The Ohio Valley Conference went a dismal 3-8 in Bracket Buster games this weekend. Murray State, Tennessee Tech and Tennessee Martin were the only winners of the annually played late-season non-conference games. Morehead State head coach Donnie Tyndall said his team was completely overmatched by Bowling Green’s post players.“Bowling Green was just so big and physical around the goal,” Tyndall said. “We just couldn’t do anything with our guys.”Tyndall, whose team lost 90-72, added the officiating in the game didn’t help his team make up for their lack of interior size.“I think those leagues are officiated different than our league,” Tyndall said. “They let them play more physical. Our guys were on their heels the first 20 minutes. They are not used to that physical style.” Southeast Missouri head coach Scott Edgar said it wasn’t the size of the opponents in the Redhawks’ 72-56 loss to Western Athletic Conference opponent Louisiana Tech“The most difficult part was the speed of the game,” Edgar said. “(It was) the natural speed and athleticism of the bigger conference.”The 3-8 performance suggests the OVC is having a down year, a topic that has been hotly debated this year. The majority of the OVC coaches stuck to their opinions from earlier in the year. Austin Peay head coach Dave Loos said the conference is balanced, but young.Samford head coach Jimmy Tillette repeated his thoughts on how conference progresses in cycles, and currently the OVC is on a downward swing. But Tillette pointed out the record might not tell the full story.Teams use Bracket Buster game to advantage A few OVC teams used the Bracket Buster game as a chance to rest their starters for the conference run. Tillette said his starters have played extensive minutes this season and a non-conference game with little meaning was a good opportunity to rest his seniors and get his younger players some additional experience.‘We tried to play as many people as possible,” Tillette said. “I wanted to keep [the starters’] minutes down. That was the plan.”Murray State head coach Billy Kennedy had a similar plan for his team.He said he played his freshman for extended minutes and still defeated Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference foe Rider 58-51 in Lawrenceville, N.J. Judgment WeekESPN has dubbed this week’s college basketball coverage as “Judgment Week.”Tennessee State head coach Cy Alexander agrees completely with how the worldwide leader dubbed the final week of the regular season.“This week is truly a judgment week for many teams in the OVC,” Alexander said. “It’s a tremendous amount of pressure on the coaching staff and a tremendous amount of pressure on the players.”With two games remaining in the OVC schedule, the only team that is not battling for position is Austin Peay. The Governors have clinched the regular season championship but the rest of the conference still has plenty to play for. Eastern Kentucky, riding a seven-game winning streak, is battling with Tennessee Tech, Murray State and Samford for second place. All four teams are separated by just one game in the conference standings.Another cluster of teams has formed at the bottom of the conference, with six teams vying for the last three seeds in the OVC tournament. Southeast Missouri, (8-10 OVC), is one game ahead of Morehead State and Tennessee State. Jacksonville State and Eastern Illinois, who meet Thursday in Jacksonville, Ala., sit in ninth and tenth, respectively, and are looking up at the last seed in the tournament. With so many teams so close together in the standings it is extremely difficult to predict who will play where and earn what seed.“There are so many tiebreaker situations it is a waste of time to try and figure them all out,” said Kyle Schwartz, assistant OVC commission for media relations.