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Message: [QUOTE="jdubs30, post: 1678891, member: 1620"] That's 10-4...I'll take it. Like you said Wichita will cost the field a bid and OSU might be in now...but Butler and South Carolina were in already most likely, so they wouldn't replace us in the field. I'm sure jncuse will do his thing, but at first glance, here's games today that could effect us with the bolded teams being who we should root for: [B]SMU[/B] @ Cincy - no brainer here, a win vs. a top 25 team would be huge for the Bearcats [B]UCF[/B] @ UConn - a must win for UConn, but it doesn't lock them in. They can't afford a bad loss at home with their possible matchup in the AAC tourney being Cincinnati Temple @[B] Tulane [/B]- I guess the positive is Temple/UConn can't help themselves TOO much today, but W's help them say afloat [B]Nebraska [/B]@ Northwestern - I don't think NW has much of a shot, but who knows if they make a run in the B10 tourney and beat some really teams along the way. Nebraska is 14-16 so this would be a bad loss. Fairfield @ [B]Monmouth[/B] - Want to avoid a Wichita type situation here, obviously. If Monmouth adavnces, they will face a really tough challenge in Iona/Siena -- Iona is the better team so we probably want Siena to win that one to make it as easy as possible for Monmouth Wisconsin @[B] Purdue[/B] - Meh, Wisconsin is already in. Even if they lose today and in round 1 of the conference tournament they are probably fine. That's it for today. Only things that could really hurt us: Cincy winning - CBS (as of their last updated Bracket last night) has Cincy as #1 in the First Four Out list. Obviously a win vs. SMU would put them in for now. They can really help themselves the most today. Monmouth losing - self explanatory It'd be nice if Tulane and UCF pulled the upsets, but it doesn't seem likely. Good thing for us is those wins don't do much for the resumes either. Looking at the whole field/bubble, a loss to Pitt wouldn't be the dagger. Although it puts us in the really tough spot that chalk has to win pretty much every conference tournament and we can't have bubble teams winning. CBS has us as a 10 seed (I'm not sure where we rank on the 10 line though) -- which means there's a slight buffer for us right now. Remember, in order for us to be moved out of our spot in the field, someone has to move in for us -- and as of today that hasn't happened. Oregon State and Wichitas loss probably stole someones spot, but it most likely wasn't ours; we could be out of space if 2 or 3 teams jump us though. Thoughts jncuse? [/QUOTE]

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