So, in the end, this is the true measure of how good Kentucky is: You can lose to the Wildcats at home and become a lock in the process. We kid, of course. Georgia's newly locked-in status has far less to do with its admirably creative approach to a near-upset of UK -- though if the committee was watching the Bulldogs' execution, it certainly didn't hurt -- than with its entire body of work. The Bulldogs don't have a wealth of high-end wins, but two of their three best came on the road, and they're 10-8 against the top 100 with excellent RPI and schedule numbers to back it up. The same is mostly true of Ole Miss, albeit with a better conference record (11-6), a more impressive conference road win (at Arkansas), a suddenly valuable road win at Oregon, and three inexplicable home losses in November and December (Charleston Southern, TCU, Western Kentucky). Either way, both teams are straddling the No. 8/9 seed lines at this late date. For either to miss the tournament, they'd have to drop two straight this weekend and next, and somehow have the dozen-or-so teams between them and the cut line pass them in the next nine days. Not going to happen
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