While nine Middle 20 teams are in action tonight fighting for a tournament bid, the only team with a chance for a breakthrough is Arizona State, who travels to UCLA for the last game of the night at 11:30 ET. The good news for the other eight teams is that they are favored – but that is actually bad news because they cannot help their chances tonight but a loss would be devastating. The action is starting now where Larry Bird’s Indiana State cannot afford a loss to Drake, ranked only 130th as www.kenpom.com. Here is the complete schedule.
The “big” games tonight are Georgetown-UConn and New Mexico-San Diego State, but those are just positioning for higher seeds except for UConn, who is on probation.
Game (ranking based on www.kenpom.com) | Middle 20 Team’s Chances (www.kenpom.com) | Time (ET) |
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130 Drake at 79 Indiana St. | Indiana St. 75-67 (78%) | 7:05 PM |
50 Baylor at 116 West Virginia | Baylor 69-66 (63%) | 8:00 PM |
151 Nevada at 63 Boise St. | Boise St. 77-65 (85%) | 8:00 PM |
273 Mississippi St. at 32 Kentucky | Kentucky 81-56 (98%) | 8:00 PM |
24 Creighton at 154 Bradley | Creighton 75-65 (80%) | 8:05 PM |
97 Texas A&M at 39 Mississippi | Mississippi 72-62 (83%) | 9:00 PM |
44 Colorado at 53 Stanford | Stanford 67-64 (60%) | 11:00 PM |
26 St. Mary’s at 206 Pepperdine | St. Mary’s 71-59 (86%) | 11:00 PM |
81 Arizona St. at 46 UCLA | Arizona St. 67-76 (21%) | 11:30 PM |
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