With the Big Ten having wrapped up its postseason shindig one week early, only five auto bids are up for grabs on Selection Sunday. And while the Ivy League and Sun Belt will only enter their winners in the 2018 NCAA Tournament, the other three games have seeding implications at a minimum. I’ll take a quick look at those after today’s fully updated bracket and rundown.
Bracketology 2018: Selection Sunday’s 5 games can give us some final tweaks
The SEC and American Athletic championship games could provide their winners with a seed boost, while the eyes of bubble teams will focus on Washington, D.C.
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Here’s what’s on the line in Sunday’s five championship games.
- Either the Penn Quakers or Harvard Crimson will represent the Ivy League (ESPN2, noon ET). The pair split their regular season series and conference title, with each winning at home. That’s important because the game is being played on the Quakers’ home floor at the Palestra.
- It’s a similar story in the Sun Belt, where another rubber match will decide the auto bid, but this time on a neutral floor in New Orleans. Kevin Hervey and the Texas-Arlington Mavericks meet Ron Hunter’s Georgia State Panthers (2 p.m, ESPN2).
- In the SEC Tournament final, the Tennessee Volunteers could sneak up to the two line if they defeat the Kentucky Wildcats for a third time (1 p.m., ESPN).
- The Cincinnati Bearcats, currently the final two seed, meet the Houston Cougars in the American Athletic final (3:30 p.m., CBS). The Cougars are a six in this projection and could move up to a five with a win, but the late tip time of this game will make last-minute changes difficult for the committee.
- And the Davidson Wildcats could burst someone’s bubble if they knock off the Rhode Island Rams in the Atlantic 10 Tournament title (1 p.m., CBS). I’ll have more on the cut line picture in a separate post.
Also, we’ll remind you of this, but the Selection Show is on TBS, not CBS this year. It still starts at 6 p.m. Eastern.
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