Bubble Watch: Champ Week live
Join us daily on our final push to Selection Sunday
We’re here. It’s time. A fantastic 2024-25 regular season has concluded, the most glorious and perfect postseason in sports has commenced, and Bubble Watch has, as is tradition, gone electric. Rather than sweeping one-off updates after dozens of games have played, we’ll be treating this as a daily, quasi-live file, updating every night after games are concluded and publishing a fresh Watch every morning — concluding with one final pre-Selection Show update Sunday afternoon.
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Beyond Bubble Watch, we’ll obviously be writing and live-chatting (and likely some live-videoing; pretty sure there isn’t a more common or less clunky term for that) throughout what should be a fantastic 2025 NCAA Tournament, in addition to all of the thoughtful year-round coverage we have made a staple of this newsletter since its founding two offseasons ago. Here’s a link to the Champ Week live chat thread, which will be running all week. As the whimsical father of a high school friend once inscribed on his vanity plate: Go wild.
With many games featuring bubble-relevant teams left to be played in the next four days, as of Wednesday morning, drum roll please, here is where the 2025 bubble picture stands:
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