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Gonzaga, Siena, VCU and Chattanooga all win auto bids today, pulling them out of the at-large pool.
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I'm thinking both WCC teams get in regardless. Also, I just read that St. Mary's added a game against Eastern Washington this Friday. How odd is that? That doesn't seem legal unless it's a make-up game. They still had an available game, I think, due to the preseason tournament they played. I think the sole reason they're doing this is to get Mills some extra playing time before the postseason.
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Reminder to get your top 16 locks and top 8 considerations to me by the end of the night tonight to make them count. As for my picks, critique away (Illinois-free!): 1. North Carolina 2. Pittsburgh 3. Connecticut 4. Michigan State 5. Louisville 6. Duke 7. Oklahoma 8. Memphis 9. Wake Forest 10. Kansas 11. Villanova 12. Gonzaga 13. Missouri 14. UCLA 15. Syracuse 16. Washington Considerations: 1. West Virginia 2. BYU 3. Utah 4. Wisconsin 5. Texas 6. California 7. Ohio State 8. Oklahoma State
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Actual at-large bids are on the line tonight with the WCC (St. Mary's-Gonzaga), MAAC (Niagara-Siena), Colonial (VCU-George Mason) and Southern (Charleston-Chattanooga) championships. In addition, two teams in their first year in Division 1 basketball both reached the semis of the Summit league tournament in North Dakota State and South Dakota State.
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As a fan of a team in danger of falling to a 6 seed, I'd pay good money to get LSU as a 3 seed in my bracket.
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To reiterate... Current auto-bids (5): East Tennessee State, Radford, Cornell, Northern Iowa, Morehead State Current at-large locks (25): Arizona State, Butler, Clemson, Connecticut, Duke, Florida State, Gonzaga, Illinois, Kansas, Louisville, LSU, Marquette, Memphis, Michigan State, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pittsburgh, Purdue, Syracuse, UCLA, Villanova, Wake Forest, Washington, Xavier Current other teams in consideration (49): Arizona, Auburn, Boston College, BYU, California, Cincinnati, Creighton, Davidson, Dayton, Florida, Georgetown, Green Bay, Houston, Illinois State, Kansas State, Kentucky, Maryland, Miami, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Niagara, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma State, Penn State, Providence, Rhode Island, San Diego State, Siena, South Carolina, St. Mary's, Temple, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M, Tulsa, UAB, UNLV, USC, Utah, Utah State, VCU, Virginia Tech, Washington State, West Virginia, Wisconsin Current step of the process is for people to list the top 16 out of the locks and the top 8 out of the "other teams". 8 additional "other teams" will make the current at-large list 33, one shy of the 34 that exist. Eventually, at-large locks will win their conference tournaments (hopefully?), and other spots will open up.
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Really, really slim chance at this point. Possibly better than Creighton, but Illinois State had a better profile last year and didn't get an at-large (actually, that was the one team we missed on last year).
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Z, just so you know, the official "locks" for this committee are listed in the first post, so teams like WVU, Cal, Texas, and Wisconsin are not locks, per say, yet.
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I'm sure you just accidentally glossed over them, but how do you not have Louisville as a lock? His rep is Louisville, so he's not allowed to vote for them.
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Correct, unless they're called up to the majors during the year.
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Northern Iowa won the MVC, which takes them out of consideration for an at-large bid and puts them on the auto-bid list.
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Well, they're on the board, which is better than they can say for any other season we've done this so far.
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Not quite as much conspiracy theory as the one where Michael Jordan's baseball career was a self-imposed 2-year suspension for gambling. Definitely weird, though.
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So we can select players who are not yet listed at CBS?
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You don't like Cal?
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At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't a single SEC team at a top 8 seed.
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Like I said before, I really like MSU's profile at this point.
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That's fine to make changes, just make sure I'm aware of them or I won't notice. :)
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I'd love that. That would be a great story. That's partially my thought too. When you've got all these bubble teams losing down the stretch, and basically looking like crap. Then you have the team that's never made the tournament finishing strong, do you really want to make them one of the first 4 out? Heck, I don't think they even need 3 more wins to get in. A win today and I'd put them ahead of Ohio State and Minnesota just in the Big Ten pecking order, no matter what happens next week.
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Hey, Illinois gets the 2 seed anyway.
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Draft order: 1 Saber Metrics - Buster Posey 2 The Fighting Manginos - Gordon Beckham 3 Valenzuela's Screwballs - Tim Beckham 4 Lynx - Eric Hosmer 5 Severe Tooterstorms - Aaron Hicks 6 NC Cubs - Jason Castro 7 Tampa Bay Rays 8 Quakers 9 Harrys Budcrew 10 The Eyes of Texas 11 Northside Baseball 12 Alamo Stealth 13 Galesburg Hand Sanitizers 14 Tootielicious 15 Fuzzy Logistics 16 Raw Dawgs
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Morehead wins!
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OVC title game is tied with 30 seconds to play on ESPN2. EDIT: And Morehead State takes a 2-point lead with 6 seconds to play on an alleyoop. Yes, Morehead State is the actual name of a D-1 university.
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Well, if we're starting and I'm first and any available prospect is fair game, I'll draft Buster Posey.
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Northern Iowa vs. Illinois State for the MVC title tomorrow after ISU blew out Creighton by 25. Could very well be a one-bid league this year. Added Radford and East Tennessee State to the auto-bid list.
