One Heavy Bubble

With less than 40 days to go until Selection Sunday, I decided to take a peek at what this year's "Bubble" looked like. And let's just say this season: You don't want to be on the bubble.

Here's a conference-by-conference breakdown of how many teams I consider a lock:
ACC-4
Big East-7
Big Ten-5
Big 12-4
Pac 10-4
SEC-4
A10-2
MWC-3
C-USA-1

The rest of the conferences will likely just have their automatic bid - but that's assuming the following teams win their tourney:
MAAC-Siena
Southern-Davidson
WAC-Utah St.

If these teams lose in their conference tournament, they'll be palced firmly on the bubble... a very, very large bubble.

With the conference locks (34) and other automatic bids (22), that puts us at 56 teams - leaving 9 spots for this laundry list of legitimate bubble teams:

Boston College
Florida State
Va Tech
Miami (FL)
Kansas St.
Texas A&M
Baylor
Providence
G'Town
Notre Dame
Penn State
Northwestern
Michigan
Tulsa
Wisconsin-Green Bay
Arizona
USC
Kentucky
Mississippi St.
Mississippi
St. Mary's

Should be an interesting stretch run!