Tourney Watch 3/9/22

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1 Gonzaga
2 Baylor
3 Arizona
4 Auburn
5 Kansas
6 Kentucky
7 Duke
8 Wisconsin
9 Purdue
10 Villanova
11 Tennessee
12 Texas Tech
13 UCLA
14 Illinois
15 Providence
16 Arkansas
17 UConn
18 Texas
19 Houston
20 Alabama
21 LSU
22 St Mary's
23 Iowa
24 Ohio St
25 Colorado St
26 Marquette
27 USC
28 Michigan St
29 Iowa St
30 Boise St
31 Seton Hall-vs Georgetown-won 57-53
32 TCU
33 North Carolina
34 Murray St
35 San Diego St
36 Creighton
37 Miami
38 Rutgers
39 San Francisco
40 Memphis
41 Notre Dame
42 Michigan
45 Loyola-Chi
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43 Wyoming
44 Xavier-vs Butler-lost 82-89
46 Davidson
47 Wake Forest-vs Boston College-lost 77-82
48 SMU
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69 Indiana
70 BYU
71 VCU
72 Florida
73 Dayton
74 Texas A&M
75 Oklahoma
76 Va Tech-vs Clemson won 76-75

Auto:
49 North Texas
50 South Dakota St
51 Iona-vs Rider-lost 70-71
52 Chattanooga
53 Toledo
54 New Mexico St
55 Vermont-vs Binghamton-won 74-42
56 Princeton
57 Montana St
58 Long Beach St
59 Georgia St
60 Colgate-vs Navy-won 74-58
61 Delaware
62 Longwood
63 Jacksonville St
64 Norfolk St-vs Delaware St-won 74-66
--------first 4----------
65 Nicholls St
66 Wright St
67 Bryant
68 Alcorn St-vs Prairie View A&M-won 64-63

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any bubble teams want to play today?

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Iona only up 1 with less than 4 minutes to go.

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Iona only up 1 with less than 4 minutes to go.

and they lose on a shot with about 7 seconds to go.

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Va Tech down 2 with about 8 seconds to go.

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Va Tech down 2 with about 8 seconds to go.

And gets a game winning 3 to advance. Tomorrow now vs Notre Dame with a chance to really get on the bubble.

[kayako]

Xavier's definitely gonna need help to even sneak in to Dayton. I had written a lengthy post involving every game left in the ACC, AAC, A10, B10, B12, PAC12, SEC, CUSA, and MW tournaments, but it's too long and a short summary below will do.

tl;dr version:
-Wyoming, SMU, and Indiana lose their first games.
-Dayton and VCU preferably lose Friday.
-Florida wins less than 2 games.
-No other bid thieves.

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Xavier's definitely gonna need help to even sneak in to Dayton. I had written a lengthy post involving every game left in the ACC, AAC, A10, B10, B12, PAC12, SEC, CUSA, and MW tournaments, but it's too long and a short summary below will do.

tl;dr version:
-Wyoming, SMU, and Indiana lose their first games.
-Dayton and VCU preferably lose Friday.
-Florida wins less than 2 games.
-No other bid thieves.

I'd probably add in there as one of the short summary type of things Oklahoma losing 1st game. I think Oklahoma winning there to get to 18-14 gets them very dangerous. Not saying they'd be in for sure- but yeah wouldn't want to take that chance either.

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I'd probably add in there as one of the short summary type of things Oklahoma losing 1st game. I think Oklahoma winning there to get to 18-14 gets them very dangerous. Not saying they'd be in for sure- but yeah wouldn't want to take that chance either.

That would be ideal. They beat Baylor and suddenly the talk will heat up with them.

Honestly, I doubt Xavier survives Friday. But if we can get just 3 expected results tomorrow with UNLV, Oklahoma, and Michigan winning, suddenly Xavier has some life heading into Friday.

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I'd probably add in there as one of the short summary type of things Oklahoma losing 1st game. I think Oklahoma winning there to get to 18-14 gets them very dangerous. Not saying they'd be in for sure- but yeah wouldn't want to take that chance either.

That would be ideal. They beat Baylor and suddenly the talk will heat up with them.

Honestly, I doubt Xavier survives Friday. But if we can get just 3 expected results tomorrow with UNLV, Oklahoma, and Michigan winning, suddenly Xavier has some life heading into Friday.

Oklahoma beating Baylor does absolutely nothing to help Xavier out at all. UNLV and Michigan sure those 2 help out- especially Michigan. Wyoming losing to UNLV wouldn't be totally fatal probably for Wyoming compared to Xavier- would be a Q2 loss instead of a Q3 loss- and they were shown ahead of Xavier going into today.

I think the big place where Xavier needs help is the A10. They need Davidson to win and for VCU and Dayton to not meet in the A10 SF.