NCAA Basketball: Bracketology & Bubble Team Forecasts
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00:03 >> You do a lot of the bracketology.
00:06 Right now, if you can, off the top of your head,
00:09 tell people who your last four out are,
00:12 or the teams that are right at the edge of glory,
00:16 that are either going to get in or aren't.
00:18 >> Well, the last four that are in are Virginia,
00:23 Utah, Colorado, and I believe the fourth one is St. John's.
00:29 Those are the four that are in.
00:31 Then on the way out,
00:32 you're looking at basically Wake Forest,
00:34 Pitt, Texas A&M, and I can't remember number four.
00:38 That's basically your bubble now.
00:41 But I think the teams like Seton Hall and Villanova that are
00:44 just ahead of that first four group,
00:47 the ones that would be going to Dayton,
00:49 they're in the two 11 seeds that are not going to Dayton.
00:53 They're not certainly secure.
00:55 I don't think New Mexico is secure,
00:57 although they avoided last night taking a bad loss.
01:01 They won comfortably. That was huge for them.
01:03 But they're still dangling on the edge a little bit.
01:07 Iowa was the fourth team that I forgot.
01:10 Iowa could make a run.
01:12 They have a big game on this weekend at home.
01:16 That'll help them. Then of course,
01:18 there's the Big Ten Tournament.
01:19 One of the things that's interesting about how this all pans out,
01:24 especially for the bubble teams,
01:25 is where do they wind up on their bracket?
01:28 In Iowa, the best case scenario is for them to beat Illinois without
01:33 moving up into this line of
01:35 the bracket that would put them opposite Purdue in the semifinals.
01:40 You want to avoid Purdue at
01:41 the Big Ten Tournament for as long as you can because they're Purdue.
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