Bubble Watch 2/10/23

[stever20]

33 Pittsburgh-Sat @ Florida St-won 83-75
34 Northwestern-Sun vs Purdue-won 64-58
35 Auburn-Sat vs Alabama-lost 69-77
36 Arkansas-Sat vs Mississippi St-lost 64-70
37 Oklahoma St-Sat @ Iowa St-won 64-56
38 A-Florida Atlantic-Sat vs Louisiana Tech-won 90-85
39 Nevada-Fri vs Fresno St-won 77-66
40 Boise St-Sat vs Wyoming-won 75-63
41 New Mexico-Fri @ Air Force-lost 77-89
-----------------------last 4
42 Wisconsin-Sat @ Nebraska-lost 63-73
43 Kentucky-Sat @ Georgia-lost 68-75
44 Oregon-Sat vs UCLA-lost 63-70
45 USC-Sat @ Oregon St-lost 58-61
46 A-Clemson-Sat @ North Carolina-lost 71-91
-----------------------cut line
69 North Carolina-Sat vs Clemson-won 91-71
70 Memphis-Sun vs Temple-won 86-77
71 Texas A&M-Sat @ LSU-won 74-62
72 Seton Hall-Sat @ Villanova-lost 54-58
73 Mississippi St-Sat @ Arkansas-won 70-64
74 Penn St-Sat @ Maryland-lost 68-74
75 Wake Forest-Sat vs Georgia Tech-won 71-70
76 Michigan-Sat vs Indiana-lost 61-62
77 Utah St-Sat @ San Jose St-lost 64-69
78 Charleston-Sat @ Hampton-won 83-70
79 Florida-Sat vs Vanderbilt-lost 80-88
80 Virginia Tech-Sat @ Notre Dame-won 93-87
81 Arizona St-Sat @ California-won 70-62
82 North Texas-Sat vs Charlotte-won 67-43
83 Oklahoma-Sat vs Kansas-lost 55-78

[stever20]

Sort of a wild weekend that all 25 teams listed actually have games. Normally at least a few byes in there. With quite a few big games in the mix for sure.

[ArmyVet]

Sort of a wild weekend that all 25 teams listed actually have games. Normally at least a few byes in there. With quite a few big games in the mix for sure.

Such a fun time of year of college hoops fans.

[stever20]

Sort of a wild weekend that all 25 teams listed actually have games. Normally at least a few byes in there. With quite a few big games in the mix for sure.

Such a fun time of year of college hoops fans.

Oh yeah. And just going to get better, 4 weeks from today is QF Thursday at the Garden.

[stever20]

Big loss for New Mexico tonight. Going to be right on that cutline come Monday I think.

[kayako]

Big loss for New Mexico tonight. Going to be right on that cutline come Monday I think.

Crazy that MWC could end up with 4 or 5 bids, or just 1 or 2. Let's see if Nevada makes it even more interesting.

[stever20]

should note #32 West Virginia just lost to Texas by 34. So they'll be on here on Monday. Probably say goodbye to Pittsburgh(not on the end you'd have expected).

[stever20]

Seton Hall definitely an opening tonight for sure.

[billyjack]

I've been wondering if a 96-team NCAA tourney is good for the Big East... i'm leaning towards support for it.

- 2 rounds get tourney down to 64 teams...
- 16 Tues games are seeds 65 vs 96.
- 16 Wed games are seeds 49 thru 80.
- 64 team tourney begins on the regular Thursday.
- Auto-bid teams get bye to Thursday games.

Just back of napkin here...

So really, non-auto teams 49 thru 64 have a Wednesday play-in game vs the 16 survivors of Tuesdays games.

- The new additional teams, seeds 65 thru 96, would need to survive 2 games in 2 days... their penalty for being seeded so high.

- the America East and WAC and SWAC winners would have the bye til Thursday.

- Big East would get 7 or 8 teams in each year.

Before dismissing this, chew on it a bit.

I may start a new thread on this.

[kayako]

Seton Hall definitely an opening tonight for sure.

Clemson's spot has probably opened up as well. They