Daily Bubble Talk - Judgment Friday

CBS wants Dickie V for the tourney! But ESPN respectfully declines.

Syracuse played their way in. Beiheim's outburst fired up this underachieving team.

Texas A&M is making their case with dramatic fashion by delivering a woodshed beating to Colorado, a team with ten thousand seniors and a super-soph.

Wild-cards for winning their conference tourneys and stealing an at-large bid: an angry Wake Forest team, Maryland, a rejuvanated Oregon team (was Aaron Brooks the problem?), South Carolina, Houston. Even if one of these teams wins their conference tourney, at-large teams all around the country will be crying all night long.

A couple more at-large bids disappearing and Tommy Amaker may find himself in both the NIT and the Hot Seat.

Happy trails: Jim Woolrdge and the triangle offense at Kansas State, sub .500 Rob Evans at ASU. More firings are just around the corner!

The top 4 teams in C-USA advanced. This bodes well for their at-large chances - NCAA or NIT.

The A-10 has been the wackiest conference tourney so far. Temple -vs- St Joe's, Xavier -vs- Fordham. One of these will be NCAA-dancin!

The Washington-Oregon game was full of drama and blood-letting. Was this a Big-10 game?

FSN should be praised for a wonderful job in covering the Pac-10 tourney so far. Granted FSN only has one tourney to cover on a national level, compared to ESPN covering just about everything else, so it is easier to concentrate on it.


NIT bubble talk

Tim Floyd and USC should get an NIT bid as a reward for their impressive tournaround and the big-time wins (Carolana, UCLA, Arizona)

Automatic bids: Western Kentucky, Manhattan, NAU, FDU, Lipscomb, Georgia Southern

More automatic NIT bids will be rewarded tomorrow as the conference tourneys of the MAC, WAC, MWC, Big West, MEAC, America East and Patriot will be completed by Saturday night. The regular season champions will get an automatic bid if they don't win the tourney title and if they are not given at-large bids.

Colorodo just became a top seed in the NIT thanks to their meltdown against Texas A&M. They also gave Texas A&M their first ever Big12 conference tourney W.

Pitino now wants to play in the NIT. Why wouldn't he? He has a huge recruiting class full of freshmen. Injuries or no injuries, they badly need more PT/experience and the NIT is great for that.