A New Top Seed And A Feeble Bubble
The new bracket and bubble watch are posted. There is a new no.1 seed. Michigan State takes over a spot on the top line, bumping Missouri, which lost for the second time this season to Kansas State.
Expect to see some jumbling of the top eight teams in the bracket as the three conference pairs in that group play each other. Each pair has a regular season game left, as well as a possible conference tournament game.
Cincinnati finally joins the bracket despite its putrid non-conference schedule. Their non-conference schedule ranking of 320 would be the second-worst ever to get an at-large bid. The record is 323, which is held by the 2006 George Washington team, which finished its season 26-2. The worst ranking for a team that was close to the bottom of the at-large pool was Air Force in 2004, which ranked 315th.
