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Message: [QUOTE="bballnut90, post: 3058826, member: 2117"] Well, look at the breakdown: Mississippi State, Kentucky, SC, Missouri and A&M are all locks. Tennessee, LSU, and Auburn are all right on the bubble with their RPI. At the time of his projections, all 3 were in despite being on the bubble. Given the last week, Tennessee is out right now so there are only 7 SEC teams and all 3 could moss yielding just 5 teams. The SEC getting potentially 7 (or 8) bids isnt a sign of it being a powerful conference, it is the sign of a conference that has a couple of good teams and a lot of mediocre ones that are borderline NCAA teams. Chances are only 2-3 teams will make regionals while the PAC and ACC have a good shot for 4+. The division between the top 10-15 teams and the bubble teams is much smaller than it has been in years past. Parity is here. We are seeing a lot of up and down teams pulling upsets (or almost pulling upsets) of top 10-15 squads but then they turn around and lose to a bottom feeder. As a result, a lot of top teams may not appear to be as good as they were in previous years when in fact the rest of college basketball is catching up. [/QUOTE]