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Xavier’s Big East tournament ended in the quarter-finals on Thursday after a defeat of 89-87 against Marquette at Madison Square Garden.
The wait is almost over.
Xavier, who has spent the past six weeks on the NCAA tournament bubble, will discover on Sunday if he will dance or be excluded from the madness of March for the sixth time in seven seasons.
Since Sunday morning, Xavier has been a coin flip. In its last update of bubble ratings of the year, Fanduel Sportsbook lists Xavier at -115 to make the NCAA tournament. It is an implicit probability of 53.49%.
The field of 68 teams is far from being decided, however, and Xavier’s chances of obtaining a large-scale offer will be modified by a pair of conference championships on Sunday afternoon a few hours before the selection show.
Beware of the auction thief
There are a lot of discussions on subcontracts during the week of the conference tournament. A tender thief is a team that does not have the curriculum vitae of an offer at stake for March Madness but hits an automatic ticket for dance by winning his conference tournament.
When this happens, a conference which must have had a number of teams in the NCAA tournament suddenly has an additional offer, thus moving a place from the bubble.
The state of Colorado was outside looking before Win the Mountain West Championship on Saturday on Boisse State, 69-56. This sends the broncos to the bubble. There was a chance to another auction thief late Saturday evening at the Big West Championship in Henderson, Nevada. However, N ° 1 Seed UC San Diego Far from UC Irvine, 75-61.
Xavier will keep the eye on the Atlantic 10 And American Athletic Conference Championship games on Sunday.
Vcu against. George Mason – 1 p.m. CBS
Musketeers would like VCU, seeded, to secure the automatic offer. If George Mason Win, VCU heads towards the bubble and has a large case. VCU is a favorite of 8.5 points, and the total (above / less) is set at 127.5 points, According to Betmgm Sportsbook. VCU defeated George Mason by 16 years at home on February 22.
N ° 16 Male against. Uab – 3:15 p.m., ESPN
Each team of bubbles shoots for Memphis to win the American. For what? Memphis is a seeded n ° 8 scheduled for the NCAA tournament. Win or lose, the tigers are in the dance. If Memphis falls, UAB is a real auction thief and will knock out a team of bubbles.
Memphis survived a fear in the semi-finals on Saturday, hung to defeat Tulane, 78-77, despite 15 missing free throws and having only 5 out of 23 to three points. Memphis probably be without your top two guardS in Dante Harris (ankle) and Tyrese Hunter (foot), which was struck on Saturday.
Memphis is a Favorites of 4.5 points, and the total is set at 160.5 points. The UAB did the NCAA tournament twice in four seasons on Andy Kennedy, which was replacing Bob Huggins in UC for a season (2005-06) before the start of the Mick Cronin era.
Memphis beat UAB, 100-77, at home on January 30 and 88-81 on the road on March 2.
How does Xavier’s curriculum vitae correspond to other teams on the bubble?
These confrontations of the conference will have an impact, but this will come down to the way the selection committee considers Xavier compared to the other bubble teams.
In a Saturday evening updateCrochetologist Espn Joe Lunardi listed Xavier as the penultimate team that makes the field. Xavier was just ahead of Indiana and behind Vanderbilt and San Diego State in the “Last Four” category.
Wooden stateCaroline du Nord, Texas and Ohio State were “First Four Out” by Lunardi.
Remember that the bubble would be narrowed with a place if UAB beats Memphis. VCU has an increasingly decent curriculum vitae and would join the bubble if they fall to George Mason.
Here is an overview of how Xavier compares himself to other bubble teams in some of the measures used by the Committee.
The Committee of 12 will reveal its field of 68 teams on the selection of Sunday the beginning at 6 p.m. on CBS.
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