-Boston College knocked off Florida State yesterday!! A HUGE win for the city of Boston!! Oh yeah, I think they’re football team is in another Super Bowl, but BC beating ranked teams in basketball seems to happen less frequently than the Pats making the Super Bowl. As for Florida State, it’s a setback. Boston College would be 100 miles away from the NCAA Tournament if the season ended today and they’d lost five straight coming into yesterday. FSU’s resume isn’t exactly screaming protected seed at the moment.
-MARYLAND AT MICHIGAN STATE (Big Ten). Maryland has looked fantastic in the past few weeks, but winning at Michigan State is an extremely tall order. A loss won’t really set them back. A win would put them in discussions for a #4 seed or better.
-VIRGINIA TECH AT NORTH CAROLINA (ACC). For the last several weeks I’ve been railing on VA Tech for their lack of notable wins. They’ve got a chance to change all of that tonight if they can pull this one off.
-NEBRASKA AT RUTGERS (Big Ten). Nebraska has been a little flimsy on the road, so any type of road win, even if it is against Rutgers, will help round out their resume.
-CREIGHTON AT GEORGETOWN (Big East). Both of these teams have a lot of work to do. Creighton is just 1-4 in Big East play and needs to start stringing together wins to have any sort of a chance.
-IOWA STATE AT KANSAS (Big 12). Kansas is coming off a rather surprising loss at West Virginia and is still trying to adjust to life after losing a key player to injury. Iowa State won the first meeting between these two in a blowout. The big difference is that the first meeting was at Iowa State.
-BAYLOR AT WEST VIRGINIA (Big 12). After sleepwalking through the season up until a few weeks ago, Baylor has finally come to life. They’ve looked really strong since getting healthy and have another winnable road game tonight.
-As far as Under the Radar games, It’s a fun day in the NEC with all ten teams in action.