Wednesday rooting guide

OK, this is starting to get a little dicey. Penn continues to get no help in improving its seed, and was dropped to a 14 by Joe Lunardi in today's "Bracketology" having been passed by Wright State, who beat Butler for the Horizon League title last night.

Penn needs Wright to lose some ground or for the Quakers to gain some ground with some opponents winning to boost their RPI.

Either that needs to happen or there has to be some more upsets in some of the mid-major conferences to get Penn a 13. It looks like a 12 seed is out of the question.

No automatic bids of consequence are handed out today, but a number of Penn opponents are playing, which can help the Quakers out. Penn opponents are in bold below.

Villanova vs. DePaul, 12 p.m.
UTEP vs. Rice, 1 p.m.
Connecticut vs. Syracuse, 2 p.m.
Richmond vs. Fordham, 2:30 p.m.
Temple vs. Saint Joseph's, 9 p.m. -- it doesn't matter who wins as long as the winner goes far in the A-10 tournament

Penn could still get conference help in the America East, A-10, Big West (maybe), Conference USA, Mountain West (unlikely), WAC (unlikely) or Patriot League (maybe) -- with a bottom-feeder in a major conference possibly also helping, although that has never happened to my knowledge.

At least the Quakers have done their part by finishing 10-0 (the longest winning streak of Glen Miller's D-I coaching career)