LANGHORNE, PA - The National Christian College Athletic Association and Philadelphia Biblical University announced today that the NCCAA II Women's National Basketball Tournament will move to PBU in 2010. The tournament has been hosted by Kentucky Christian University the last two years.
Kentucky Christian is the defending NCCAA II National Champion and enters the 2009-10 season as the favorite to take home their fourth straight NCCAA National Championship. The Lady Knights have won the tournament six out of the last seven years overall.
The Crimson Eagles finished third in the tournament last season, their highest finish since a second place showing in 2002.
The tournament will take place March 11-13, 2010 and include the Champions from seven different NCCAA Regions across the country. Should the Crimson Eagles win the East Region there will be just one at-large team in this year's tournament. The field has been reduced to eight teams this year for the first time since the 2004-05 season, when the tournament was expanded to 10 teams.
The NCCAA National Tournament will be the Crimson Eagles' last challenge of the 2009-10 season. Between now and then their primary task will be to improve their standing in the very tough Colonial States Athletic Conference, where they went just 1-15 last season.