Ferris State Earns Top Seed And Hosts Davenport Wednesday In GLIAC Tourney Quarterfinal

Big Rapids, Mich. - The Ferris State University men's basketball squad begins its chase for the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Tournament Championship at home on Wednesday (March 2) night as the Bulldogs take on the Davenport Panthers inside FSU's Jim Wink Arena.

The top-seeded Bulldogs, who won four-straight league tourney crowns from 2015-18, will face the eighth-seeded Panthers in quarterfinal-round action beginning at 7:30 p.m. (ET) following the Bulldog women's basketball squad's opening-round game against Saginaw Valley State that begins at 5:30 p.m. (ET).

Ferris State owns a current 21-7 overall record to date this season and claimed the GLIAC's Regular-Season Championship with a 16-4 conference mark.

Meanwhile, Davenport heads into the quarterfinal round with a 14-13 overall record and posted a 10-10 mark in regular-season play.

This season, the two teams split a pair of regular-season matchups with FSU winning at home 91-74 on Feb. 3 before the Panthers responded with a 75-73 win four days later on Feb. 7 in Caledonia.

Wednesday's game will be carried live by local flagship station Sunny 97.3 FM and the Bulldog Sports Network with Rob Bentley and Sandy Gholston on the call.

In addition, the game will also be televised live by Ferris State Television and streamed live online with both live audio and video coverage at FerrisStateBulldogs.com.

Tickets for Wednesday's league tourney quarterfinal at home will go on sale Monday and are available for purchase online at FerrisStateBulldogs.com/Tickets.

Ticket prices for the league quarterfinal games are $10 for adults or $2 for all students older than age five, including college students with identification.

All seats are general admission and no regular-season passes of any type such as the Division II Pass for Two will be accepted per league tournament regulations. All Rebounders Club members must also purchase tickets for postseason play per GLIAC policy.

The first 100 FSU students with a valid ID card will earn free admission on Wednesday starting one hour prior to game time.

For additional information, please contact the FSU Athletics Ticket Office at (231) 591-2888.

Four quarterfinal-round games will be played on Wednesday with the winners advancing to the GLIAC Tournament Semifinals and Finals on Saturday and Sunday, March 5-6. As the number one seed, Ferris State would host the league final four next weekend with a quarterfinal-round victory.

The winner of the GLIAC Tournament receives an automatic bid into the NCAA Division II Midwest Regional Tournament slated to be held March 12-15 at a campus site yet to be determined.

In 2018, Ferris State captured its 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 eighth-straight GLIAC Tournament appearance this year.

The other first-round matchups in the GLIAC Tournament on Wednesday include second-seeded Michigan Tech hosting seventh-seeded Parkside, third-seeded Northern Michigan entertaining sixth-seeded Lake Superior State and fourth-seeded Saginaw Valley State playing host to fifth-seeded Grand Valley State. As the number one seed, Ferris State would host the GLIAC Semifinals and Finals in men's basketball next Saturday and Sunday (March 5-6) with a first-round win.
 
This year will represent FSU's 22nd overall GLIAC Tournament appearance. FSU is now 22-19 all-time in league tourney action. The Bulldogs have captured five league tourney titles in program history, including 1997-98 along with 2015-18.