Other 5 March madness chances

Time for a favorite american pasttime . If March Madness  started soon: Two conference leaders of of our five will make the Dance even if they lose their conference tournaments. San Diego St  11-1 in the MWC and  Temple 9-3 and tied  in the AAC with  SMU who's  not eligible for a Dance ticket..

CUSA (UAB 11-1), SunBelt (Arkansas Little Rock 11-2),  and MAC Akron (9-2  in the East) aren't considered strong enough to have guaranteed tickets for  their regular season winners. I'm sure one of our regulars is pushing for the Thundering Herd of Marshall. 

AAC could get four  tickets  but it will be scramble after Temple

Cincinnati	8-4	18-7
Tulsa	8-4	16-8
Connecticut	7-4	17-7
Houston	7-5	17-7
Memphis	5-6	14-10

MWC-  Fresno St is my dark horse candidate to get  a second ticket. Impressive 58-57 win giving SD St its first conference loss.

Note to new readers:

Other 5= AAC, CUSA,MAC, MWC, & the Sunbelt and is derived from College football, but I've  carried that thread over to hoops. More at https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/104643398353248786505

Topsy-turvy CUSA , SunBelt, & MWC

CUSA: I've hinted that UTEP needed to get in the gear and they have. After scoring 100+ to beat  Marshall earlier in the week, UTEP behind   Earvin Morris roared back to beat WKU yesterday. The Miners will have to  win the CUSAT to go dancing,  La Tech's  stunning loss to North Texas put them  further out of the regular season race.

UAB	10-1
MTSU	9-2
Marshall	8-3

Top dogs held fast: UAB trounced FAU.  Potts last minute work earned MTSU a one point win over FIU, and  in the year of the trey, Jon Elmore hit seven in Marshall's  road win at UTSA.

SunBelt: It appears ULL (7-3) has the only chance of catching Ark LR (11-1) who sailed by S. Bama yesterday. These two face off on Feb 13.
 WTH happened to Ark St who lost to Troy, and just when I tossed in the cards on UTA, Bilboa  scored 18 and grabbed 11 rebounds in their blowout of Georgia St.

MWC:  Aztecs beat second place New Mexico in OT to remained undefeated and increase their lead to three games. No explanation  for Boise 's loss to AFA which allowed  the surging Fresno Bulldogs  to tie them for third place. Marvell Harris  scored 37 in Fresno 2OT win over UNLV . Maybe Fresno steals  the second MWCdance ticket?

Feb 12 update on the Sunbelt: ULL gets a big win over Ark St. and ULM surprises ARK LR.. And just for my sports bud Franz. South Bama  beat Ga St thx to 27 points from Ken Williams. 

MIA on the AAC,MAC, & SunBelt moved.

In the blink of an eye , SMU has two AAC conference losses including  a loss to Houston who badly needed the win to stay in the hunt. Only ECU, USF, and Tulane are out of contention.  Clark hit a three to give Cincy the win over UConn. Tulsa led by Woodard is at Temple led by DeCosey tonight in a battle of second place teams.

 Akron has won five straight and has one game lead over Kent St & Buffalo in the MAC  East. C.Michigan has won four straight  and leads NIU and Ball St by a game in the West. Akron . 

Akron ended C.Michigan 's streak  last night (Jan 5) and moves to a 1.5 game lead over Kent St. Nice shooting from Josh Williams who hit six treys and Antino Jackson who was 7 of 9 from the field.

UTA continues to slide in the SunBelt  while Ark LR has won four straight and leads ULL by two games. ARK LR faces Troy tonight and ULL is at App St..

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Jan 8: AAC-Temple  edged UCF and is looking solid for a Dance ticket. Memphis hurt Cincy  a little ,  and I think the AAC  won't get more than four.

MAC;  Jeremie helped Ball St edged WMU and stay in the thick of a wild west race.

Note to new readers:

Other 5= AAC, CUSA,MAC, MWC, & the Sunbelt and is derived from College football, but I've  carried that thread over to hoops. More at https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/104643398353248786505