Saturday was a massive day of eliminations from the Circle of March, as the sixth full day of Championship Fortnight resulted in 46 more schools dropping out of contention for the national title. The bloodbath included only one automatic bid — hey, Eastern Kentucky — but there were 11 other mid-major tournaments occurring yesterday, as well as a number of other regular seasons ending. Sunday thus far has already brought us a few more automatic bids — Wichita State, Coastal Carolina and Mercer are all going dancing. A handful of schools were eliminated from the CoM by virtue of not qualifying for their conference tournaments starting next week, but keep in mind that to preserve the integrity of the regular season, we’re not yet eliminating schools that still have games to play (i.e., Penn and Princeton). This means that we are left with 232 “eligible” teams for the 2014 National Championship. One week to Selection Sunday!
Teams Eliminated From National Title Contention (03.08.14)
- Florida Gulf Coast
- Indiana State
- Northeastern
- Winthrop
- New Hampshire
- Wagner
- Rider
- Samford
- UNC-Asheville
- Hofstra
- St. Francis (PA)
- Missouri State
- Drexel
- Elon
- Siena
- UMBC
- VMI
- San Diego
- Army
- Southern Illinois
- Loyola Marymount
- Holy Cross
- James Madison
- Maine
- Chattanooga
- Saint Peter’s
- Brown
- Columbia
- Cornell
- Yale
- Dartmouth
- IUPUI
- Cleveland St.
- Belmont
- Binghamton
- The Citadel
- College of Charleston
- Niagara
- Santa Clara
- Pepperdine
- Lamar
- Central Arkansas
- Houston Baptist
- Eastern Washington
- Montana State
- Idaho State
- Southern Utah
- South Alabama
- Texas State
- UC Davis
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Green Bay lost for teams on the bubble you should make them disappear and if they get selected on Selection Sunday you make them re-appear