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Bracket Breakdown: Mock Tournament 10.0
By: Michael Protos in: Columns
14 Mar 2010In the final Mock Tournament, we see seismic shifts for this late in championship week, including a new No. 1 seed and fewer bubble teams making the cut.
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- Tags: ACC, Big East, Bracket Breakdown, Conference USA, Mock Tournament, SEC, WAC
MIssissippi State: Bulldogs Deliver More Late-Season Heroics
By: Michael Protos in: Conference Notes
13 Mar 2010For the second consecutive season, Mississippi State has saved its best for last, with a run through the SEC tournament that might deliver an NCAA Tournament bid.
Bracket Breakdown: Mock Tournament 9.0
By: Michael Protos in: Columns
13 Mar 2010For many teams, today will be the last chance to improve their at-large profile or earn an automatic bid. Several teams still have more work to do in the waning hours before Selection Sunday.
Bracket Breakdown: Mock Tournament 8.0
By: Michael Protos in: Columns
12 Mar 2010Who actually wants to be in the tournament this year? Many teams popped their bubbles Thursday with inexplicable losses to opponents they needed to beat.
Bracket Breakdown: Utah Might Be Home to This Season’s George Mason
By: Michael Protos in: Columns
11 Mar 2010If you’re looking for a couple of dark horse Final Four contenders, head west to Utah, home of some dangerous Aggies and Cougars.
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- Tags: Bracket Breakdown, BYU, Cinderellas, George Mason, LSU, Utah State
Bracket Breakdown: Mock Tournament 7.0
By: Michael Protos in: Columns
11 Mar 2010The field might remain the same for now, but several bubble teams are ready to leapfrog the teams that faltered in early rounds of their conference tournaments.
Why You Need to Watch the ACC Tournament
By: Michael Protos in: Conference Notes
10 Mar 2010Duke and Maryland are the clear favorites, but the rest of the conference has plenty to play for in Greensboro.
Why You Need to Watch the Mountain West Tournament
By: Michael Protos in: Conference Notes
9 Mar 2010Ranked higher than the Pac-10 in RPI, the Mountain West could get as many as four teams into the NCAA Tournament, and San Diego State’s performance in Vegas will largely determine that outcome.
Why You Need to Watch the Conference USA Tournament
By: Michael Protos in: Conference Notes
9 Mar 2010UTEP owned the conference during the regular season, but Tulsa will be playing at home. And UAB and Memphis have more work to do to improve their NCAA Tournament profiles.
Why You Need to Watch the Big 12 Tournament
By: Michael Protos in: Conference Notes
9 Mar 2010Arguably the best team in the country, Kansas will be looking to lock up the overall No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, while six other NCAA-bound teams jockey for better seeds.
Why You Need to Watch the Atlantic 10 Tournament
By: Michael Protos in: Conference Notes
8 Mar 2010The elite teams await in Atlantic City while the bubble teams do battle in the opening round. The conference’s bubble teams look to become unlikely champions while the top two teams seek to assert their superiority.
Why You Need to Watch the Big East Tournament
By: Michael Protos in: Conference Notes
8 Mar 2010No fewer than four teams will see their bubbles burst unless they make a deep run in the Big East tournament this week.
Bracket Breakdown: Mock Tournament 6.0
By: Michael Protos in: Columns
8 Mar 2010Check out the field as projected one week before Selection Sunday. With the regular season complete, teams will be making their closing arguments for inclusion in the NCAA Tournament during their conference tournaments this week.
Cal: Bears’ At-Large Prospects Remain Endangered
By: Michael Protos in: Conference Notes
7 Mar 2010Cal’s artificially high RPI might not fool the selection committee if the Bears need an at-large bid to make the NCAA Tournament.
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- Tags: Bubble Teams, California, Pac-10, RPI
Bracket Breakdown: You Decide, Power Conferences vs. Everyone Else
By: Michael Protos in: Columns
6 Mar 2010Do you want to see teams with 12 or 13 losses but a few marquee wins against elite teams in the NCAA Tournament? Or would you rather see the little guy with 24 or 25 wins but only one or two high-quality wins make it?
Bracket Breakdown: Mock Tournament 5.0
By: Michael Protos in: Columns
5 Mar 2010With Selection Sunday nine days away, the Bracket Breakdown takes on the challenge of placing teams in regions and pods.
Bracket Breakdown: Long-Range Assassins Your Team Wants to Avoid
By: Michael Protos in: Columns
3 Mar 2010A handful of likely NCAA Tournament teams are great at hitting three-pointers, which isn’t so great for the favored teams trying to make a deep run.
Bracket Breakdown: Mock Tournament 4.0
By: Michael Protos in: Columns
1 Mar 2010The last weekend of February provided a familiar taste of March Madness with top teams losing and bubble teams swapping spots. Mmmmm…March Madness.
Bracket Breakdown: Big East Flirts With Greatness
By: Michael Protos in: Columns
28 Feb 2010Few teams reach the NCAA Tournament with a losing conference record of 13 or more overall losses. Six Big East teams’ records are hovering around those numbers.
Bracket Breakdown: You Be the Judge, Big East Style
By: Michael Protos in: Columns
27 Feb 2010The Big East figures to have more representatives in the NCAA Tournament than any other conference. But which teams have worthy profiles? Decide for yourself.
Bracket Breakdown: Mock Tournament 3.0
By: Michael Protos in: Columns
26 Feb 2010Connecticut rolls into the field with two great wins against West Virginia and Villanova in recent weeks, replacing William & Mary, which sputtered in two losses to Iona and Towson.
Purdue: Without Hummel, Boilermakers Seek Validation
By: Michael Protos in: Conference Notes
25 Feb 2010The Boilermakers have lost their second-leading scorer for the season but need to find a way to keep winning to prove they are still worthy of a top seed.
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- Tags: Big Ten, Injuries, Purdue, Robbie Hummel
Duke: Blue Devils Don’t Get Enough Credit
By: Michael Protos in: Conference Notes
23 Feb 2010In a season in which Kansas, Kentucky and Big East teams get all the love, the Blue Devils are the best team people aren’t talking about.
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- Tags: ACC, Duke, Jon Scheyer, Kyle Singler, NCAA Tournament, Nolan Smith
Bracket Breakdown: Mock Tournament 2.0
By: Michael Protos in: Columns
22 Feb 2010In the second bracket projection of this season, the Bracket Breakdown punishes some Wildcats while rewarding others. And Charlotte doesn’t look like one of the 65 teams worthy of a bid to the NCAA Tournament — as of Feb. 22.
CAA: Colonial Teams Get Bracket Busted
By: Michael Protos in: Conference Notes
21 Feb 2010The biggest loser of the ESPN BracketBusters weekend was clearly the CAA, which dropped nine of 12 games, including three by the conference’s possible bubble teams.
Bracket Breakdown: You Be the Judge
By: Michael Protos in: Columns
20 Feb 2010From eight profiles, pick four teams to make the NCAA Tournament. Figuring out which of these teams deserves bids will help you empathize with the selection committee members.
Bracket Breakdown: Mock Tournament 1.0
By: Michael Protos in: Columns
19 Feb 2010With Selection Sunday nearly three weeks away, the Bracket Breakdown unveils its first mock brackets of the season.
William & Mary: A Tribe Called on a Quest
By: Michael Protos in: Conference Notes
17 Feb 2010William & Mary is on the verge of entering uncharted territory for the program, which has played basketball for more than 100 years without an invitation to the NCAA Tournament.
Maryland: Bubble Boys Could Turn Into Cinderella
By: Michael Protos in: Columns
15 Feb 2010Yes, the Terrapins are once again on the bubble. But Maryland could make a big run if it gets a little more production from a certain senior guard.
Bracket Breakdown: Three Conference Tournaments That Bubble Teams Should Fear
By: Michael Protos in: Columns
13 Feb 2010Three potentially one-bid conferences could steal at-large spots from bubble teams if the favorites fail to win their conference tournaments.
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