Selection Weekend live-tweeting

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There will be a Selection Show Live Chat here on Sunday, starting around 3:45 PM Mountain Time. Stay tuned! (For now, you can comment in the usual way, through WordPress comments.

UPDATE: After the jump, a complete transcript of the live-tweeting.

brendanloy: 1:18 PM RT @SI_24Seven: Turner buries 3 at buzzer; Ohio St. tops Michigan bit.ly

brendanloy: 1:18 PM RT @slmandel: NO FREAKING WAY!!!! Evan Turner hits a 40 foot game winner (if it stands)

brendanloy: 1:19 PM RT @slmandel: OK, it was closer to 35 feet, but still, unbelievable shot. OSU survives. Next up on upset alert: Kentucky

brendanloy: 1:19 PM RT @greggdoyelcbs: Attn, POY voters: If you’ve not yet voted, and Evan Turner isn’t your pick, resign immediately from the human race

brendanloy: 1:19 PM RT @DanWetzel: Beilein: “OK, let give the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft an uncontested 30-footer for the win. Whats worst thing that can h …

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brendanloy: 1:52 PM RT @jppalm: realistically, no. RT @batogato: any reason for a william & mary fan to hold out hope for a miracle on sunday?

brendanloy: 2:04 PM NIT-ology: UNC now on wrong side of NIT bubble, likely CBI/CIT-bound; so are Buffalo, Fairfield & three Colorado teams: bit.ly

brendanloy: 2:58 PM RT @goodmanonfox: Illinois is pulling away from Wisconsin here, 41-26. The Illini are a lock if they win this one.

brendanloy: 3:01 PM Women of Troy on the bubble. Fight on! Get in! RT @ADMikeGarrett Our WBB team faces Oregon in the 1st round of the Pac-10 Tournament tonight

brendanloy: 3:02 PM RT @SethDavisHoops If Illini hold on, this will be one of easiest bubble selections in yrs. Only 1 or 2 spots up for debate. | No chaos? 🙁

brendanloy: 3:04 PM RT @ChiTribHamilton: New ESPN Bracketology: #NotreDame a No. 7 seed in Milwaukee. St. Mary’s in 1st round, Ohio State in second round.

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brendanloy: 3:26 PM RT @goodmanonfox Trevon Hughes [of Wisconsin] just hit a 3-pointer to cut the Illinois lead to 54-51 with 38.4 seconds left.

brendanloy: 3:26 PM RT @espn4d Canes win, 70-65. The #12 ACC seed into the semis. And VaTech back into bubble trouble? Lucky it’s such a sorry bubble this year.

brendanloy: 3:32 PM RT @goodmanonfox Illinois holds on for the victory against Wisconsin. Gotta figure the Illini just earned a spot in the NCAA tourney.

brendanloy: 3:52 PM Assuming Illinois in, Saint Louis out & VaTech now on the bubble, we have 11 teams fighting for 6 at-large spots. In no particular order: Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Seton Hall, Minnesota, Washington, Florida, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, San Diego State, Rhode Island, Dayton. Of those, only VaTech and Hall are done playing; everyone else is still alive in conference tourneys. If enough flame out, maybe William & Mary still in the mix??? Or perhaps ASU, Memphis & UAB not dead yet?

brendanloy: 4:52 PM Bubble team Ole Miss loses to Tennessee, 76-65. Meanwhile, C-USA lock UTEP routing tourney host Tulsa, making it more likely a 1-bid league.

brendanloy: 4:53 PM RT @Mark_Schlabach: Bubble-icious games on tap tonight: Fla/Miss St, Dayton/Xavier, Wash/Stanford, SD State/NM

brendanloy: 4:53 PM RT @Mark_Schlabach: Out of all the bubble teams tonight, Miss. State and Dayton probably need wins the most

brendanloy: 5:18 PM RT @aglock: Just for fun… VT: 0-3 top 25, 3-4 top 50, 9-8 top 100 including four 90+ losses (Miami 3x). Avg RPI win: 170!

brendanloy: 5:19 PM RT @aglock W&M: 2-0 top 25 (both on road in ACC), 3-3 top 50, 6-7 top 100 (2 Ls outside top 65), 3 horrid 200+ RPI league Ls. Avg RPI W: 165

brendanloy: 5:22 PM RT @herloyalsons: New blog post: Obligatory Once-A-Year Bandwagon’y Basketball Post bit.ly

brendanloy: 5:57 PM RT @ChiTribHamilton: About to get situated for semifinal Friday at the Big East tourney. #NotreDame, #Marquette looking for first final-game berths ever.

brendanloy: 6:00 PM The Big Ten: It’s a War! RT @goodmanonfox Purdue has scored 4 points in the first 7:38 of this game against Northwestern. Down 11-4.

brendanloy: 6:00 PM RT @BracketDobber: Congratulations to Lehigh, Patriot League Champions!

brendanloy: 6:15 PM Bubble Watch Update by @aglock: awful loss for VT; huge win for Illinois; URI has work left to do; Ole Miss NIT-bound? bit.ly

brendanloy: 6:17 PM tOSU’s Turner one-ups his friend, WVU’s Butler – @lukewinn – bit.ly

brendanloy: 8:39 PM

brendanloy: 8:40 PM GOOOO IRISH!!! BEEEEAT ‘EERS!!!

brendanloy: 8:51 PM They held on. I love it. It’s a WAR! 🙂 RT @aglock: Miss. State could wipe out two SEC teams if they hold on here and lose tomorrow.

brendanloy: 9:16 PM RT @theupsetblog: New Mexico 39 San Diego St 38. HALF. One of the best 1/2 Ive seen in a LONG time. #themwc

brendanloy: 9:19 PM RT @PeteThamelNYT: WVU up 23-17. Feels like more.

brendanloy: 9:24 PM Big win for the bubbleicious Women of Troy. Fight On! RT @InsideUSC: USC 80, Oregon 76: bit.ly

brendanloy: 9:55 PM West Virginia 34, Notre Dame 28, 13:50 left. First team to 50 wins?

brendanloy: 10:24 PM Notre Dame within 4 points, with 4 minutes left. GO IRISH!

brendanloy: 10:32 PM Irish on 11-2 run, within a point with under 3 left.

brendanloy: 10:35 PM Mike Brey just used his last timeout, down 3 with 1:35 left. Really?!? Think the Irish might miss that later???

brendanloy: 10:38 PM I should add, the TO was in a routine, we-scored-now-let’s-regroup sort of situation, not anything desperate/necessary. Fire Mike Brey? 🙂

brendanloy: 10:38 PM Anyway.. West Virginia ball, up 53-51 with 37 seconds left (25 on the shot clock)

brendanloy: 10:41 PM Wow. WVU missed, ND rebound, had a good look but missed, couldn’t get off another shot amid scramble for rebound / loose ball. ‘Eers win.

brendanloy: 10:47 PM NC State about to beat Florida State, putting an #11 seed in one ACC semifinal and a #12 in the other. Either is 2 wins from stealing a bid.

brendanloy: 10:50 PM Dayton’s out, Minnesota stays alive (but probably needs one more win), GaTech & San Diego State probably OK but not absolutely safe, Ole Miss probably out but we can’t be sure…so we now (probably) have 10 teams fighting for 6 at-large spots. In no particular order: Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Seton Hall, Minnesota, Washington, Florida, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, San Diego State, Rhode Island.

brendanloy: 10:53 PM If we assume GaTech, SDSU & VaTech are in, and Ole Miss out, then it’s 6 teams for 3 spots: Seton Hall, Minnesota, Washington, Florida, Mississippi State, Rhode Island. Of those, Seton Hall and Florida are done playing; the others are still alive in their tourneys. Also, there are still potential bid-stealers lurking, so it could end up being fewer than 3 spots.

brendanloy: 10:56 PM If UW loses tonight to Stanford, and then tomorrow, Minnesota loses to Purdue, URI loses to Temple & Mississippi State loses to Vanderbilt … William & Mary???

brendanloy: 11:37 PM RT @TheHoopsReport: Last 8 In-Wash, Minn, SH, GT, Illin, FL, SDSU, UNLV. Last 8 Out-URI, Miss, W&M, Memph, USF, UAB, VT, Wich St.

brendanloy: 4:20 AM CNN Breaking News — Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger hospitalized in South Korea, CNN has learned.

brendanloy: 8:08 AM RT @Bracketology101: Last five in…VT, Florida, Washington, Minnesota, Illinois

brendanloy: 8:08 AM RT @Bracketology101: Last four out..Rhode Island, Mississippi State, Seton Hall, Arizona State

brendanloy: 8:41 AM Loyette, walking out of the pantry with a Killian’s in her hand: “I found a beer for you, Daddy!”

brendanloy: 12:31 PM CNN Breaking News — Explosions in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province kill 35, wound 47, spokesman for provincial governor says.

brendanloy: 3:22 PM Had fun at the St. Paddy’s Day parade with the girls. While I was away, Houston upset UTEP to steal a bid, shrinking the bubble by one. Also, Rhode Island lost, and Illinois fell to tOSU in 2OT.

brendanloy: 4:17 PM Minnesota 31, Purdue 6, three minutes left first half. Whoa.

brendanloy: 4:28 PM ACC #11-seed and potential bid thief N.C. State, down 10 at halftime to bubble team Georgia Tech, starts 2nd half on 17-4 run, leads by 3.

brendanloy: 4:53 PM Mississippi St beat Vandy. Minnesota still crushing Purdue. NC State leads GaTech by 2 with six minutes left. Winner gets Duke (which sucks)

brendanloy: 5:26 PM Georgia Tech survives.

brendanloy: 5:27 PM RT @MattZemek_CFN: Georgia Tech, for all its mistakes and shortcomings, is in the NCAA Tournament.

brendanloy: 6:09 PM Final Minn-over-Purdue score: 69-42. Yikes. Meanwhile, UW, which may or may not need the auto bid, leads Cal by 4 at half in Pac-10 final.

brendanloy: 6:14 PM RT @PeteThamelNYT: #NotreDame team flight canceled this a.m., so Irish are busing back to South Bend. Yes, it’s THAT miserable in NYC today.

brendanloy: 6:14 PM RT @breakingweather: A 74 mph wind gust just occurred at JFK Airport! Strong Tropical Storm conditions.

brendanloy: 6:16 PM RT @PeteThamelNYT: Best part of ND bus trip to South Bend? Players were singing “99 bottles of beer on the wall” leaving Teterboro. #nojoke

brendanloy: 6:18 PM RT @BracketDobber: Last 4 In/Out Update: Nervous Hours Ahead For Blacksburg, Champaign, El Paso, Gainesville sbnation.com

brendanloy: 6:27 PM Committee’s job tomorrow will be a lot easier if they decide today that Minnesota, GaTech, MissSt are in, win or lose. Just sayin’.

brendanloy: 6:34 PM RT @larevblog: Ugh. This nasty Pac 10 game is what people think the NBA is: athletes blindly driving the basket. Where’s the skill?! Naismith’s pissed.

brendanloy: 6:37 PM Meanwhile, SDSU and UNLV are tied 10-10… twelve minutes into the game.

brendanloy: 6:38 PM The Mountain West: it’s a WAR! 🙂

brendanloy: 7:37 PM Washington wins!

brendanloy: 7:38 PM I’m off to the Great Big Sea concert!

brendanloy: 9:46 PM New Great Big Sea record tentatively titled “Safe Upon The Shore” coming out this summer. Yay!

brendanloy: 11:26 PM No way! Utah State lost?!? … Great Big Sea! Great Big Sea!

brendanloy: 11:58 PM West Virginia wins the Big East. #1 seed? … I’m at Illegal Pete’s, post-concert. GBS rocks.

brendanloy: 12:38 AM RT @aglock: Right now, it looks like… IN (not in order): GT, Illinois, Minn, Utah St, Cal, UTEP; OUT: Florida, VT, SHU. Miss St needs auto

brendanloy: 12:40 AM RT @aglock: Today was one of the worst days I can recall for bubble teams. Almost everything went wrong.

brendanloy: 1:52 AM After midnight. That means IT’S SELECTION SUNDAY!!! WHEEE!!! My favorite day of the year. 🙂 But now, to bed. GBS rocked, as always. G’nite.

brendanloy: 11:43 AM Last 6 In, per @aglock: UTEP, GaTech, Minnesota, Illinois, Utah St., Cal. First 5 Out: VaTech, Florida, MissSt, SH, W&M bit.ly

brendanloy: 11:45 AM Joe Lunardi’s last 3 in: Utah State, VaTech, Minnesota. First 3 out: Mississippi State, Illinois, Florida. bit.ly

brendanloy: 12:54 PM Mississippi State leads Kentucky by 4 in SEC title game with under 4 min left. Most bracketologists seem to think MissSt must win to get in.

brendanloy: 12:56 PM RT @TheBigLead: So… Illinois, Utah State, UTEP, Cal, Minnesota… who gets shafted if Miss St holds on to win here?

brendanloy: 1:20 PM Kentucky beats Mississippi State, 75-74 in overtime, in SEC final. Do the Bulldogs go dancing anyway? We shall see.

brendanloy: 1:21 PM RT @slmandel: Poor Miss State. One point short. Think they’re still out.

brendanloy: 1:21 PM RT @kyleveazey: Don’t know how it could get more excruciating for State. Was tenth of a second away from SECT title, now must really sweat selection show.

brendanloy: 2:41 PM I’m opening this window up for live-chatting now, if anybody wants to say something. 🙂 Just click “Make a comment,” above. I’ll keep it open at least through the end of the Selection Show.

brendanloy: 2:44 PM Follow along w/ who’s in, who’s out during the Selection Show, using my handy Bubble Scoresheet: ff.im

brendanloy: 2:58 PM OMG ONE HOUR LEFT TILL THE SELECTION SHOW!!!!! WHEEEE!!!!!

brendanloy: 3:30 PM Seems like an exceptional number of teams this year did just enough to make a plausible case for a bid, but not quite enough to lock one up.

brendanloy: 3:51 PM Selection Show live-tweeting may be somewhat limited by the need to manage little girls rampaging around the house 🙂

brendanloy: 4:00 PM Kansas is #1 overall seed

brendanloy: 4:02 PM #1s Kansas, Kentucky, Duke, Syracuse

brendanloy: 4:03 PM Duke apparently the #3 overall, Syracuse #4

brendanloy: 4:06 PM RT @aglock: Is that a good omen for VT if they consider Duke that strong? That’s ridiculous.

brendanloy: 4:09 PM Here we go!

brendanloy: 4:10 PM #1 Kansas vs. #16 Lehigh
#8 UNLV vs. #9 Northern Iowa

brendanloy: 4:11 PM 5 MichSt vs. 12 New Mexico St, 4 Maryland vs. 13 Houston … both of yesterday’s bid-stealers in Spokane pod

brendanloy: 4:12 PM Georgia Tech in as a 10

brendanloy: 4:12 PM Ohio State not only a #2 seed, but the #2 in the #1 overall seed’s region

brendanloy: 4:12 PM Georgetown a #3

brendanloy: 4:13 PM A lot of auto bids in that region, so not a lot of insight into bubble yet

brendanloy: 4:14 PM A lot of auto bids in that region, so not a lot of insight into bubble yet … But with Duke the 3rd overall #1 and Georgia Tech a #10, seems like decent respect for the ACC – maybe good news for VaTech, as @aglock said

brendanloy: 4:15 PM RT @ballinisahabit: Kansas, Ohio State, and Georgetown is a LOADED bracket. Yikes

brendanloy: 4:15 PM RT @slipperstillfit: Thank god Gonzaga isn’t in the Midwest. That bracket is absolutely loaded. Ohio State and GTown both had arguments …

brendanloy: 4:15 PM RT @VandalNation: With NMSU getting a 12-seed, I don’t see Utah State not getting in somehow.

brendanloy: 4:15 PM RT @mattbouldin15: Sittin in the club room waitin for our seed…exciting!!

brendanloy: 4:17 PM #1 Syracuse vs. #16 Vermont … #8 Gonzaga vs. #9 Florida State … in Buffalo

brendanloy: 4:18 PM #5 Butler vs. #12 UTEP … UTEP IN

brendanloy: 4:19 PM #4 Vandy vs. #13 Murray State … Vanderbilt against draws a #4 seed and a dangerous #13 seed, like two years ago with Siena

brendanloy: 4:19 PM FLORIDA IN AS A 10

brendanloy: 4:20 PM MINNESOTA IN AS AN 11

brendanloy: 4:20 PM That’s 4 bubble teams in … 2 spots left

brendanloy: 4:21 PM (assuming Wake, Louisville, other “probably in” teams in)

brendanloy: 4:21 PM Competing for the final 2 bubble spots: Cal, Illinois, MissSt, Seton Hall, Utah State, VaTech

brendanloy: 4:22 PM Butler-UTEP and UNLV-Northern Iowa are sorta kinda “David vs. David” matchups, if you consider C-USA and MWC mid-majors

brendanloy: 4:23 PM RT @midmajority: Florida, UTEP in… a little worried about Utah State right now. Prolly means A-14 is a three-bid league, too.

brendanloy: 4:23 PM RT @espn4d: Wish we had a camera on Florida. Bet they went crazy. Had to be surprised at getting a 10 seed. Some good non-conference win …

brendanloy: 4:24 PM RT @chucktodd: Overall, Syracuse may have gotten jobbed with the 4th #1 seed; but this bracket isn’t scary for them outside that potenti …

brendanloy: 4:25 PM RT @aglock: Someone from the Big East is out, and I can’t see it being Marquette or Notre Dame, can you?

brendanloy: 4:26 PM Ugh, another David vs. David matchup, 5 Temple vs. 12 Cornell

brendanloy: 4:27 PM West Virginia seventh on the S-curve?

brendanloy: 4:28 PM Who will be #11 in the East? possibly a bubble team

brendanloy: 4:29 PM nope… Washington. still 2 bubble spots left

brendanloy: 4:30 PM RT @PeteThamelNYT: If you’re Cornell, there’s a lot worse matchups than seeing Temple and Wisconsin as the No. 4 and No. 5.

brendanloy: 4:32 PM RT @aglock: Unless they left out Notre Dame or Marquette, Louisville is headed to the NIT. And I can’t say it’s unjust, tho making Flori …

brendanloy: 4:32 PM RT @aglock: It’s either Louisville or ND. Is there any way ND gets shafted there?

brendanloy: 4:33 PM Based on bracketing principles re: teams from same conference, @aglock says either Louisville or ND is out. So, THREE bubble spots left

brendanloy: 4:33 PM Or, put another way, 4 spots left for Louisville, ND, Cal, Illinois, MissSt, UtahSt, VaTech

brendanloy: 4:34 PM Ark-Pine Bluff v. Winthrop in the play-in game, winner gets Duke

brendanloy: 4:34 PM CAL IN AS AN 8

brendanloy: 4:34 PM LOUISVILLE IN! NOTRE DAME OUT?!?!?!?!?!

David K.: 4:34 PM Figures. We beat them twice, once just YESTERDAY and they get the higher seed. Stupid selection commitee

brendanloy: 4:35 PM Utah State IN

brendanloy: 4:35 PM Fire Mike Brey?!!???!!

brendanloy: 4:36 PM #11 seed in the South will be the last bubble team

brendanloy: 4:37 PM WHAT????

brendanloy: 4:37 PM Notre Dame IN!

brendanloy: 4:37 PM Bracketing principles violated, but ND in! Whew!

brendanloy: 4:37 PM get Old Dominion in the first round. Out: Illinois, Mississippi State, Virginia Tech, Seton Hall

brendanloy: 4:38 PM Notre Dame could play Villanova in Sweet 16 (hence the “bracketing principles violated” and @aglock’s confusion)

brendanloy: 4:39 PM By losing to 2 horrible WCC teams & getting crushed in tourney, Gonzaga went from playing in Spokane to possibly playing Syracuse in Buffalo

brendanloy: 4:40 PM RT @PeteThamelNYT: Siena has to be thrilled with the Purdue draw. Wow. Tho Siena isn’t quite as good as last year.

brendanloy: 4:40 PM RT @goodmanonfox: Wow. Notre Dame moves all the way up to No. 6 seed. NIT to No. 6 in a month.

brendanloy: 4:41 PM RT @aglock: If they had eight BE teams in, I don’t know why they stuck three in the same region.

brendanloy: 4:48 PM RT @aglock: I feel bad for Cornell. They got a low seed and drew a crazily underseeded Temple team with Dunphy who knows Cornell/Donahue inside out

brendanloy: 4:48 PM RT @aglock: How do you look at Richmond’s and Cal’s resumes and come up with one seed line’s difference? Texas and Cal accomplished the same??

brendanloy: 4:49 PM RT @aglock: Cal’s 8 seed is so utterly laughable.

brendanloy: 4:49 PM RT @aglock: There are a few teams in here that are wildly mis-seeded.

brendanloy: 4:51 PM RT @larevblog: Buffalo…three hours away…ROAD TRIP MOTHER TRUCKERS!

brendanloy: 4:52 PM RT @espn4d: Villanova and ND could meet in Sweet 16; conference matchups normally avoided til regional final. Same with Marquette and WVU.

brendanloy: 4:52 PM RT @TheBigLead: Vitale railing against Wake > VT. Last time the No. 3 team in the ACC (10-6) got snubbed? “I think Seth Greenberg got a raw, raw deal.”

brendanloy: 4:53 PM RT @espn4d: Pretty much the entire A-10 too low.

brendanloy: 4:54 PM RT @espn4d: ND seeded too high at 6. Florida too high at 10. Nova too high at 2.

brendanloy: 4:55 PM All right… I’m done live-tweeting for now. NCAA Pools coming later tonight. Probably in the general range of 9-10 PM Mountain Time

brendanloy: 5:48 PM RT @JohnGasaway: Huge disparity in 5-seed situations. Michigan St won lottery. Temple’s underseeded. Butler, TX A&M have *very* tough games.

brendanloy: 8:08 PM RT @D1scourse: Old Dominion-Notre Dame is the second tip of the tournament – 12:25 PM EST on Thursday. Enberg/Bilas on the call

brendanloy: 8:10 PM Men’s NCAA Bracket, with locations & tip times (pdf) – bit.ly

brendanloy: 8:11 PM NIT Bracket (pdf) bit.ly

brendanloy: 8:30 PM RT @dlabay: Not only did Illinois miss the NCAAs, they start the NIT at Stony Brook because Assembly Hall is booked with Cirque du Soleil this week.

brendanloy: 10:32 PM 15th annual Living Room Times Men’s NCAA Pool entry form online: bit.ly NIT Pool coming shortly.