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The NIT basketball tournament 2010 is up and running and all 4 latest results are now in. It may not quite compete with March Madness 2010 brackets but was still well worth watching. So let’s take a look at what happened in Round 2 of the tournament.

The last few weeks have been really important in the world of college basketball, what with the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Tournaments taking place. But there has also been another tournament taking place over the last couple of weeks – the National Invitation Tournament (NIT).

The NCAA basketball tournament 2010 scores surprised all afternoon. However the NCAA basketball scores during the night were a little more orderly. That doesn't mean there wasn't an upset or two, or at least a few scares.

It never occurred to me that Binghamton University might become a basketball power. Or that I'd care.So why did I make the trek from the far reaches of Brooklyn to Manhattan's Upper West Side on a Saturday morning to watch basketball on television?Well, this was the America East Conference tournament's championship final. If my alma mater won, it meant a trip to the NCAA Tournament.When I started school there in August 1996, Binghamton was about as far from a sports juggernaut as you could get.

The field is set for the 2009 Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament that will take place Thursday-Sunday, March 12-15, at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Ind. Michigan State (25-5, 15-3) claimed the No. 1 seed after capturing the Big Ten title for the fifth time under Tom Izzo’s tutelage.

2009 marks the second annual College Basketball Invitational (CBI) Tournament featuring another 16 deserving teams who do not get the opportunity to play in the NCAA or NIT Tournaments.

The third-seeded Villanova Wildcats have the advantage of opening the 2009 NCAA Tournament in front of a friendly Philadelphia crowd and against the 14th-seeded American University Eagles in East Region action.Villanova plays some of its home games at the Wachovia Center, so the team knows the arena quite well.

Not to dismiss Robert Morris University in any way, or to insult its fine basketball team -- making the NCAA tournament is a terrific achievement no matter what conference you come from -- but as Michigan State gets set to begin its tournament run its most formidable opponent is ... itself.AdvertisementA week ago the Spartans got by Minnesota in the first round of the Big Ten tournament despite not playing well. The poor play continued the next day against Ohio State and that didn't work out so well. Yes, MSU didn't make shots. Yes Ohio State did.

Every year, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament seems to highlight some off-the-court tragedy.It could be a player’s mother who dies of cancer; a sick child adopted by a championship team; or a star athlete gunned down in a drive-by shooting.This year, the spotlight of grief has cast its glare on Kevin Kuwik, a Butler University assistant coach.Last month, Kuwik’s girlfriend, Lorin Maurer, died in the commuter plane crash in Buffalo, N.Y., that killed 50.If you attended Butler’s NCAA tournament game Thursday against LSU played at the Greensboro Colise