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.

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.

Other Gonzaga opponents from this year in Lunardi's updated bracketology include Kentucky (3 seed), UCLA (6), UConn (9), Baylor (9), West Virginia (10), and San Diego State (10). Indiana is in the first four out category, moving toward being on the right side of the bubble after a big win over Purdue on Sunday.

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.

Not yet, but it could make Duke the betting favorite for the 2025 NCAA men's basketball tournament. That is a tight race right now. Duke has Miami, Florida State, Wake Forest and North Carolina on its remaining schedule.

Here's the latest bracketology projects for Auburn basketball as it heads into the closing stretch of its regular season.