Bubble watch: More men's college basketball bluebloods need some wins

Aided by a rare tie for fifth in the Ferris Mowers Coaches Poll, Tuesday’s men’s college basketball slate features two top five matchups as No. 4 Illinois visits No. 2 Michigan and No. 3 Baylor heads to Morgantown to face co-No. 5 West Virginia.
You’ll undoubtedly want to watch those games, but they are not the focus here in the daily bubble watch. We instead turn our attention to those teams vying not for No.-1 seeds, but just to be seeded at all in less than two weeks on Selection Sunday.
Of note this evening is another clash for survival in the bubble-heavy ACC, as well as a battle of proud but struggling programs much farther down the Big Ten standings.
Duke at Georgia Tech
8 p.m. ET, ACCN
The Blue Devils left themselves little margin for error when a bad loss to Notre Dame on Feb. 9 left them 7-8. They appeared to have the ship righted with four consecutive wins, but Saturday's tough overtime loss to Louisville has them once again on the outside in our latest bracketology. They can expect little sympathy from the Yellow Jackets, whose position is equally tenuous. Georgia Tech does enter on a four-game winning streak, including a needed victory against Virginia Tech last week, and currently sits in that perilous "last four in" region. A loss at home to Duke could cause their positions to be reversed.
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Indiana at Michigan State
8 p.m. ET, BTN
The Spartans and Hoosiers enter this contest with matching 7-10 marks in the rugged Big Ten. The loser here would almost certainly face the daunting reality of needing to win the conference tournament to reach the Big Dance. The Spartans weren’t really even in bubble territory until they managed back-to-back wins against Illinois and Ohio State. But they had little left in the tank over the weekend in an 18-point loss to Maryland that undid some of that progress. Indiana‘s resume has little to distinguish it save for a sweep of Iowa and some mixed results against fellow bubble dwellers. Michigan State took the first meeting with the Hoosiers, 78-71, on Feb. 20 in Bloomington, overcoming an early 16-4 deficit.