Bottoms Line College Basketball Bubble Watch: February 8th, 2012

With just over four weeks remaining until Selection Sunday, it’s time to start taking a weekly look at teams on the bubble.  Since this is the first edition of the season, the list is fairly extensive, but with each week more teams will move themselves firmly into the field of 68 while others will fall off the bubble entirely. Just in case this isn’t enough to tide you over until March Madness 2012, you can always check out my latest power rankings and bracket projections. ACC Miami (14-7) Sunday’s overtime win at Duke moved the Hurricanes into the RPI Top 40 and gave them a signature win.  Four of their seven losses came without the services of big man Reggie Johnson and DeQuan Jones, so the committee will (or at least should) take that into account.  As it stands, Miami is 1-4 against the Top 50 and 3-7 versus the Top 100, but they don’t really have a bad loss.  Losing at home to bubble neighbor N.C. State might come back to haunt them, but Saturday’...