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The regular season is now in the books for the 2011-12 college basketball season, and we now are one week away from selection Sunday. Some conference tournaments have already ended with four teams clinching their bid, while most are just about to start. Remember, there are 68 spots available, comprised of 31 automatic bids to conference champions and 37 at-large bids. Here is a comprehensive look at the major leagues in Division-I (rankings are current AP poll)...
From the results that follow, we predict that at this point 59 bids are safe, which includes 31 auto-bids and 28 at-large bids. This means that there are NINE remaining bids that will go to the ''bubble'' teams that we have listed below. Out of the 59 that we have found, 28 come from major conferences and 31 from minor ones. A lot can change over the next week...
Now that we are hitting the home stretch of the 2011-12 college basketball season, we look at where we are right now, as teams are wrapping up their conference schedules. Selection Sunday is only two weeks away, and most teams obviously still have a ton to play for. Remember, there are 68 spots available, comprised of 31 automatic bids to conference champions and 37 at-large bids. Here is a comprehensive look at the major leagues in Division-I (rankings are current AP poll)...
From the results that follow, I predict that at this point 57 bids are safe, which includes 31 auto-bids and 26 at-large bids. This means that there are ELEVEN remaining bids that will go to the ''bubble'' teams that I have listed below. Out of the 57 that I have found, 26 come from major conferences and 31 from minor ones. A lot can change over the next two weeks...
In their past six games, the Gators have gone 3-3 during a crucial stretch to end the season. Billy Donovan admitted today that the team was tanking during this stretch to avoid having Dick Vitale call their ESPN televised game against Vanderbilt on Tuesday night...
The town of Vicksburg, Mississippi was seized earlier today be a drunken Will Muschamp. In honor of Presidents Day and his favorite president, Ulysses S. Grant, Muschamp drank three bottles of whiskey and then marched northwest, burning and pillaging almost everything in his path until reaching the famous Civil War town that sits on the Mississippi River. Muschamp was heard yelling, ''IF WE CONTROL THE MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI, WE CONTROL RECRUITING IN THE SOUTH!''
Now that we are hitting the home stretch of the 2011-12 college basketball season, we look at where we are right now, as teams are wrapping up their conference schedules. Selection Sunday is only three weeks away, and most teams obviously still have a ton to play for. Remember, there are 68 spots available, comprised of 31 automatic bids to conference champions and 37 at-large bids. Here is a comprehensive look at the major leagues in Division-I (rankings are current AP poll)...
From the results that follow, I predict that at this point 56 teams are safe, which includes 31 auto-bids and 25 at-large bids. This means that there are TWELVE remaining bids that will go to the ''bubble'' teams that I have listed below. Out of the 56 that I have found, 24 come from major conferences and 32 from minor ones. A lot can change over the next couple weeks...
An annual tradition around here is to provide you with a Florida Gators Basketball Drinking Game - something to help your enjoyment of the games each week. You can always check out the 2011 version... but each year is different.
The basic premise of a drinking game (if you never went to college, and/or never watched the State of the Union Address) is to give you some basic reasons to raise your glass during the course of a game. So here are a few...
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