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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 2100453, member: 6927"] Abilene Christian is in the final year of its 4-year transition from D-II to D-I — and is therefore still ineligible for the NCAA tournament — but has already established itself as a force in the Southland Conference. ACU won the regular-season conference title outright last year and shared it this year with the Central Arkansas Sugar Bears. (I never pass up an opportunity to say "Sugar Bears"!)[URL='http://www.acusports.com/news/2017/3/16/womens-basketball-acu-takes-down-cowgirls-for-first-d-i-post-season-win.aspx'] ACU takes down Cowgirls for first D-I postseason win[/URL] In its OOC this year, Abilene Christian got blown out by Baylor and Texas A&M but lost by only 6 points to Missouri. I'm surprised but not shocked that they were able to beat Oklahoma State in Stillwater. ACU is led by 4 senior starters and will next play the winner of the SMU-Louisiana Tech game. Grambling State over Ole Miss is a major shocker of historic proportions: "With the win, Grambling State (19-14) is the first women's basketball team in [SWAC] conference history to win a postseason tournament game" ([URL='http://www.swac.org/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=27400&ATCLID=211524212']Grambling upsets Ole Miss, advances to second round of WNIT[/URL]). And when was the last time a team from the SWAC beat an SEC team? Or any power-5 team? I'd really like to know. [/QUOTE]