New bracket is up. The battle for those last few slots shook out like this:
IN: Arizona, Maryland, Penn State, UNLV, Florida, Cincinnati, Providence
OUT: South Carolina, Miami-FL, Virginia Tech, Kentucky, Michigan, Rhode Island, Kansas State, St. Mary's, San Diego State, Notre Dame, Georgetown, Temple, New Mexico, UAB
I think that's most if not all of the teams that I considered for more than a second or two.
The One Stop Shop has also been updated to reflect clinched seeds, and several conference tourney brackets are filled are ready to go! The Horizon, Big South, and OVC start tomorrow!
Multi-Bid Conference Breakdown
Big East (9): UConn, Pitt, Louisville, Villanova, Marquette, Syracuse, West Virginia, Cincinnati, Providence
ACC (7): North Carolina, Duke, Clemson, Wake Forest, Florida State, Boston College, Maryland
Big Ten (7): Michigan State, Illinois, Purdue, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Penn State
Pac-10 (5): Washington, UCLA, California, Arizona State, Arizona
SEC (3): LSU, Tennessee, Florida
Big 12 (6): Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M
Mountain West (3): Utah, BYU, UNLV
Atlantic 10 (2): Xavier, Dayton
Tonight's GOI
--Villanova at Notre Dame. This could get ND right back in the mix. Nova is gunning for a high seed in both the Big East (top 4 gain a double-bye) and NCAA tourneys.
--Baylor at Texas. Bears need a monster finish starting right now.