Still is everything and anything. With only 2 days left in the season, all the conference tournaments are either playing their semi-finals or championships on Saturday.
If you want a tournament to watch where you don’t have to turn your channel, the obvious choice is the Big 10 tournament. Your two semi-final games are #4 Michigan vs #9 Ohio State and #3 Illinois vs #5 Iowa. Three of the top 5 teams are playing tomorrow – and they are all in Indianapolis.
There is a surprising amount of bubble intrigue at the moment, and not for the reason you would think. At this point, almost everyone on the bubble has lost in their conference tournament. But with Georgetown playing for the Big East championship and Oregon State playing for the Pac 12 championship, there are certainly lots of teams who will be rooting for Creighton and the winner of tonight’s USC / Colorado semi-final. Those would definitely be bid thieves. Cincinnati has a chance to be a bid thief as well in the American – and quite honestly, with Wichita State and Memphis extremely close to the cut-line (if not already there), they likely would be considered a bid thief as well.
Stolen from the Bracketology page is our tracking the conference tournament champions table. This has either the team who has clinched the conference’s bid – or the remaining games for that conference. In 4 of the conferences playing on the west coast where you see three teams, those are the late semi-finals tonight – the single team is waiting to find out who they will be playing Saturday for the championship.
| CONFERENCE | CHAMPION |
| WCC | #1 Gonzaga (1) |
| Big 12 | Sat 6 pm – #3 Texas (24) vs #5 Oklahoma State (30) |
| Big 10 | Sat 1 pm – #1 Michigan (3) vs #5 Ohio State (9) Sat 3:30 pm – #2 Illinois (4) vs #3 Iowa (5) Sun 3:30 pm – FINAL |
| SEC | Sat 1 pm – #1 Alabama (7) vs #4 Tennessee (18) Sat 3:30 pm – #2 Arkansas (17) vs #3 LSU (28) Sun 1 pm – FINAL |
| ACC | Sat 8:30 pm – #2 Florida State (22) vs #4 Georgia Tech (37) |
| Big East | Sat 6:30 pm – #2 Creighton (25) vs #9 Georgetown (85) |
| Pac 12 | Sat 10:30 pm – #3 Colorado (11) vs #5 Oregon State (106) |
| American | Sat 3 pm – #1 Wichita State (64) vs #5 Cincinnati (125) Sat 5:30 pm – #2 Houston (6) vs #3 Memphis (52) Sun 3:15 pm – FINAL |
| Missouri Valley | #1 Loyola-Chicago (10) |
| Mountain West | Sat 6 pm – #1 San Diego State (21) vs #2 Utah State (49) |
| Atlantic 10 | Sun 1 pm – #1 St. Bonaventure (27) vs #2 VCU (35) |
| Patriot | Sun Noon – #2 Colgate (8) vs #9 Loyola – Maryland (153) |
| Big South | #1 Winthrop (54) |
| Big West | Sat 11:30 pm – #1 UC Santa Barbara (56) vs #2 UC Irvine (105) |
| MAC | Sat 7:30 pm – #2 Buffalo (76) vs #5 Ohio (110) |
| Conference USA | Sat 9 pm – #1E Western Kentucky (86) vs #3W North Texas (71) |
| Atlantic Sun | #1 Liberty (82) |
| Southland | Sat 9:30 pm – #1 Nicholls (179) vs #2 Abilene Christian (83) |
| Southern | #1 UNC-Greensboro (84) |
| OVC | #2 Morehead State (122) |
| Big Sky | Sat 8 pm – #2 Eastern Washington (121) vs #5 Montana State (235) |
| America East | #4 Hartford (168) |
| Horizon | #1 Cleveland State (163) |
| Summit | #4 Oral Roberts (159) |
| Sun Belt | #4E Appalachian State (209) |
| NEC | #4 Mt St Mary’s (162) |
| Colonial | #6 Drexel (137) |
| WAC | Sat 10 pm – #1 Grand Canyon (136) vs #3 New Mexico State (183) |
| MAAC | Sat 4 pm – #7 Fairfield (277) vs #9 Iona (144) |
| MEAC | Sat 1 pm – N2 Norfolk State (199) vs N3 Morgan State (197) |
| SWAC | Sat 6 pm – #1 Prairie View A&M (195) vs #3 Texas Southern (229) |