Dawgs are on the razor's edge of the bubble to get in.

They are the conference champs and never has a Power 6 conference champion not got into the tourney. However, they are also the 1st #1 seed to lose to a 9 seed in this tourney's history and they needed help to become the conference champion. RPI is not very good and obviously record against quality opponents is poor. However, as with most Romar teams, they improved as the year went on and had been playing their best ball the last month or so. If they had only defeated OSU they would be in, now they need the stars and planets to align correctly and some mercy to be shown by the committee.