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NCAA Basketball: My Field of 68
A-Sun (1) Auto: Lipscomb Bubble None America East (1) Auto: Bryant Bubble: None AAC (1) Auto: Memphis Bubble: None Atlantic-10 (1) Auto: VCU Bubble (In): None Bubble (Out): Dayton, George Mason Dayton won three Quadrant 1 games and lost to North Carolina by two and Iowa State by five. Win one of those games and we would have […]
College Basketball: A Look at the NCAA Tournament
The race for the #1 seeds Can Auburn, Duke, or Houston blow a #1 seed this week? Not likely. Duke has done enough to keep their position, though a loss to the Georgia Tech/Virginia winner could drop them. Auburn has 16 Quadrant 1 wins and ranks #1 in Wins Above Bubble, which the committee looks at. […]
Conference Tournament Preview: CAA
History: The CAA has changed through the years and last won an NCAA Tournament game 13 years ago (VCU). William & Mary has never received a bid to the NCAA Tournament. They are one of three “original” Division I schools with that distinction (Army, the Citadel). Elon has also never made it to the Big Dance. Returning Champion: […]
Conference Tournament Preview: WCC
History: The West Coast Conference is all about Gonzaga and (to a lesser extent) St. Mary’s. They have won every title since 2009, with Gonzaga winning 12 and St. Mary’s winning four. Additionally, the only other school to participate in the finals during this timeframe is BYU, which made it there four times. Returning Champion: St. Mary’s stopped Gonzaga’s […]
Conference Tournament Preview: Missouri Valley
History: Once a multi-bid league, the Missouri Valley has become a 1-bid conference in recent years. In 2024, an argument was made for Indiana State to earn an at-large, but they were amongst the first four teams excluded. The last time they received an at-large bid was Drake in 2021. Drake has won back-to-back championships and has made […]
Conference Tournament Preview: Summit League
History: South Dakota State (7), North Dakota State (4), and Oral Roberts (2) are the only winners of this tournament from 2012 – 2024. Oral Roberts was the talk of the town in the 2021 NCAA Tournament. The Golden Eagles, as a #15 seed, knocked off Ohio State and Florida on their way to the Sweet 16. In the Sweet 16, they lost to […]
Conference Tournament Preview: Northeast Conference
History: The Northeast Conference and #16 seeds go hand-in-hand. That isn’t always bad, as Fairleigh Dickinson pulled off one of the biggest upsets in NCAA Tournament history when they knocked off #1 Purdue in the 2023 NCAA Tournament. My favorite fun fact from that season is that FDU didn’t even win the conference tournament. That honor […]
Conference Tournament Preview: Ohio Valley
History: The days of Murray State (18 titles) battling it out with Belmont (3) are long gone. The only current squad with more than two championships is Morehead State, a 6-time winner with an NCAA Tournament upset over Louisville in 2011. While this conference has produced plenty of good teams, this year’s edition doesn’t have a dominant team that would avoid a […]
Conference Tournament Preview: Big South
History: Winthrop has won 33% of the Big South’s conference championships (13 of 39). The Eagles are also the last team to win an NCAA Tournament game (2007, when they defeated Notre Dame in an 11-vs-6 game). Traditionally, this isn’t a conference you look to for an NCAA Tournament upset, though their 2025 NET conference […]
Conference Tournament Preview: Sun Belt
History: The storied Sun Belt had at-large credentials in the past but hasn’t sent multiple teams to the NCAA Tournament since 2013. The conference has many transformations over the years and six current squads have won the tournament. Last season, James Madison became the first squad since Little Rock in 2016 to win an NCAA Tournament game. Returning Champion: […]