If you are a fan of a team currently on the men's NCAA basketball tournament bubble (such as Arizona St., Arizona, Texas A&M, Kentucky), you should make sure you are watching the West Coast Conference Championship between Gonzaga and San Diego tonight on ESPN. And, it wouldn't be a bad idea to flip back to the Southern Conference tournament final between Davidson and Elon on ESPN2, either.
Why? Because the favorites in both games (Gonzaga and Davidson) have very legitimate chances of receiving at-large bids into the NCAA tournament even if they lose tonight and don't get the automatic bid (Gonzaga is pretty much a lock, Davidson would be firmly a bubble team). And if they get in with at-large berths instead of automatic bids, that's two spots that won't be available
to current "bubble" teams like the ones I mentioned.
If you love basketball, it would be fantastic to see some upsets in these conference tournaments and a few Cinderella teams make it to the Big Dance. But if you are a fan of a bubble team, you have to resist that urge with all your will and be the Ugly Stepsister who hope Cinderella gets crushed under the wheel of that pumpkin carriage.
