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Updated: 10:52 p.m. Monday, March 4, 2013 | Posted: 10:52 p.m. Monday, March 4, 2013

Journey to NCAA tournament starts this week in far-flung places

In many leagues, top teams know a loss in the conference tournament will end their NCAA chances.

By Kevin Lyttle

American-Statesman Staff

When Winthrop and Radford roll out the ball Tuesday morning at the Big South tournament in Conway, S.C. — just a stone’s throw from Myrtle Beach — the postseason march will begin, complete with stops in Austin, Arlington and, ultimately, Atlanta.

The beauty, and curse, of college basketball is that no matter how badly a team’s season has gone, it can be salvaged by lighting it up for one week in March. Win your conference tournament, and you earn an automatic bid to the Big Dance, which visits the Erwin Center for second- and third-round games.

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