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The Latest: NCAA bubble burst for Notre Dame and Louisville

The Latest on NCAA Tournament selection Sunday (all times Eastern):

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6:18 p.m.

Bubble bursts. Here's who is out of the 68-team field:

Notre Dame had a seven-game losing streak while …

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The Latest: NCAA bubble burst for Notre Dame and Louisville

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The Latest on NCAA Tournament selection Sunday (all times Eastern): __ 6:18 p.m. Bubble bursts. Here's who is out of the 68-team field: Notre Dame had a seven-game losing streak while preseason All-American Bonzie Colson was out injured and couldn't do enough by the time he returned. Louisville had a chaotic season mired by the firings of coach Rick Pitino and AD Tom Jurich amid the FBI case. Saint Mary's lacked high-quality victories, but it's tough on a West Coast Conference team to get those opportunities. Nebraska won 22 games and went 13-5 in Big Ten, but was 1-6 against quadrant-1 teams. Oklahoma State beat Kansas twice and had victories against Texas Tech and West Virginia. The Cowboys also lost an assistant coach in the FBI scandal. Baylor lost four of five down the stretch to play itself out. Middle Tennessee made its first Top 25 appearance and dominated the Conference USA regular season, but came up short in the conference tournament. USC was seeded second in the Pac-12 Tournament and lost the conference final. The Atlantic Coast Conference leads the way with nine teams in the field. ___ 5:30 p.m. There will be a couple of major differences for the NCAA Tournament selection show. First, it will be broadcast by TBS, not CBS, the longtime network home of the tournament. CBS and Turner Sports have partnered on the tournament since 2011, but this is the first time the selection show will be on the cable-only network. It still starts at 6 p.m. EDT. Second, the show will begin with all 68 teams revealed before they bracket is filled and matchups unveiled. TBS and CBS officials have said that will happen in the first 10 minutes of the show. That means bubble teams such as Louisville, Arizona State, Syracuse and Saint Mary's won't have quite as long to find out whether they are in or out of the field of 68. ___ Selection Sunday for the NCAA Tournament is here and teams sweating out the wait until the brackets are revealed got bad news from the Atlantic 10 Conference. Davidson beat Rhode Island in the A-10 tournament championship game Sunday to steal an at-large bid. Top-seeded and No. 25 Rhode Island looked like a lock to get into the field of 68 no matter what happened Sunday. But Davidson's only hope was to win the conference tournament — and Stephen Curry's alma mater did just that. For bubble teams such as Arizona State, Louisville, Syracuse, Baylor, Marquette and St. Mary's, that's a problem. Penn won the Ivy League to earn an automatic bid Sunday, and so did Kentucky in the Southeastern Conference. ___ For more AP college basketball coverage: http://collegebasketball.ap.org and http://twitter.com/AP_Top25


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