Field of 68 Snapshot Through March 8: 6 Available At-Large Bids

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UPDATED THROUGH: Monday, March 8 games

Here's a breakdown of how I view the Field of 68 and (potential) bubble teams as we dive head first into Championship Week. I will update this post daily until at least Friday morning. The next opponent for non-"Locked & Loaded" teams is noted in parentheses. ALL CAPS bold indicates already earned automatic bid. Enjoy Championship Week!

CURRENT AVAILABLE AT-LARGE BIDS: 6

AUTOMATIC BIDS/AUTO BID PLACEHOLDERS (highest remaining seed) (32)
America East #1 Vermont
American: #1 Houston
ACC: #1 Duke
ASUN: #1 JACKSONVILLE STATE (courtesy Bellarmine)
Atlantic 10: #1 Davidson
Big East: #1 Providence
Big Sky: #1 Montana State
Big South: #1 LONGWOOD
Big Ten: #1 Illinois
Big XII: #1 Kansas
Big West: #1 Long Beach
Colonial: #5 DELAWARE
Conference USA: #1 North Texas
Horizon: #4 WRIGHT
Ivy: #1 Princeton
MAAC: #1 Iona
MAC: #1 Toledo
MEAC: #1 Norfolk
Missouri Valley: #4 LOYOLA-CHICAGO
Mountain West: #1 Boise
NEC: #1 BRYANT
OVC: #1 MURRAY
Pac 12: #1 Arizona
Patriot: #1 Colgate
SEC: #1 Auburn
SoCon: #1 CHATTANOOGA
Southland: #1 Nicholls
SWAC: #1 Alcorn
Summit: #1 SOUTH DAKOTA STATE
Sun Belt: #3 GEORGIA STATE
WCC: #1 GONZAGA
WAC: #1 New Mexico State

LOCKED & LOADED (30)
1 Alabama
2 Arkansas
3 Baylor
4 Colorado State
5 Creighton
6 Iowa
7 Iowa State
8 Kentucky
9 LSU
10 Marquette
11 Memphis
12 Miami-Florida
13 Michigan State
14 North Carolina
15 Ohio State
16 Purdue
17 Rutgers
18 Saint Mary's
19 San Diego State
20 San Francisco
21 Seton Hall
22 Tennessee
23 Texas
24 TCU
25 Texas Tech
26 UCLA
27 UConn
28 USC
29 Villanova
30 Wisconsin

1 CONFERENCE TOURNEY WIN LOCKS IT UP (2)
1 Michigan (Thursday: vs. Indiana)
2 Notre Dame (Thursday: vs. Virginia Tech/Clemson)

SQUARELY ON THE BUBBLE (10)
1 BYU (season complete)
2 Dayton (Friday: vs. George Washington/UMass)
3 Florida (Thursday: vs. Texas A&M)
4 Indiana (Thursday: vs. Michigan)
5 Oklahoma (Thursday: vs. Baylor)
6 SMU (Friday: vs. Wichita/Tulsa)
7 VCU (Friday: vs. Richmond/Rhode Island/Duquesne)
8 Wake Forest (Wednesday: vs. Boston College)
9 Wyoming (Thursday: vs. UNLV)
10 Xavier (Wednesday: vs. Butler)

LONGSHOT (3) -- must win at least 2 to get on the bubble
1 Texas A&M (Thursday: vs. Florida)
2 Virginia (Wednesday: vs. Louisville)
3 Virginia Tech (Wednesday: vs. Clemson)
 
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1. How many games do we think Indiana needs to win, two?
2. Not used to Virginia being on the outside looking in.
3. I would be surprised if BYU made it, San Fransico got off to a slow start last night but "only" lost by 10.
4. Summit league should be a good game tonight, Jacks stomped instate rival last night.
5. Horizon lost top two seeds so it will be hard to pick them to win a tourney game
6. Can St. Mary's beat Zags again?
7. I love March
 

If Indiana beats Michigan and Illinois my thought is they're more than likely in, but anything less than that, I don't think Selection Sunday will end well for the Hoosiers.
 



Seems crazy that Wake is a bubble team at 23-8 (13-7). Then you look at their schedule and realize that they played a worse NC schedule than the Gophers....and that they are playing in a garbage ACC conference.

On the verge of losing to a bad Boston College team. Might seal their fate.
 


Blows my mind that San Fran is still in. Not saying SS is wrong at all, he does great work and everyone has them in as of now so I must be off. 23-9, 10-6 in the WCC, 0-6 against top 25 teams, and have played 10 quad 4 games. I don't get it.
 

MinnGopher said:
Blows my mind that San Fran is still in. Not saying SS is wrong at all, he does great work and everyone has them in as of now so I must be off. 23-9, 10-6 in the WCC, 0-6 against top 25 teams, and have played 10 quad 4 games. I don't get it.
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I'm with you. Can't wrap my head around how their NET ranking is so high.
 




Good night Xavier, they're missing that stud of an assistant they lost
 

MinnGopher said:
Blows my mind that San Fran is still in. Not saying SS is wrong at all, he does great work and everyone has them in as of now so I must be off. 23-9, 10-6 in the WCC, 0-6 against top 25 teams, and have played 10 quad 4 games. I don't get it.
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Don't pick them to win a game in the tourney
 

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