ECC Champion Men's Basketball Team Set To Face Bentley In NCAA Regional On Saturday, March 13th at 2:30 p.m.

Bridgeport, CT-For the sixth time in the last eight years and the 18th time in school history, the University of Bridgeport men's basketball team, under the direction of tenth year head coach Mike Ruane, will participate in  the 64-team, NCAA Division II National Championship Tournament.  Bridgeport will head to the 2010 NCAA Division II East Regional with a 23-8 overall record after winning the East Coast Conference Championship Tournament on Sunday to receive the ECC's automatic bid to the championship   The Purple Knights will be the number seven seed at the regional, and they will face the number two seed, Bentley University Falcons, out of the Northeast-10 Conference on Saturday, March 14th at Stonehill College in Easton, MA.  Game time is for 2:30 p.m.  The UB-Bentley game is a rematch of a regional first round game from 2009 which saw the Falcons defeat the Purple Knights, 79-53. The two teams have already met during this regular season with Bentley posting a one-point win, 66-65, in Bridgeport on December 29, 2009.

Seeding for the 2010 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball East Regional is as follows: 
# 1-Stonehill, # 2 Bentley, # 3-Merrimack, # 4- Philadelphia University, # 5-St. Anselm, # 6-UMass Lowell, # 7-BRIDGEPORT, # 8 Felician.

Saturday, March 13, Division II Men's Basketball East Regional Quarterfinal Match-ups: