One bid conferences?

[BU Bill]

Here are a few of the conferences that appear to be likely to get just 1 bid, if the favorite team wins the tournament. But these conferences could force the NCAA to give them 2 bids if the favorite does not win--

Mountain West- Let's hope Air Force wins
http://www.kenpom.com/conf.php?c=MWC

Western Athletic Conference- Nevada must win
http://www.kenpom.com/conf.php?c=WAC

Atlantic 10- George Washington must win
http://www.kenpom.com/conf.php?c=A10

West Coast Conference- this one is finished and Gonzaga won a close one
http://www.kenpom.com/conf.php?c=WCC

Conference USA- Memphis has gotta win
http://www.kenpom.com/conf.php?c=CUSA

MAAC- probably the tournament winner is the only one that will go
http://www.kenpom.com/conf.php?c=MAAC

Horizon- to be safe, let's hope UW-Milwaukee wins
http://www.kenpom.com/conf.php?c=Horz

Mid American Conference- Probably just 1 team goes, regardless who wins, but Kent has the best RPI at 60.
http://www.kenpom.com/conf.php?c=MAC

Big Sky- Montana is the only school with RPI under 100
http://www.kenpom.com/conf.php?c=BSky

Sun Belt- C'mon Western Kentucky
http://www.kenpom.com/conf.php?c=SB

Ohio Valley- Go Murray State
http://www.kenpom.com/conf.php?c=OVC

Patriot League- Bucknell has to win
http://www.kenpom.com/conf.php?c=Pat

These conferences probably have no hope of more than 1 bid regardless what happens--
Mid Continent- http://www.kenpom.com/conf.php?c=MCon
Big South- http://www.kenpom.com/conf.php?c=BSth
Southland- http://www.kenpom.com/conf.php?c=Slnd
Southern Conf- http://www.kenpom.com/conf.php?c=SC
Big West- http://www.kenpom.com/conf.php?c=BW
Ivy League- http://www.kenpom.com/conf.php?c=Ivy
Northeast Conf- http://www.kenpom.com/conf.php?c=NEC

And, finally, Missouri Valley- http://www.kenpom.com/conf.php?c=MVC

[cpacmel]

Good stuff BU BILL.

[BU fan]

Here is a link to a post on Valleytalk (thanks to cpacmel) that lists the number of bids the 6th rated conferences have gotten since 1999. 3 of the last 5 years they have gotten at least 5 bids. No team with an RPI of 40 or less was denied a bid--

http://valleytalk.net/showthread.php?t=203

[Da Coach]

South Alabama is routing Western Kentucky.
45-36 at halftime

Unless something changes, they will be the automatic qualifier from the Sun Belt.

Western Kentucky had an RPI of 53 (and a 22-6 record) coming into this game and that will drop a few points. They don't have enough quality wins. They appear to have just given the NCAA enough reason to exclude them. I don't think this loss by WKU can hurt Bradley, since they were well behind Bradley on the list of bubble teams, anyway.

[Da Coach]

Score in the Sunbelt final was 95-70 USA over WKU.

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/boxscore?gid=200603070524

Lee and Winchester both had horrible shooting nights. They have nobody else to score when those 2 are not able to do it.

[Da Coach]

The losses by several Bradley opponents dropped Bradley's RPI to 36.

http://www.kenpom.com/rpi.php?y=2006

http://www.kenpom.com/conf.php?c=MVC

All the teams behind Bradley, except for reighton, still will be playing with a chance to move up and drop Bradley further.