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Hell, have you seen what happened to all the borderline teams today?

Cal also trying to disprove my theory that there's no such thing as a bad loss in the Pac 12.

Good news for Iowa and Iowa State, IMO, who both come out of today looking really good.

Top 3 seeds in the MEAC lost, top 2 seeds in the WAC lost. EDIT Also, Arkansas with a (yet another) bad road loss.

We're seriously trading 5th round minor league picks now? This is getting out of hand.

The committee generally prioritizes travel time over competitive balance within a seed, but overall they try to balance the competition among the 1-4 seeds.

If anything that's going on is confusing or I messed something up, just let me know.

I'd say UCLA just narrowly avoided a bad loss, but I'm not sure there are bad losses or good wins in the Pac 12.

That should be PSU's basketball tagline for the season.

Illini not named Brandon Paul made 8 shots this game.

Wait, I forgot that Gus Johnson was doing the game today... http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2013/03/14/brandon-pauls-buzzer-beater-in-the-big-ten-tournament-features-a-screaming-gus-johnson/

Illinois shot 32%, 25% from 3, had more fouls than Minnesota, and got outrebounded 36-24.

Maybe they'll catch Indiana napping tomorrow. They've probably completely forgotten about that game a month ago...

Minnesota is still a very quality team, and top 10 capable when they feel like playing hard. I'm not sure how much of that is on Tubby, though.

I'm not sure Brandon Paul has ever taken a good shot. Just bad shots that fall on occasion.

Egwu has come a long way this season. What we don't have is depth up front for when Egwu gets in foul trouble. Also, Paul takes months off, which is infuriating.

I am running on no sleep, so I choose not to make any decisions today...*project due*...[expletive].

If only they could actually get the ball to go in the basket.

I will say, after seeing the bubble and the teams that are already in the field, the Illini and Gophers are nowhere near the edge of the bubble.

And anyone can participate in the thread discussion, about the bracketing and what have you, since I don't really feel like talking to myself in here all week.

Updated the OP with the latest data. The last 5 meaningful conference tourney's start today (and the last Great West tourney, for the right to a CBI bid): -- Big West (KP #124 Pacific is a 25.7% favorite, 4 teams have a better than 15% chance though) -- Big Sky (KP #90 Weber State is a 48,5% favorite, and KP #147 Montana is just behind at 46.2%) -- A-10 (KP #17 VCU is a 34.6% favorite, with KP #21 St. Louis just behind at 30.3%) -- Big Ten (KP #2 Indiana is a 39.9% favorite) -- ACC (KP #5 Duke is a 47.4% favorite)

Next steps: 1) Rank the "Next 12 vote" teams in order. 2) Rank the lowest 8 among locks and auto bids (probably mostly one bid leagues) 3) Rank the next 12 best teams from among the teams left in the locks, auto bids, or consideration 4) Rank the remaining 25 teams in the consideration pool 5) Start the bracketing process, including regions and pods for the top 8 and bottom 8. Keep the bracketing rules in mind. This can be done just with thread discussion today. So send me 4 lists today and we'll get the bubble sorted out. Also, both half-decent teams in the MEAC lost in the quarters, so I think the MEAC winner may dip to the bottom of the S-Curve.

Feel free to double check my numbers, as I am sleepy. I'll verify in the morning and explain what is next.

Round 2 results: S-Curve (16): 1. Indiana 2. Duke 3. Louisville 4. Gonzaga 5. Kansas 6. Michigan State 7. Michigan 8. Georgetown ... 61. Big Sky (Weber State) 62. America East (Vermont) 63. James Madison (CAA) 64. Western Kentucky (Sun Belt) 65. MEAC (NC Central) 66. LIU Brooklyn (NEC) 67. SWAC (Southern) 68. Liberty (Big South) Next 12 vote: Arizona Florida Kansas State Marquette Miami New Mexico Ohio State Oklahoma State Pittsburgh St. Louis Syracuse Wisconsin Other auto bids/potential one-bid leagues (13): Florida Gulf Coast (A-Sun) Big West (Pacific) Valparaiso (Horizon) Harvard (Ivy) Iona (MAAC) MAC (Akron) Creighton (MVC) Belmont (OVC) Bucknell (Patriot) Southland (SF Austin) Davidson (SoCon) South Dakota State (Summit) WAC (Denver) At-Large locks (15): Butler Cincinnati Colorado State Illinois Memphis Minnesota Missouri North Carolina North Carolina State Notre Dame Oklahoma San Diego State UCLA UNLV VCU Consideration (25 teams for 3 to 12 available bids): Air Force Akron Alabama Arizona State Arkansas Baylor Boise State California Colorado Denver Iowa Iowa State Kentucky La Salle Maryland Middle Tennessee Mississippi Oregon St. Mary's Stanford Temple Tennessee Villanova Virginia Wichita State Off the board: BYU Dayton Louisiana Tech Providence Stephen F Austin Southern Miss UMass Washington

My selections for round 2: