Tuesday, March 4, 2014

3/4 recap

Georgia Tech 67, Syracuse 62 - what in bloody hell is Syracuse doing?  catastrophic home loss
Georgetown 75, Creighton 63 - Creighton might want to start worrying about their status as a top-4 seed.  I suggest to stop losing games.  Georgetown has @Nova left so their script will change again
Baylor 74, Iowa St 61 - ISU now also losing its grip on a top-4 seed, but everyone around them is flailing too.  Baylor has turned its road trip to K-State as a house money chance

Bubble watch:
Providence 81, Marquette 80 (2OT) - I think we can finally kill off Marquette.  Provi....in or out?  I'm probably putting them last in or last out, either way.  It's close
Oregon 85, Arizona St 78 - Oregon has earned a house money shot at home versus Arizona to get to the lockbox.  They'll be fine with a loss there.  ASU has a roadie at Oregon St left.  Win that and they're in the lockbox too.

Bubble watch, special ACC edition:
Florida St 74, Boston College 70
Clemson 58, Miami 54
Maryland 64, Virginia Tech 47

hold-serve games:
Florida 72, South Carolina 46
Michigan 84, Illinois 53
Kentucky 55, Alabama 48

MAC:  Buffalo lost while Toledo and Western Michigan won, leaving the latter 2 tied, 1 up.

Conference tournament watch:

Atlantic Sun quarterfinals
FGCU 77, Stetson 55
Mercer 85, Jacksonville 64
USC Upstate 80, North Florida 74
East Tennessee St 89, Lipscomb 88 (2OT) - top 4 seeds hold

Horizon first round
Milwaukee 83, Detroit 73
Oakland 96, Youngstown St 92
Valparaiso 74, UIC 63


Wednesday:

Louisville at SMU - both teams need this for seeding help to mask bad non-con SoSs
Nebraska at Indiana - Nebraska can kill off Indiana for good.  Indiana can dagger Nebraska.  High stakes
West Virginia at Oklahoma - this is mandatory for WVU
St Joseph's at George Washington - winner goes to the lockbox; loser has to sweat just a little bit, but not much.  Frankly, both are safe
Colorado at Stanford - Stanford needs it more, if Colorado can split the Bay Area road trip, they'll be good to go
Dayton at St Louis - StL needs to stop the bleeding to save its good seed.  This isn't mandatory for Dayton, but it's as close to mandatory without being mandatory that you can get
Utah at California - Cal just HAS to win this game.  Utah is desperate
Tennessee at Auburn, Texas A&M at Missouri, Ole Miss at Arkansas - let's see what surprises the SEC has for us this time
Duke at Wake Forest, Rutgers at UConn, Texas Tech at Kansas, Purdue at Wisconsin, TCU at Texas, Air Force at New Mexico, Arizona at Oregon St, San Diego St at UNLV - hold serve, everyone

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