GAMEDAY CENTRAL: Ferris State Men's Basketball vs Ashland - GLIAC Quarterfinals (March 4)
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Ferrs State vs Ashland
GLIAC Tournament Quarterfinal Game
Thursday, March 4 - Tipoff 3:15 pm ET
Fitness & Recreation Center - Hammond, Ind.
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Big Rapids, Mich. - The Ferris State University men's basketball squad begins its chase for the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Tournament Championship on Thursday (March 4) afternoon as the Bulldogs square off against Ashland in the league tournament quarterfinals in Hammond, Ind.
The fourth-seeded Bulldogs, who have won four of the last six tourney crowns, will face the fifth-seeded Eagles in quarterfinal-round action beginning at 3:15 p.m. (ET) on the campus of Purdue Northwest inside the Fitness and Recreation Center.
Ferris State owns a current 9-10 overall record to date this season and finished 9-9 in league regular-season play. Meanwhile, Ashland heads into the quarterfinal round with a 11-8 overall record and the Eagles compiled a 11-7 GLIAC slate.
This season, the two teams split a pair of league matchups in the opening weekend of conference play in Ashland, Ohio, with the Eagles taking a 74-52 triumph on their home floor on Jan. 8 before FSU responded with an exciting 69-68 triumph the following day on Jan. 9 to close out the weekend.
Thursday's game will be carried live by local flagship station Sunny 97.3 FM and the Bulldog Sports Network starting with pregame coverage beginning at approximately 2:45 p.m. (ET) with Rob Bentley and Sandy Gholston on the call.
Additionally, all GLIAC Tournament quarterfinal, semifinal and final games will also be televised on a pay-per-view basis with an online webcast through JedTV.com in addition to live internet statistics. The live video stream will be $9.95 per game or $19.95 for a tournament pass, which includes all games of both the GLIAC men's and women's basketball tournaments hosted by Purdue Northwest.
Fans can follow all the action with links available at FerrisStateBulldogs.com or on social media via @FerrisMBBALL on twitter and facebook.
Per GLIAC COVID-19 protocols, no fans will be allowed for any round of the GLIAC Tournament this season.
This year, all 12 teams earned berths into the GLIAC Tournament. On the men's side, 10 teams will take part in the tournament as both Northern Michigan and Davenport will not compete due to COVID-19 protocols. The top six teams earned first-round byes, including Ferris State and Ashland.
The remaining four teams will take part in first-round play on Tuesday (March 2) with the winners advancing to the quarterfinals on Thursday. Tuesday's games include #7 Parkside hosting #10 Saginaw Valley State and #8 Lake Superior State playing host to #9 Northwood. The other tournament qualifiers include #1 seed Wayne State, #2 Grand Valley State, #3 Michigan Tech and #6 Purdue Northwest.
A total of four quarterfinal-round games will be played on Thursday with FSU playing in the second game. The semifinals are slated for Friday evening and the championship game is on Sunday in Indiana. Purdue Northwest will host the final three rounds of the league tournament later this week with the women playing in Westville and the men in Hammond.
The winner of the GLIAC Tournament receives an automatic bid into the NCAA Division II Midwest Regional Tournament slated to be held March 13-16 in Evansville, Ind.
This year will represent FSU's 21st overall GLIAC Tournament appearance. The Bulldogs made their 20th conference tourney appearance last year, including the 14th in the last 16 years. Overall, the Bulldogs are now 22-18 all-time in league tourney action and captured four-straight GLIAC Tournament Championships from 2015-2018. FSU has won five GLIAC Tournament titles in school history.
Along with winning four-straight league crowns, FSU also previously reached the GLIAC Tournament Championship game as the host institution in 2011 before dropping a 73-71 buzzer beater to Wayne State at Wink Arena. Ferris captured the 1997-98 league tourney title, which was its only previous GLIAC Tourney crown in school history before the recent four-year stretch.
In 2017-18, Ferris State captured a second-straight league tournament title on its home floor as the Bulldogs began postseason play with three-straight GLIAC Tournament wins inside Wink Arena en route to a historic 38-1 national championship campaign.
The Bulldogs will be making their seventh-straight GLIAC Tournament appearance overall this year.
Last year, the Bulldogs narrowly fell 70-69 at home to Northern Michigan in the quarterfinal round after claiming the GLIAC North Division Championship. FSU went on to receive an NCAA Division II Tournament berth before the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Stay tuned to FerrisStateBulldogs.com for additional postseason information and to follow all the action.