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Arkansas-Little Rock [26-3 (16-2), RPI: 38, SOS: 249] The Trojans have kept right on chugging through their Sun Belt foes, which is the fundamental requirement of any bubble hopeful from a genuine mid- (or low-) major conference. Every loss might be the one that kills your hopes completely. Two more regular-season games this week: Arkansas State and at Appalachian State.

Let's face it: if we were merely 24-5 at this point instead of 26-3, we would be getting zero Bubble mentions. A team with a schedule like ours has to be almost perfect to make the cut. We are two losses away from "almost perfect."

And I hope I'm wrong.

(03-01-2016 01:24 PM)MICHAELSPAPPY Wrote: [ -> ]Let's face it: if we were merely 24-5 at this point instead of 26-3, we would be getting zero Bubble mentions. A team with a schedule like ours has to be almost perfect to make the cut. We are two losses away from "almost perfect."

And I hope I'm wrong.

ASU is the real killer. A road loss, to the clear second place finisher in the conference (ULM), would be easily overlooked. It's still hard to read what the experts really think about our at-large chances. Most just assume (hope) we win the tourney and the committee doesn't have to chose between us and a middling high major.