NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Let March Madness begin! The 2022 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament tips off Friday, and Christopher Newport will host a regional featuring three schools they have never met before on the hardwood. The schedule begins with two games Friday in the opening round and then a second round battle on Saturday at the Freeman Center. The four-team field features schools from New York (Baruch), New Jersey (Rowan), and Pennsylvania (Susquehanna).

The opening game on Friday at 5:00 p.m. has Rowan taking on Susquehanna. The Captains, 24-2, will put their 21-game winning streak on the line against Baruch College with tip off set for 7:30 p.m.

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John Krikorian's squad is making its sixth consecutive trip to the NCAA tourney, and the eighth in 11 years since Krikorian took over the program. This will be the 25th all-time appearance for the Captains in the NCAA's. CNU has advanced to the national semifinals twice, playing in Salem, Va., in the 2015-16 season and Fort Wayne, Ind., to conclude the 2018-19 campaign. Christopher Newport has an all-time record of 24-24 in NCAA play heading into Friday's action.

Baruch, located in Manhattan,  is 20-7 this year and won the City University of New York Athletic Conference (CUNYAC) title by beating Lehman College. Rowan, 23-5 and a member of the New Jersey Athletic Conference, received an at large bid to the tournament. Susquehanna is 23-4 and captured the Landmark Conference title. 

The Captains are led by Coast-To-Coast Player of the Year Jahn Hines, who scored 22 points and pulled down 14 rebounds last Saturday in the Coast-To-Coast Conference Tournament title game against Mary Washington. Hines was chosen the MVP of the conference tournament, and was joined on the All-Tournament squad by senior Darian Peterson, who was a second team All-Conference selection, and sophomore Trey Barber, who was voted the C2C's Defensive Player of the Year this season. CNU has not lost a game since November 21st at Lynchburg, and the Captains began their winning streak six days later with a home triumph over Alvernia. 

All Captains games are broadcast live on the Christopher Newport/Pepsi Radio Network (Xtra 99.1 FM) with the pre-game show beginning Friday at 7:10 p.m.