12/31 recap

Big East:
@Seton Hall 75, St John's 70
@Creighton 83, Providence 64 - a pair of holds for the home teams here; too early to panic for the losers

ACC:
@Syracuse 68, Virginia Tech 56

SEC:
@Kentucky 66, Georgia 61
@Ole Miss 74, South Carolina 69

Pac-12:
Utah 66, @Oregon St 64 - any, and I mean ANY 2-win road sequence in the Pac-12 is noteworthy for a bubble team
@UCLA 74, Washington 53 - important service hold in week 1 for UCLA
@USC 89, Washington St 71 - and a mandatory hold for USC after a loose loss to UW
@Oregon 77, Colorado 62

AAC:
@Cincinnati 82, Memphis 48
Tulsa 65, @Tulane 56 - just in case people were thinking about Tulane as an at-large entity
UCF 59, East Carolina 39
@SMU 79, South Florida 39

MVC:
@Bradley 72, Northern Iowa 53 - this is the overkill portion of UNI's at-large-ending stretch of play
Missouri St 67, @Valparaiso 50 - we now funnel our attention to MSU; who I'm not really sure has an at-large case, but we'll monitor anyways

elsewhere:
@Appalachian St 80, UT Arlington 76 - I swear to God, the Fun Belt does this every year, their best team tanks in conference play