3-8 Committee Meeting:

Tonight, we reconvened for first time since Sunday. With Gonzaga narrowly escaping the WCC tourney, the come off the at large board and onto the automatic board. They are joined by the following teams:

Iona-Metro Atlantic
Monmouth-Northeast
Montana-Big Sky
Oral Roberts-Mid Continent
South Alabama-Sun Belt
UNC-Wilmington-Colonial
Wisconsin-Milwaukee-Horizon

Tony Skinn may have knocked George Mason right out of the NCAA Tournament with his groin punch against a Hofstra player. The Patriots's second leading scorer will miss their first postseason game, and that will likely knock them out of the Big Dance, as their case isn't strong enough to overcome that fact.

After a loss today to Syracuse in the Big East Tourney, Cincy has come off our at large board for now. The Bearcats are just 6-10 without Armein Kirkland, but with none of those being real bad losses, and with over West Virginia since then, it appears they will sneak into the field.

Indiana and Alabama, on the other hand, join our 32 holdovers on the at large board. With both having strong conferences and overall better resumes than rest of the pack, their spots are well earned.

In our next official committee meeting Friday night, we will hopefully be able to fill a few more at large spots, and these four teams will join four others from nomination board in the next round of voting.

Bradley
Michigan
Seton Hall
UAB

Tomorrow night, we will have an unofficial discussion of bubble teams, but come Friday night, we start to put the finishing touches on the field.