Well here we are, a mere hours away from the selections. There is only one conference final left. There is some intrigue with that. Penn State is right on the bubble. A particularly bad loss could drop them back. You have to wonder though, because the Big Ten Final butts right up against the selection show, are they likely to just go ahead and put Penn State in to save them any extra headaches at the last minute.
2011 NCAA Tournament
Certain At-Large Locks (32) Automatic Bids(31)
Xavier (OH) UNC-Asheville
Temple Belmont
Florida State Morehead State
N. Carolina Indiana State
Michigan St. Peter’s
Texas Gonzaga
Texas A&M Old Dominion
Kansas State Wofford
Missouri Butler
Pitt Oakland (MI)
Notre Dame Arkansas-Little Rock
Louisville Long Island
Syracuse N. Colorado
St. John’s Bucknell
West Virginia Boston U.
Cincinnati UT-San Antonio
Georgetown Duke
Michigan St. Richmond
Villanova Kansas
Penn State UConn
Purdue Cal-Santa Barbara
Wisconsin Memphis
George Mason Princeton
BYU Akron
Colorado Hampton
UNLV San Diego State
Arizona Washington
UCLA Kentucky
Florida Alabama St.
Vanderbilt Utah State
Marquette Ohio State
Tennessee
So what you have are essentially 5 places left.
These are the teams the committee is debating about right now.
They are Illinois, USC, Clemson, Virginia Tech, St. Mary’s , Missouri State, Alabama, Georgia, Boston College, and UAB.
Tune in at 6 o’clock and we’ll see what they decide.
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