With the regular season complete and only conference tournaments left in the men’s college basketball schedule, a handful of teams are running out of chances to secure an NCAA Tournament spot.
There will inevitably be bid stealers that make the 68-team bracket by winning their conference tournament who otherwise would not earn an at-large berth. There could also be bubble teams that make a deep run in their conference tournament, improving their resume in the process.
Several bubble teams saw their chances of making the NCAA Tournament fluctuate in the final week of the regular season. For example, Oklahoma — widely considered a ‘first four out’ team in bracketology — earned two Quad 1 wins with a double-digit victory over Missouri at home and a win over Texas on the road, Porter Moser’s first over the Longhorns in his four-year tenure.
And amid all the controversy with Indiana and its coach, Mike Woodson, announcing his retirement after the season’s conclusion, the Hoosiers are hanging on for an NCAA Tournament berth after winning five of their last seven games — including wins over Michigan State and Purdue.
Here’s a look at the latest March Madness predictions as Power Conference tournaments get underway:
March Madness predictions
Last Four In
- Baylor
- Oklahoma
- Xavier
- Ohio State
First Four Out
- San Diego State
- Boise State
- North Carolina
- Texas
No.1 seeds
- Auburn
- Duke
- Florida
- Houston
No. 2 seeds
- Alabama
- Tennessee
- Michigan State
- Texas A&M
No. 3 seeds
- St. John’s
- Texas Tech
- Iowa State
- Kentucky
No. 4 seeds
- Wisconsin
- Purdue
- Maryland
- Clemson
No. 5 seeds
- Arizona
- Michigan
- Missouri
- Oregon
No. 6 seeds
- UCLA
- Saint Mary’s
- Louisville
- BYU
No. 7 seeds
- Marquette
- Memphis
- Mississippi State
- Ole Miss
No. 8 seeds
- Kansas
- Illinois
- UConn
- Creighton
No. 9 seeds
- Gonzaga
- New Mexico
- Vanderbilt
- Utah State
No. 10 seeds
- Drake (Missouri Valley winner)
- Arkansas
- West Virginia
- Georgia
No. 11 seeds
- Oklahoma/Baylor
- UC San Diego
- Indiana
- VCU
No. 12 seeds
- McNeese
- Xavier/Ohio State
- Liberty
- Yale
No. 13 seeds
- Lipscomb (ASUN winner)
- High Point (Big South winner)
- Arkansas State
- Akron
No. 14 seeds
- Utah Valley
- Towson
- Troy
- Northern Colorado
No. 15 seeds
- Furman
- Central Connecticut
- Norfolk State
- Robert Morris
No. 16 seeds
- Bryant
- SIU Edwardsville (Ohio Valley winner)/American
- Quinnipiac/Southern
- Omaha (Summit League winner)
