Murray State suffered their first loss of the season 9 days ago to Tennessee State (the second place team in the ohio valley). They still come in with a 25-1 record with wins of Southern Mississippi and Memphis
Saint Marys has lost 2 of its last 3 (Gonzaga and Loyola Marymount) and instead of locking up the West Coast are now only a half game up on Gonzaga in the conference. This game is much needed in terms of seeding in the tournament if they were to end up not winning their conference.
Murray State hasn't really played anypony this season other than Southern Mississippi (won in double overtime) and Memphis (won by 4) so Saint Mary's will be their toughest test yet.
I believe that Murray State is way overrated due to their easy schedule, but this game will allow them to either prove me wrong or right in that feeling. I think Saint Mary's takes this one either easily if Dellavedova plays or in a much closer game if he is unable to go.
Long Beach State @ Creighton
I've got 10,000,000 to 1 on Long Beach State to win the National Championship this year, and they are rolling in the Big West at 12-0 in the conference. They played non-conference games against Kansas, North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Xavier, Kansas State, Louisville, and San Diego State so are battle tested making close games in all of them cept Louisville and KState (beat Pitt and Xavier).
Creighton has lost 3 of their last 4, but put up wins against San Diego State and Northwestern out of conference and are lead by player of the year nominee Doug McDermott. McDermott had been struggling in the losses that Creighton went through recently but made up for it by going 7-7 from the field in their last game @ Southern Illinois.
This should be a great game and in my opinion is the best game out of the bracketbutster games. This is the game that I'm waiting to watch as I could see either one of these teams making a run come March.
I am going to have to go with the team I picked early in the year in Long Beach State, but I expect this to be a really good close game that will come down to the wire.
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