With the exception of the first Thursday and Friday of the NCAA tournament, there is no time better for college basketball fans than championship week. Every game comes with a chance for a team to get itself one step closer to the game's biggest stage via a conference title and an automatic bid.
But with only 32 conferences to hand out automatic bids, there are 36 spots that need to be filled by the committee's choices. As is the case every year, there are a number of teams who aren’t sure if they will be in the field of 68 next week and will have to sweat it out until Selection Sunday rolls around.
For every team that is on the bubble, though, there is a team that can burst those hopes by pulling an upset in the conference tournaments. This is a list to highlight those schools.
These are teams that will not, no matter how many games they win in their respective conference tournaments, make it to March Madness without the automatic bid given to conference champions.
They are also teams that have the best chance of upsetting teams that at least have a case for an at-large bid and, thus, stand to claim a bid that could go to a team like Indiana or Texas. The best example of a bubble-burster is Belmont, who upset No. 25 Murray State in the Ohio Valley title game and makes it possible for the conference to receive two bids instead of one.
Here are five teams with the best chance to burst bubbles in this week's conference tournaments.
from Bleacher Report http://ift.tt/1KWTi7L
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