Thursday, March 2, 2017

LACEY, Wash. – The 2017 GNAC Basketball Championships gets started at noon on Thursday with the first of four quarterfinal games at the Marcus Pavilion on the campus of Saint Martin’s University.

The action opens with No. 6 Central Washington women’s basketball looking to continue its run against No. 3 Simon Fraser at noon. That will be followed by No. 4 Northwest Nazarene taking on No. 5 Seattle Pacific at 2:15 p.m. The men’s quarterfinals get started with defending champion and No. 3 seed Western Oregon playing No. 6 Montana State Billings in a rematch of the season finale at 5:15 p.m. Host and No. 4 seed Saint Martin’s will play in the nightcap against No. 5 Concordia at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets for each session will be sold at the door. General admission is $11 for each session and the tournament pass is $42. The reserved session pass is $16 and the reserved tournament pass is $56. For students, seniors or youth, a session pass is $7 and a tournament pass is $22. Entry for any child two years old or younger is free.

All ten games can be streamed for free on Roku at gnac.tv. Live stats are also available on gnac.tv and regular updates can be found on Twitter at @gnacsports.