The home stretch
Not too many things went wrong yesterday, although a few late results were potentially troubling (USC, Baylor).
Bubble teams will be hoping these things happen today:
USC loses to Arizona State in the Pac-10 title game.
Auburn loses to Tennessee in the SEC title game.
Baylor loses to Missouri in the Big 12 title game.
All three of those teams are underdogs, although USC is only a slim one (1.5 points).
Utah St. beats Nevada to win the WAC. Although USU is still isn’t guaranteed an at-large if they lose, it would really make things murkier than they already are.
Maryland and San Diego St. are interesting, I feel they are already in but a lot of folks disagree. The A-10 is also interesting, it would be hard to leave out Temple at this point, but losing to Duqesne doesn’t make a strong case.
One thing for sure, I will miss Billy Packer tomorrow on CBS as he laments about how big conference schools like Arizona and Florida didn’t get bids.