Welcome to Selection Sunday week! Sports Illustrated will be publishing daily updates of its projected men’s NCAA tournament field to keep you up to date on where things stand heading into the selection show. So as automatic bids get locked up, bubble teams fight for their seat at the table and top teams compete for seeding, keep an eye out for all of the latest updates from SI.
From a bubble standpoint, Thursday was wild. In most years, many bubble decisions essentially sort themselves out with teams on the fringes losing games to make way for something close to a consensus of at most a couple of teams fighting for the last couple of spots. So far this year, the teams already “in” have been rock solid, but teams that were “out” are making a case to push by them. That’s particularly bad news for bubble teams sitting at home after early exits, like Indiana State and Oklahoma.
