Saturday, January 31, 2015

1/31 recap

Big 12:
@West Virginia 77, Texas Tech 58
@Kansas 68, Kansas St 57
@Iowa St 83, TCU 66
@Baylor 83, Texas 60 - um, Texas is 3-5 in the conference.  They need to fix this soon
Oklahoma 64, @Oklahoma St 56 - quality road win

ACC:
@Pittsburgh 76, Notre Dame 72 - great, Pitt is doing juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust enough to stay barely alive.  As for ND, this won't hurt as long as this isn't a trend
North Carolina St 81, @Georgia Tech 80 (OT) - well that was almost a disaster
@Clemson 64, Boston College 49
@Wake Forest 73, Virginia Tech 70
@Louisville 78, North Carolina 68 (OT) - I'm starting to get the feeling seeding the top 5 in the ACC is going to require some dissection
Duke 69, @Virginia 63

Big 10:
Wisconsin 74, @Iowa 63 - status quo for both
@Illinois 60, Penn St 58
@Indiana 72, Rutgers 64
@Minnesota 60, Nebraska 42
Purdue 68, @Northwestern 60 - well, Purdue is 6-3 in conference.  Not worth monitoring yet though

Pac-12:
@Washington St 89, Stanford 88 - awful, awful
@UCLA 72, Colorado 59 - UCLA is hanging onto this bubble by a thread

Big East:
@St John's 75, Providence 66 - the desperate team gets the win.  Provi can't quite reach lockdom, can they?
@Seton Hall 90, Xavier 82 - a critical home hold to consolidate SHU's place in the bracket; X is hardly safe but can survive this
Villanova 68, @DePaul 55
Georgetown 67, @Creighton 40
Butler 72, @Marquette 68 (OT) - overall, a productive day for the conference

A-10:
@St Joseph's 75, Davidson 70 - this is the type of loss that's going to cost Davidson in a few weeks
Richmond 64, @VCU 55 - catastrophic injury, and all of a sudden we need to be careful seeding this team
@Rhode Island 59, George Washington 55 - oooh
UMass 60, @St Louis 56

SEC:
@Tennessee 71, Auburn 63
@Florida 57, Arkansas 56 - there's that Arkansas road loss we all are waiting for
@Mississippi St 73, LSU 67 - an awful, terrible, no good loss for a bubble team
@South Carolina 67, Georgia 50 - another bubble team with a terrible no good road loss.  Road wins are tough asks, I get it, but these are subpar teams hosting these games, SEC
Ole Miss 67, @Missouri 47 - hey, someone paid attention!  And it's the team that started the day off the bubble the furthest
@Texas A&M 69, Vanderbilt 58 - A&M might be the clear #3 in here now
@Kentucky 70, Alabama 55

AAC:
@Temple 55, Tulane 37
@Tulsa 78, South Florida 71 (OT) - near-catastrophe
@SMU 75, Central Florida 56

WCC:
Pepperdine 67, @St Mary's 62 - catastrophic home loss
@BYU 78, Santa Clara 57

MVC:
@Northern Iowa 70, Wichita St 54 - welp, time to flip flop the two in the S-Curve
Loyola loses again, and is dead and buried.  The two ISUs and UE have separated from the rest of the pack, with Evansville still somewhat in the NIT discussion

MW:
@Wyoming 63, Nevada 55
@Colorado St 80, Fresno St 57
@San Diego St 62, Utah St 42
@New Mexico 67, San Jose St 41
@UNLV 74, Air Force 63

CUSA:
@Old Dominion 68, Florida Atlantic 57 - still 2 back
Louisiana Tech co-leads on 8-1 after beating Marshall.  WKU there with a road win at USM.  And UAB won on the road to go to 7-2.  UTEP beat MTSU

non-con:
@Gonzaga 82, Memphis 64

Elsewhere:
Sun Belt:  we've got a potential 3-team breakaway between Georgia Southern (8-2), Georgia St (8-3), and La-Monroe (8-3) after all 3 win
Green Bay loses on the road at Cleveland St.  This Horizon race is coming down to the last week, probably
I'm not even going to attempt to break down the Big South.  The new standings now have 7 teams in between 8-2 and 6-4.  I love this conference
William & Mary with a moderately good road win at James Madison, they've got the CAA lead by one game now
Big Sky might be interesting, as Sac St is now on 9-1 and EWU is on 7-1
Yale wins at Cornell, still the last undefeated in the Ivy (Harvard also wins)
Over in the MAC, Akron wins at Bowling Green.  Current status:  Akron and Kent tied on 6-2, everyone else 5-3
North Florida finally lost in the A-Sun, so FGCU is even with them again
@Wofford 49, Mercer 46 - Wofford gets the final score treatment!  Resume encroaching on the bubble

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