The NCAA Tournament bubble is typically populated with teams from small conferences and middle-of-the-pack big conference schools.
A pandemic that has wreaked havoc on the college basketball season is also reshaping the curve. Perennial power Duke is currently bubbling.
So is North Carolina. Kentucky is so far down it can't even see the bubble. “The season hasn’t gone how we wanted it, but we just try to keep our head down and keep working,” Duke sophomore forward Matthew Hurt said. “Every day, don’t take a day off, not try to listen to the outside, the social media, what everyone else says but us.” Duke entered the season with loaded expectations, as it always does.