Monday, March 3, 2014

3/3 recap

North Carolina 63, Notre Dame 61 - non-actionable result

Seton Hall 71, Xavier 62 - this however is very actionable.  Xavier gives back most of the progress it made this weekend.  Still in my field, but down a couple seed lines and have lost their margin of error

NC State 74, Pittsburgh 67 - well, well, well.  Pitt loses a marginal home game.  They have Clemson on the road to finish.  Lose that and now they're really under fire.  By the way, a win in that probably keeps them above water for good.  NC State has a useless game at BC, they're not dead, but they're in a coma

Oklahoma St 77, Kansas St 61- you know, at some point, K-State needs to win a road game.  Well, probably not; too many good wins to leave out, but they're bleeding more seeding lines.  Okla State not out of the woods, but their road game at Iowa St to finish isn't mandatory anymore

Conference tournament watch:

Patriot 1st round
Colgate 57, Navy 51
Lafayette 84, Loyola(MD) 71


Tuesday preview:
on the top lines, Florida at South Carolina and Georgia Tech at Syracuse are hold-serve games; and Michigan at Illinois is similar in tastes
Creighton at Georgetown - Creighton could lose the 3 line with a loss.  G'town has Creighton and Nova to finish - that's actually great.  Sweep them and you're in.  Lose both and you're done.  Split leaves you in dire straits.
Iowa St at Baylor - not necessarily mandatory for Baylor, but a lot of margin of error goes away with a loss here
Marquette at Providence - Provi is the one nearest the bubble, this is mandatory for both, really
Arizona St at Oregon - ASU will visit the lockbox with a win here.  And it's close to mandatory for Oregon
Florida St at Boston College
Alabama at Kentucky
Miami at Clemson

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