Basketball Week 3

As always, automatic bids are in bold (and these reflect games through Monday):

1: Kansas (Big 12)
2: Duke (ACC)
3: West Virginia
4: Syracuse (Big East)
5: Kansas State
6: Georgetown
7: Villanova
8: Kentucky (SEC)
9: Pittsburgh
10: Wisconsin
11: Purdue
12: Texas A&M
13: Vanderbilt
14: Tennessee
15: Wake Forest
16: Baylor
17: New Mexico (MWC)
18: Temple (A-10)
19: Michigan State (Big 10)
20: Gonzaga (WCC)
21: California (Pac-10)
22: Texas
23: Georgia Tech
24: Butler (Horizon)
25: Xavier
26: Louisville
27: Ohio State
29: Richmond
30: Rhode Island
31: Clemson
32: Texas Tech
33: UNLV
34: Dayton
35: BYU
36: Oklahoma State
37: Northern Iowa (MVC)
38: Old Dominion (Colonial)
39: Florida State
40: Illinois
41: San Diego State
42: Marquette
43: Missouri
44: UAB
45: Notre Dame
46: Charlotte
47: UTEP (C-USA)
48: Utah State (WAC)
49: Siena (Metro)
50: Kent State (MAC)
51: Cornell (Ivy)
52: Weber State (Big Sky)
53: Oakland (Summit)
54: Sam Houston State (Southland)
55: UC-Santa Barbara (Big West)
56: Charleston (Southern)
57: Belmont (A-Sun)
58: Murray State (OVC)
59: Arkansas State (Sun Belt)
60: Morgan State (MEAC)
61: Stony Brook (A-East)
62: Robert Morris (NEC)
63: Lehigh (Patriot)
64: Coastal Carolina (Big South)
65: Jackson State (SWAC)

First Four Out: Mississippi State, St. Mary's, Virginia Tech, Wichita State.

The conference tourneys are approaching and it'll get harder to identify the leaders of the mid-majors each week. For example, Belmont and Jacksonville are tied in the Atlantic Sun, but Belmont has the higher RPI and is moving up. Old Dominion and Northeastern (just on the outside as well) are also tied in the Colonial.
As for Mizzou's chances... a win tonight over Texas will go a long way. Basically you can break their 6 remaining games down in two groups. Have to wins at Nebraska (2/20), Colorado (2/24), and at Iowa State (2/27) and hope to wins Texas (tonight), at Kansas State (3/2), and Kansas (3/6). If they win one of the "hope to wins" and all the "have to wins" they finish 22-9 (10-6). That puts them in the 5-7 seed range with a winnable first round Big-12 game (Nebraska, Colorado, Iowa State). Win that one and they should be in. They would have no BAD conference losses (at Oklahoma is defendable), 2 of the 3 teams they lost to out-of-conference (at Vanderbilt and neutral-Richmond) are solid locks right now, and they have wins that are getting better by the day (neutral-Illinois, neutral-Old Dominion, Kansas State, Oklahoma State). Pulling out that Baylor win would have been much nicer, but if they knock off Texas tonight, they don't have to win in Manhattan or try to topple kU here.