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Message: [QUOTE="HooperScooper, post: 4890357, member: 10"] This is an ESPN+ article about bubble teams. It's mostly about the Big East having a lot of bubble teams. They have UConn, Marquette, and Creighton as locks. PC, Seton Hall, Butler, Villanova and St. John's as having work to do. [I]Each Selection Sunday, the NCAA releases both a seed list for Nos. 1 to 68 and, in recent years, a ranked listing of the first four teams that didn't make the field. The Big East is the one major conference that has been almost entirely missing at the heart of the bubble over that time. The league has put just one team on either the "Last Four In" or "First Four Out" lists since the tournament was canceled in 2020. [URL='https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/_/id/2507/providence-friars']Providence[/URL] was one of the last four at-large teams to make the field last year. The Friars' close call a year ago notwithstanding, bubble drama has avoided the Big East in the 2020s. Until now. On Selection Sunday 2024, the Big East could flood the zone at the cut line. Providence, [URL='https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/_/id/2086/butler-bulldogs']Butler[/URL] and [URL='https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/_/id/2550/seton-hall-pirates']Seton Hall[/URL] have all been mainstays in the "Work to do" category throughout February. At the same time, [URL='https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/_/id/222/villanova-wildcats']Villanova[/URL], [URL='https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/_/id/2599/st-john-red-storm']St. John's[/URL] and [URL='https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/_/id/2752/xavier-musketeers']Xavier[/URL] have either joined all of the above in "Work to do" or have dropped out and are doing their best to return.[/I] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/insider/story/_/id/39449848/bubble-watch-2024-ncaa-tournament-march-madness-bracket-predictions[/URL] [B][U]Alternate access:[/U][/B] [HEADING=2][COLOR=rgb(44, 130, 201)][URL='https://archive.is/5o5Ev']Bubble Watch 2024: Brace yourself for NCAA tournament drama[/URL][/COLOR][/HEADING] [/QUOTE]

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