Saturday, February 14, 2015

2/14 recap

Big 12:
@Kansas 74, Baylor 64
@Iowa St 79, West Virginia 59 - let's put a pin in WVU's profile and revisit in a week
@TCU 70, Oklahoma St 55 - after a great run by OSU to surge to the edge of lockdom, they give a significant amount of goodwill back
@Kansas St 59, Oklahoma 56 - Oklahoma was in serious protected seed conversation, so this doesn't help
@Texas 56, Texas Tech 41

ACC:
@Pittsburgh 89, North Carolina 76 - well, there's a signature win for Pitt.  Back in play now.  UNC might be back to the 4 line for awhile
@Clemson 75, Virginia Tech 54
@Virginia 61, Wake Forest 60
Florida St 57, @Georgia Tech 53
North Carolina St 74, @Louisville 65 - and now, just to make everything complicated, a signature road win for a team that was about to lose the bubble draft
Duke 80, @Syracuse 72 - don't forget, this still counts as a quality road win

Big 10:
@Michigan St 59, Ohio St 56 - this should ease the bubble pressure on MSU and might ding OSU's seed a bit
Maryland 76, @Penn St 73

Big East:
St John's 78, @Xavier 70 - a huge, huge road win and St John's is clearly now 6th in the Big East pecking order.  And Xavier is 5th in that pecking order, and is bringing the bubble in to play
@Creighton 77, Marquette 70
@Providence 69, Seton Hall 62 - SHU's in big trouble
Villanova 68, @Butler 65

SEC:
@Kentucky 77, South Carolina 43
Auburn 69, @Georgia 68 - a catastrophic home loss for Georgia, and they're clearly back down near the cutline as well
LSU 73, @Tennessee 55 - not a trivial road win
Mississippi St 77, @Missouri 74
@Texas A&M 63, Florida 62
Vanderbilt 76, @Alabama 68 - that's a bubble pop
Arkansas 71, @Ole Miss 70 - ok, it's about time to really lock up Arkansas.  A forgivable loss for Ole Miss given the current bubble landscape

Pac-12:
@UCLA 72, Oregon 63 - it's tough to buy into Oregon, and almost tough not to buy into UCLA now
@USC 68, Oregon St 55 - just in case anyone was slowly buying into OSU, this kills that rally off

A-10:
@Dayton 75, St Bonaventure 61
VCU 79, @George Washington 66 - well, for starters, this should stabilize the Rams a bit.  As for G-Dub, probably on the wrong side of the bubble now, and the A-10 is a bit of a mess behind VCU and probably Dayton
Davidson 77, @LaSalle 69
@Rhode Island 81, St Louis 68
@UMass 82, Duquesne 74
@George Mason 71, Richmond 67 (OT)

AAC:
Memphis 75, @South Florida 48
@Temple 66, East Carolina 53
Tulane 50, @Cincinnati 49 - what an awful, awful loss.  Is Cincy in trouble?  Maybe
@SMU 73, UConn 55

WCC:
St Mary's 69, @San Diego 62 (2OT)
@Gonzaga 56, Pepperdine 48
@BYU 84, Pacific 59

MW:
@Air Force 76, UNLV 75
@Wyoming 77, San Jose St 60
@Fresno St 70, Boise St 64 - just when everyone was opening the door for Boise to backdoor into the bubble conversation...this
@San Diego St 72, Colorado St 63 - I have no idea what to do with CSU's seed now
@Nevada 66, New Mexico 63 (OT)

MVC:
@Indiana St 75, Drake 54 - the longer they're in 3rd, the longer the conference looks weak
Evansville 72, @Southern Illinois 64
Wichita St 68, @Illinois St 62

Miscellany:
- After another day in the Big South, 3 are tied at 10-4:  High Point, Radford, Charleston Southern
- Patriot:  Colgate finally lost, so Bucknell will play tomorrow for sole possession of that lead
- MAC:  with some losses, one by Akron, it's now Bowling Green as the only team on 9-3 for the overall lead
- CAA:  UNC-Wilmington has caught William & Mary for the lead, by beating the 3rd wheel in the race, Northeastern
- @Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 71, Stephen F Austin 63 - SFA had a ways to go to get to the bubble cutline, but they're probably too far adrift now
- Southland:  And with that loss, Sam Houston St now actually has the S'land lead outright
- Summit:  South Dakota St beats North Dakota St, and we're tied at 10-3 now
- SoCon:  Wofford won on the road, but it's too late
- In CUSA, WKU loses...LaTech is up to 11-2 and leads by a game over UTEP.  WKU 1.5 back, UAB 2 back
- @UTEP 62, Old Dominion 47 - and now ODU is just about dead, dead, dead.  They're losing ALL their toughest road games in CUSA
- Ivy:  Yale and Harvard win again
- Murray St to 13-0 in the OVC

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