Saint Martin’s to host GNAC basketball tournament
LACEY, Wash. – Basketball teams from throughout the
Northwest will take to the hardwood at Marcus Pavilion next week
as Saint Martin’s University hosts the 2013
Great Northwest Athletic
Conference (GNAC) men’s and women’s championship basketball
tournament. The University expects thousands of fans to
attend the tournament, taking place at the home of the Saints
for the second consecutive year.
The tournament will be held Wednesday, March 6, through
Saturday, March 9, at Marcus Pavilion, 5300 Pacific Ave. SE.
Online tickets will be available at a discounted price until
Tuesday, March 5, at 11:50 p.m., at
Eventbrite.
“We are delighted to welcome this group of
talented athletes and enthusiastic athletic
supporters to the Saint Martin’s campus again,” says
Bob Grisham, athletic director for the University.
“The GNAC tournament allows us to showcase our
facilities as well as our campus-wide commitment to
Benedictine hospitality.”
GNAC, the athletic conference for
Saints Athletics, counts among its members the
2012 NCAA Division II National Champion, Western
Washington University. The other Washington-based
GNAC members are Central Washington University and
Seattle Pacific University.
The tournament begins Wednesday, March 6, with
two
women’s games, beginning at 5:15 p.m. The
men’s tournament starts Thursday, March 7, with
two first-round games, also beginning at 5:15 p.m.
The women’s semifinals will take place Friday,
March 8, at noon and 2:15 p.m., followed by the
men’s semis at 5:15 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The
championships will be played Saturday, March 9, with
the women’s game tipping off at 5:15 p.m., followed
by the men’s contest at 7:30 p.m. Winners of the
GNAC championship games will earn automatic berths
in the NCAA Division II West Regional tournaments,
which begin Friday, March 15, at a site to be
determined.
Saturday’s championship games will be televised
on ROOT Sports,
with Brad Adam calling the play by play and Bill
Krueger providing color commentary.
Details regarding the tournament, include ticket
and bracket information, can be found on the
GNAC website. Free parking is available in the
parking lots surrounding Marcus Pavilion.
Saint Martin’s University is an independent
four-year, coeducational university located on a
wooded campus of more than 300 acres in Lacey,
Washington. Established in 1895 by the Catholic
Order of Saint Benedict, the University is one of 14
Benedictine colleges and universities in the United
States and Canada, and the only one west of the
Rocky Mountains. Saint Martin’s University prepares
students for successful lives through its 23 majors
and seven graduate programs spanning the liberal
arts, business, education, nursing and engineering.
Saint Martin’s welcomes more than 1,100
undergraduate students and 400 graduate students
from many ethnic and religious backgrounds to its
Lacey campus, and 300 more undergraduate students to
its extension campuses located at Joint Base Lewis-McChord
and Centralia College. Visit the Saint Martin’s
University website at
www.stmartin.edu.
For additional information:
Bob Grisham
Athletic director
Athletics
360-438-4368;
bgrisham@stmartin.edu
Meg Nugent Dwyer
Media relations manager
Saint Martin’s University
360-412-6126;
mdwyer@stmartin.edu