Two Days Til Selection Monday

Two days ago, I claimed that the conference baseball tournaments in May made the conference basketball tournaments look tame in comparison. After two days filled to the brim with upset after upset, the bubble looks a lot different and is much smaller. The only teams who have played their way into the NCAA Tournament talk are teams who needed to win their conference tourney. Well, many are just one win away from doing so.

The Big 12 is one of the major conferences who are looking to send an extra team. With A&M and Texas gone and Baylor on the cusp of elimination, the Big 12 will get an extra bid if Missouri or Kansas pulls an upset on Sunday.

In the Big East, Louisville was the only lock to make the NCAA Tournament. But with their early exit, the Big East is guaranteed a second bid, maybe a third if the committee shows a liking to Saint John's.

Conference USA, which had two locks and a bubble team going into their tournament, is down to two teams: 5th-seeded Memphis and 7th-seeded UAB, two teams who had no chance at playing in the NCAA Tourney as an at-large.

The list goes on and on...

In the Big Ten, Purdue is just one win away from winning their 1st Big Ten Tournament title in school history. This is bad news for the Big Ten as they may be a one-bid conference with Indiana needing to win the tourney to advance to the NCAA Tourney while Michigan State is one of the teams on that rapidly shrinking bubble.

Baseball Bracketology - May 26, 2012
ALL CAPS - Projected conference champion

Tallahassee Regional #1 Florida State Ucf SAMFORD (SoCon) SACRED HEART (Won NEC)	Palo Alto Regional Stanford CAL STATE FULLERTON (Big West) Utah Valley SACRAMENTO STATE (WAC)
Tucson Regional #8 Arizona San Diego NEW MEXICO (MWC) NORTH DAKOTA STATE (Summit)	Gary Regional PURDUE (Big Ten) Arkansas Indiana State VALPARAISO (Horizon)
Gainesville Regional #5 FLORIDA (SEC) MIAMI (ACC) KENT STATE (MAC) BETHUNE COOKMAN (Won MEAC)	Raleigh Regional NC State Vanderbilt East Carolina ARMY (Won Patriot)
Los Angeles Regional #4 Ucla PEPPERDINE (WCC) Wake Forest CANISIUS (MAAC)	Charlottesville Regional Virginia Mississippi State STONY BROOK (Won America East) SAINT JOHN'S (Big East)
Baton Rouge Regional #6 LSU (SEC) Oregon State Texas LOUISIANA MONROE (Sun Belt)	College Station Regional Texas A&M Dallas Baptist Missouri State PRAIRIE VIEW A&M (Won SWAC)
Eugene Regional #3 OREGON (Pac-12) Ole Miss Gonzaga EASTERN ILLINOIS (OVC)	Lexington Regional Kentucky Clemson Louisville DAYTON (A-10)
Chapel Hill Regional #7 North Carolina COASTAL CAROLINA (Big South) UNC WILMINGTON (CAA) CORNELL (Won Ivy)	Columbia Regional South Carolina Georgia Tech Appalachian State BELMONT (Atlantic Sun)
Waco Regional #2 BAYLOR (Big 12) Tcu MEMPHIS (C-USA) UT-ARLINGTON (Southland)	Houston Regional Rice Oklahoma (Big 12) Washington SOUTHERN ILLINOIS (MVC)

Last 10 Teams Out: Virginia Tech, New Mexico State, Maryland, Wichita State, Sam Houston State, Charleston, Michigan State, Cal Poly, Tulane, California