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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 1674856, member: 1969"]
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Assessing tonight   (my view anyway)[/B]

Snoozed off early, now I woke up in middle of the night.   Just caught up on a few results.

Note - I am starting to talk  "Second Last Team in", because on average we can expect maybe 2 bubble busters.   So that is the expected line come Selection Sunday.

[I][U]One negative[/U] [/I]- A team just on the outside (St Bonnie) got a top 50 win tonight.  Obviously somebody falls out, but as of now. just the LAST team out and the second last team in, are stronger today than yesterday.

Don't really buy the argument that this was the good result tonight because it improved our RPI by a fraction.   People that are focusing on our individual RPI at this point, rather than actual wins / losses by us and others, are taking the wrong viewpoint at this time.

The good is that everything is fluid.   2 teams around the bubble line lost to non tourney teams (Pitt and Alabama).   So 2 is better than 1.   The LAST team out / SECOND LAST team in certainly improved tonight vs. yesterday only.   But there is a week to play, so what is more important is not that the line has  moved up a bit today, but that the teams around the line still weakened tongight.   It will benefit later.

The pool of teams on the "outside" took a bit of a hit.  The last team in is stronger today -- Tulsa.  But after that Alabama took a hit, and Creighton had a chance to streak its way in.     The last 4 now looks to be Tulsa, Gonzaga, Temple and Stanford.  So it is definetely weaker.

As an aside not sure that Oregon St took much of a hit losing a road game against a tourney team.
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