Texas needs to hold on, a loss by them would throw the Big 12 into chaos mode. Moving K-State back up to the bubble could drop all the 9-7s back down to the bubble.
I really only see 5 spots open and one win by South Carolina would take one of them. That leaves Florida, Arizona, Penn State, New Mexico, and the winner of UNLV/SD St fighting for four spots. Arizona looks like they aren't taking their opportunity to wrap a spot up so they will be sweating it out. Of course Temple or Rhode Island could reduce that to three spots or an Auburn/Virginia Tech/K-State/USC/Maryland/Miss St could move themselves into contention with a deep tourney run although none seem likely to do so.
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