Thursday, February 12, 2015

2/11 recap

Signature wins:
Georgia 62, @Texas A&M 53 - road wins over bubble teams, if you're a bubble team yourself, is golden
Villanova 74, @Providence 68 - I'm not sure 'Nova can hold off all the Big 12 and ACC contenders for the 2 line, so every win like this is huge
@Maryland 68, Indiana 66 - this should steady Maryland a bit, still hovering around the 4/5 lines
@UCLA 75, Oregon St 59 - ok, so it wasn't a signature win, but it does kill off OSU's hopes, and keeps UCLA within shouting distance of the bubble

Catastrophic losses:
LaSalle 74, @VCU 69 (2OT) - VCU must be taken out of the lockbox and put onto the bubble; there's no way around it
@Wake Forest 72, Miami 70 - once again, the midsection of the ACC is throwing up all over itself
@Duquesne 78, George Washington 62 - this was just a horrible day for the A-10
@St Joseph's 65, Rhode Island 64 - just when URI was getting faint hope
@San Diego St 67, Wyoming 41 - Wyoming is just about dead (SDSU is steadying a big after looking like they would be in bubble trouble)

Holding serve:
@West Virginia 76, Kansas St 72 - very important because WVU is going to be beaten up by the rest of this conference
@Ohio St 75, Penn St 55
@Davidson 92, George Mason 71
Virginia 51, @North Carolina St 47 - no harm to NC State here but that's about the last one of these they'll get
@Louisville 69, Pittsburgh 56 - for Pitt, see the NC State comment
@Northern Iowa 83, Illinois St 64
@Wichita St 74, Indiana St 57
@Texas 66, TCU 43
@St John's 86, DePaul 78
@Boise St 67, Air Force 42
Oregon 80, @USC 75 - at this point in the season, holding serve on the road is a big deal
Tennessee 76, @Vanderbilt 73 - ditto

Miscellany:
Syracuse 70, @Boston College 56
@Richmond 73, Fordham 71
UMass 55, @St Bonaventure 53 - UMass is still a ways from the bubble, but it's in play
- Over in the Big South, a 4-way tie at 9-4 for High Point, Radford, Charleston Southern and UNCA.  3 more at 8-5.  The greatest conference race in the world continues

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