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Acknowledgements: NET rankings and records are accurate as of Sunday, March 13, 2022. Both reflect only games against Division I teams. Selection Sheet info is from WarrenNolan.com. Team logos are from Chris Creamer’s SportsLogos.net.
Teams with a gold background have secured automatic bids.
✴️ = new bracket entrants
⬆️ and ⬇️ = bracket returnees’ seed movement relative to this morning’s bracket
(#) = Overall rank of the top 16 teams (top four seeds in each region)
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The Final Bubble Post of 2022
With Richmond’s win over Davidson, SMU departs, though Rutgers is just as worthy of having its bubble pop. Honestly, you can make a good case to eliminate each of the bottom six at-large teams and replace them with one of the top six teams I have projected as destined for the NIT.
We’ll soon see.