There are just five automatic bids left to be handed out on Sunday, but you can be sure that every bubble team will be rooting on Davidson to take down Richmond in the A-10 since the Spiders are the lone bid thief remaining at this point. When looking at the bubble, it feels like there are only a few spots up for grabs at this point, with a relatively large number of teams competing for them. There are a few specific areas I want to review one more time, which I intend to do before posting my final predictions later today.
Among the areas of intrigue is on the two line, as there are six teams who could stake a claim for one of those spots. Two of them, Tennessee and Purdue, will play in their conference championship games today, but history would suggest there won’t be much movement as a result of those games. Duke is an interesting case following the Blue Devils’ loss to Virginia Tech, and while early-season neutral court wins over Kentucky and Gonzaga certainly hold…