Checking out the movers and puckerers in the Never Been Kissed, those schools that have not made the Sweet Sixteen since the NCAA tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985.

Interesting happenings this year in the Southern Conference (SC in the grid below), where East Tennessee St grabbed the lead and jumped +10 in KenPom rankings. Joey Brackets has the Southern as a two-bid conference at the moment, with Furman projected as an at-large to join ETSU. Sandwiched in between is UNC Greensboro. Wofford losing Fletcher McGee and taking a step back has created an interesting void in the Southern.

Akron broke a two-game losing skid by beating Eastern Michigan. In the KenPom math-don’t-care world, they continued to slide in the rankings while squeaking out the win. The Zips thumped Bowling Green in their next matchup, so maybe they get things rolling again.

Winthrop barely beat lowly Longwood then lost to conference contender Radford to accelerate their slide. Radford is now one game back in the conference standings.

How about Colgate? I know nothing about the toothpaste stalwarts, so that is not a rhetorical question. So seriously: how about Colgate?