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

ESPN expert Joe Lunardi updated his bracketology projections ahead of the SEC’s midweek slate. He has 13 teams from the league currently making the 68-team field with another just on the wrong side of the bubble.

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 th

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

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.