Since winning back-to-back games over Northwestern and Maryland, the latest bracket projections for Penn State have gone from having them barely on the bubble to very much on the right side of the bubble . If PSU beats Illinois tomorrow in their first game of the Big Ten Tournament, almost everything else we’ve written after this paragraph becomes moot, because the Nittany Lions will have locked up an NCAA Tournament berth. Of course, we’d all prefer to see PSU just go ahead and win on Thursday, so we’re not left with sweating it out for the next few days leading up to Selection Sunday and rooting for the following Championship Week scenarios below:
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Pitt, North Carolina, and Clemson are the teams to root against, here.