As the major conference tournaments build toward their conclusions, there are only a few bid snatchers left before Selection Sunday.
In a typical week leading into Selection Sunday, the spotlight tends to shift Friday and especially Saturday away from the teams scrambling for the last few NCAA men’s basketball tournament berths and toward possible bid snatchers still lurking in various conference tournaments.The rationale isn’t complex. Those borderline tournament teams are that way for a reason. They’ve been solid but not overwhelmingly great all season.
Only the usual developments have not happened this week. Still alive heading into conference semifinals are Colorado, New Mexico, Pittsburgh, Providence, St. John’s and Virginia. With so many of those edge-of-the-field teams left, none can feel too comfortable entering the day.Meanwhile, every Big 12 team left is safely in the field. All of the remaining teams in the Big East and SEC at least have viable at-large hopes.
While the anarchy of the Atlantic 10 quarterfinals, where the top four seeds all lost, ensured that league will send two teams to the tournament, the American Athletic could yet transform itself from two-bid territory to simply one automatic qualifier if Florida Atlantic wins the league tournament. With that basic overview out of the way, here’s the ample set of games Friday that could influence the composition of the field of 68.St. John’s has won six in a row, with half of those victories coming against Big East punching bags DePaul and Georgetown. The Red Storm helped itself by blasting Seton Hall on Thursday, which gives it a grand total of two victories against the projected field of 68 . St. John’s isn’t a sure thing, but tonight could change that.An anxious couple of days for St.
Indiana carries a five-game winning streak into this matchup with Nebraska , but the Hoosiers are still far from at-large contention and need to win out to reach the NCAA tournament.Indiana should be monitored only for bid-snatching purposes. The Big Ten tournament becomes much less interesting from the perspective of the edge of the field if both the Hoosiers and Ohio State lose Friday night.with another victory against a double-digit seed in the ACC tournament.
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