College Basketball Bubble Teams Update for Conference Tournaments
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00:03 - Who are you focusing on here
00:04 that has a chance to do some big things
00:06 in these conference tournaments?
00:08 - Well, if we wanna look first at the last four in,
00:10 Wake Forest, Colorado, Indiana State, Texas A&M,
00:13 as of now, my bubble, again,
00:15 is more precarious than other bubbles
00:18 because I don't account for regular season champions
00:23 as the effective champion of the league.
00:25 So Dayton, if they lose, somebody's coming off the bubble.
00:29 FAU, if they lose, somebody's coming off the bubble.
00:33 So if you are at the very edge on my bracket,
00:37 that's a problem for you,
00:38 even more so than it is for others.
00:41 So those are the four that are on the edge.
00:44 In the grouping of the first four out,
00:47 I have Villanova, Providence, Pitt, and New Mexico.
00:50 And then, really, not that secure,
00:54 I have Seton Hall and St. John's
00:56 as the last two teams on my 10 line.
00:59 Also, Michigan State on my 10 line.
01:01 I don't think any of those 10s is secure.
01:03 I think if they failed in their conference tournaments,
01:07 that would be problematic.
01:09 Seton Hall, St. John's, I think is sort of bubble central
01:13 for this week.
01:15 They play each other, they're fierce rivals,
01:18 they play each other in Madison Square Garden,
01:21 and I will say that if St. John's loses that game,
01:26 I think it could eliminate them.
01:29 I won't say it's definitive,
01:30 it would depend on other results,
01:31 but that would be really problematic for them.
01:34 Slightly less so for Seton Hall,
01:37 because they already have two against the Red Storm,
01:40 but whoever wins that game is gonna be able to breathe,
01:43 and whoever loses it is going to be holding that breath
01:46 until Sunday night.
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