Thursday, March 9, 2017

3/9 recap

ACC quarters:
North Carolina 78, Miami 53 - UNC should be home free for a 1 seed now
Duke 81, Louisville 77 - man, I don't know.  My mind says UL is a 2 seed but the committee can be fickle in these situations.  They're also more likely to forgive them than Baylor
Florida St 74, Virginia Tech 68
Notre Dame 71, Virginia 58 - a useful game for seeding purposes

Big 12 quarters:
TCU 85, Kansas 82 - great, now we have to deal with a late arrival to the bubble scene, AND reorganizing the 1 line.  Thanks, Kansas
Iowa St 92, Oklahoma St 83 - ISU to the 5 line?
Kansas St 70, Baylor 64 - we'll be dealing with K-State a lot in the next couple days, so let's focus on Baylor here...does some combo of Duke/the Pac-12 teams FSU knock Baylor back to the 3 line?  It's debatable, and I like the odds of some combination of the above doing just that
West Virginia 63, Texas 53

Big East quarters:
Villanova 108, St John's 67
Seton Hall 82, Marquette 76 - Marquette is probably the most vulnerable of these BE bubble teams
Xavier 62, Butler 57 - X took their sweet time getting to the lockbox; Butler will be a very annoying 4 seed because they can't stop losing stupid games
Creighton 70, Providence 58 - I think Provi is fine, but there's some confusing 3-team monte going on here with them and MU and XU and the committee could swerve a few different ways on them

B1G 2nd round:
Michigan 75, Illinois 55 - very clean result, we can punt Illinois from consideration pretty easily
Michigan St 78, Penn St 51 - disaster avoidance was all MSU needed this week
Indiana 95, Iowa 73 - get out of our bubble Iowa
Northwestern 83, Rutgers 61

SEC 2nd round:
Georgia 59, Tennessee 57 - Georgia:  not dead yet?  I can't rule it out
Alabama 75, Mississippi St 55
Vanderbilt 66, Texas A&M 41 - I'd still like to see one more signature win just to be sure on this one
Ole Miss 86, Missouri 74

Pac-12 quarters:
Oregon 80, Arizona St 57
California 78, Utah 75 - Cal will get the signature win chance it needs to make the tournament
Arizona 92, Colorado 78
UCLA 76, USC 74 - well, this'll be a long couple days for USC.  There might, might be enough here with bad loss avoidance but I won't be comfortable with them on either side of the bubble

AAC 1st round:
East Carolina 80, Temple 69
Tulsa 66, Tulane 60
UConn 77, South Florida 66

A-10 2nd round:
Davidson 82, LaSalle 73
St Bonaventure 73, UMass 60
George Mason 82, Fordham 71 (OT)
George Washington 53, St Louis 46

Mountain West quarters:
Nevada 83, Utah St 69
Fresno St 65, New Mexico 60
Colorado St 81, Air Force 55
San Diego St 87, Boise St 68 - could have NIT implications

MAC quarters:
Akron 79, Eastern Michigan 62
Ball St 66, Western Michigan 63
Ohio 67, Toledo 66
Kent St 68, Buffalo 65

CUSA quarters:
Middle Tennessee 86, Texas-San Antonio 70
UTEP 86, Rice 76
Louisiana Tech 69, UAB 57
Marshall 64, Old Dominion 63

WAC quarters:
Utah Valley 65, Seattle 53
New Mexico St 67, Chicago St 53
UMKC 82, Texas-Rio Grande Valley 78 (OT)

Big Sky quarters:
North Dakota 95, Portland St 72
Idaho 81, Montana 77
Eastern Washington 89, Sacramento St 70
Weber St 90, Southern Utah 70

Southland 2nd round:
Sam Houston St 63, Houston Baptist 59
Stephen F Austin 75, Lamar 59

Big West quarters:
UC-Davis 66, Cal Poly 55
Cal St-Fullerton 81, Cal St-Northridge 68
UC-Irvine 76, UC-Riverside 67
Long Beach St 73, Hawaii 62

MEAC quarters:
Howard 68, Morgan St 65
UMES 68, Hampton 66

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