Friday, February 27, 2015

2/28 preview

Impact games.  Impact games everywhere!

Georgetown at St John's - G'town is playing for seeding, St John's isn't safe yet
Northern Iowa at Wichita St - this will help sort out the 4 line
North Carolina at Miami - signature win chance for a team in a conference that is bleeding signature wins right now to bubble teams
Villanova at Xavier - while X isn't safe, this is still a house money chance for them
Dayton at VCU - chance for Dayton to visit the lockbox, VCU is down to a 7 seed and could easily lose more seeding lines
Ole Miss at LSU - Ole Miss is still probably okay with a loss, but it removes most of their remaining margin of error.  Big game for LSU itself, of course
West Virginia at Baylor - typical Big 12 game
Arkansas at Kentucky - big implications for Arkansas' seed
High Point at Charleston Southern - HPU wins the Big South with a win, a loss brings all sorts of ties into play, including CSU
Texas at Kansas - it's almost not fair to call this mandatory for Texas, but it kinda is
Montana at Eastern Washington - both are part of a 4-way logjam at the top of the Big Sky
Texas Southern at Alabama St - for the SWAC lead with 2 to play
George Washington at Davidson - probably too late for GWU, now's the time for Davidson though
Tulsa at Memphis - not a trivial game for Tulsa
Boise St at San Diego St - all the wins to stay on the bubble, it's all building towards this moment for Boise
Arizona at Utah - Utah can almost lock itself on the 3 line with a win (I think the 2 line might be beyond them).  For 'Zona, it's their last best chance at a signature win to state their 1 seed case, because it seems like they're a half-step behind the Nova/Wisky/Gonzaga tier right now
BYU at Gonzaga - it's the season for BYU

On top of this, several conferences end season play.  And a myriad of other bubble teams in must-hold situation.  TOO MANY GAMES

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