The Lehigh seniors didn’t disappoint in their final game at Stabler Arena as the Mountain Hawks defeated American 58-42 to claim its second straight Patriot League championship and advance to the NCAA Tournament on Saturday night. Alex Ross scored a game-high 13 points en route to claiming tournament MVP honors for the second consecutive year and Tricia Smith locked down the Patriot League’s Player of the Year, Michelle Kirk, to lead the Mountain Hawks to victory. Smith, Erica Prosser and Emily Gratch were all named to the All-Tournament team. Lehigh improves to 29-3 and has now won 33 straight games at Stabler Arena. American drops to 22-9 on the season and will move onto the WNIT.

Senior Zahir Carrington scored 18 points, grabbed ten rebounds and blocked four shots en route to leading Lehigh to its first Patriot League championship since 2004 with a 74-59 victory over archrival Lafayette on Friday evening inside Stabler Arena in front of 4,259 fans.  The Mountain Hawks harassed the Leopards into a 3-of-23 showing from three-point range and shot 49% themselves as they win their school record 22nd game this season and advance to the NCAA Tournament for the fourth time in school history.  Carrington earned Tournament MVP honors, while classmate Marquis Hall and freshman C.J. McCollum were named to the All-Tournament Team.  Lafayette sees its season come to a close with an overall mark of 19-13.

C.J. McCollum was honored by the Sporting News for the second time this week on Friday when the outlet named him its Patriot League Player and Freshman of the Year. McCollum was named to the Sporting News All-Freshman Team earlier this week where he garnered a spot on the Second-Team.  McCollum was joined on the teams by some of the biggest names in college basketball, including Kentucky’s John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins, Derrick Favors of Georgia Tech, and No. 1 Kansas’ Xavier Henry.

Lehigh senior Seth Ciasulli and sophomore Joe Kennedy earned at-large berths to next week’s NCAA Championships as the NCAA unveiled the brackets for the 80th NCAA Championships, March 18-20 at Qwest Center in Omaha, Nebraska. Ciasulli and Kennedy join the five Mountain Hawks who qualified automatically at last weekend’s EIWA Championships to give Lehigh a total of seven NCAA tournament entrants for the second straight year.

Lehighsports.com presents another episode of In the Spotlight – the video edition. Throughout the school year, members of the Lehighsports.com team will catch up with Student-Athletes about life on and off the field of competition, and open up a glimpse of what makes the Lehigh Student-Athlete a Mountain Hawk. In this episode Mike Lederer ’10 heads to the Mulvihill Golf Learning Center to catch up with Rosie Davies ‘13 of the Women’s Golf team. Davies is a native of London, England who has already made her mark in the women’s golf program.