Hey It's Thursday Morning!

The big news of the evening was Syracuse losing but they are still far from falling off that top line. Even if they lose to Duke on Saturday I would still have them as a 1 seed in the bracket. Outside of that there was little movement on the bubble. Marquette lost to end their short stay on the Also Considered list. Arizona State suffered a letdown as predicted but are still secure in the bracket. Minnesota and California lost as 10 seeds but the most they will fall is 1 seed in our next bracket. All other bubble teams won including Dayton who is my first team out. They will be watching the BYU/Gonzaga game closely. Speaking of BYU/Gonzaga let us turn our attention to tonight’s bubble games. Nebraska hosts Penn State and although they are very far from the 68th team in, they are still worth watching due to their impressive wins. Conference USA has multiple teams playing and although they are most likely a 1 bid tournament they do have a very tight race up top between Louisiana Tech, Southern Miss, UTEP, and Middle Tennessee State. I think the only way they can get more than 1 bid is if LaTech or UTEP and SoMiss win out and meet in the conference championship. Georgetown travels to Seton Hall and needs a road win to keep their 11 seed. A loss and they are probably playing in Dayton on Tuesday of March Madness. Out west, besides the BYU game, we have St. Mary’s at San Francisco on very thin ice, and Stanford hosting USC. Stanford is currently an 8 seed but there is so much play between 8 and 12 I’m still considering them a bubble team. St. Mary’s will probably be dropped from tracking purposes if they lose.

Oh, and there might be a big game in Carolina tonight….