(4) shoots the ball over USC Trojans forward Vincent Iwuchukwu (3) at Desert Financial Arena in Tempe on Jan. Iowa,” we include an asterisk to indicate that it is a projected matchup which hasn’t been officially created yet.ĪSU Sun Devil guard Desmond Cambridge Jr. Example: Wisconsin has to beat Ohio State in the Big Ten Tournament before it can play Iowa, so when we refer to “Wisconsin vs. NOTE: If you see an asterisk in the title/heading for a listicle slide, that means it is a projected matchup, not a confirmed matchup. We’ll go through the bubble matchups at the various conference tournaments. To that end, we give you this extensive bubble guide for all bubble teams competing with USC for one of the final at-large bids in the 2023 NCAA Tournament. The Trojans might need a little bit of insurance if they lose on Thursday night. It’s very unlikely USC will be left out, but crazy things can and do happen in March. However, if USC does lose its first game - Thursday night’s quarterfinal - it will be important for other bubble teams to not play their way into the field.

The Trojans will make a lot of bubble discussions a moot point if they win one game at the Pac-12 Tournament. USC has an excellent chance of making the NCAA Tournament. This is the true lead-in to Selection Sunday. Then the games begin and brackets get busted. Brackets then get printed out on Monday and Tuesday. It all leads up to the unveiling of the brackets on Selection Sunday, one of the most special times of the year in American culture. This is the week when “first four in” and “last four out” are the words everyone is interested in. This is the week when “Who’s in or out?” is the central question in not just college basketball, but American sports. Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble! It’s bubble season, bubble week, bubble mania, whatever you want to call it.

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