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New Automatic Qualifiers Harvard (Ivy) South Dakota State (Summit) Detroit (Horizon) Western Kentucky (Sun Belt)   Last Four In USF Drexel Miami Ole Miss   First Four Out Seton Hall NC State Cal Oregon   Next Four Out Northwestern Saint Joseph’s UCF Tennessee

Mark Strotman will have the full write-up tomorrow, but after seeing the way West Virginia fans feel the world is out to get them, a quick chart should settle things (ok it won’t settle anything because they love a good conspiracy theory). Just look at the way Crowder finished the year. He dominated Kevin Jones […]

New Automatic Qualifiers VCU (Colonial) Loyola (MAAC) Davidson (Southern) Saint Mary’s (West Coast)   Last Four In USF  Drexel Miami Ole Miss   First Four Out NC State Cal Seton Hall Oregon   Next Four Out Northwestern UCF Tennessee  Saint Joseph’s   North Texas becomes new AQ from Sun Belt

Thanks to a 14-4 conference record, Marquette will wait until Thursday to play in this week’s Big East Tournament. The Golden Eagles will play the winner of Louisville and either Providence or Seton Hall, which play tomorrow night in the first round. Here’s a look at all three teams and how Marquette fared against them […]

March 4 Bracket

Conference Breakdown

Big East: 9

Big 12: 6

Big 10: 6

SEC: 6

ACC: 5

Mountain West: 4

Atlantic 10: 3

West Coast: 3

Colonial: 2

C-USA: 2

Missouri Valley: 2

Last Four In

Xavier

USF

Miami

Ole Miss

First Four Out

NC State

Cal

Seton Hall

Ole Miss

Next Four Out

Oregon

Northwestern

UCF

Saint Joseph’s

Additions (case for, case against)

Miami

• Win at Duke (RPI: 4), vs. Florida State (RPI: 23)
• No losses against RPI Sub 100

• 4-11 against RPI Top 100
• Non conference SOS: 117
• 5-8 road/neutral games

Ole Miss

• SOS: 39
• Won three straight games

• 6-10 road/neutral games
• Non conference SOS: 127
• 8-8 in SEC

Subtractions (case against, case for)

Cal

• 6-6 road/neutral games
• Pac 12 has a 1-31 non conference record against RPI Top 50
• Conference SOS: 145
• Lost at Washington State (RPI: 173)

• 6-5 against RPI Top 100
• RPI: 36

Seton Hall

• Lost at DePaul (RPI: 193) by 26 points
• 6-8 road/neutral games
• 4-8 in last 12 games

• Three wins against RPI Top 50
• Win vs. Georgetown (RPI: 9) by 18 points

Locks

ACC – Duke, North Carolina, Florida State

Big East – Syracuse, Marquette, Georgetown, Louisville, Cincinnati, Notre Dame

Big 12 – Kansas, Missouri, Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas State

Big 10 – Michigan State, Ohio State, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana

Pac 12 – None

SEC – Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Florida

Everyone else – Temple, Memphis, Southern Miss, Wichita State, UNLV, San Diego State, New Mexico, Gonzaga, Saint Mary’s

Automatic qualifiers (tickets punched) – Belmont, UNC-Asheville, Creighton, Murray State

Published by: Michael LoCicero (@michaellocicero) and Michael Wottreng (@MWottreng)

Transcribed my MU Tribune reporter Chris Chavez Buzz Williams, Marquette Head Coach Can you describe that feeling with 30 seconds left when you subbed both (Jae Crowder and Darius Johnson-Odom) out? “I’m probably not smart enough to articulate it in a way that’s fair to them. I’m really thankful and happy that I’ve had an […]