Five remaining games exist in the college basketball regular season.   The winners of those five games don’t have to worry about if the Selection Committee will pick them – they will have earned their invitation to the dance.  That being said, a few of the teams playing are safely in the field – so it is really more to improve their seeding.

Here are your five games:

• Atlantic 10 – Rhode Island vs Davidson – regular season champs Rhode Island are probably safely in the field.  But Davidson certainly is not.  If the Wildcats can pull off the upset, someone’s bubble will be burst as Davidson will steal their bid.
• SEC – Tennessee vs Kentucky – thanks to Auburn’s mini-collapse at the end of the season, the Volunteers managed to tie for the regular season crown.  Could Tennessee sneak up all the way to a 2 seed if they also win the conference tournament?  Kentucky is certainly going to be a tough opponent – as they also look to improve their seed.
• American – Cincinnati vs Houston – the Bearcats might also be in the running for a 2 seed if they can double up their regular season championship with conference tourney title.  Houston is also a ranked team that surprised a few people by upsetting Wichita State.  That being said, this game is at 3:30 pm, which makes me believe the committee will have set up their bracket before this game is over.
• Ivy – Harvard vs Penn.   The Ivy league regular season co-champions will battle to get their conference’s auto-bid.
• Sun Belt – Georgia State vs Texas-Arlington.  Texas-Arlington managed to upset the Sun Belt’s regular season champion, Louisiana on Saturday to reach the finals – do they have another upset in them to get them to Big Dance.

In the meantime, I am working on getting the last couple of days of scores for the statisticians looking to fit their models, as well as my typical crazy version of Bracketology – where I find myself struggling between putting who I think the committee will put in vs. who I would put in.  The point of Bracketology is to predict who the committee selects, not who I would rank higher – which makes me sad as I consider putting in teams that go 8-11 in conference ahead of small mid-major conference titles, or major conference teams that go 13-5 in conference, but somehow only have 1 Quadrant 1 victory.

Enjoy the last 5 games of the season and enjoy the Selection Show tonight at 6 pm EST.  The tournament is almost here!!!!