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NCAA tournament Bubble Watch: The bubble is still wide open

Editor's note: The NCAA tournament Bubble Watch has been updated through games played Thursday, March 14.

Thursday dawned with cheery can-do talk from Bubble Watch about how surely all of this upcoming basketball would bring some much-needed clarity to the bubble picture.

Indeed it did! We can now see clearly that if every bubble team loses the committee will still have to get to 68 teams somehow.

Fine, not every bubble team lost. But let's quickly run down the results.

Of the 16 teams Joe Lunardi had listed under last four byes, last four in, first four out and next four out going into the day, here is what transpired:

  • Five of the teams didn't play

  • Seven of them lost

  • Four won