1/17 recap

Separated by conference for your convenience:

AAC:
Tulsa 75, @South Florida 58
Tulane 68, @Houston 65 - Tulane hanging on to the back end of the bubble
@Memphis 99, Central Florida 79
@SMU 77, East Carolina 54
@Cincinnati 84, Temple 53 - not a good look for Temple

ACC:
Duke 63, @Louisville 52 - a very important road chip to have in your pocket if you want a 1 seed in March.  And a damaging loss for that very reason for UL
NC State 72, @Florida St 63 - important road win for a bubble team
Virginia 66, @Boston College 51
@Notre Dame 75, Miami 70
@Pittsburgh 70, Georgia Tech 65
@Clemson 66, Syracuse 53 - another case of a road team losing a swing game...can't criticize too badly, but if more of these types of losses come...

A-10:
@Dayton 61, St Louis 45
VCU 70, @Duquesne 64
@UMass 60, Rhode Island 56 - while it's not a bad loss, it's the type of swing game that keeps teams out in March
@George Washington 63, George Mason 53
@Richmond 89, Davidson 63 - I just get this sinking feeling Davidson will fade away from the bubble conversation rather quickly

Big East:
@Xavier 62, Marquette 58
@Georgetown 61, Butler 59 - if you're rooting for the max number of Big East at-large teams, home teams holding serve is probably your best bet
Providence 74, @Creighton 65 - when you have a conference with a clear bottom 3, road wins over those 3 are critical

Big 10:
@Minnesota 89, Rutgers 80
Purdue 84, @Penn St 77 (OT)
@Iowa 76, Ohio St 67 - good home hold of service from Iowa.  This won't hurt OSU too badly, unless they start to pile up too many of these
@Maryland 75, Michigan St 59 - Maryland is legitimate business.  MSU still in a fair bit of trouble
@Michigan 56, Northwestern 54

Big 12:
@Kansas St 63, Baylor 61 - the Big 12 is 7-deep with tourney teams.  And every game one of those teams loses to the bottom 3 is critical.  On the other hand, KSU is 4-1 in the Big 12, so who knows
TCU 62, @Texas Tech 42 - well, it is a road win; albeit a bad team, but you have to start somewhere to work your way back towards the bubble
@Texas 77, West Virginia 50
@Oklahoma 82, Oklahoma St 65
@Iowa St 86, Kansas 81

Pac-12:
@Arizona St 78, Colorado 72 - very damaging to Colorado
@Arizona 69, Utah 51 - important game for Arizona to establish alpha status in this conference, because this conference can support 1 #1 seed, but not two
Oregon St 62, @Washington St 47

SEC:
Texas A&M 67, @LSU 64 - a very damaging home loss
@Georgia 73, Florida 61 - just when I thought Florida might backdoor into the bubble conversation...
Kentucky 70, @Alabama 48
@Mississippi St 57, Vanderbilt 54
Tennessee 59, @Missouri 51
@Auburn 71, South Carolina 68 - yeah, the one SEC team that did some real work in the non-con is throwing it away
Ole Miss 96, @Arkansas 82 - seriously?

MVC:
Wichita St 61, @Evansville 41

WCC:
Gonzaga 72, @Loyola Marymount 55
@St Mary's 82, BYU 77

MW:
@San Diego St 53, UNLV 47
Wyoming 70, @Fresno St 65 (3OT) - near disaster for Wyoming
Colorado St 70, @San Jose St 41

non-conference:
Villanova 62, Penn 47 (neutral at the Palestra)
@Stanford 72, UConn 59

small schools:
Stephen F Austin beats Abilene Christian on the road, 4-0 in the S'land
Eastern Illinois is 6-0 in the OVC.  Huh, didn't see that one coming (Murray has gone to 5-0, by the way
Green Bay won on the road and should still control the Horizon
LaTech and WKU to 5-0 in CUSA, UTEP to 4-1. @Old Dominion 61, North Texas 50, so the one team with legit at-large hopes holds
over in the MAC, Buffalo, Bowling Green, Kent, Akron, WMU won, all are on 3-1
everyone's favorite darlings in the Sun Belt, Georgia St, is now 4-3 after losing at App State.  Discard them accordingly
NCCU to 5-0 in the MEAC, and frankly should run the table.  Just beat probable closest contender Norfolk St on the road
Texas Southern to 5-0 in the SWAC, 13 to go
Eastern Washington loses in the Big Sky (@Sacramento St), and your new leader is...Sac State.
New Mexico St loses at Seattle, and the WAC might as well make reservations for Dayton right now.  All of them would be headed there
UC Davis holds to go 4-0 in the Big West