Your Daily Bracket...And Other Big East News

Not too much updating today as this is the last full weekend of regular-season college basketball. Conference tournaments start this week -- welcome to March.
The first NCAA automatic berth could be sewed up today if Cornell beats Harvard or Brown loses to Penn. As for Notre Dame's NCAA future, it is still a composite No. 4 at the Bracket Project. Bryce's bracket predictions -- he labels himself as a Notre Dame fan, too -- has the Irish on the No. 3 line along with Connecticut, Kansas and Stanford. Curiously, he has Georgetown on the No. 4 line.
Crashing The Dance, which might be our favorite bracketology site, has Notre Dame as a No. 5 seed along with Drake, Marquette and Washington State.
And around the league, at least one coach thought to possibly be on the hot seat will keep his job, as St. John's Athletic Director Chris Monasch said coach Norm Roberts will return to the Red Storm next season. Providence coach Tim Welsh, one of the longest tenured coaches in the league behind the Big East Jims (Boeheim at Syracuse and Calhoun at Connecticut), is likely on the hot seat. If he is gone, it means Notre Dame coach Mike Brey is third in longevity among current Big East coaches.
Currently, Providence is on the outside peering into the Big East tournament, not a good sign for Welsh.
-By Michael Rothstein of The Journal Gazette