FWIW, Drake up on Missouri at the half 30-23. Drake’s disciplined, slow pace is frustrating the Tigers.
MVC 1-0 so far in the tournament, Drake over Missouri.
SEC 8-6 (edited) so far in the tournament after a record 14 bids. Of course, Auburn, Alabama, Tennessee and Florida are very good teams and all of them could make the final four. Still, those teams have thus far defeated Alabama State, Robert Morris, Wofford and Norfolk State. In fact, the only SEC team have a win where they were a higher seed was Arkansas over Kansas.
I would have rather seen Boise State, West Virginia or Bradley over the bottom feeder SEC teams.
Here are my simple rules for the NCAA selection committee to get an at-large bid - a team would be eligible by one of the three criteria:
1) The team is in the top 25 in one of the national polls (USA Today or AP)
2) The team makes the conference tournament finals.
3) The team has a 0.500 record in conference. (That way, we can exclude teams like Texas and Oklahoma who were both 6-12 in conference!)
