Tucker Spencer (Essex, Mass.), left, and Sacred Heart open NCAA tourney play on Wednesday vs. UAlbany. (Sacred Heart Athletics)
Let’s start by saying that this bracket breakdown has to include two divisions because only one team in New England made the NCAA Division 1 tournament -- Sacred Heart.
Perennial participant Yale lost to eventual champion Princeton in the Ivy League semifinals on Friday and did not have enough quality wins to earn an at-large bid.
Boston University was defeated in the final two minutes by Lehigh in the Patriot League championship game, 11-10.
And Vermont fell in similar fashion to UAlbany in the America East championship, 12-11.
