Another March To Remember For Salisbury

February 27, 2017 Posted by Matt Pencek Featured Sports, Regional Sports, Salisbury University

INDIANAPOLIS – The NCAA announced the field of 64 teams for the 2017 NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Tournament on Monday afternoon, and after a long wait following the team’s narrow loss in the Capital Athletic Conference championship game on Saturday, the Salisbury University men’s basketball team got the good news that it would get to play in the national tournament.

Salisbury earned one of 21 at-large bids into the field and will be making the program’s eighth NCAA tournament appearance and it will be the first time in program history that the squad has appeared in three-straight tournaments.

The Sea Gulls (20-7) will head to a four-team site at Neumann University, and will take on Endicott College in the opening round on Friday, March 3. The host Knights will take on Nichols College in the other first-round game with the winners playing on Saturday.

For full NCAA Division Three bracket click here.

(Salisbury University Sports Information)

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Matt joined WBOC in October 2015 as a Sports Broadcast Journalist. He is a native of Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania. Matt graduated from Penn State where he received a bachelor’s degree in journalism. He started his broadcast career as the news/sports director of WEMR AM 1460 in his hometown of Tunkhannock. Matt held that same position for WALI/WROG radio in Cumberland, MD. His first television position was as the weekend sports anchor at WHAG-TV in Hagerstown, MD where he eventually became the Sports Director. Matt then moved to Florence, SC to become a sports reporter/anchor for WPDE-TV In 2011 along with his brother David, Matt co-authored The Great Book of Penn State Sports Lists. From 2012 – 2015 he was the lead radio play-by-play voice for The Friday Night High School Football Game of the Week for DE FOX Sports 1290 in Wilmington, DE. The last 2 years at the radio station Matt was the studio host during the University of Delaware Football radio broadcasts. He has also called the action for the both the Blue Hens men’s and women’s basketball teams. Outside of work, Matt is married to his wife Shannon and has two sons; Jack and Connor. E-mail Matt Pencek at mpencek@wboc.com and follow him on Twitter @mattpencek_wboc. Check out all stories by Matt.