2023 Men's NCAA Tournament: Latest Stock Watch for Bubble Teams

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Stock Down: North Texas Mean Green

Resume: 23-6, NET: 51, RES: 46.0, QUAL: 70.7

Since Sunday: 55-49 L at Charlotte

Taken independently, losing at Charlotte wasn't terrible. That's a Quad 2 outcome against one of the better teams in Conference USA.

But for a North Texas team that had ascended right onto the bubble on the merits of simply not losing in over a month, it was a deal-breaker.

The Mean Green has one Quad 1 win (at UAB) and just two Quad 2 wins (vs. UAB, at Middle Tennessee) in seven total chances against the top two quadrants. And save for a projected C-USA semifinal showdown with UAB, it won't get any other opportunities at a quality win. (Except a possible matchup with Florida Atlantic in the C-USA title game, but win that and we don't need to worry about their at-large case anymore.)

UNT also suffered a Quad 3 loss to UNC-Wilmington and a Quad 4 loss to Rice, so the mandate since mid-January has pretty much been "win every game until the C-USA championship and then there might be an argument for a bid."

But, unfortunately, the Mean Green let a six-point lead slip away in the final eight minutes against the 49ers. They have entered "auto bid or bust" territory, barring a complete collapse by basically the entire bubble.

 

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