1/24 recap

Conference by conference:

Big 12
@Kansas St 63, Oklahoma St 53 - ok, so we're going to have to deal with K-State pretty soon if this continues.  Their non-con was terrible but if they convert 5-2 into 11-7 in this conference...there's too many quality wins in those 11 to keep them out.  The more interesting immediate debate is OSU, who is now pretty clearly #7 among the 7 teams in this conference that are supposed to be sure-fire tourney teams
@West Virginia 86, TCU 85 (OT) - this has gotta be it for TCU, without a significant rally
Kansas 75, @Texas 62 - a useful game when making the case for a 1 seed
@Texas Tech 78, Iowa St 73 - catastrophic loss for ISU
@Baylor 69, Oklahoma 58 - as I said before, these games where the home teams hold are zero-sum

ACC
@Clemson 59, Wake Forest 57
@North Carolina 78, Florida 74
Miami 66, @Syracuse 62 - bubble team beats bubble team on the road.  Significant result

B1G
@Purdue 67, Iowa 63 - I'd prefer Iowa not give these types of games away to make my job easier
@Penn St 79, Rutgers 51
@Minnesota 79, Illinois 71 - I din't think UI is surviving this bubble season all the way to March.  Neither might Minnesota
@Nebraska 79, Michigan St 77 - ok, now it's time to officially worry about Izzo making the tourney
Wisconsin 69, @Michigan 64 (OT) - wasn't mandatory for UM, but this would've solved a lot of problems

Big East
@Xavier 89, DePaul 76 - good
Georgetown 95, @Marquette 85 (OT)

Pac-12
@Oregon 82, UCLA 64 - honestly still not sure what to do with Oregon yet
@Oregon St 59, USC 55 - and Oregon St too
@Colorado 90, Washington St 58
Arizona 73, @California 50
@Stanford 89, Arizona St 70

SEC
Kentucky 58, @South Carolina 43
Texas A&M 67, @Tennessee 61 - road wins are gold; time to really start thinking about A&M in the field of 68
Arkansas 61, @Missouri 60 - hey, a road win!
Georgia 72, @Mississippi St 66
LSU 79, @Vanderbilt 75 (OT) - hey, another road win!
@Ole Miss 72, Florida 71 - but not here
@Alabama 57, Auburn 55

A-10
@George Washington 74, Duquesne 59
@Dayton 63, Richmond 60
Davidson 80, @George Mason 73 (OT)

AAC
Tulsa 66, East Carolina 64
@SMU 80, Houston 59
Memphis 57, @Tulane 55

MW
Boise St 77, @Air Force 68
@Wyoming 63, New Mexico 62 (OT) - important home hold
@UNLV 79, Utah St 77 (OT)
@Colorado St 79, San Diego St 73 - significant, significant result for CSU

MVC
@Indiana St 72, Loyola(Chi) 61 - the end of Loyola's bubble contention; meanwhile ISU is 6-2 in the MVC but nowhere near the NIT.  Awkward
@Evansville 75, Southern Illinois 66 - which means I guess it's up to UE to save the conference's NIT hopes

WCC
@San Diego 77, BYU 74 - catastrophic loss for BYU, and it feels like they're about to lose the draft of the bubble
@Gonzaga 91, Pacific 60
St Mary's 74, @Portland 64
@Santa Clara 60, Pepperdine 57 - yeah, this 4-team race in the WCC is really a 2-team one

CUSA
@UAB 81, Old Dominion 68 - okay, time to panic for ODU.  The resume can't absorb too many more of these
- The race in CUSA is getting weird, so we need to break this out.  Easy stuff first:  WKU is still the only undefeated team after beating UTSA, and UTEP lost at Marshall and is definitely off the pace now.  Right now it's:  WKU 7-0, LaTech and UAB on 6-1, MTSU on 5-2, and ODU and UTEP on 4-3.  The 4-team breakaway is not including the 4 teams I thought it would, and UAB and MTSU (especially UAB) having bad resumes are going to wreck ODU in particular right now

Other conferences
- Over in the MAC, Akron won at WMU, Kent won at Ball St, Ohio upset Buffalo at home, Toledo held over BGU at home.  All of this now means that Kent is your new solo leader at 5-1.  This will change, and often.
- In the Ivy, we're already down to 2 undefeateds after 2 matchdays.  Yale on 2-0; Princeton on 1-0.  This is because Dartmouth, on the road, bounced Harvard.
- In the Colonial, William & Mary holds over Northeastern at home, and we've got a 3-way tie there among these two teams and UNC-Wilmington now.
- After another day in the Big South, 3 way tie at 6-2, and 4 more teams are on 5-3.  Funtime!
- The Northeast is tightening up; RMU beats St Francis(NY) on the road, and those two and Bryant are joint leaders on 6-2
- all of a sudden, it's a 2 game lead in the loss column for Murray St in the OVC
- North Florida beats Lipscomb on the road to assume control of the A-Sun
- Stephen F Austin 79, @Sam Houston St 68, so guess who controls the Southland
- Texas Southern loses at UAPB.  A lot of my seeding of them assumed a perfect run in the SWAC.  For now...they did beat K-State, so I have no idea what to do
- everyone in the Summit's got 2 losses already.  Not good
- New Mexico St leads the WAC again
- you tell me who the best team in the Sun Belt is.  Because I have no idea.  Ga Southern leads on 6-2 for now