Championship Saturday: Bracketology Shifts

0:00On March 15th, Championship Saturday, in college basketball, wrapped up 11 conference tournaments with a flurry of automatic bids and big shifts in. The Bracketology picture. Houston and Yukon both stumbled in their title games, losing to Arizona 79-74 in the Big 12 and to St. John 72. To 52 in the Big East, those defeats likely knocked them out of the final number one seed spot heading into selection Sunday. Four to step up as the projected fourth number one seed after other top teams faltered, even though the gators dropped to 91-74. Decision to Vanderbilt and the SEC semi-finals. Duke held firm at the top overall with a 74-70-ounce thriller over Virginia in the ACC Championship despite missing starters and, dealing with an injury to guard Caleb Foster. Bubble teams caught a break as potential bid thieves like Ole Miss, fell to Arkansas on the SEC and San Diego State lost the Mountain West title to. Utah State. St. John showed huge progress by dominating Yukon,

1:03flipping an earlier blowout loss into a convincing title win while the Atlantic 10-Is-A. Rare three-bid league of Dayton tops VCU on Sunday. Other standouts included Akron punching an automatic bid with a comeback win over Toledo in the Mac, South Florida rolling into the AAC final on A, 10-gain shriek, and Michigan advancing in the Big 10 thanks to the Axel Linda Boards buzzer-beater. Coaches like Fran McAfry at Penn are one win from the dance, and UCLA got good news on injured stars returning for the tournament. With a handful of title games left Sunday, the selection committee has nearly all the data it needs, setting the stage for an exciting reveal of the 68-Team field and those crucial seeds.