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Pitt and ND. Well, they are both being discussed as possibilities for Big Televen expansion, so I guess it's fitting they are channeling Big Televen basketball horriblousity. Twenty one points combined scored in the first 16 minutes in the second half.

Syracuse and Villanova already out. Pitt losing. Could WVU also go down to make all four top seeds in the Big East die in their first game?

The defending champs are down 2 to Ga. Tech with 3:31 to go. Ga. Tech with the ball.

Arizona lost torday. Their streak of 25 NCAA tournament appearances is now gone. (OK, technically, it was already gone, since their 1999 appearance was vacated.). If Texas gets in, they will be behind only KU, Duke, and MSU in length of current streak of tournament apperances.

Edit: PItt and ND each manage 5 fg in the second half. That was pretty marvelous.

UNC loses and is off to the NIT, which will have UNC, UConn, Arizona, but maybe not UCLA.
 
WVU wins on a last second shot after it and Cincy exchanged turnoverrs in the last 6 seconds. Their route to the Big East championship is now without Syracuse, Villanova, or Pitt.

No other conference had ranked teams lose in upsets today.

Houston beat Memphis though, ending Memphis's run of C-USA titles. It had won them all since Louisville, Cincinatti, Depaul and Marquette fled to the Big East.

Arizona State lost in the Pac-10 quarterfinals. While Cal is definitely in the tournament, no other Pac-10 team has an rpi under 50. UW and ASU were at 50 and 56, respectively. UW is losing early to Oregon State. If they go down, the Pac-10 could possibly be a one bid conference. Three years ago, it put six teams in.

Edit: Washington now up by 8 with 6 minutes to go. Pac-10 desperately hoping UW gets to the tourney finals and keeps a bid alive, I'm sure.
 
UK down 5 to Alabama at the half. Kentucky showing laziness, if hustle stats are to be trusted, as it has 1 steal (pathetic), 3 blocks (pretty good), and -10 rebounds (awful).
 
Mitchell with back to back offense rebounds and finishes, the last on a great dunk, as Kentucky goes a couple of possessions with turnovers and then has Patterson miss a three. Alabama by 6 early in second half.
 
Lot of upsets yesterday.

San Diiego State beat New Mexico for the second time and UNLV beat BYU for the second time, so MWC 3-4 teams meet in the finals, as 1-2 go rest. This leads to a question whether either team has to win today to make the tournament or MWC should get 4 bids. SDSU has the higher rpi, but UNLV has a lot more quality wins.

Georgia Tech beat Maryland, making a lot of people say they're in the tournament despite a 7-9 conference record. I don't see it, since the ACC has only 1 top 20 team, and Georgia Tech's best OOC win is over Sienna.

Washington beat Stanford to make it to the Pac-10 finals. That probably gets them in the tournament, win or lose against Cal today. They were second in the conference and beat A&M, are 2-2 against rpi top 20.

UTEP and Houston go for the C-USA title today. Houston has to win to make the tournament. You might think UTEP is a lock, but OOC vs. rpi top 100 they are 1-4 with losses to Texas Tech, Mississiippi, BYU, and a split with New Mexico State. Only one of those is going to the tournament, and it's not NMSU. So UTEP has a resume with zero wins over tournament teams.
 
Houston is taking out UTEP. UTEP was up by 9 with 8:26 to go. UTEP has hit one field goal since and is down 78-72 shooting free throws with 33 seconds left.

Done. UTEP makes one of its last 11 fg attempts and loses 81-73. Ouch. Could a team that went 15-1 in C-USA miss the tournament? That would be a shame.

Houston shot lights out from behind the line, 12-25.
 
Kentucky certainly looks like they have the most talented players to me, but they are definitely prone to lapses. They're scary when on their game.
 
Xavier and Richmond down to the wire in the A-10. Now tied at 73 with 3 seconds left. Xavier was up 2 with the ball with 45 seconds. Richmond decided to play defense, Xavier drove, missed, Richmond got the rebound and passed out to a player who was stripped immediately as he turned upcourt. Immediate foul. Xavier then missed the free throw, Richmond came down, dribbled around seemingly without purpose before a drive for an uncontested layup. Xavier doesn't manage a decent look. Overtime.
 
Weird. Xavier down 5 with 50 seconds to go makes only one of 2 free throws. Richmond starts running clock and Xavier doesn't foul. Richmond could take the clock down to about 15 seconds without even shooting.

So richmond calls timeout with 40 seconds to go?

Edit: And they were properly rewarded by having the inbounds pass stolen, Xavier goes down, gets fouled, hits one, immediately fouls, Richmond hits both, Xavier runs down and hits a three. Two point game with 25 seconds to go.

Why didn't Richmond just stay content to dribble out clock?
 
Washington beat Cal, so the Pac-10 breathes a sigh of relief as it won't suffer the ignominy of having only one team in the tournament. I watched only a few minutes, finding I couldn't care at all.
 
San Diego State wins the MWC, beating UNLV 55-45 in a game that really goes to show that conference tournaments don't necessarily bring out the best in teams. San Diego State is a legitimate team and tournament winner, and it has a profile to play a low scoring style, but you look at this game, see UNLV scored 20 less than it was averaging in two previous games against SDSU, look at some of the other low scoring, poor shooting affairs across the country today, and you have to realize 3 or 4 straight days of playing really drains the players.

Houston Baptist is beating South Dakota by 9 with 4 minutes to go in the first half in the championship game of the Great West Conference Tournament.

If you don't know what the Great West Conference is, it is the weirdest amalgam of formerly unaffiliated schools you can imagine that apparently grouped together to get an automatic bid. South Dakota looked to clearly be the class of the conference, going 11-1 during the conference season, with Houston Baptist second at 9-3. Houston Baptist also managed to go 1-17 in non-conference games, with their only win coming against Farleigh Dickinson.

The conference is made of, get this:

Utah Valley (which I guess is where the "west" comes in)
North Dakota
South Dakota
UT-Pan Am
Houston Baptist
Chicago State and
New Jersey Institute of Technology (which seems to be quite lost)

The automatic bid plan has worked, to an extent. The winner has an automatic bid to the CIT. The conference was originally a football only conference with some Callifornia schools that added some other sports and schools in the last couple of years.

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Edit: If you're wondering, Houston Baptist has the second best rpi in the conference. 328. Really.

Sanity reigns, as South Dakota, rpi 221 and victor over Texas A&M Corpus Christi (sure a come down from nearly beating 2 seed Wisconsin a couple of years ago) and Binghampton, now has an 11 point lead with 14 miinutes to go.
 
Kentucky down 5 with under 2 1/2 to go, as Ravern Johnson just hit a 3. Kentucky not shooting for **** from outside (which isn't their forte, anyway), MSU is, but MSU has been great in protecting the defensive glass--Kentucky with just 4 offensive rebounds.
 
MSU trying to close out. They missed a pair of ft up 3, forced a UK miss, were fouled, threw the ball into the corner for a trap, a steal and a layup, then missed the front end of a one and one. Wall missed a jumper from inside the lane. MSU hit two free throws. 8 seconds to go.
 
OT. UK makes first free throw, misses the second, gets the rebound, misses, Cousins gets rebound and follow at the buzzer.
 
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