Someone wanted a bubble watch in the previous thread but it died before I could finish one. I did one a week or two ago, but man have things changed since then. Vanderbilt has resurrected from the dead, USC, Florida, and Michigan have tumbled, and Houston has come out of nowhere to crash the party. The Big East, A-10, American, and SEC tournaments next week all figure to be super important in determining the field of 68, while bid steals could potentially come from the Horizon, MAAC, and WCC tournaments already underway. Wichita state going down earlier today is likely to be our first bid steal of tournament season.
>Saturday Games of Note
#1 Kansas (85) #21 Iowa State (78)
#2 Michigan State (91) Ohio State (76)
#3 Villanova (84) Georgetown (71)
#4 Virginia (68) #11 Louisville (46)
#5 Xavier (98) Creighton (93)
#6 Oklahoma (75) TCU (67)
Virginia Tech (77) #7 Miami (62)
#8 North Carolina (76) #17 Duke (72)
#9 Oregon (76) USC (66)
#10 West Virginia (69) #19 Baylor (58)
#13 Utah (57) Colorado (55)
#16 Iowa (71) Michigan (61)
#18 Arizona (94) Stanford (62)
#20 Texas A&M (76) Vanderbilt (67)
#22 Kentucky (94) LSU (77)
#25 Cal (68) ASU (65)
>Ivy League
Yale (71) Columbia (55)
>Yale clinches Ivy league Automatic Bid
>OVC Championship Game
8 seed Austin Peay (83) 2 seed Tennessee-Martin (73)
>MVC Semifinals
4 seed Northern Iowa (57) 1 seed Wichita State (52) OT
>Other Games of Interest
Davidson (87) George Washington (80)
Duquesne (78) St. Joe's (70)
St. Bonaventure (76) St. Louis (67)
Dayton (68) VCU (67)
Florida State (78) Syracuse (73)
Georgia Tech (63) Pitt (59)
Tulsa (84) South Florida (74)
Butler (95) Marquette (74)
Providence (90) St. John's (76)
San Diego State (92) UNLV (56)
Oregon State (86) UCLA (82)
Georgia (70) Alabama (63)
South Carolina (76) Arkansas (61)
Florida (82) Missouri (72)
>WCC Quarterfinals
Saint Mary's (60) Loyola Marymount (48)
Gonzaga (92) Portland (67)
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>Sunday Viewing Guide
#24 SMU@Cincinnati (12 PM, CBS)
UCF@Connecticut (2 PM, ESPNU)
Temple@Tulane (2 PM, ESPN3)
MVC Championship Game: Northern Iowa vs Evansville (2 PM, CBS)
Big South Championship: UNC Asheville vs. Winthrop (2:30 PM, ESPN2)
#14 Maryland@#12 Indiana (4:30, CBS)
MAAC Semifinal: Monmouth vs Fairfield (4:30, ESPN3)
A-Sun Championship: Stetson vs Florida Gulf Coast (7:00, ESPN2)
>Stetson is ineligible for the tournament, so if they win regular season champion North Florida will receive the bid
Wisconsin@#15 Purdue (7:30, BTN)
>Tournament Buzzer Beaters so far
Holy Cross
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev2-d2xwNEk
Presbyterian
https://youtu.be/mIbFiX26ZcY?t=3m6s
This thread is dedicated to Damian Lillard, who can score 50 in the NBA, but couldn't win the fucking Big Sky tournament once in his 4 years at Weber State.
>>65997443
>>65997569
Nicely done.
Mercy bump. I created the last /cbb/ and every thread I've made last year have only made under 150 posts. /dp/ is gull of underrage
>>65997569
Thank you my african american, i forgot that we had a game today.
Looks like an easy win on paper...
>>65997443
>st bonaventure
Pls no
I can see LSU getting in simply for Ben Simmons playing in the tourney.
>>66003195
Talk is that they have to get to the SEC championship to even be considered. But they might just have to win the tournament to get the auto
That's the old, slightly less retarded Houston logo. The new one is Thundercats tier.
>>66003311
Oh I know. I can see them putting LSU in just because, "we gotta have the projected #1 Draft pick in there".
Are Marquette the favorites to win the Big Sky and make it into the NCAA tournament?
>yfw NIU wins the MAC and memes their way out of the first round
Literally anybody can win the conference tournament this year, I'm pretty pumped to see how it goes
>>66003801
Tons of MACtion potential?
>>65997443
who /NIT/ here? Me and my roommates all agreed to get NIT champions t-shirts if our school wins it.
>>66003882
Definitely for the conference tourny. There hasn't been any non-conference shenanigans this season, so I'm thinking that'll come in the form of a major first round upset.
>>66004171
I watched the Akron vs Kent st game the other day just because it was a great mascot game
>tfw from NJ and still dumbfounded that Monmouth University is doing this well
It's literally a school for rich kids who can't get into Princeton
>>66004262
>mascot game
like in NCAA football where all their stats were maxed out? I'll never understand why Akron's mascot is literally a kangaroo and what a "golden flash" ever is. But then again, I don't care enough to Google
>>66004318
DUDE BENCH CELEBRATIONS LMAO
>>66004366
tbf it was pretty funny at first
>>66004342
HOL UP
A zip is a kangaroo? I thought that thing they drew under each basket was some fictional thing
>>66004483
kek I always thought that too, but yeah. A zip actually is a god damn kangaroo
>>66004483
Apparently a "zip" was a popular shoe in the 20's...
>The Zips name is unique in college athletics and comes from "zippers", rubber overshoes made by the BF Goodrich Company that were popular in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1925, a campus-wide contest had been conducted to choose a nickname for the university's athletic teams. Suggestions submitted by students, faculty, and alumni included Golden Blue Devils, Tip Toppers, Rubbernecks, Hillbillies, Kangaroos, and Cheveliers. The winner, freshman Margaret Hamlin, received a prize of $10 for "Zippers". Athletic director Kenneth Cochrane officially shortened the nickname to Zips in 1950. The university's mascot is "Zippy", a kangaroo. Zippy is one of only a few female college mascots in the United States.
I still don't know where the kangaroo part fits in, but hey whatever
We've gone back from absolutely shitting on everyone back to being once again the Big 10's biggest trolls. Feels nostalgic.
NCAA Tourney predictions who wins it all in Houston
Will a mid major break through to win it all
Will a 16 seed beat 1 seed in the first round
Name your Final Four motherfuckers
>>66003195
Ben Simmons is too good, I hope he does reconsider to stay next year for LSU unless that school can get a good recruiting trail like Kentucky.
>>66003376
Old logos are more intimidating than the new ones.
>>66005200
>Ben Simmons
>stay
He is failing all of his classes because he doesn't give a fuck. He couldn't even pull a 2.00 to stay in the wooden watch
>>66002780
Wow, I really fucked that post up. I really need to proofread when I post
>>66004827
>golden blue devils
>tip toppers
Top kek sounds like Akron had some OG shitposters
>>66005072
Feels great
>Memetucky last year
>bucks drop GS Memeiors
>Badgers tearing top teams a new asshole
The last 365 days have felt great
>>66005721
>greatest coach in history gets caught cheating with a tranny
>>66005263
Of course the NBA won't baby when he's becomes a rookie of year then slowly descend to shit around three years.
