link applies to all men's basketball tournament games)
Ticket Information: $10 (general admission) | $5 for students (Hillsdale College ID will be accepted to purchase tickets at this price); Hillsdale is guaranteed 300 tickets for each game of the conference tournamnt. Ticket reservations can be made by calling the Findlay ticket office at (419) 434-4663 prior to 9 a.m. Thursday, March 1.
Let the madness begin!
The Hillsdale College men's basketball team enters its first-ever Great Midwest Athletic Conference postseason as the #3 seed in this year's bracket. The Chargers will face new G-MAC rival , sixth-seeded Alderson Broaddus at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the Croy Gymnasium on the campus of the University of Findlay. Other quarterfinal matchups are #7 Lake Erie vs. #2 Walsh, #8 Kentucky Wesleyan at #1 Findlay and #5 Ohio Dominican vs. #4 Malone.
The tournament semifinals will be played at 5:00 and 7:30 Friday, while the G-MAC championship game will tip off at 2 p.m. Saturday. All tournament games will be played at the University of Findlay.
Hillsdale enters postseason play with a 19-8 overall record. However, it did lose its only regular season meeting with the Battlers, 79-68, back on December 30 in West Virginia. The Chargers stayed near the top of the G-MAC standings all season, and it did so with a stifling defense.
The Chargers were the G-MAC's best defensive team, leading the conference in fewest average points allowed during the regular season and ranking second in the G-MAC in opponents' field goal percentage. The Chargers are a versatile defensive team, sporting players capable of guarding multiple positions. They are a quick-switching and highly disciplined team on that end of the floor, forcing teams to exert maximum effort in order to score points. When Hillsdale is at its best, it shuts teams down, allowing very few field goal makes over long stretches of times in games. It's a team less likely to make offensive runs, say 14-0 in two minutes, as it is to make defensive runs, more like 10-2 over a six-minute stretch.
Three reliable players lead the offense, all averaging between 12.8 and 14.4 points per game. Senior guard Stedman Lowry is the team's top scorer for the second consecutive season, averaging 14.4 per game with 75 made 3-point baskets. Senior Ryan Badowski scored a career-high 36 points in a win over Ohio Valley back on February 17 and is lethal both from behind the arc and taking the ball to the rim. Junior center Nick Czarnowski averaged 12.8 points and 6.3 rebounds per game and has an excellent repertoire with his back to the basket.
Findlay's gym is a familiar postseason destination for Hillsdale. The Chargers played GLIAC Tournament games there in 2006, 2010 and 2014. Hillsdale's last postseason win came at Lake Superior State in the 2016 GLIAC Tournament Quarterfinal.