Atlantic 10 Men’s Basketball Championship Tips Off at PPG Paints Arena: Prime Stage and MCG’s Pittsburgh Jazz Legacy-Freedom House (Wed., 3/11/26)

1) The Atlantic 10 Men’s Basketball Championship opens today at PPG Paints Arena with two games: La Salle vs. St. Bonaventure (11:30 a.m.) and Richmond vs. Loyola Chicago (2 p.m.). Duquesne faces Rhode Island (5 p.m.) tomorrow in their first game. The action continues through Sunday with the championship game. 1001 Fifth Ave., Uptown.

2) MCG Jazz and Prime Stage Theatre present “Pittsburgh Jazz Legacy: A Concert Celebrating the Spirit of Freedom House” tonight at 7:30 p.m. at MCG Jazz Concert Hall, , PA 15233.

“The concert celebrates the recent world premiere run of Freedom House: Giving Life a Second Chance, an original Prime Stage Theatre play by L.E. McCullough dramatizing the 1967 creation of Freedom House Ambulance Service, America’s first mobile emergency medical unit staffed by professionally-trained paramedics from Pittsburgh’s Hill District.”

Scheduled to perform are Roger Humphries (drums), Dwayne Dolphin (bass), Max Leake (piano), and Mark Jackovic (saxophone), and Reggie Watkins (trombone). They will be featuring the music of Pittsburgh jazz legends Ahmad Jamal, Stanley Turrentine, and Billy Strayhorn.

The event will be hosted by MCG Jazz executive producer Marty Ashby, the concert will include historic video clips and images from the award-winning PBS film documentary on Pittsburgh Jazz, We Knew What We Had: The Greatest Jazz Story Never Told. Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, 1815 Metropolitan St.

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