ESPN’s Joe Lunardi released his latest Bracketology rankings Tuesday, mentioning a number of area schools in (and just outside) the tournament’s field of 68. As of Tuesday, the SEC and Big Ten are among the most dominant conferences in the country, combining for 23 teams in the projected field.

When there is that big of a pileup of losses, the seed movements are not very dramatic. Only Michigan State, one of the big winners, moved up two-seed lines. All of the other seed changes were just one line up or down.

The Oregon Ducks men's basketball team is projected as a No. 5 seed in the NCAA Tournament and would end up playing the Drake Bulldogs in the first round at the Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado. Drake i

Michigan State is on a roll, moving up in the polls, and moving up in the most recent NCAA Tournament bracket projections.

With March Madness upon us, here are blank brackets for the men’s and women’s NCAA Tournaments; Selection Sunday is March 16. The men’s selection show is scheduled for 6 p.m. ET on CBS; the women’s selection show will air at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN.

With four games to play, the Arizona Wildcats (18-9, 12-4) are once again all alone in second place in the Big 12. The Houston Cougars (24-4, 16-1) clinched their second straight Big 12 championship Monday night with a 69-61 road victory over Texas Tech (21-7,

Texas men's basketball's NCAA Tournament chances took a brutal shot after a loss to South Carolina, the last place team in the SEC.

The T-Rank function on BartTorvik.com will be used for the first time this season on the team sheets examined by NCAA Tournament committee. Bart Torvik is a Madison native and lawyer who created the metric for ranking teams, which emphasizes recent results and takes out “garbage time” stats from late in blowout games. MU is No. 32 in T-Rank.

Indiana is back in the NCAA Tournament hunt. Here are some teams Hoosiers fans can scoreboard-watch as the final two weeks of the regular season plays out.