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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 3315082, member: 1969"]
As conference tournaments are now starting here is the potential bubble busters.

Southern - [B]East Tennessee St loses[/B] - An 11 seed on the matrix, they have the best chance of being a bubble buster of the low tier mid-majors.

A-10 - [B]Dayton Loses[/B], it will mean a team that is currently on the outside will get in.  If they do lose you hope that it is Richmond or Rhode Island as they may have already been considered in.

MWC - [B]San Diego St Loses.  [/B]This might only be a one bid league.  Utah St is very close to an at-large.

American - [B]Houston Loses - [/B]Wichita St and Cincy may get at larges as well, but certainly best if Houston wins the conference tourney.

Other teams who would be longshots as at-large bubble busters are Northern Iowa (MVC), Yale (Ivy), Stone Cold Steve Austin (Southland), Liberty (Atlantic Sun).  Not that I would expect they get in, but to be safe a bubble team would want them all to win their conference tourney.   From a Syracuse perspective if we don't make and NCAAT run, it might help our NIT seed.

As usual there is always a risk of a massive surprise in a power conference, but that is extremely rare.  I don't see bubble busters in any of the following conferences:
Big 10
Big 12
Pac 12
Big East
ACC 
SEC
WCC (Gonzaga, BYU, St. Mary;s)
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