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Bubble Insider: Bubble Busters?

By Mike Hume
ESPN Insider

Thursday, February 19, 2009

When it comes to schools outside the "big six" conferences, gauging the bubble teams is a much harder exercise. To date we've been basing our assessments on record, RPI and strength of schedule (SOS), while using adjusted scoring margin (ASM) as a predictor of future success. All of those numbers still apply outside of the big six, but making predictions becomes much trickier. Why? In short, because the numbers have a tendency to lie. Take this year's Siena team for example. Given our predefin ...

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