Brooklyn, NY --- The Brooklyn College Men's and Women's Basketball teams will both be in action tomorrow, Saturday, March 3rd as both squads will be playing in the Semifinals Round of the 2012 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III Metro Tournament.

The BC Men will be traveling to Galloway, NJ for their game at Richard Stockton College. The Bulldogs, the #3 seed in the tournament, defeated #6 seed Rutgers-Newark, 93-80, in the First Round on February 29th to advance to the semifinals. Brooklyn will be playing #2 Richard Stockton, the host, at 4:00 pm. The other semifinals game features #1 Stevens Institute of Technology taking on #4 Mount Saint Mary College at 6:00 pm.

Richard Stockton will be offering live stats for all the games through http://www.sidearmstats.com/stockton/mbball/scoreboard.aspx

BC Radio will also be covering the Men's semifinals game. You can follow all the action online through http://mywbcr.com/.

The winners of the semifinals will meet the very next day, Sunday, March 4th at 4:00 pm in the championship game, also at Richard Stockton.

Senior Tyshawn Russell is averaging a team leading 21.6 points per game for BC. Classmate and backcourt partner Amil John is the team's second leading scorer at 17.8 ppg, while averaging 6.6 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 3.4 steals per game, all team-highs.

Junior Kavon Baker has had a breakout season averaging 13.4 ppg, 5.7 rpg, 3.1 apg and 2.7 spg. Classmate Steven Grant is chipping in with 8.4 ppg, while senior Keiran Halton is contributing with 6.8 ppg and 4.7 rpg.

The BC Women will be traveling to Newark, NJ for their game at Rutgers-Newark. The Bulldogs, the #4 seed in the tournament, edged out #5 SUNY Old Westbury, 52-51, in the First Round on February 29th to advance to the semifinals. Brooklyn will be playing the top seed and host, Rutgers-Newark, at 6:00 pm. The other semifinals game features #3 Richard Stockton taking on #7 Stevens Institute of Technology at 8:00 pm.

The winners of the semifinals will meet the following day, Sunday, March 4th at 7:00 pm in the championship game, also at Rutgers-Newark.

Senior Lauren Plagainos is averaging a team-best 12.6 ppg, while junior Charnelle Saint Laurent and senior Justine O'Callahan are also in double-figures in scoring with 10.3 ppg and 10.2 ppg, respectively.

Junior Tiffany Thompson is the teams leading rebounder with 8.4 rpg, while freshman Nicole Francomano is dishing out team-best 5.0 apg, to go along with a team-high 2.4 spg.

Be sure to visit www.BrooklynCollegeAthletics.com this weekend for all the updates on the Men's and Women's Basketball results in the ECAC Metro Championships.