Published 12/31/2008
by Jordan Schwartz
at Bleacher Report - College Basketball
Now things really start heating up.
Conference play is underway, making tournament projections a little bit easier as league pecking orders start to appear. Purdue, Connecticut, and Oklahoma (in a non-conference game) have each already suffered losses this week, so how will all this affect the bracket picture as we head into 2009?
As always, I like to break teams down into three categories. "Wallflowers" are bubble teams. Everyone wants to get into the Big Dance, but not all have the guts to ask a girl out onto the dance floor. Elite teams safely in the field are "Dancing with a hottie" and in the middle are the schools, which are "Dancing with a butterface."
ACC Dancing with a hottie: North Carolina (1 seed), Duke (1), Wake (2), Clemson (4) Dancing with a butterface: Maryland (6) Wallflowers: Florida St (8), Miami (10), Boston College (out) Duke's back to the top line after absolutely destroying Xavier in New Jersey. Wake's 12-0 record, ...
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