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00:00Mike, let me ask you about the bubble. You know, of course, if Duke North Carolina are
00:05going to go head-to-head, it's a huge game. But if you're North Carolina, you might need
00:11this one to crack through. Obviously, that's not an easy one to get. Is that how you view
00:19things right now for the Tar Heels, considering how big a win like this would be, but a loss
00:25potentially knock them outside of reach?
00:28Well, the way I look at it now, I finally had to put Xavier into my field. I like their
00:36team, but I don't like their resume. But I like it a little better than Carolina's because
00:43they've had slightly fewer opportunities against quad one opponents. But they put out about
00:49the same number of victories. I think they each have one quad one win. So I don't want
00:53to put somebody in the tournament that has one quad one win. But after Boise State lost
00:58at home on Friday night to Colorado State, I didn't really have a choice. You look at
01:04the resumes for Nebraska and Texas, and they just aren't good enough at this point. Now,
01:08each of them still has opportunities to climb back. Texas against Oklahoma today is a huge
01:15game for them. But I ultimately had to put Xavier in with one quad one win. So if Carolina
01:23were to go ahead and win today against Duke, they would immediately supplant Xavier. That
01:28wouldn't mean they were safely in the field, but they would mean that they were in a field
01:32position with an opportunity to go to the conference tournament and add to their resumes,
01:39add to their accomplishments and perhaps climb up to where they're not vulnerable to say
01:44someone like Drake if they were to fall in the Valley Tournament final or VCU if they
01:51were to fall in the Atlantic 10 tournament final and have their bid basically stolen.