Mount St. Mary’s has a quick turnaround before its opening game in the NCAA Tournament.

The Mountaineers, who beat Iona, 63-49, to win the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference title on Saturday night, will play a First Four game against American on Wednesday night in Dayton, Ohio. The game will tip off at 6:40 p.m. and will be broadcast on truTV.

The winner will be the No. 16 seed in the East Region and play No. 1 seed Duke and superstar Cooper Flagg on Friday in the first round. That game will tip off at approximately 2:50 p.m. and will be broadcast on CBS with the announcing crew of Ian Eagle, Bill Raftery and Grant Hill with Tracy Wolfson as the sideline reporter.

Led by first-year coach and Loyola Maryland graduate Donny Lind, Mount St. Mary’s enters the tournament 22-12, while American, the Patriot League Tournament champion, is also 22-12. The Eagles are coached by Duane Simpkins, a former point guard at DeMatha Catholic and Maryland and a former assistant at Towson University.

This is the seventh trip to the NCAA Tournament for Mount St. Mary’s and first since 2021. The Mountaineers have played a First Four game in each of their past four NCAA Tournament appearances and are 2-2 in those games. In 2017, they beat New Orleans, 67-66, in the First Four and went on to lose to Villanova. In 2021, Mount St. Mary’s lost to Texas Southern, 60-52, in the First Four.

Dallas Hobbs led the way on offense in the MAAC Tournament final with 18 points and seven assists. Dola Adebayo was named Tournament Most Valuable Player, completing his run in Atlantic City, New Jersey, with a 15-point, three-rebound effort. Arlandus Keyes scored 14 points off the bench, and Jedy Cordilia grabbed 12 of the team’s 37 rebounds.

American is coming off a win over Navy on Wednesday for the tournament championship. The Eagles are led by graduate student forward Matt Rogers, a Knoxville native and St. Maria Goretti graduate who averages 17 points per game and earned All-Patriot League first team honors for the second straight season.

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