This whole thing is a lot like the NCAA b'ball bubble

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We're really talking about a dozen or so teams looking to fill the magical 64 slots to have a shot a playing with the big boys.

There's resumes for every school under consideration:

• Instead of Strength of Schedule, we have Location (market share)
• Instead of Quality Wins, we have Quality of Academics

We were seemingly the first "bubble team" to get their name called for the Selection Show.

However, this Selection Show will last a lot longer than 1 hour on a Sunday afternoon in March, and this time there's no "Wait 'til next year" scenario.