SUWANEE, Ga. - With the end of the regular season schedule, the seeds are set for the seventh annual Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Friday February 27 through Sunday March 1. For the second straight year, the tournament is hosted by Hendrix College in Conway Ark.

The four Eastern Division qualifiers are Centre College (#1E), DePauw University (#2E), Oglethorpe University (#3E) and Sewanee-The University of the South (#4E).

The four Western Division qualifiers are Trinity University (#1W), Hendrix College (#2W), Southwestern University (#3W) and Austin College (#4W).

AROUND THE SCAC

Austin dropped its final two regular season games during a road trip to Southwestern and Trinity, falling 55-46 to the Pirates and 88-55 to Trinity. Even with the two losses, the 'Roos got locked into the fourth seed out of the West heading into the SCAC Tournament in Conway. Against Southwestern, the team managed just 20% shooting in the second half and hit only 26.9% of their attempts overall. Chris Sturtevant had 14 points, eight rebounds and three blocked shots to lead the 'Roos and Kola Alade also had 14 points. Spencer Burke swatted away five shots. Against Trinity, the Tigers came out on fire, knocking down 10-of-16 from deep to put the 'Roos in a big early hole and Austin College was unable to recover. Sturtevant scored a team high 10 points, Alade chipped in with eight and Burke had seven points and a game-high 10 rebounds.
  
Birmingham-Southern (11-14) closed the 2008-09 season with a split. They topped Rust College 68-66 on Wednesday before falling at Rhodes on Saturday 76-63. Roger Williams posted 20 points and 11 rebounds against the Bearcats in the Panther's final win of the season. The Panthers used a strong first half to put away the pesky Bearcats. Both teams shot 41-percent from the floor, but the Panthers used a plus-nine rebounding advantage to their advantage taking seven more shots in the period. BSC closed the half on a 9-2 run, taking a 42-31 lead into the break. Rust never recovered from the deficit. Saturday's game at Rhodes saw the Lynx build up a lead that the Panthers were never fully able to overcome. They close the season with an 11-14 record. They are still going through an NCAA provisional period, making the Panthers ineligible for the SCAC tournament.
 
No. 17 Centre continued its success in the SCAC, going 2-0 on the weekend to extend their SCAC winning streak to 5 games. In the weekends first SCAC contest the Colonels soundly defeated the visiting Sewanee Tigers, 65-35. Two days later the Colonels defeated a tough Oglethorpe team, 81-71, to lock up the SCAC Eastern Division number one seed in the SCAC Tournament. The Colonels finish the regular season 20-4, 12-2 in the SCAC.  It is third straight 20-plus win for the Colonels. Up next for the Colonels is SCAC opponent Austin College in the first round of the SCAC Tournament.
 
Colorado College saw its last remaining hopes of qualifying for the SCAC tournament extinguished with a 75-64 loss at Trinity University on Friday night. CC shot just .229 from the field in the first half, making only eight of 35 shots. The Tigers closed the game with an 18-3 run to cut their final deficit to 11 points. Brady Ohlsen led CC with a game-high 22 points and six rebounds. Jarrell Sweet added 14 points, while Nick Rose had 10. Senior guard Nate Brodman made three of four three-point attempts and finished with a team-high 13 points, but its wasn't enough to get the Tigers a victory in their final game of the season on Sunday at Southwestern. The Pirates avenged its loss to Colorado College during the first weekend of conference play with a 74-59 victory. CC finished the season with a 5-20 overall record and a 4-11 mark in conference play, a dramatic improvement over the 2007-08 season. Sweet had 12 points, four assists and four steals, while Lance Jacobs added nine points.
 
DePauw completed a weekend sweep of Oglethorpe by an 85-58 score and Sewanee, 80-46. In the win over Oglethorpe closed the first half with a 10-2 run and opened the second with an 8-2 stretch to pull away from the Stormy Petrels. Mike Moore led the Tigers with 28 points including 22 in the first half. He knocked down 8-of-14 three-pointers. Tom Callen followed with 15 points and shared the rebounding lead with Sean Haseley and Joe Bergfeld as each had six. Bergfeld added 11 points and Matt Bennett dished out six assists. In the win over Sewanee, the Tigers pulled away with a 13-1 run over a 10-minute stretch of the first half. They then put the game away with a 14-2 stretch in the second half. Moore led the Tigers with 17 points and eight assists, while Callen added a double-double of 16 points and 10 rebounds. Bergfeld added 10 in the win. The win gave DePauw a perfect 13-0 record at home this season as the Tigers have now won 37 of their last 39 games at the Neal Fieldhouse. With his first three-pointer of the Oglethorpe game, Moore broke the DePauw career record of 240 held by Alex Stewart (2002-06). The Tigers shot 52.5 percent for the weekend and have connected on at least 50 percent from the field in four of the last five games. Moore is attempting to become the first DePauw player since Jeff Bibbs in 1979-80 to average at least 20 points per game in a season. He ranks sixth in DePauw history with 1,479 career points and 13th in SCAC history.

Hendrix picked up a win on senior day against Millsaps College on Saturday. Hendrix seniors Ryan Wible, Andrew King and David Foley all scored in double digits in the Warriors' final game of the regular season to post an 88-81 win over the Majors. Hendrix improved to 16-9 overall and 9-6 in SCAC play and will now focus on their first round opponent of the 2009 SCAC Tournament, Oglethorpe University. The Warriors took a lead they would not relinquish on a 3-pointer from Wible with 11:08 left in the first half. Andrew King paced Hendrix with 19 points and 12 rebounds for his sixth double-double of the season. David Foley finished the game with 13 points and six rebounds, while Cal Rose collected 11 points and knocked down three shots from behind the arc. King and junior guard Janson Hightower dished out five assists apiece. Blake Martinez led the Majors with 22 points and six 3-pointers, while senior guards Chad Songy and Chris Sanders scored 18 points apiece.

Millsaps' season came to a close Saturday afternoon in a heartbreaking, 88-81 loss at Hendrix College. Four of the Majors' starting five scored in double figures, led by Blake Martinez with a game-high 22 points off six 3-pointers, but it was host Hendrix College who used 26 bench points and a monster game from standout Andrew King for the win. Both teams shot lights out in the opening 20 minutes, with Hendrix hitting 58 percent of its shots and the Majors following with 54 percent shooting. They also combined for 11 3-pointers in the half, as the Warriors led by three at intermission, 45-42, thanks to 10-of-13 shooting from the charity stripe. Millsaps fell behind by a game-high 15 with 6:26 left in regulation before putting together a 20-5 desperation run to knot it at 81-81 with 1:21 remaining. Unfortunately for Millsaps, Hendrix scored the game's final seven points for the 7-point victory and closed the books on the Majors' season. A year after a run to the Elite Eight, Millsaps ended the season at 9-16 overall and 6-9 in the SCAC.
 
Oglethorpe lost its final two SCAC games of the season, on Friday to DePauw and on Sunday to Centre. The home standing Tigers were played close by the Petrels in the first half on Friday and Oglethorpe trailed by eight at halftime. However, the second half was all DePauw, as they led by 29 at one point before finally settling for the 85-58 victory. The Petrels were led by Alex Richey, who scored 16 points. No other Petrels scored in double figures. The team then lost at No. 17 Centre 81-71 on Sunday to finish the year at 16-9, 7-7 in SCAC play. The Petrels kept it close throughout the first half, going into the locker room trailing only 35-34. However, the Colonels outscored the Petrels 46-37 in the second half to pull away for the 10-point victory. Todd Ward recorded a double-double in the game, pouring in 26 points and grabbing 12 rebounds. David Allison and Alex Richey also finished in double figures in points, with 16 and 10, respectively. The Petrels will enter next weekend's SCAC Tournament as the No. 3 seed out of the Eastern Division. They will take on Hendrix, the No. 2 seed out of the West, at 9 p.m. ET on Friday. The SCAC Tournament will take place in Conway, Ark., and will be hosted by Hendrix.

Rhodes completed their season with a 76-63 senior day victory over Birmingham Southern. The four seniors, Rob Bledsoe, Jeff Blumenthal, Dean Shroyer and Cory Smith, started the game scoring the first 11 points of the game and tallied a total of 33 points for the game. Rhodes placed four players in double figures with Smith scoring a game high 14 to lead the way. Nathan Ollie, Shroyer, and Andyshea Saberioon each added 10 points for the Lynx. Larry Cunningham and Bledsoe each netted another 9 points. Bledsoe blocked another 5 shots giving him 102 for the season, good for 4th all time in the SCAC. 
  
Sewanee played its last regular season games this weekend with losses to Centre and DePauw on the road. Sewanee is now 7-18 and is 4-10 in the SCAC. Sophomore Garrett Hollingsworth led the Tigers with 18 points and 14 rebounds this weekend. Sewanee will play at the SCAC tournament this weekend, opening against #1 seed Trinity.
  
Southwestern won two critical games this weekend to clinch third place in the division and advance to the SCAC Tournament. Friday, neither team shot well from the floor but only turned the ball over a combined 17 times. The Pirates emerged victorious, defeating Austin College 55-46 in a must win game. Only two Pirates were in double-digits, but everyone that played scored. Junior guards Travis Barber and Anthony Cox led the way with 11 and 10 points respectively. The Pirates continued their defense prowess on Sunday, taking down Colorado College 74-59. Southwestern forced the Tigers into 17 turnovers and held them to just 39.2% from the floor and 28.6% from beyond the arc.  Sophomore forward Jonathan Brown was a spark off the bench, scoring 19 points and pulling down 10 rebounds in the win. Senior guard Micah Salinas went on a tear in the second half, recording 13 points, 4 steals and 4 rebounds in a ten minute stretch. Senior Andrew McDonald chipped in 12 points, including the first six of the second half to put the Pirates up by 11. Southwestern improved to 16-9 overall and 7-8 in the conference.  They travel to Conway, Ark. to take on DePauw in the first round of the SCAC Tournament on Friday at 3:00 p.m.
   
No. 14 Trinity swept its final weekend of the regular season, securing SCAC wins over Colorado College and Austin College on Friday and Saturday. Trinity defeated Colorado College 75-64, then beat Austin College 88-55, and will be the West Division's top seed at this weekend's SCAC Championships Tournament. Trinity will face the East's fourth seed in Sewanee: University of the South at 1:00 p.m. on Friday afternoon, kicking off the men's tournament. Seniors Charles Houston and B.J. Moon led the Tigers to victory this past weekend. Moon led the team with 14.5 points/game and hit 11-17 (64.7%) from the field - including 5-9 (55.6%) from three-point range. Houston narrowly missed a triple-double against Colorado College, putting up 15 points, 10 rebounds, and a career-best eight assists. Since the SCAC Tournament began again in 2003, Trinity has won three conference championships in six years. The Tigers hold a record of 12-3 in the tournament, and have had nine All-Tournament team selections. Trinity defeated Sewanee 55-40 earlier this season in San Antonio, Texas.  Moon led the team with 16 points, while Dwight Lutz scored 15 points off the bench.

For the complete SCAC Men's Hoops Weekly for Week 14, click here.