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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 5370355, member: 1969"]
[B]Bubble Busters  [/B] (Teams that get into the tournament only by winning their conference, and it removes a bubble team)

[B]Last year there was 5 bubble busters -- typically there is 1 maybe 2.[/B]   It was a crazy tournament week -- and it happened both at the mid-major level (common) and major level (very uncommon) I believe the teams were Oregon, New Mexico, Drake, NC St, UAB

Teams to track the following few weeks

[B]Memphis (AAC) - [/B]They are getting in regardless - currently a projected 7 seed.   They are 16-2.   But North Texas and UAB could still a bid from somebody
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VCU (A-10) - [/B]Currently projected as a 10 seed, they have good chances of getting in without winning the A-10.   The A-10 is a common bubble buster as we have seen ourselves in 2017.
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Drake (MVC) UCSan Diego) [/B]These are borderline at large teams.   I'm not sure either gets an at-large if they lose, especially based on committee precedence, but if Syracuse was a bubble team you just want Drake to lock it up.

Drake is 2-0 in Q1, 3-0 in Q2 ...but a weakish 10-3 in Q3 games.  The wins are borderline Q1 (Neutral Vanderbilt, and at Kansas St).    Personally I would put them in - I always give these teams the benefit of the doubt.

To me 26-3, and 5-0 in Q1+Q2, no matter the teams means you should get in somewhere.
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