For all the teams on the NCAA Tournament bubble, Quad II losses only push a team closer to having that bubble burst — in the case of the Texas Longhorns, Saturday’s awful 84-69 defeat by the South Carolina Gamecocks in Columbia, the first conference win for the Gamecocks, meant a 20-percent drop in its odds, according to BartTorvik.com, a continued spot in one of the last four byes in Joe Lunardi’s Bracketology, and a No. 11 composite seed with appearances in 98 of 116 brackets tracked by BracketMatrix.com.
On Wednesday, the road trip continues for Texas with a road game in Fayetteville against longtime SWC rival Arkansas, a surprising 78-70 winner over the Longhorns earlier this month when the Razorbacks were trying to find their footing in conference play.