Not a good night for Bubble teams outside the bracket. Nebraska, Boise State, West Virginia, Indiana
State, and North Carolina State all lose.
Indiana State will be dropped from the Also Considered group and can
only get in with an Automatic Bid. West
Virginia, Boise State, and North Carolina State barely hang on and almost
certainly cannot lose another game.
Dropping out of the bracket are Toledo who no longer owns
the MAC Auto Bid and Richmond who got throttled at George Mason. Western Michigan takes the MAC Auto Bid and
slides in as a 15 seed while Toledo goes out to the Also Considered. The Rockets have a good RPI, 39, but little
heft behind it. Replacing Richmond as a
12 seed is Oregon who play tonight.
Their stay may be short.
Other big losers last night were Baylor, who could have got
a big road win at Texas, and California, who got crushed at UCLA. California is shaping up to be quite the
question mark come March 16.
Tonight’s bubble action has 3 of my first 6 out in
action. Southern Miss, Oregon, and
Arkansas all have pivotal games. The
biggest bubble game of them all involves Georgetown and Marquette. The Hoyas are barely hanging onto a bid while
Marquette continues to make just enough noise to be heard. They need tonight to stay relevant.
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