Mid-Major Conference Tournaments Might Have Eliminated One Of The Best Mid Majors

The big upset of the day was Green Bay's loss in the Horizon League tourney to Milwaukee. Not only did Green Bay lose to someone other than Cleveland State, they lost at home. Green Bay's at-large chances are shaky, at best. Some things are going to need to break Green Bay's way for them to squeeze in, but my instant reaction was out.

The Friday Appraisal: Welcome Back, Harvard! And Locked, Mixable, Prayer, or Gone?

Another Friday down and another look at the Bracket Briefer's renamed feature: Locked, Mixable, Prayer, or Gone? Teams are moving out of the middle and either up into Locked status or down to Gone status. See where your team is as well as Friday's massive action within the conference tournaments. That, and we have our first tournament automatic bid!

Bracket Brief for March 7, 2014

Seed	West (1) Anaheim (Th/Sa)	East (4) NYC (Fr/Su)	Midwest (2) Indy (Fr/Su)	South (3) Memphis (Th/Sa)
Site 1 16 8 9	San Diego (Fr/Su) Arizona Utah Valley Geo. Wash. Oklahoma State	Buffalo (Th/Sa) Villanova Robert Morris Arizona State Baylor	St. Louis (Fr/Su) Wichita State Weber St./TX So. Oregon SMU	Orlando (Th/Sa) Florida Fla. GC/Coast. Car. Texas Pittsburgh
Site 5 12 4 13	Spokane (Th/Sa) UCLA BYU San Diego State Georgia State	San Diego (Fr/Su) New Mexico Stephen F. Austin North Carolina Louisiana Tech	Spokane (Th/Sa) Iowa State Prov./Stanford Michigan State North Dakota State	San Antonio (Fr/Su) VCU Fla. St./So. Miss Cincinnati Toledo
Site 3 14 6 11	Buffalo (Th/Sa) Syracuse Iona Gonzaga Xavier	Orlando (Th/Sa) Louisville NC Central Iowa Green Bay	San Antonio (Fr/Su) Creighton Belmont Saint Louis Kansas State	Raleigh (Fr/Su) Duke Delaware Oklahoma Tennessee
Site 7 10 2 15	Milwaukee (Th/Sa) Connecticut Harvard Michigan Vermont	St. Louis (Fr/Su) Massachusetts Colorado Kansas Davidson	Raleigh (Fr/Su) Ohio State Memphis Virginia Boston U	St. Louis (Fr/Su) Kentucky Saint Joseph's Wisconsin UC Irvine

Note: Through games of March 6, 2014 (High Point's loss on March 7 is included). Teams in italics below represent automatic bids. The rankings at the top of each column are based on the overall seeds of the top four teams, so the winner of the regional with the team seeded #1 overall would meet the winner of the regional with the team seeded #4 overall.

Thursday Night Didn't Have Bracket Movement But It Had Conference Tournament Drama

Thursday night was pretty quiet in terms of bracket movement. There were no real upsets, though several teams, like Louisiana Tech and Southern Miss, kept their bracket hopes alive. A couple of games involved safe tourney squads, and those games were won expectedly by the home teams. But there was great drama in the conference tournaments, with Mercer needing double overtime at home just to advance to the Atlantic Sun final. The MAAC has an #11 seed alive, and the Missouri Valley and WCC have #10 seeds still going.

Another ACC Shocker and the A-10 Could Still Get 6 Bids

Duke watched its bracket seeding take a major hit when it lost at Wake Forest. But Duke can still get to a #2 seed by Selection Sunday. We also watched Dayton take control of its at-large profile, and a number of Pac-12 games had a big impact.

Bracket Brief for March 5, 2014

Seed	West (1) Anaheim (Th/Sa)	East (4) NYC (Fr/Su)	South (2) Memphis (Th/Sa)	Midwest (3) Indy (Fr/Su)
Site 1 16 8 9	San Diego (Fr/Su) Arizona Weber St./UT Val. Texas Memphis	Buffalo (Th/Sa) Villanova Robert Morris Arizona State Geo. Wash.	Orlando (Th/Sa) Florida High Pt./TX So. Oklahoma Pittsburgh	St. Louis (Fr/Su) Wichita State Davidson Oregon Oklahoma State
Site 5 12 4 13	Spokane (Th/Sa) New Mexico Stephen F. Austin Saint Louis Toledo	Spokane (Th/Sa) Iowa State Fla. St./Tenn. Cincinnati North Dakota State	Orlando (Th/Sa) Michigan State Green Bay Louisville Louisiana Tech	San Diego (Fr/Su) VCU Prov./So. Miss North Carolina Iona
Site 3 14 6 11	San Antonio (Fr/Su) San Diego State Georgia State UCLA Xavier	Milwaukee (Th/Sa) Michigan NC Central Gonzaga Colorado	Buffalo (Th/Sa) Syracuse Delaware Connecticut BYU	San Antonio (Fr/Su) Creighton Belmont Massachusetts Stanford
Site 7 10 2 15	Raleigh (Fr/Su) Ohio State Baylor Duke Mercer	Raleigh (Fr/Su) Kentucky Harvard Virginia Boston U	St. Louis (Fr/Su) Iowa Saint Joseph's Kansas UC Irvine	Milwaukee (Th/Sa) SMU Kansas State Wisconsin Vermont

Note: Through games of March 4, 2014. Teams in italics below represent projected automatic bids. Teams in bold below represent secured automatic bids. The rankings at the top of each column are based on the overall seeds of the top four teams, so the winner of the regional with the team seeded #1 overall would meet the winner of the regional with the team seeded #4 overall.

Panic in Central New York

No, that is not a typo. Syracuse lost. To Georgia Tech. At home. Once a mortal lock for a #1 seed, Syracuse's season has taken a turn. That and more in Tuesday's recap, as teams prepare for the conference tournament (and in some cases, play in them).