News, Notes, and Highlighted Games: Monday, Feb 8th

NEWS AND NOTES

-For Jon Teitel’s latest seed list and Bracket Projections, where he guesses what the actual Selection Committee would do if today were Selection Sunday – CLICK HERE

-For Chad Sherwood’s Under the Radar Game of the Day – CLICK HERE

-We will be recording our Hoops HD Report Video Podcast tonight, and recapping what was another crazy week in college basketball.  Be on the lookout for it and be sure to watch and/or listen.

HIGHLIGHTED GAMES

-LOUISVILLE AT DUKE (ACC).  This game has a lot less meaning now that Louisville isn’t needing to win big road games in order to earn a protected seed.  Duke is safely inside the bubble, but currently nowhere close to a protected seed, so there is room for their profile to improve.

-CHATTANOOGA AT MERCER (SoCon).  I’m kind of surprised this wasn’t Chad’s UTR Game of the Day.  Chattanooga needs to win out in order to be in a position to earn an at-large, and this is perhaps their toughest remaining road test against a Mercer team that’s been strong this year.

-SAINT JOHN’S AT GEORGETOWN (Big East).  Georgetown is still on the outside looking in and needs to hold serve at home against non tournament teams.

-TEXAS AT OKLAHOMA (Big Twelve).  Texas keeps getting better and better and better as the season goes on.  This is a tough road rivalry game that will be as difficult to win as any game they’ve played this year, but if they can pull it off they’ll likely end up as a protected seed.  They may end up there anyway as well as they’ve been playing.  Oklahoma, I think, is still the overall #1 seed, but that will change if they drop this one at home.

-NOTRE DAME AT CLEMSON (ACC).  Notre Dame just picked up a huge win over North Carolina, but they could use a few more road wins.  Clemson has a lot of quality wins on their resume, and they need to keep holding serve at home, but the one thing they really need is road wins, even if they come against non tournament teams.  They fell at Virginia Tech over the weekend.