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And neither had P5 HC experience when they were given the job at their current schools. Which is one of the reasons I keep arguing for hiring the best young rising coach instead of a mid-career to late-career guy.

Rowan Brumbaugh turnover may have saved this for Memphis. Refs kind of let Haggerty get away with stuff in making the steal, but I'm not complaining.

Should be a good block, not a goaltend.

Memphis Tulane going down to the wire

At the top of the page, you will see each named bracket. Underneath it you will see the date of last update that the matrix has plugged in. If you click on the name of the bracket, it will take you to that bracketwizarian's page. Sometimes you will find a new update. I haven't checked to see if any of the 3/14 brackets have updated. This late in the bracketzoo season, the matrix helpfully separates the brackets updated that morning with ones that are a day or more old by inserting another column of team names.

Sorry, Texas was on 34 of the brackets that haven't updated.

It's important at this point to count only the brackets that updated that morning. Colorado State and Boise State profile much better today than they did yesterday. 45 brackets haven''t yet updated today. Texas was on 37 of those, Boise State was on 8, and Colorado State was on none. So you can see how much better BSU and CSU do with the updated bracket.

Might be hard to get a good hire there, what with all the States leaving to join Oregon and Washington State in the reconfigured Pac Not Even Close to 12, even if UNLV is trying to somehow wrangle an invite into a P4 conference.

But no q2 losses. We have 5 of those. Combined q1-q2 record for Indiana is 9-13. For Texas it is 10-15. Both teams suffered nukings and both teams suffered close losses to tournament worthy opponents. I know the committee claims that it gives no regard to conference affiliation when it deals out bids, but I think a lot of people will have a hard time swallowing 14 of 16 SEC teams making the field. By now, everyone on the committee has memorized each bubble team's quad breakdown, so members will know who they are voting for and against even without seeing the name of the team.

Ok, not looking good in the matrix this morning. 36 brackets updates this morning. Indiana seems safe, being on 28 of those. Boise State is on 20. Colorado State would get the last spot, being on 17. However, some of the BSU/CSU votes might reflect autobids being awarded, so it is kind of hard to tell which team is more highly regarded by the matrix at this point. Bracketurds going by NET ranking to create a favorite to win the tournament would pick Boise State. If they go by regular season conference standings, they would pick Colorado State. Of the 8 bracketwats that put both in, 4 have CSU seeded 11th and BSU 12th, 3 have BSU seeded 11th and CSU 12th, and one has both as a 12 seed. Texas is on 14. Xavier is on 12. UNC is on 7. So I guess we go all in rooting for Boise State today.

Villanova just fired Neptune.

1. Right now, I'm a solid maybe, but I'm a solid no if VCU, Memphis, or UC San Diego lose in conference tournament finals. 2. Absolutely But let's get real here. The tournament is too big. Go back to 64 teams and do away with the play-in games.

Texas was on about 6 more brackets that updated yesterday morning than UNC, and Xavier was running about 10 behind UNC, so the matrix had us in a very slight lead for the last spot. Even if the matrix is correct in havng Texas nose out UNC and Xavier, we are at risk of losing that last spot to an upset tournament champ in the A10, Big West, or AAC. Even Colorado State beating Boise State could cause problems.

Or VCU losing in the A10, or Uc San Diego losing in the Big West, or several other things. I can't think of another team that missed the tournament with 7 Q1 wins, but we very well may become the first if there are no precedents.

And Boise State beats UNM. Texas is probably now on the outside looking in.

Oh boy. Boise State up a point and with ball with 2:13 left.

UC San Diego is nuking UC Santa Barbara in the second half. It should be a tournament at large by now, but let us hope it gets the Big West autobid. Boise State down 2 to UNM with 12:15 left.

Mark still could have eligibility if he gets a medical exemption for 2021-22, so we could have anywhere between 7 to 13 roster spots depending on who bolts in the offseason, including our only guy on an NIL. They've been known to back out when a coaching change occurs. So . . . a new coach will be starting from scratch. Even if any of our guys return, there isn't a proven scorer in the bunch, unless you want to count Mark. And I have ALWAYS been a huge fan of Weaver. Do you realize he is our only 40% 3pt shooter this year among players who have attempted more than 2 threes? Ok, small sample size, but that dude is impressive as hell in so many respects. He still needs to work on first step on defense so he isn't playing from behind so often, but the ball never sticks with him on offense when he is in the game, he boards like a maniac, and give him minutes and watch good things happen.

I agree. Weird thing was that we won 3 out of 4 games we were supposed to lose before playing Tennessee today and lost 3 of 4 games we were favored to win. Vandy game was a push.

Refs worked hard all second half to give UNC chances to get that win, but that lane violation . . . Wow.

UNC down 21 at the half to Duke minus Cooper Flagg.

55 updated brackets, and we are on 40 of them, making us the very last team in according to the matrix. UNC is on 41. Indiana is on 46. Xavier is our closest chaser and on 31. Boise State is on 11.

Looks like Iowa is pulling the plug on McCaffery. I wonder if this is due to fear McCollum will be hired somewhere else if Iowa doesn't act now.

VCU won by 17. Memphis fell behind early, but it leads by 10 at the half.

Has Mark officially declared he will not seek a medical exemption for 2021-22? The 5 in 5 rule with no exceptions hasn't passed yet, has it?