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FILE - Princeton head coach Carla Berube calls a play for her team in the first half of a college basketball game against Kentucky in the first round of the NCAA tournament in Bloomington, Ind., March 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

NCAA Tournament women’s bubble watch: USF, Ivy League and Atlantic-10 with key matchups this weekend

There’s one month until the NCAA Tournament selection show and there are still many teams battling to get off the bubble and into the field.

South Florida (18-8) has won seven straight games, including a triple-overtime victory over Rice last week, to get into the at-large conversation if the Bulls don’t win the conference tournament. They face Charlotte and Memphis this week. Jose Fernandez’s team needed overtime to beat Charlotte the first time they met.

Bubble watch

George Mason at Saint Joseph’s, Sunday. Once again, two of the top teams in the Atlantic-10 meet with second place on the line. The Patriots have won 11 straight games and are 13-2 in the conference. The Hawks lost to first-place Richmond last Thursday and are 11-3 in the league.

Columbia at Princeton, Saturday. First place in the Ivy League will be at stake when the Lions visit the Tigers. The two teams are tied with one loss apiece after Columbia fell to Harvard on Sunday. The three teams are all in the hunt for NCAA Tournament bids. Harvard has the highest NET rating at 34. Columbia is at 42 and Princeton 49.

NCAA Tournament women's bubble watch: USF, Ivy League and Atlantic-10 with key matchups this weekend | iNFOnews.ca
FILE – Columbia head coach Megan Griffith looks on during the first half of an NCAA Ivy League women’s college basketball championship game against Princeton, March 12, 2022, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm, File)

Key ratings

Belmont: The Bruins are 0-6 against top teams (Quadrant 1) this season, but two of those losses were close with a four-point defeat to Ohio State and a six-point one to Kentucky. They currently are tied for second in the Missouri Valley Conference after losing to Drake over the weekend and have a NET rating of 59.

Top 16 Reveal: The NCAA selection committee unveiled its top 16 teams Sunday to that point in the season and it didn’t take long for the reveal to get upended. UCLA, South Carolina, Texas and Notre Dame were the top four seeds in the committee’s mind. The Gamecocks were routed by UConn a few hours after the unveiling. The NCAA will have one more reveal on Feb. 27.

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