Judgement Day


ATLANTA -- We're 30 minutes from tip-off here at the Atlantic Coast Conference arena that happens to be hosting the Southeastern Conference basketball tournament.

In another three hours, the NCAA tournament brackets will begin to take shape on CBS' tournament selection show. A number of nervous college coaches will be looking in on the Georgia-Arkansas game because the outcome could burst their teams' tournament bubbles.

If Georgia wins, it will clinch an automatic NCAA bid and likely push a deserving mid-major team out of the bracket. Right now, it looks as if five SEC teams can expect inclusion in the NCAA field: Tennessee, which may have cost itself a No. 1 seed by losing to Arkansas Saturday night, Arkansas, Mississippi State, Vanderbilt and Kentucky.