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In some cases...pounded. I suspect perhaps 7 of the following...

Hampton
Yale
Michigan
Cincinnati
UConn
Colorado
Tulsa
Gonzaga

All of the above potentially in - pending conference Tournament play... but I suspect that only 2 of the AACs will get in.

Michigan and Gonzaga need to win a few in their tourneys.

From here on out, I am rooting for all of these teams the rest of the way - I hope that they all get in and go to the Sweet 16.

Got to have someone to root for at this point...

Add Grand Canyon U to the list of those to cheer for. Hopefully they win out. What a great story and their staff is recruiting their [deleted] off. They were in it deep for Tom Wilson.

If you cant tell I always cheer for the underdog

SMUstangs22 wrote:Add Grand Canyon U to the list of those to cheer for. Hopefully they win out. What a great story and their staff is recruiting their [deleted] off. They were in it deep for Tom Wilson.

If you cant tell I always cheer for the underdog

I hope they make the WAC finals. Then I hope they lost to NMSU

Grand Canyon U beat Houston this season. Thunder Dan Majerle.

Adding Grand Canyon to my list of teams to root for - loved Thunder Dan.

Do they run an up-tempo offense with lots of threes? That is what I seem to remember from those Suns teams...

PonyTime wrote:In some cases...pounded. I suspect perhaps 7 of the following...

Hampton
Yale
Michigan
Cincinnati
UConn
Colorado
Tulsa
Gonzaga

All of the above potentially in - pending conference Tournament play... but I suspect that only 2 of the AACs will get in.

Michigan and Gonzaga need to win a few in their tourneys.

From here on out, I am rooting for all of these teams the rest of the way - I hope that they all get in and go to the Sweet 16.

Got to have someone to root for at this point...

This is just my 2 cents, but I see 5 or 6 of those in. Seven is almost impossible, because UConn and Cinci play each other in the first round of the AAC tourney, and the loser wont get in. Most of the rest have a better than decent shot.

Yale and Gonzaga already have their leagues auto-bid, so they are locks.

Colorado is probably in, unless they get upset by Washington State tonight. That would make them 2-4 over their last 6 games, and a loss to the last place team would put them on the bad side of the bubble. Beat Washington State, which they are favored heavily to do, and they would be in.

Hampton has to win their conference tournament, the autobid is their only way in. Hampton is the top seed, and favored to win, but the tournament is in Norfolk and 2nd seeded Norfolk state stomped Hampton by 20 in the last game of the regular season. Winning the tournament is doable, but they are vulnerable to an upset in the finals.

Michigan probably needs more than one win in the conference tournament, and that would mean upsetting Indiana in the second round. It's doable, but tough. They are favored against Northwestern in the first round, but the Wildcats are not a slouch, they led Michigan most of the game in Ann Arbor, during the regular season. The loser of Michigan vs. Northwestern goes to the NIT, winner plays Indiana.

The AAC teams are all on the bubble, and probably need 2 wins in the conference tourney to get in. A first round loss for any of them puts them in the NIT.

You can never tell what the selection committee will do, their history is full pf strange decisions, but the only team on that list likely to catch a favor from the committee is Michigan, they're big enough to get favorable treatment. The rest need to do well in their conference tournaments.

Holy Cross (maybe 14-19) is looking to roll another "bubbler" over to the NIT (31-22 over Lehigh presently)

Holy Cross is DANCING !!!!!

Michigan in all likelihood just punched their ticket. Beat Indiana.

Hope they set up a televised watch party and don't get in

smusportspage wrote:Michigan in all likelihood just punched their ticket. Beat Indiana.

And WHO humbled Michigan?

Arkpony wrote:

smusportspage wrote:Michigan in all likelihood just punched their ticket. Beat Indiana.

And WHO humbled Michigan?

Trying to remmeber. Was it the Michigan or Gonzonga coach who said the most nice things about SMU after the games in this season just past?

Michigan's coach mentioned us well after our game with them. Hadn't heard any mentions by Gonzaga's.

Starting to feel a little bit better about three AAC teams getting in...Cin Should be in right now. UCONN vs Temple Winner will be in. Tulsa or Hou could be playing in the champ game for the Auto-bid, but will have to beat UCONN or Temple...

Per ESPN Bubble Watch...

Thank you, American Conference -- and thank you, Connecticut and Cincinnati -- for officially confirming, in the strongest possible terms, that March is officially upon us.

Cincinnati [22-10 (12-6), RPI: 38, SOS: 69] That one stings, sure. It stings bad. It stings to lose in four overtimes, and it would be bad enough had Cincy been robbed of a win by a conventional buzzer-beat -- a decent-if-well-defended shot 10 or 20 or even 30 feet from the rim. Losing on a half-court leave with less than a second left? After you just buried what you thought was the game-winning three? Unthinkably brutal. Fortunately, we have a bright side: The committee was surely locked in to every minute of the game, and even in defeat Cincinnati was so good, and so close to winning, that it's hard to imagine them falling even a half-notch on the S-Curve. A win might have made them a surefire lock; the loss shouldn't come close to keeping them out of the tourney.

Tulsa [20-10 (12-6), RPI: 53, SOS: 58] Tulsa was the only team to conquer SMU in Moody Coliseum this season, and that fact is undoubtedly the most significant argument in its favor. Other than that (and a home win over Wichita State) the Golden Hurricane are a total toss-up sitting smack on the bubble. They get Memphis first in conference tourney play. We would call that a must-win but, you know, duh.

Connecticut [22-10 (11-7), RPI: 55, SOS: 56] UConn fans have had more than a few valid gripes with their team in 2015-16, but the top spot on that list has always been their team's inability to close out games. Perhaps, finally, such concerns have been assuaged. Faced with a season-defining American conference tournament quarterfinal against Cincinnati -- a veritable bubble must-win -- the Huskies, led by freshman point guard Jalen Adams, performed the mother of all close-outs. UConn could have wilted at any point in the first 40 minutes. It could have packed things in a handful of times in the first, second and third overtimes. It was beaten, done, dead in the water at the end of the third OT ... only for Adams to bank home a 60-foot prayer with just 0.8 seconds left. Looking for clutch play, Huskies fans? Here you go. That all said: For as emotionally satisfying (and exhausting!) as the four-OT, 104-97 win was, it does not necessarily guarantee Kevin Ollie's team a trip to the show. For some strange reason, the committee does not consider "awesomeness of most recent victory" in its comparisons of various bubble teams. What the win does do, however, is guarantee Ollie's team an ongoing opportunity to put themselves firmly on the right side of the cut line. That opportunity may not exist if Adams' shot doesn't go in. That toss, and the fourth overtime that followed it, saved Connecticut's season. No exaggeration.

Temple [21-10 (14-4), RPI: 57, SOS: 80] The Owls know what's on the line. Early in the week, before Friday's debut in American tourney play -- a convincing 79-62 win against South Florida -- moved them slightly closer to an eventual at-large bid, Owls senior guard Quenton DeCosey told reporters that last season's bubble exclusion was still fresh in the team's mind. Seeing as how we were left out last year, just by not winning one game here or there, winning every game matters, DeCosey said. We're taking every game seriously as we're just getting ready for this tournament. That's the spirit. A loss to USF would have been disastrous, obviously, both for its immediate impact and the loss of an opportunity to play the winner of the Cincinnati-UConn quarterfinal. Fran Dunphy's team will receive some extra consideration for winning the regular-season league title outright (one game ahead of SMU), but another win or two against the American's fellow bubble teams might still be necessary to avoid a painful repeat of 2015.

Lunardi currently has Temple and Cincy in as 10 seeds, and UConn in as one of the last four. Tulsa as one of the first four out.