Bubble Watch 2/5/24

[stever20]

33 TCU off until Sat
34 Butler Tue @ 2 Connecticut-lost 62-71
35 Northwestern Wed vs 36 Nebraska-won 80-68
36 Nebraska Wed @ 35 Northwestern-lost 68-80
----------last 4 byes---------
37 New Mexico Tue @ Wyoming-won 91-73
38 Texas A&M Wed @ Missouri-won 79-60
39 Mississippi St Wed vs 83 Georgia-won 75-62
40 Seton Hall Wed vs Georgetown-won 76-70
------------last 4 in---------
41 Ole Miss Tue @ 18 South Carolina-lost 65-68
42 Washington St Thu @ Oregon St-won 64-58
43 Virginia Mon vs 80 Miami-won 60-38
44 Cincinnati off until Sat
-----------cutline------------
69 St John's Tue vs DePaul-won 85-57
70 Florida off until Sat
71 Colorado Thu vs Arizona St-won 82-70
72 Wake Forest Tue @ Georgia Tech-won 80-51
73 Memphis Thu @ Temple-won 84-77
74 Providence Wed vs 16 Creighton-won 91-87
75 Nevada Tue @ 24 Utah St-won 77-63
76 Gonzaga Wed vs Portland-won 96-64
77 Villanova Wed @ 78 Xavier-lost 53-56
78 Xavier Wed vs 77 Villanova-won 56-53
79 UCF off until Sat
80 Miami Mon @ 43 Virginia-lost 38-60
81 Oregon Thu vs Washington-won 84-80
82 Va Tech off until Sat
83 Georgia Wed @ 39 Mississippi St-lost 62-75
84 Kansas St Mon vs 6 Kansas-won 75-70

[kayako]

It might be best for the conference to have just 1 of SJU, Nova, Providence, and X start winning. You don't want to end up with 4 NIT teams.

[stever20]

It might be best for the conference to have just 1 of SJU, Nova, Providence, and X start winning. You don't want to end up with 4 NIT teams.

maybe 2 if you include Seton Hall in there as well.

[kayako]

It might be best for the conference to have just 1 of SJU, Nova, Providence, and X start winning. You don't want to end up with 4 NIT teams.

maybe 2 if you include Seton Hall in there as well.

Well in that case Butler ain't out of the woods either. With 6 teams in the larger bubble, yeah more than 3 teams winning will negatively affect tournament seeds. UConn losing a couple would help, too, especially against "correct" teams.

[SJUBBALL]

"Its over, we are screwed"

- Michael Scott

[stever20]

KSU beating Kansas tonight not a good result. Huge game coming up Saturday at BYU- their only game in the next 11 days.

[admin]

Five teams on the bubble should make for a very interesting Big East tournament.

[stever20]

Five teams on the bubble should make for a very interesting Big East tournament.

It would make the 4/5 game so huge. And would make the 8/9 game on Wednesday night big- almost better to be seeded there than 6 or 7 and having to play Georgetown or DePaul in a game that wouldn't help much at all before getting a top 3 team.

[Xuperman]

It might be best for the conference to have just 1 of SJU, Nova, Providence, and X start winning. You don't want to end up with 4 NIT teams.

That VU/PC game was telling. Looks like losing Hopkins is just too much to overcome. I would CERTAINLY add Butler to this conversation....Brooks is a Bryce Hopkins doppelganger AND POSH?? The Bulldogs look like a tournament team.

Xavier hasn't really proven anything to this point. Biggest question mark in the conference. Villanova is a must win IMO or the path to even 11-9 gets dicey.

[billyjack]

It might be best for the conference to have just 1 of SJU, Nova, Providence, and X start winning. You don't want to end up with 4 NIT teams.

That VU/PC game was telling. Looks like losing Hopkins is just too much to overcome. I would CERTAINLY add Butler to this conversation....Brooks is a Bryce Hopkins doppelganger AND POSH?? The Bulldogs look like a tournament team.

Xavier hasn't really proven anything to this point. Biggest question mark in the conference. Villanova is a must win IMO or the path to even 11-9 gets dicey.

Yeah we're in a tough situation without Hopkins. Even if he had an off night shooting, he still played 40 minutes, grabbing boards, playing great defense, and took pressure off everyone else. Averaged 16 and 8.

The rest of the year will be a slog. Villanova doubled Oduro everytime he touched the ball, and we were throwing up bricks from three. Painful to watch in Sunday night.

The UConn road game does show some possibilities. Also, i think we catch a break cuz in last BE game, home on a Saturday, i would imagine UConn will take it easy with Clingan. Hope so anyway.