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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WVUALLEN" data-source="post: 131213553" data-attributes="member: 1112294">For those who don't know how weak the bubble is this year....John GasawayESPN Insider March 1, 2019 8 AM<a href="https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/28577356/ncaa-tournament-bubble-watch-updated-look-wildest-bubble-years">https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/28577356/ncaa-tournament-bubble-watch-updated-look-wildest-bubble-years</a>Big 12Locks: Baylor, Kansas, West VirginiaShould be inTexas Tech Red RaidersSuddenly Texas Tech has lost two straight, and this formerly formidable offense is no longer scoring points. The Red Raiders’ projected seed has dropped to a spot on the No. 8 line as Chris Beard’s men have put just 109 points on the board over 130 possessions in losses at Oklahoma and at home against Texas. In those 80 minutes, Texas Tech converted less than 38% of its 2-point attempts, and Red Raider second chances became vanishingly rare. A visit to Baylor is next on the agenda, and that doesn’t seem likely to cure what ails a struggling offense.Work to doOklahoma SoonersLon Kruger’s team has effectively turned its profile around over the past two games. With wins at home over Texas Tech and on the road at West Virginia, the Sooners have gone from a team that was trending its way out of the tournament field to one that, at 18-11, looks to be in good shape. Oklahoma was projected as a No. 11 seed in advance of its game against the Mountaineers, and the team’s top-50 NET ranking will now climb a bit higher. The Sooners will host Texas and then close the season at TCU, and OU is entering that closing stretch in far better shape than the Watch could have imagined just a week ago.Texas LonghornsTexas is not in the projected field yet, but no team — not UCLA, not Providence, not Arizona State, no team — has recorded a more dramatic and, yes, surprising rise to bubble status than the Longhorns. Shaka Smart is down to a handful of healthy players, and starters Jericho Sims and Jase Febres are still sidelined with injuries, none of which has prevented UT from winning four in a row and capping off that run with a profile-altering 68-58 victory at Texas Tech. The win in Lubbock, which will improve a NET ranking that was in the 60s, takes its place alongside ones at Purdue and at home against West Virginia as the highlights of an 18-11 season so far. With games at Oklahoma and at home against Oklahoma State remaining, Texas is on the cusp of playing its way into the field.</blockquote>

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