Ashland and Grand Valley receive NCAA Men's Basketball regional bids

Ashland and Grand Valley receive NCAA Men's Basketball regional bids

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - Ashland and Grand Valley State will represent the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in the 2019 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, which begins with Midwest Region play Friday at Lewis.

Ashland (23-6) is the No. 5 seed and will play Southern Indiana (22-8). GLIAC Tournament champion Grand Valley State (19-12) is the No. 8 seed and will play host Lewis (24-5).

Other pairings include No. 2 Bellarmine (26-4) vs. No. 7 Walsh (24-7), and No. 3 Findlay (27-4) vs. No. 6 Drury (21.11).

First-round Game Times, Saturday, March 16

Grand Valley State vs. Lewis, 6 p.m. ET

Ashland vs. Southern Indiana, 8:30 p.m. ET