Friday's Thoughts

Let’s jump right into last night’s happenings.  Ohio State ends up getting swept by Penn State and will no doubt lose a seed line or two.  St. Louis lost at home to Duquesne and the same goes for them when it comes to seeding.  Memphis finally collected a bad loss but still remains in the 7 seed line or so.  On the bubble Georgetown lost to Marquette which was huge for both teams.  The Warriors move up to the Next Four Out and are closing the gap.  Georgetown falls out of the bracket entirely.

Replacing Georgetown in this morning’s bracket is Arkansas backed by their upset win over Kentucky.  The Razorbacks are now 2-1 against the top 25 RPI which looks good to the committee.  What doesn’t is their 176^th ranked non-conference strength of schedule.  That may come back to haunt them if they don’t finish strong.  Also falling out of the bracket due to no longer leading their conference are Middle Tennessee State, UC-Santa Barbara, and New Mexico State.  Replacing them are UC-Irvine, bubble team Southern Miss, and Utah Valley State.  Two thing to note from that group are that Conference USA is shaping up to be a great conference tournament to pay attention to.  There is a 4 way tie at the top with Tulsa only 1 game out.  Right now they are a 1 bid league so the next two weeks are huge.  The other note is the end of the New Mexico State, Utah Valley State game last night when the fans rushed the floor only to get into a fight with the NMst players.  The NWst player who through the ball at the Utah player should be suspended but can we please end the court storming thing now?  You’re Utah Valley Freaking State.

Watch for the next Bracket coming out over lunch plus I’m putting together my High Seed Most Likely to Lose article which correctly picked Georgetown on March 4^th last year.  They were upset by Florida Gulf Coast in the first round.