Daily Bubble Talk - Wednesday

The major conference tourneys are starting today. Already Syracuse sneaked by Cincy, while Boeheim dropped a few f-bombs after the game trying to defend G-Mac. As expected Notre Dame lost a close game to Georgetown. But I think Notre Dame deserves the NIT, so they can lose another close game there :-)

The next three days will be crucial for bubble teams as some out-of-the-blue teams will pose threats to at-large bids. Temple's strong victory over URI earlier today in the first round gets them a chance to taken down GW without Pops tomorrow.

Other stories

Last week's Full Circle game - North Carolina at Duke on the ESPN family of networks/platforms was ESPN's highest-rated game in its history: Yahoo Sports story. A total of 3.78 million households. Their previous high (3.44 million) was for an NCAA game 1990 (Princeton-Arkansas). This will definately encourage ESPN to do more crazy things like that!

I want my Dickie V!, cried CBS, but ESPN declined. Details in the multicolor

Yocohoops.com has a link to a NY Times story trying to find a link between scores and point-shaving.